What I meant by markers is that I want to construct the flow of the music across the whole disk, and then indicate where tracks will break but without changing what I have just created in any way at the track boundaries. I do something like Cactus. Usually, I find a quiet spot during the concert but with room ambiance. I then splice a small section of that in between songs, sometimes fading the clapping if necessary before my ambiance. It sounds like a running live concert but without the clapping and other distracting noises between songs. That is sometimes a bit tricky, so I want to use the full power of the DAW to get the transitions I want. I used to use Adobe Audition for this, but I recently switched to SONAR as it is more powerful. To create the audio CD in Nero, then I had to export each track segment of the concert into a separate 44/16 file, and then insert the separate files as tracks into Nero and set for no silent break between tracks and no normalize. That is a lot of work. Audition actually has a feature that will export each section between markers into separate files as a single command, and this helps. (Some versions of Audition will actually create the CD directly, but not mine.) This has worked for me. However, I know that there are standards for where CD tracks start and end, and SONAR or Audition don't account for that when I place my markers and divide into tracks. So I am worried Nero might have to make some small adjustments to individual track lengths, for example, to make sure the CD specs are followed. That is why I wanted software that would create the CD and tracks from my continuous processed stream, while making sure any track boundaries meet CD standards. Ideally, SONAR itself would let me create CD track markers and provide the CD burn or DDP file from that.
The HOFA CD Burn adds the missing feature. It will not recognize the markers I created in SONAR. However, I can export the full concert as a single 44/16 file, import that into HOFA, place markers where I want tracks to start, fill in the CD text for any tracks I want, and it either burns a CD or creates a DDP file for the production house. HOFA makes sure any track markers I insert fit the CD standards. I purchased the standalone version, but it also comes as a plugin. And now, anyway, there are English language versions.
As always, there are many ways of doing things. SONAR has a lot of mastering features, but is not designed primarily as a mastering system. And it does not give as much detailed wave editing capabilities as other systems. I am trying to minimize the number of software packages I use and the expense while getting as much functionality as possible. SONAR has a lot of functionality, and for me, special things including 64 bit mix engine and importing DSD files that are important for my mostly classical music work. The recent offer of lifetime updates was the final thing that swayed me to choose it. Frankly, I am still a bit disappointed that SONAR, which advertises CD burning as a feature, does not have the capability I was expecting. This is especially true since Cakewalk up until a few months ago used to sell a separate program that provided that specific function (much like HOFA CD Burn), but it was discontinued. Anyway, I appreciate all the suggestions offered.