Try re-installing your soundcard drivers, if you have them handy. or else, you might need to select a different midi output driver/port

: I can not get midi files to play. Both players show the file is playing, but I don't hear any sound. My sound card supports midi. Volume is up and it is not muted. I have know idea what is wrong. I downloaded the new Media player with no success. If anyone can help me please send an e-mail. Thanks, Barb

Sorry we couldn't help you, maybe nobody around here has an answer to your question.
Will ya give us one more chance?

: I look around and everyone just posts questions and there is no answers?!@ what the hell is that time to move on i guess and find my own answers!

You need a program called a "ripper"
no, it doesn't hurt your CD's, but it copies the audio data in wav format or MP3 format.
If you have the free space on your hard disk to hold the whole disc (650 Megabytes maximum) then go with wav file, as the ripper will not need to encode to MP3, which takes a while, and some CD burning programs are not compatibke yet with MP3's. a few suggestions ofr rippers are audiocatalyst and musicmatch jukebox.

: Have tried copying audio cds from my pc's cdrom to my cd burner(HP7500). I have 192MB of ram on a PII 400mhz pc. After the 1st track is read and writing is attempted, I get an error message that says "error in output device".I have yet to be able to copy an audio cd. Please Help!!

Try recording (simulation) at the slowest possible speed (1x), if you haven't already. I know it will be time consuming but it might help. You may need a faster proceessing speed on your computer, the reason I say that is when I first tried recording, I used to get that buffer underrun message also (Adaptec) but I was using an older, slower computer, so I had to go from 2x to 1x to get it to work. Since then, I've upgraded to a much faster computer and haven't had the underrun problem since.

Did you refresh the plugin list? does that version of Soundforge support DX?
regardless, I'd get Win98SE....

: I have W95 o/s, directx 7a installed in my Pentium III
: 450 Mhz.
: and when I install a directX PlugIn, they don`t appear
: in my audio applications (sound forge or Any other)
: menu

You need a CD burning program such as Easy CD creator or Nero. Once you are in there, it should be easy.

: i can't seem to download anything on my cd-r from the computor for e.g. , my favourite songs
: i've been sitting in front of my computor for 3 days trying to figure it out, and now i'm frustrated
: What can i do, please help me!!!!

: i uploaded about 5 songs from CD's onto my computer and they are saved as RMX files, i need to convert these to mp3...anyone know how or have program sites? thanks, -Really Frustrated

did you ever get an answer to your question? I want to know also.

Thanks!

: I have some killer mp3s that i got off of napster, but the sampling rate is something like 48000 mhz, and i cant burn then onto a c.d. is there any free/shareware
: program that would allow me to change the rate to 44100mhz after decompressing to a wav file? big time thanks to anyone who can help me out.-damon

: I have some killer mp3s that i got off of napster, but the sampling rate is something like 48000 mhz, and i cant burn then onto a c.d. is there any free/shareware
: program that would allow me to change the rate to 44100mhz after decompressing to a wav file? big time thanks to anyone who can help me out.-damon

CD audio is at 48 khz i assume that is what these files are at. this is the right resolution to be burnt to CD, if you downsampled to 44.1 khz, you would only have to upsample again.

: I have a couple of mp3s and wav files that the snare drum is too loud and the
: guitars and vocals are too low. Is there any software to help mix the sound
: the way i like it and then re-record it? Help?

You can't seperate the individual sounds (tracks) at this stage as the audio document is now 'a mix' of all the original sounds and can't be treated seperately. The only thing I could suggest is using a parametric Eq program and try and establish the frequencies you want to reduce in volume. You may find that reduction of the frequencies related to the snare drum will assist in bringing out the guitars and vocals The 'snap' sound related to the snare can often be found around 2.5khz. Have a look around there and some of the lower frequencies from 400hz to around 1.5khz. Basically, have a fiddle, you might be able to roughly acheive what you want. If you have little experience with parametric EQ's then follow this short guide.

A fully parametric EQ will allow you to select the frequency to adjust, the amount you want to adjust and the size of the frequency range (BandWidth, or 'Q'). You could say select 2.5khz, adjust the 'Q' to narrow. (0.5 say) and adjust the volume. The smaller the 'Q' the narrower the frequencies either side of the selected frequency will be affected. I think a 'Q' of 1 equals a bandwidth of 1khz which translates to 500hz either side of the selected frequency therefore if you select 1khz as the frequency to be affected and have a 'Q' of 1 then you will be adjusting the volume of frequencies between 500hz and 1.5khz. (this is how I remember it, I could be wrong).

A 'notch filter' is sometimes provided which has a 'very' narrow bandwidth (Q). This allows for removal of say 50/60hz (depending on country) mains hum or any other problem frequencies. Worth a try though in you situation.

Cheers

Steve

Hello

Antares Autotune ( http://www.antares-systems.com )does a pretty good job of Vocal Tweeking. It is however rather expensive.

I know there are other programs, but I just can't think of them right now...

hmm... maybe I need to think "harder".

Cilanntrus