Cakewalk Pyro Audio Creator Software (Windows)
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Suite of recording, editing, ripping, burning, conversion, audio cleaning, and encoding software.
Overview
Audio Creator combines all the essential audio tools needed in today's digital age. With Audio Creator's virtual toolbox, you are just a click away from recording and editing; burning and ripping CDs; converting and cleaning albums to CD or MP3; encoding, tagging and organizing your sound library; and even publishing to the Internet.
If you care about your audio, there is no better choice than Audio Creator. It's from Cakewalk, makers of the world's most popular music creation software, used daily by Grammy winning musicians and producers.
Features
1-click recording: capture musical performances, meetings, vinyl records, cassettes, podcasts, Internet broadcasts, and more
Professional 2-track audio editing: cut, trim, paste, hiss & pop removal, adjust volumes, crossfades, apply FX, and more
Encode, convert, and save audio to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, and AIFF
Convert audio to formats that can be used with iTunes(R), iPod(R), Zune(TM), and other digital audio players
Digitize, clean, and organize your record and cassette collection
Rip your entire CD collection to a digital format
Instantly download the song, album, and artist names of your CDs
Burn audio CDs to share with family and friends
Create backup data CDs for safekeeping
Tag, rename, and organize multiple audio files all at once
Upload custom streaming music players to share on Myspace, Blogger, and other web sites
Ripper
Digitize your entire CD collection using the Ripper tool. Just put in a CD,… read more pick an audio format, and Ripper takes care of the rest. Once you have converted your CD to a digital format, you can use the other great tools in Audio Creator to manage your newly digitized collection. Ripped files can be used on portable devices.
Burner
The Burner is one of the easiest CD burning tools you will ever use. With just a few clicks, you can create a track list and start burning CDs. Easily drag and drop files from anywhere in your computer right into the Burner tool. Visual feedback tells you how much time and space you have remaining on the blank CD. Burn audio CDs for friends and family or just back up files to a data CD for safekeeping.
Editor
Never lose that special moment of inspiration with the Editor tool. Just click 'record' and capture important ideas, meetings, performances, podcasts, Internet broadcasts-even digitize and clean your record or cassette collection. Edit audio using a powerful 2-track view based on critically-acclaimed SONAR technology: apply effects, crossfades, trims, hiss and pop removal, and more. When you are done, save it to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WVA, and more.
Tagger
With the number of digital audio files on your system growing by leaps and bounds, it is often hard to get organized or find music. The Tagger tool solves this problem by allowing you to easily label, rename, and edit metadata for better organization of your sound library. In addition, when you import your CD collection, Audio Creator can instantly download CD information from the web including song, album, and artist names for better accuracy.
Encoder
The Encoder is a versatile tool, allowing you to encode or convert audio files to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, AIFF, and more. If you need to encode or convert multiple files, just have the Encoder tool process them all at once, saving you lots of time. The Encoder is also perfect for converting audio to formats like MP3 for use in devices like the iPod, PSP, PlayStation 3, X-Box 360, Zune, and more.
Publisher
The Publisher tool makes it easy to share playlists of your music online. You can easily create online, streaming music players that can be uploaded from Audio Creator to websites like MySpace, eBay, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, and more. You can even match the player to your web design by picking custom colors and sizes.
pyro Audio Creator vs. Pyro 5
While there are some overlapping features, pyro Audio Creator differs significantly from Pyro 5. pyro Audio Creator is focused on helping users record, edit, and share audio while Pyro 5 offers more consumer-oriented features like jukebox functionality, support for certain portable mp3 players, & the ability to create & upload ringtones to certain phones. Unlike Pyro 5, pyro Audio Creator includes a number of professional features-including VST plugin support, support for ASIO & WDM audio interfaces, as well as a professional grade audio editor. read less
If you care about your audio, there is no better choice than Audio Creator. It's from Cakewalk, makers of the world's most popular music creation software, used daily by Grammy winning musicians and producers.
