: I have music on CD that I'd like to sample onto my webpage. How do I do that?

Start by downloading a <a href="/smm/cat/CD_RIPPERS/">CD Ripper</a>, which will take the music
off your CD to WAV format, then you could convert it to MP3 format with an <a href="/smm/cat/FORMAT_CONVERTERS/">MP3 encoder</a> like
<a href="/smm/programs/RightClickMP3/">RightClick-MP3</a>. Converting WAV to MIDI is more complex, but there is software available.

Launch the mixer in your dropdown menu. Go to recording settings by the upper left icon or double clicking on the gray space. Where the mute buttons were there are now record select buttons. Click on the one for line out (mouseover the icons to find out what they are) Set the slider to 50% and try it to get the level set.

Neptune303

: First of all, please note that I'm a beginner.

: I'm using an ASR-10 Sampling Keyboard (Ensoniq)
: and I want to get the songs I recorded on that
: into my computer. When I connect the "main out" of
: the keyboard into the "line-in" of the soundcard,
: I hear no sound playing. If I plug my PC speakers
: directly into the "main out" of the keyboard, I
: can hear sounds playing, so I know that the "main
: out" of the keyboard is not the problem. Also,
: everything else on my soundcard seems to work
: fine. For example I can plug a mic into the "mic
: in" and I can hear my voice through the speakers.
: I can also record it. I can play CDs and MP3s no
: problem.

: In case you're wondering, yes, I have made sure
: that the "line-in" volume is up and that it's not
: muted. I have verified this on both the surround
: mixer and the windows volume control. Also, I have
: made sure that no Environmental effects are turned
: on. And I have nothing else playing when I'm
: trying to record, so nothing is "blocking" the
: sound from the keyboard.

: What is the "line-in" for anyway? Shouldn't I be
: able to hook up the "main out" of my keyboard and
: hear sound through the speakers? My electric
: guitar doesn't work with the "line-in" either,
: although I don't really care about that, I'm more
: concerned with the keyboard. I don't know much
: about audio signals, but all I can say is that I
: can plug speakers directly into the "main out" of
: my keyboard and hear sound playing. Does that tell
: you what kind of signal is coming from the "main
: out"? What kind of signals are needed for the
: "line in"? I can tell you now that the "main out"
: is the only type of "out" I currently have
: available on my keyboard.

: Oh yeah, one other thing. I bought a tuner card to
: watch tv on my pc and I had to connect the
: tuner card to the "line-in" of the soundcard - it
: worked fine. Why won't it work with my keyboard?
: I really hope someone out there can help me - the whole reason
: I bought a more expensive card like the MP3+
: instead of one of the cheaper models was
: specifically so I could record music from my
: keyboard with the best quality.

: Thank you very much for your time.
: Michael

Later Monte. More and more people have waved by by to their money as they put it in the post and know full well that people like you are the ones making the money.

For the readers tempted by this offer, my whole family did this once and got nothing. All my friends did it at work years later and despite what I warned them, they quietly got nothing too. There is a guy in germany somewhere living in a castle from the money that he made from the excitement of us getting rich. It's a con that ONLY works for people in a certain part of the list. Monte probably has all these names tied up by now, put your money in a piggy bank or give it to someone who really needs it. Enough is enough monte, this is a music forum, not a place for conmen.

Steve...

If you mean, plug the tape output into the computers input and run software that prints out the music then no. There are programs that attempt to gain Midi note information from Audio but they are unreliable due to the fact that the computer is not clever enough to work out what instrument is playing what, or even that there are different instruments playing. It just hears a moving bandwidth of noise whereas humans can decifer what instrument is what from the Wave. If you have an individual instrument playing slowly then the programs might have a chance of giving you a few right notes but don't bank on it.

Steve...

: As an avid karaoke singer, it get's expensive buying karaoke c.d.'s at $20-$30 a pop. Has anyone got a good suggestion for a not so techno oriented person. I've got a c.d. burner built-in to my gateway. Thanks!

: Hi guys if you're interested in dance pop, check this new artist out! Her name is Vanessa & you can catch her at www.mp3.com.au/vanessa
: Have a listen to her songs "why" & "rhythm"
: Check it out!!!!!!
: wwww.mp3.com.au/vanessa

Mickey,

Why don't you get Vanessa to submit for a listing in the Hitsquad.com's
MP3Machine Artist Database, soon to be unveiled. Any other artists out there
reading this can submit too -

<a href="http://www.mp3machine.com/add/artist.shtml">Submit for a free listing Here</a>

You could have a fiddle with things like Re-birth (although it's all been done with that program a million times) there are plenty other free standing programs like Stella9000 and Vibra, Tokyo. Also programs like reaktor (but you have to be a nuclear scientist to get the best out of that one!) or dynamo. There is an upcoming program called reason I think from Propellerheads (re-birth) I think that everyone is very excited about. Check the Bitheadz site for some nice mac and pc programs to get you started. Also, look on this sites file section in softsynths for a phew more ideas and demos.

Steve...

: Do anyone know where to get a Steinberg WaveLab 4.0 manual, PDF or whatever? My dog f@cked mine up, really bad.

I'd like to have a pdf wavelab 4.0 manual...
thanx

: Do anyone know where to get a Steinberg WaveLab 3.0 manual, PDF or whatever?

I am desperately searching for a wavelab 3.0
manual. If anyone has had any luck will you please share.