Hello All--
 
I have Sonar 8 and candidly, know nothing about its mastering functionality because I have Wavelab and do all of my mastering there. The problem is I have an older version of WL and since I upgraded my DAW to Win 7 64-bit, I can no longer burn CDs or ISOs from WL (major crashing).
 
In WL there is a CD project feature where you can stack your songs, edit whatever you want, and then burn all the songs in the project to a CD. Has anyone burned multiple songs to CD in Sonar? If I'm way off base it's because when I think of mastering, I include song order, etc. and guess am spoiled by this feature in WL.
 
If not, can anyone recommend a low cost CD burning software where I can create a CD project, order my tunes and then burn them in red box standards to CD?
 
Thanks! I'm trying to get out of paying the major price to upgrade WL--'cause my current version doesn't qualify as an upgrade!

I have the same problem as I have always used wave lab for mastering, Stereo Recording and batch process to MP3. 
My new DAW is 64 bit and I have WL 5. You need Wave Lab 7 for 64 bit. I have an account with Stienberg and all I need to do is send the money. 

Until I have the cash for the upgrade I'm just exporting my songs and using my old XP 32 bit computer to master. It works fine as the second computer is on a good home stereo system I use for proofing anyways. 
So far all my mixes have been bang on. But I am missing having wave lab to Tool Copy tracks for editing with in Sonar. 

Cactus Music


I have the same problem as I have always used wave lab for mastering, Stereo Recording and batch process to MP3. 
My new DAW is 64 bit and I have WL 5. You need Wave Lab 7 for 64 bit. I have an account with Stienberg and all I need to do is send the money. 

Until I have the cash for the upgrade I'm just exporting my songs and using my old XP 32 bit computer to master. It works fine as the second computer is on a good home stereo system I use for proofing anyways. 
So far all my mixes have been bang on. But I am missing having wave lab to Tool Copy tracks for editing with in Sonar. 

That's my workaround too. I knew that old XP 32-but OS would come in handy.
 
Did look at CD Architect though. Check it out.
 
Thanks!

why not just upgrade your WL to win7 version?

batsbrew


why not just upgrade your WL to win7 version?

there is no upgrade from version 4 so it is the full price of $500.

CD Architect is probably your best bet for physically creating the CD, but it's a hundred bucks. It works well because that's what it was designed for specifically, but in truth just about any CD-burning software can make a Red Book-compliant disk.

As for the rest of the mastering process, SONAR 8 lacks a decent bundled limiter, so you'd be looking at third-party solutions for that part of it. TB Barricade could do the job and it's cheap, about 20 bucks IIRC.

bitflipper


CD Architect is probably your best bet for physically creating the CD, but it's a hundred bucks. It works well because that's what it was designed for specifically, but in truth just about any CD-burning software can make a Red Book-compliant disk.

As for the rest of the mastering process, SONAR 8 lacks a decent bundled limiter, so you'd be looking at third-party solutions for that part of it. TB Barricade could do the job and it's cheap, about 20 bucks IIRC.

Thank you

bitflipper


CD Architect is probably your best bet for physically creating the CD, but it's a hundred bucks. It works well because that's what it was designed for specifically, but in truth just about any CD-burning software can make a Red Book-compliant disk.

As for the rest of the mastering process, SONAR 8 lacks a decent bundled limiter, so you'd be looking at third-party solutions for that part of it. TB Barricade could do the job and it's cheap, about 20 bucks IIRC.

Yep, another +1 for CDA

All I use nowadays is Sonar, CDA, & Goldwave for Mp3 conversion

there is no upgrade from version 4 so it is the full price of $500.



There is the basic version Wave Lab Elements that is only $100. It does everything I every used in WL4. So that's what I'm going to get this time.  
All that is missing is some fancy editing tools, plug in slots and track count.

http://www.steinberg.net/.../wavelab/versions.html