Features
1-click recording: capture musical performances, meetings, vinyl records, cassettes, podcasts, Internet broadcasts, and more
Professional 2-track audio editing: cut, trim, paste, hiss & pop removal, adjust volumes, crossfades, apply FX, and more
Encode, convert, and save audio to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, and AIFF
Convert audio to formats that can be used with iTunes(R), iPod(R), Zune(TM), and other digital audio players
Digitize, clean, and organize your record and cassette collection
Rip your entire CD collection to a digital format
Instantly download the song, album, and artist names of your CDs
Burn audio CDs to share with family and friends
Create backup data CDs for safekeeping
Tag, rename, and organize multiple audio files all at once
Upload custom streaming music players to share on Myspace, Blogger, and other web sites
Ripper
Digitize your entire CD collection using the Ripper tool. Just put in a CD,… read more pick an audio format, and Ripper takes care of the rest. Once you have converted your CD to a digital format, you can use the other great tools in Audio Creator to manage your newly digitized collection. Ripped files can be used on portable devices.
Burner
The Burner is one of the easiest CD burning tools you will ever use. With just a few clicks, you can create a track list and start burning CDs. Easily drag and drop files from anywhere in your computer right into the Burner tool. Visual feedback tells you how much time and space you have remaining on the blank CD. Burn audio CDs for friends and family or just back up files to a data CD for safekeeping.
Editor
Never lose that special moment of inspiration with the Editor tool. Just click 'record' and capture important ideas, meetings, performances, podcasts, Internet broadcasts-even digitize and clean your record or cassette collection. Edit audio using a powerful 2-track view based on critically-acclaimed SONAR technology: apply effects, crossfades, trims, hiss and pop removal, and more. When you are done, save it to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WVA, and more.
Tagger
With the number of digital audio files on your system growing by leaps and bounds, it is often hard to get organized or find music. The Tagger tool solves this problem by allowing you to easily label, rename, and edit metadata for better organization of your sound library. In addition, when you import your CD collection, Audio Creator can instantly download CD information from the web including song, album, and artist names for better accuracy.
Encoder
The Encoder is a versatile tool, allowing you to encode or convert audio files to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, AIFF, and more. If you need to encode or convert multiple files, just have the Encoder tool process them all at once, saving you lots of time. The Encoder is also perfect for converting audio to formats like MP3 for use in devices like the iPod, PSP, PlayStation 3, X-Box 360, Zune, and more.
Publisher
The Publisher tool makes it easy to share playlists of your music online. You can easily create online, streaming music players that can be uploaded from Audio Creator to websites like MySpace, eBay, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, and more. You can even match the player to your web design by picking custom colors and sizes.
pyro Audio Creator vs. Pyro 5
While there are some overlapping features, pyro Audio Creator differs significantly from Pyro 5. pyro Audio Creator is focused on helping users record, edit, and share audio while Pyro 5 offers more consumer-oriented features like jukebox functionality, support for certain portable mp3 players, & the ability to create & upload ringtones to certain phones. Unlike Pyro 5, pyro Audio Creator includes a number of professional features-including VST plugin support, support for ASIO & WDM audio interfaces, as well as a professional grade audio editor. read less
Specs
System Requirements
Minimum
Operating System: Windows XP
Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz,or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
RAM: 256 MB
Hard Disk Space: 50 MB for core program
Video resolution: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
Hard Disk Type: Any
Audio Interface**: Windows-compatible
Optical Drive***: CD-ROM required for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning
Web server access***: Available web server space with FTP access privileges
Recommended
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/Vista x64
Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T] or AMD Athlon 64 2800+ or higher
RAM: 1 GB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB for program and content
Video resolution: 1280 X 960, 32-bit color
Hard Disk Type: EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
Audio Interface**: WDM- or ASIO-compatible, including Wave RT for Vista
Optical Drive***: CD-ROM required for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning
Web server access***: Available web server space with FTP access privileges
Note:
* Required to run 64-bit edition of pyro Audio Creator / ** Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com/PCResource for a complete list of recommended audio devices / *** Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading. A broadband connection is recommended.
