Negative time is determined by the first index marker. You d need software that lets you set it to something other than 0:00:00.

Does anyone have experience with mastering, specifically with adding negative time before a track starts? I know Wavelab used to allow this, but I remember being told they no longer and the googler has led me down a few dead ends. Running on MacOS, I prepare the file in Audition before cutting the tracks so if it can only handle stereo that's great.

Yeah, Cd Architect did this well. Actually it was a pretty great otc Red Book authoring tool that made burning complicated song layouts (gapless playback, crossfading tracks etc...) really easy. Not sure it is a thing you can even really buy anymore as sony no longer owns that suite of software. I actually haven't burned a disk in about 5 years.

I might be wrong but I think CD Architect has this feature. I haven't used it in a few years so I don't know if it is compatible past Windows 7.

To be honest I want it more for the ddp and pq settings than to actually make the cd, I just want to be able to deliver the most professional product to the client and that way if they decide to press anything they'll have it. I'll have to see if there is a CD Architect clone that'll run on Mac, or see if Wine can emulate it without imploding or destroying the quality.

bishopdante wrote:What you want for OSX is a piece of software called waveburner. Made by Apple. Discontinued.I'm honestly so confused as to why Apple routinely takes the axe to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset. Half of their innovations are just a future pain in the ass. I found Triumph by Aurchitect manages to do everything I want out of a mastering program

FunkHunter wrote:bishopdante wrote:What you want for OSX is a piece of software called waveburner. Made by Apple. Discontinued.I'm honestly so confused as to why Apple routinely takes the axe to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset. Half of their innovations are just a future pain in the ass. I think it's chiefly because Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. They think of software development as a cost they have to bear to keep hardware sales up. It doesn't explain their changes to hardware that cause things to be an issue in future, but most of that is similarly driven by $, cost v revenue, etc.

It looks like Ardour will generate a TOC or CUE file that does this. I've never tried. Runs on OSX, or so they tell me. Never tried that either.