I am on the verge of buying the Emagic Audiowerk 2 card as it will provide a low latency decent RCA in and out with a SP/DIF. I don't want it to make any sounds on it's own, do you? There are cheaper ones but you have to be careful about the quality. A decent card will be noticably different to the sound cards that most people seem to have, I can say that from previous experience. There is the Audiowerk 8 card that provides more ins/outs or things like the Korg1212 which has been around for some time. Some of these cards provide ADAT digital connections that can give you many digital ins/outs to and from an ADAT compatible device or mixing desk. Quality is rarely cheap so you will get what you pay for.

Good Luck

Steve

Hi there, first, sorry for my english. I send this mail from Argentina. I have a soft to convert (with excelent quality) a .mp3 to .wav If you contact me in diego@imberti.com.ar, i send this file by e-mail.

Enjoy!

Due to the nature of audio on a CD you won't get more than 74mins
The only way to get hours is if your where to burn MP3s to CD but you would then have to use a MP3 player to listen to them.

: I wanted to transfer audio tracks from tape to cd, so recorded the audio tracks as .WAV files. Since the audio quality of the tapes is not wonderful, I recorded as 22KHz, 8bit, mono. This gave me small files compared to a 'CD quality' .WAV, so I expected to be able to fit more tracks onto the CD. However, when using 'Easy CD Creator' the files mysteriously swelled in size about 10 fold so I only got the standard 74 minutes on the disk. Why did this happen? Is there any way to prevent it? Is my vision of an audio CD with several hour's of music on it a pipe dream?

: Any help appreciated before I make further CDs.

: Many Thanks,

: Martin

Using an Eq to balance the level of a combination of tracks is not the way to go. It will only boost/cut certain frequencies rather than the desired overall level of a track. Normalising will increase the track to just below digital clipping and will therefore suit your purpose. Most if not all audio editors will provide this function as well as many other app's. I don't know what computer you have so recommending software would be too laborious...

Cheers

Steve

It's too hard to figure out an A-Z answer to a questions that contains no information. It's obvious what you want to do but you must give people details of your setup otherwise they wont be bothered.

What computer do you have? OS? what are your soundcard audio inputs? what tape deck do you have? it's inputs outputs? if you don't know what they are called then describe them people are pretty helpful.

Regards

Steve

This website has a large file area work checking. Have a look in the Karaoke area and you will find some things. The thing to understand is that the Karaoke idea of taking OUT vocals from a song is nowhere near perfected, infact it's rubbish and will only impress on certain songs... Give it a go and be disappointed like everyone else.

As far as mixing different songs together, you should try looking in the same file area in Multitrack recorders and download a demo of something like CubaseVST. It's a shame that Logic Audio isn't available as it's a firm Mac Pro choice. I have seen 'full' versions of Logic Audio Fun on the front of music magazine disks so keep your eyes peeled. These programs will allow for recording from the Mac's audio input into the program or importing .Wav's or .Aif's and including them on the many tracks available. You can then move them, put FX onto them, do almost anything to them, a virtual mixing desk is available for functions like volume and panning Eq, the list goes on and on.

Don't expect a nice walk in the woods with any of the more serious programs, they will take time and effort to understand the many functions, when you have, you'll never look back.

Good Luck

Steve...

Hi
How are you. I have some comments for you on the protools system you can download a free ver# of protools it will give you 8 audio tracks and 48 midi tracks. One thing that I would check out is the tech support on the sea sound and who has used the system. But I have to say only you can make that chosse.
I have checked digidesign out for a couple of months now and seems to be a great company. One other thing make sure that the system is compatable with yours on eather one. Right now I have a penteum 3 with 512 megs of ram with a Asus motherboard. The digi is great but do run into some things with the hard drives not being fast enough witch are at a 7200 rpm, well any way good luck Doug

I initially wanted to go with the Dgi 001 but my system wasn't compatable.....I am using Sea Sound Solo with Cubase 5 now.

I had a lot of questions for the techs at Pro Tools and they even called me back at one point which is something you will never see with the guys at Cubase. The technical support with Cubase stinks.

I've had a problem with my system hanging up and not shutting down properly when I've been running Cubase and I've been trying to get a straight answer from these guys for quite a while ....if you can afford to go with the Digi 001 and run Pro Tools...I would really recommend it.

Shell

The sea sound has something to do with Tom Oberheim which gives it a nice reassuring glow. I have read a review on the Digi001 (used briefly) and one on the Seasound and both look cool to me. I suppose it's down to many things as the units are similar in what they provide although a choice between Cubasis as part of the package and Pro-tools LE set them completely aside for me. Pro-tools is a lush program and Cubasis is the butt end of a excellent line of sequencers.

The price is different from what I can see by about £150-200 pounds more for the Digi001 which is a consideration, but it has to be said, if you are considering either of these then I presume you are quite serious about what you use and therefore assume you couldn't resist the 24bit 24 track digital ProTools system over a probably very competent Sea sound unit with sadly Cubasis.

Good luck, both of them are lovely!

Steve...

You have to understand that floppies are old and slow and are capable of holding a suprisingly small amount of data. If you are planning on saving audio, even in MP3 format, you will achieve roughly 1meg per minute of stereo data as an MP3. Forget wav you'll get no time at all. Midi data is very small although it ONLY represents the information of what notes you played, when, how hard you hit them, how long you held them etc... This is fine if you have a Midi device that will interpret that information and play some sounds that you can hear.

It sounds like the recorded tracks on your yamaha's maybe in midi format or you should be able to save them as such. If not, then you should have a Midi connection to and from your computer and play back the songs and record their midi information onto a sequencer.

You could try the demo of the Cubase sequencer (available on both Mac and Windows), which is available for download on this website, (address link below) which will record Midi information from your keyboard and will play back through your midi interface to any midi campatible device. You can fiddle and tune the information and copy and paste bits where you like. The program is also capable of recording Audio from the input on your computer as well as importing .Wav files etc...

This is only scratching the surface as programs like Cubase offer much much more. The demo is for the expensive version of the program however you could opt for cheaper versions like Cubasis or even go over to Emagic's 'Logic Audio' range which also includes cheaper versions. Try them first if you can. the amount of audio you can playback at one time is relative to your computers processing power, memory, HD speed etc... so if you have an older computer then don't expect the world!

Steve

: I'd like to have a version 2.7 of DIGITAL PERFORMER
: Can you help me?

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