Minimum
Operating System: Windows XP
Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz,or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
RAM: 256 MB
Hard Disk Space: 50 MB for core program
Video resolution: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
Hard Disk Type: Any
Audio Interface**: Windows-compatible
Optical Drive***: CD-ROM required for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning
Web server access***: Available web server space with FTP access privileges
Recommended
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/Vista x64
Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T] or AMD Athlon 64 2800+ or higher
RAM: 1 GB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB for program and content
Video resolution: 1280 X 960, 32-bit color
Hard Disk Type: EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
Audio Interface**: WDM- or ASIO-compatible, including Wave RT for Vista
Optical Drive***: CD-ROM required for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning
Web server access***: Available web server space with FTP access privileges
Note:
* Required to run 64-bit edition of pyro Audio Creator / ** Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com/PCResource for a complete list of recommended audio devices / *** Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading. A broadband connection is recommended.
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 0.5 out of 5 stars.
(13 ratings)
Submitted January 7, 2008 by a customer from maine.rr.com
"PYRO AUDIO DESTROYER"
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They owe me not only my purchase money but the time I wasted recording tracks that ended up being useless because it crashed or had dropouts.
Sound
Sound quality is excellent. I didn't give it a 10 only because I was comparing it to a limited number of other products such as Audacity and the windows WAV recorder. It was the best sound quality I have heard yet. (MME mode was way better than ASIO)
Features
Track splitting after recording LPs and the ability to name the tracks while splitting and then have those names show up as the name of the WAV or MP3 files is the Cat's Pyjamas. Also, once again, sound quality is excellent.
Ease of Use
I had multiple difficulties installing. Only works if you have only one sound card on your computer. Two sound cards (i.e. the built-in one on the motherboard and any second, higher quality sound card you may be using) throw it for a bad loop. I had to disable all but one sound card to make it work.
Quality
Out of every three times I ran it it would: 1. record properly 2. Crash and stop working, usually while saving AFTER an entire 20 minute album side had been recorded, causing me to curse, lose the entire file and have to re-record the album side. 3. have Dropouts in the recorded track rendering one or more songs useless and causing me to re-record part of the album side. SO: 33% success is not very good and… read more wasted a lot of my time. These problems were incredibly frustrating, were not helped by the support people and caused me to ABANDON this product.
Value
What an incredible deal the software makers have. In the quest to avoid piracy there is no returning software. Here is a product that after multiple hours spent does not work for me and I have NO recourse to return it for a refund. What a world.
Manufacturer Support
NONEXISTANT SUPPORT. multiple emails went unanswered, calls unhelpful.
Musical Background:
Recording engineer
Musical Style:
Jazz, classical read less
Sound
Sound quality is excellent. I didn't give it a 10 only because I was comparing it to a limited number of other products such as Audacity and the windows WAV recorder. It was the best sound quality I have heard yet. (MME mode was way better than ASIO)
Features
Track splitting after recording LPs and the ability to name the tracks while splitting and then have those names show up as the name of the WAV or MP3 files is the Cat's Pyjamas. Also, once again, sound quality is excellent.
Ease of Use
I had multiple difficulties installing. Only works if you have only one sound card on your computer. Two sound cards (i.e. the built-in one on the motherboard and any second, higher quality sound card you may be using) throw it for a bad loop. I had to disable all but one sound card to make it work.
Quality
Out of every three times I ran it it would: 1. record properly 2. Crash and stop working, usually while saving AFTER an entire 20 minute album side had been recorded, causing me to curse, lose the entire file and have to re-record the album side. 3. have Dropouts in the recorded track rendering one or more songs useless and causing me to re-record part of the album side. SO: 33% success is not very good and… read more wasted a lot of my time. These problems were incredibly frustrating, were not helped by the support people and caused me to ABANDON this product.
Value
What an incredible deal the software makers have. In the quest to avoid piracy there is no returning software. Here is a product that after multiple hours spent does not work for me and I have NO recourse to return it for a refund. What a world.
Manufacturer Support
NONEXISTANT SUPPORT. multiple emails went unanswered, calls unhelpful.
Musical Background:
Recording engineer
Musical Style:
Jazz, classical read less
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