#Waveburner ddp for mac#
And you can import and export DDP.Īpparently Wave Edit are revising the mastering workflow so it could be a good solution for Mac once that is done. However it has really good quality sample rate conversion and dithering. I bought Waveedit for the Ozotope SRC but found the mastering workflow really hard to understand.
When dithering from 24 bit to a test burn CD it was introducing a bunch of clicks in one track. The way of checking is to import the DDP in an editor such as Wave Edit and checking it. If it does get its bugs worked out, I'll be a huge supporter. I truly want it to get there, but until it does, I'm simply afraid to trust it.
#Waveburner ddp pro#
Waveburner has such incredible potential with it's deep functionality, but it still has a few issues that are keeping it amateur, consumer software at best and not the pro app it claims to be or is destined to become someday. I and a few others are warning the mastering community of this danger.
#Waveburner ddp professional#
DDP is a seriously professional method of master delivery and currently it's a severe failure. It's a scary thought.Īpple, you simply can't offer this DDP feature in Waveburner until you fix it. I wonder how many people have generated DDP masters from Waveburner and sent them off to be replicated only to find that their track starts had all moved from where they placed them in the Waveburner session. For many people who own Waveburner, they may not also own the professional DDP players required to play back a DDP and confirm its condition. We now know to steer clear of Waveburner's DDP function. This is a serious problem for Waveburner. The PQ sheet data is used along with the DDP so the replicator can confirm that everything matches. The Mastering data (PQ sheet) that was printed from the Waveburner file did NOT match the actual time codes found in the DDP file set. We finally were able to generate an acceptable DDP, but not without a major panic and headache. I had to go back into the Waveburner session and literally move all 32 track markers early to compensate for this DDP glitch. Sure enough, Waveburner's DDP file had scooted all the track markers late by a little bit, literally chopping off the start of every track by about a second or so.
So we aborted the upload and looked more closely at the issue. As we continued to audition the audio, I noticed visually that the tracks were jumping after the audio had started. The audio was sounding fine, so we initiated the DDP upload to Decca/Universal Records FTP site. Then we used Sonoris DDP Player to audition and confirm the audio was clean with no glitches. Then we created a DDP file set from Waveburner. We had the master assembled and playing perfectly in Waveburner 1.6.1. Just the other day we were finishing a critical deadline project for Decca/Universal Records set for a very large release. It's tragic that Apple has offered this professional feature that is dangerously non-functional in Waveburner. DDP files are strictly for professional mastering and delivery for replication. When creating DDP master file sets with Waveburner, beware that your track markers can move and no longer be where you had placed them in the Waveburner session.
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