In a news item, AC#1 page 8, you reported System Solutions offer a 
CD-burning service for audio CD's which states Cubase Audio AIF 
format files are not compatible with the CD writing process. 
That's absolutely wrong!
I regularly burn audio CD's from files created by Cubase Audio 
without problems. CDRecorder 1.0 from SoundPool did have problems 
dealing with Cubase Audio recordings, but the problem was quickly 
resolved and with the current v2.09 multi-session burning works as 
well.
I receive DAT master tapes for CD-burning from various musicians. 
I record the tapes through an optical cable to the S/Pdif 
interface into Cubase Audio. To eliminate the blank space before 
and after the actual song I cut the audio in the editor so only 
the music is left. These cuts created the problems in earlier 
versions because they created another header after the original 
header which did not conform to the AIFF standard.
The current version compensates for this problem and makes the 
necessary adjustments automatically. After the cuts, the space has 
to be removed using 'Delete unused' in the audio pool in Cubase 
and if the original wasn't 44.1kHz it has to be converted using 
the offline 'Convert sample rate' function. After these operations 
files can be used for CD-burning without any problems.
Thanks very much for a GREAT magazine - Keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Claes Holmerup, via the Internet