KVR Audio

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:38 am

Over the years I've went from toys to professional instruments (and still a few toys), to pirated software and finally to hardware, boxed software and freeware software. My question is I'm trying to narrow down a good software to finalize my master copy before I run off the duplicates with my distributor that I'm going to sell. A lot of my focus away from piracy has involved slowly buying software I got good at and forming a wishlist of software I want to buy, because most of it is still good these days. One thing I haven't found a purchased/freeware replacement for is CD Mastering. I googled and saw other forums, but I've been noticing KVR responses are way more thought out so as I narrow down my selection on my own I'm wondering if anyone has advice within my budget. I'm going to be releasing a big album with my band project in another month or so, but right now I need to release a soundtrack for a film I did without a record label. I have all the visual stuff done with the distributor, I just need a master ISO to upload to them, and want to send it as meticulous as possible. The more control the better.

I've been looking at Nero, Roxio Toast... something under $50 or close to it that I can upgrade later is preferable. I know these days a lot of freeware is really awesome and borderline professional, but it takes people knowing them and recommending them.
I have vista but also am open to linux options. My distributor only needs an ISO image and I'm ready to go. Everything else is all in place. Thanks folks

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:12 am

Nero is rather bloated these days, but other than that it should do the job. Offers enough control...

manducator · Post by **manducator** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:45 am

I'm not sure what your question is; do you want to master music, like putting compressors and a limiter on it, for example, or are you just looking for something that can make iso files?

For iso files, take a look here:

http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home

I use reaper for mastering, you can open several songs, work on them separately and burn them to disk or save as iso file:

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:26 pm

BertKoor wrote:Nero is rather bloated these days

You got that right. Paying for all kinds of stuff I don't need for $109.99 Thanks for responding!

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:30 pm

manducator wrote:...or are you just looking for something that can make iso files? For iso files, take a look here:

You got it man, and this is exactly what I need for exactly the price. Thanks for responding!

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:37 pm

Awesome, it's by Cockos the makers of NINJAM?? very cool.. very cool...

maniacoli · Post by **maniacoli** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:51 pm

DDP is the answer to all modern mastering solutions. send you a pm

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:05 pm

maniacoli wrote:DDP is the answer to all modern mastering solutions. send you a pm

I believe we have a winner. http://hofa-plugins.de/pages/start_en/h ... ddp_en.php What a beauty.

jkworks · Post by **jkworks** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:35 am

Looks interesting. Also a nice introduction video.

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:33 am

Think Studio One 2 has audio CD exporting built in but maybe overkill for what you want.

Did'nt know about DDP looks like it could be good for Ableton Live 9 seeing as it's a plugin also. Cheers.

psychoxkps · Post by **psychoxkps** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:30 am

i dont clearly understand what u mean above the termine "master" but if u want master something on highest grade tools u should use waves mercury.. that wíll always be something what cant miss in professional studio.. u have only studio at home so i can only have tools from native instruments.. good compressors, etc..'

anyway..

if u want to take all things around burning cd nero cant miss if u r burning..

hope helps..

dustinbeyette · Post by **dustinbeyette** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:28 pm

psychoxkps wrote:i dont clearly understand what u mean above the termine "master"

All of the music was mixed and mastered for the film that it was featured in. My interest was to master the cd version of it via red book standard. Waves Mercury looks awesome but that part of my process for this exact project is finished. The film premiered, the DVDs are duplicated, now I just am making the CD version of the score for the film-makers to sell alongside their dvd. Something like HOFA CD-Burn & DDP is exactly what I was looking for. I actually bought it tonight. The last few versions of FL Studio come with a lot of stuff that Mercury would be handling, as well as some extra VST plugins I've purchased, but Waves is very reputable so... next project? who knows...

CD Mastering Software for PC