Can you burn BIAB files to CD?

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 21 Apr 2001 12:07 pm

I was WRONG and I was RIGHT!! Depending on your burning software, you can record mp3's to CD and play them in any player, as Jack has demonstrated. Easy CD Creator, Nero and a couple of other pieces of burning software automatically de-compress mp3 files to CDA files when burning a CD. With others, you have to manually convert the mp3's to wav files before burning. There is a bit of sound quality lost when burning mp3's straight to CD however, so it then becomes a matter of preference regarding your musical tastes.
Thanks for doing the test, Jack, and for sharing the results with us. Know I learned something today!!

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Kenneth Kotsay · Post by **Kenneth Kotsay** » 21 Apr 2001 1:35 pm

FRED - O.K. what's the store price of CAKE WALK and will I be able to import any BIAB song into Cake Walk besides those Internet Midi song files.

Last night I spent almost two hours in BIAB creating an ending for "BUD'S BOUNCE" ( the chord progression along with the track turned out great). Only problem I had was with the way I play my ending to this song, I just couldn't get it down right with BIAB. I also copied this BIAB song to the ROLAND VSC88 soundcanvas (MIDI player) and it sound real good.

Some MIDI songs that are country do have the "tics/count off" recorded at the beginning, but others have a lead instrument starting off the song, if you edit and remove the lead instrument, when you hit play the chord progression begins right away with out any "tic off". It's like the steel starting off with out letting the rest of the band know it's time to play.

So I guess CAKE WALK is now on my buy list.

KEN
[This message was edited by Kenneth Kotsay on 21 April 2001 at 02:42 PM.]

Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 21 Apr 2001 2:42 pm

Kenneth I have Version 6, but I don't think you will have to have the most expensive version to do what you want to do. I'm also not familiar with all the different versions and what they will do, but I believe one that sells for less than $100 will probably do it. My neighbor bought one off of E-bay for $20.00 and it will do it. The more expensive versions are for doing recording work with, with mixers and sound effects and such. Yes, you can import your BIAB files into it and then do what you want with them. In my version, if I import BIAB files, it usually loses about the first two clicks of the count off, but that doesn't hurt, and if it does, you can change this by just using the file edit, copy, cut, and paste the entire song forward by two measures and then open the drum roll edit, and enter whatever you want to use for the count off sounds. I usually use the snare drum for the first measure counts and then switch to the high hat for the intro beats, since it blends well with your intro. You can also change the volume level of any instrument, or any particular part of the drum pattern. You can see the drum pattern program that BIAB made for you, and change it any way you like. You can program stops or slow downs at the end of your song. The one thing that I usually don't like in the BIAB drum pattern is that the cymbal crash at the beginning is usually too loud, compared to the rest of the song. You can change this is Cakewalk. You can change the volume of each individual drum sound, on any particular beat or measure. As soon as my neighbor gets home, I will find out what version he has and post it. He will be back this evening.

Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 21 Apr 2001 5:12 pm

Kenneth, I just checked with my neighbor who is my computer consultant, and he has Cakewalk Home Studio Version 7. He paid $20.00 for it. He said any of the older versions will work. The only thing you have to be careful of is the computer requirements to run the different programs. Home Studio version 7 will run on a 166MHz computer, and later versions require more speed and memory. So buy one that will work with whatever computer speed and memory you have, and the amount of money you want to spend. Later and more expensive versions will do more and better things.

Kenneth Kotsay · Post by **Kenneth Kotsay** » 22 Apr 2001 2:42 pm

FRED - Does CAKEWALK have their own web site to browse through for the different versions that they might have to offer. SOUNDBLASTER has their own web site and they feature about 8-10 of their various soundcards, hopefully the CAKE WALK company has the same type of web site. A friend of mine has a CAKE WALK version that costed him $350.00, he uses it in the studio, in fact he told me there is a higher more costly version, all professional stuff that is.

I'll look into version #6 & 7.

KEN[This message was edited by Kenneth Kotsay on 22 April 2001 at 03:46 PM.]

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 22 Apr 2001 4:50 pm

Ken:

http://www.cakewalk.com/

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Fred Murphy · Post by **Fred Murphy** » 22 Apr 2001 5:49 pm

I have the version 6 Pro Audio. Yes they do have later versions, I think 7,8, and 9. I believe the cheaper versions are called Home Studio. Version 6 Pro Audio would probably be pretty cheap used, on E-Bay by now. They also have the later versions of Home Studio now, I think they are 7,8,and 9 also.