Seems that with some serious care and attention, they can make Waveburner truly pro someday. I feel like someone needs to light a fire under the right person's ass over at Apple and do something constructive with these issues. Waveburner's efficiency and functionality is great, offers all kinds of deep automation (albeit too coarse in the adjustment), and yes, this question mark in the CD text is also a bugger to be addressed. It also makes it very easy to apply subtle digital tweaks if a client wants some changes made without having to set up and recall the entire analog mastering session. Then I pull the collection of nearly-mastered files into SoundBlade or Waveburner where I have the ability to still apply tweaks as I assemble the entire album or project. The way I work, I do the real mastering in a DAW with a hybrid of digtal and analog gear, but I don't print the peak limiter. It's really got some amazing functionality. I have a love-hate relationship with Waveburner. I just laid into Apple/Waveburner over at their discussion department, hoping someone of significance will read it. We mastering engineers like to work in 1/10 dB increments, not huge, coarse amounts. And while you're at it, why don't you allow for fine adjustment of automation levels. Apple, for crap's sake, please fix your DDP nightmare. If Waveburner could fix its lethal bugs, it would be stellar and may someday even become "professional" software. ![]() I just can't get this feature set anywhere else in the Mac world. ![]() I'm so mad at Apple/WB because the features in Waveburner are wonderful for this particular type of project where I have the show producer sitting here having me do all kinds of subtle automations of level and EQ and compression to help the whole musical show flow properly. I had to go in in literally move each track marker earlier and then create the DDP to make sure the track starts weren't being chopped. The WB session was fine and would burn CD's fine, but the DDP shifted each track marker a bit late, seemed to me to be more than 25 frames, and the shift amount seemed to drift or grow a bit toward the end of the 32 track project. It was mildly nightmarish for me as I had Decca breathing down my neck to meet a deadline for a Broadway musical (How To Suceed in Business Without Really Trying) to reach its deadline.
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