CakeWalk Question

Robbie Bossert · Post by **Robbie Bossert** » 6 Mar 2003 9:14 am

How many of you home recording/producer types have worked with CakeWalk? I was just wondering, once you've finished a project, what format do you use when transfering to a CD? Wav,MP3, etc.... Which one of these allows you to play your CD right away on a run of the mill, everyday CD player?

Thanks,

Robbie Bossert

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 6 Mar 2003 2:40 pm

I dont think Cakewalk converts MIDI to wave or MP3. You will have to run the mid files thru a sound module of some sort. BIAB does have a built in program to convert the BIAB files to WAV files which you could put on a CD and play them on a CD player.

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 7 Mar 2003 12:35 am

In Cakewalk you can "bounce" all your tracks, Midi and Audio, to a stereo pair of tracks, just as if you were doing a mixdown on a studio desk.
When you save the stereo tracks, save them as WAV files.
You may want to do a bit more work on them at the mastering stage- maybe a tweak of the overall EQ, a bit of compression to bring out the attack and tails of the notes, possibly some gentle overall ambient reverb.
I use Soundforge and a bundle of plug-ins for that, though your CD burning software may have the basic tools for this sort of thing.
What your CD burning program will do, is to take those WAV flies and burn them onto the CD as CDA files- CD audio.
Any decent CD player will play them then.
Cheers
Dave

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 9 Mar 2003 3:00 am

For CD it's Stereo Interleaved format.
It basicaly alternates the data for the left and right tracks into one larger sound file. But stereo interleaved is the important part when bouncing to disk.

DroopyPawn · Post by **DroopyPawn** » 9 Mar 2003 3:58 pm

CDs need to be in 44.1 khz 16 bit stereo digital audio. Any of the recent Cakewalk products will produce these kinds of files. Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 also had an mp3 encoder. Some of the newer CD players will also play mp3 files. In that case, you can put several hundred tunes on one CD - compared to a max of around 20 tunes in stereo wave files format.

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