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Sony CD Architect enhances your audio tracks to meet Red Book specifications. This professional quality app hosts a bevy of features that you can use to fine-tune your audio and add fresh new effects. In fact, there are so many features and options that it can be overwhelming.
Pros
Comprehensive: Sony CD Architect unleashes a plethora of features, including ripple editing, allowing you to edit multiple events simultaneously, and autosave crash recovery, which saves a backup of your file every five minutes.
Easy to customize: The Playlist, Tracklist, Trimmer, Mixer, and Media Pool windows are all fully customizable. You can select which buttons will be visible on each of them.
Quick all-around: At only 29.22MB, this app takes only a couple of minutes to download and install. The overall speed of the program won't disappoint you, either. For example, burning a standard 12-track CD took us only three minutes.
Cons
Clunky interface: The ungainly interface, consisting of a jumble of grayscale toolbars and tiny buttons strewn across the screen, lacks the bright and clean design used by most modern apps. To be fair, the design is so jumbled because there are just too many features to fit on a single screen.
Pricey: While for 30 days you can use it for free, you then have to pay $112.95.
Bottom Line
With its many features and good performance, Sony CD Architect proves to be more than just a program for throwing together a party mix, although it can do that too. This software will satisfy your inner audiophile, providing you with all the features you will ever need to tweak your audio to perfection.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Sony CD Architect 5.2d build 240
Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with CD Architect 5 software. Newly updated version 5.2 includes CD text reading and writing, and updated drive support. Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge software as tracks, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirectX effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.CD Architect software provides the most precise audio CD mastering and burning tools available. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.
bdgolden
May 16, 2009
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Version: CD Architect 5.2.153
2009-05-16 17:05:06
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By bdgolden
Pros
No need to read the manual. Very intuitive.
Cons
ummm ... none.
Summary
I feel like it's very intuitive for me ...
Granted I am using the registered version ... not the trial. I think it's a quick way to lay out a cd with leveling, crossfades, etc ... (all the stuff I would ever need anyway).
darqueman
February 14, 2009
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Version: CD Architect 5.2.153
2009-02-14 16:18:38
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By darqueman
Pros
Easy to use
Cons
The MP3 Plug-in 2.0 is necessary to utilize this software and it is not provided in the free 1 month trial period.
Summary
After learning that I would have to purchse teh full version to take advantage of the software I was then alarmed to learn that the MP3 Plug-In 2.0 has an additional registration . That registration has a glitch (Sony is aware of the problem) preventing the add-on to be registered. Sony tech support is only available Mon- Fri 9am to 5pm CST. It's very poor service for Sony to offer software that can not be utilized without tech support and then only offer limited suport hours. I exected more from a large and reputable company. VERY DISAPPOINTED I PURCHASED