#MASTERING WAVELAB VS DSP QUATTRO PRO#
#MASTERING WAVELAB VS DSP QUATTRO SOFTWARE#

I like how the ‘Burn CD’ and ‘Write DDP’ commands are in big letters on the GUI, not hidden in a menu somewhere or only accessible via some obscure key command. I like the fact that the interface sports a goniometer (‘jellyfish’ meter to some) though it’s pretty small and could be vastly improved by allowing a double-click to increase its size and separate it from the main screen. I love the fact that this program is so simple to use, so reliable, so unassuming yet functional. CD-Burn & DDP, however, is pretty straightforward in this respect if you have a background in other audio programs.Ī bit like Waveburner, a bit like DSP Quattro, but with more stability than either, CD-Burn & DDP allows you to do almost everything that these sort of programs do: edit, fade, crossfade, apply plug-ins, add metadata like ISRC codes etc, burn a CD or create a (reliable) DDP, apply dither, export files and a hundred things besides. I’ve had a lot of experience with countless audio programs over the years, but that doesn’t necessarily give you a licence to drive all of them. Most of the program tools are self-explanatory and intuitive. Things are clear and simple to read, although some of the menu options across the top are a couple of font sizes too small for my liking. On the contrary, in some respects it looks quite dated, but somehow this aesthetic works to its advantage. The interface makes no effort to look fancy. Things are mostly black, grey and orange but somehow this leanness works well and looks good once you get over the program’s lack of pretence. The GUI itself is very matter-of-fact, featuring a fairly stark two-colour, two-dimensional interface.

(There’s also a plug-in version that allows you to create a disc directly from your DAW).

#MASTERING WAVELAB VS DSP QUATTRO PRO#

I’m running it here on an older Quad Core Mac Pro loaded with OS 10.6.8, and so far it’s been flawless and rock solid.Īpart from the program’s apparent infallibility in terms of crashes and spurious gremlins – it hasn’t crashed once, not ever – first impressions of this standalone version have been excellent. Though the program is not quite as comprehensive as something like SADIE (PC only) or WaveLab, neither is it an expensive program to get amongst.

#MASTERING WAVELAB VS DSP QUATTRO SOFTWARE#

HOFA, a German mob from Karlsdorf (near Stuttgart), have been making software for a few years now, but CD-Burn & DDP is my first experience of any of the company’s audio programs.ĬD-Burn & DDP is designed to accommodate a wide variety of users, from people interested only in making their own compilation CD right through to mastering engineers producing CD-R premasters or DDP image folders for manufacture. New to The Mill’s long list of software recently has been HOFA’s CD-Burn & DDP – standalone version – a fairly simple but effective red-book audio CD burning and pre-master DDP (Disc Description Protocol) manufacturing program that runs rock solidly on the Mac platform (it’s also available for PC). (first published in CX magazine in October, 2015)

Mastering wavelab vs dsp quattro