Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE

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Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE

I have the songs mixed down.  I am putting them in order on track #1, and applying the desired volumes. 
 
Now comes the tricky part. 
 
My client wants two of the tracks to remain seperate tracks (track 11 and track 12 on the cd) but wants them to play without a 2 second space between the two tracks.  Is there a way to do this in the mastering track template in Sonar 8.3 PE?
 
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    Re:Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE 2011/06/29 11:17:31 (permalink)
    Sure, but you won't be able to export them as two separate files unless you're sending to a mastering engineer with instructions that those two tracks are supposed to be crossfaded. If you're doing the whole mastering yourself, you'll have to combine the two songs into one file, properly crossfaded to your liking.

    My own method is to import all the songs into a project, all on one track. Then I decide what the gaps should be or whether they're to be crossfaded. That one monster track is what gets burned to the disk.

    The standard 2-second pause isn't always ideal. If a song has a long fadeout, your listeners will get bored waiting for the next song. In that case, a half-second gap may work better, or no gap at all. If a song is really big-sounding and the next one is a quiet ballad, you may actually want a longer gap to let the listeners' ears reset.


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    Re:Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE 2011/06/29 16:23:27 (permalink)
    OK.  After you load all those songs on the one track, is there a way to mark each song, so that it has 14 tracks instead of one really long one? (Kinda like putting a chapter marker in for dvd movies.)

    The client has some reciting between some of the songs.  So she wants the reciting to lead straight into the next song without a pause.  She wants it as a separate track so that dj's can just load the music without the talking.

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    Re:Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE 2011/06/29 17:24:00 (permalink)


    is there a way to mark each song, so that it has 14 tracks instead of one really long one?
    You export each song as a separate file.
     
    Also, you do all the spacing, track markers and PQ codes in the mastering program that can burn to red book specs. Sonar isn't Red Book compliant and has no ability to embed any kind of codings needed for the masters..
     
     
    post edited by CJaysMusic - 2011/06/29 17:26:17

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    Re:Question about exporting from Mastering in Sonar 8.3 PE 2011/06/29 23:50:46 (permalink)
    +1 What CJ say's, To me, Sonar is a great multi tracking and mixing software suite. But I use other software for Mastering because it was made for that purpose.  You can choose not to add the 2 seconds even with Nero. Just cut the end of 11 and the beginning of 12 as close as possible.
    Mastering an album properly is hard work and takes special skills. 
    A good recording takes a number of trades people,

    Song writer
    Musicians
    Recording engineer
    Mixing engineer
    Mastering Engineer
    Replication of CD's

      How many hats do you find yourself wearing? SOme might not fit as well as others.
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