: Trying to get started on my g4 system and deciding between a digidesign digi 001 and the seasound for an all around base system. Pros? Cons?
: http://www.digidesign.com
: http://www.seasound.com/website/english/home/netscape/home_net.htm

: R
Did you check out the seasound website?
G4 with Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9.0

Problems

Intermittent crashes or freezes on startup
Digital audio applications freeze when configuring sound options

both these problems are not fully resolved.
I have read good things about the digi001 being used on macs. Also with the Digi001 you can get experience in protools, a plus if you decide to record music professionally. My vote goes for the Digi001. Beanhead out.

If I were you I would buy a dedicated piano module by testing one out at the local music store. Opinions are varied in this area and your ears should be the decider. Your Mac isn't that fast and I think you may run into problems if you are trying to run a sequencer at the same time, however, the best software option available to you in my opinion is "Blacks & Whites" by Bitheadz, (www.bitheadz.com). I think it's a little bit more expensive than it need be but is worth a look. Herbie Hancock swears by it apparently and I should think he'd be the man to know... I think it may require a 200Mhz processor though. I used to run Logic Audio 3.5 happily on my older macintosh that required a 604 processor but ran perfectly well on my 603e so who knows...

Cheers

Steve...

: What I want to do is actually record the output of a program in real time, without recording onto DAT or anything first. The reason: want to record realtime output of Simsynth to a .wav file for import into VST. Not too hot on MIDI, but can you route the output of the sound card back into the computer and record what is being output, whilst it is being played?

You can save .wav files from Simsynth but not in
real-time. To record the output in real-time you
need a virtual sound card driver like <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/TotalRecorder/">Total Recorder</a>.

Can you tell us why you need real-time, just curious.

: What I want to do is actually record the output of a program in real time, without recording onto DAT or anything first. The reason: want to record realtime output of Simsynth to a .wav file for import into VST. Not too hot on MIDI, but can you route the output of the sound card back into the computer and record what is being output, whilst it is being played?

why realtime? Simsynth (when registered) can output to .wav files, which can be flown in to any sequencer. Beanhead out.

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: Hi all,

: Try this Midi Forum ! COOL !

: http://tremolo.harmony-central.com/HyperNews/get/MIDI.html

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: Bye. Sheran

Hi,

Try to disable your 3D acceleration ( i suppose your video card is Accelerated ) options...Some 3d video cards drivers are designed to get most of the CPU power but this process may generally reduce Sound Card processes and performances...

Good luck.

: I used Voquette to download a streaming audio file to .wma. I wanted to convert the .wma to a wav using Audio Converter 2.0 but it said the .wma file was protected and couldn't be converted. How do I unprotect/convert this file?

It's actually against copyright law in some countries,
and soon to be in many countries, to circumnavigate
copy protection systems.

Even if you live in a country with laws like the
Home Recording Act in the USA, it's still illegal
to copy music for personal use if the process you
go through involves avoiding copy protection.

This effectively means that laws like the USA's
Digital Millenium Copyright Act actually have far
wider impacts than many people have realized.

If you buy a normal CD with no copy protection you
can make a personal copy, but if you buy the same
songs in a digital download and it uses something
like Windows Media File copy protection then you
can't make a copy.

Does this mean that sales of digital downloads
could be something record companies use to end
personal copying? Or will people just use simple
software like Total Recorder to get around the
problem?

Post your ideas here I'd like to know what other
people think about this.

Alf.

SImple.. do you ahve a CD-Rom? Then you should be able to read any CD, I have had one CD ever, that was burned with backup data, and it wouldn't read, however, any CD should work.

As for WRITING CD's, you need a CD writer or CD-R/RW

: How do I make my iMac computer compadable so it can read CD-R discs?

: Help..Im doing something wrong here. I have a Roland
: EM-10 hooked to my PC via midi cable.Im running
: Cakewalk Pro Version 8. I record the
: first track and I hear the notes ( through the
: sound card and speakers )milliseconds
: after I actually play them, then on playback
: I try to record a second track and everything
: is way out of time. Ive got to be doing something
: very wrong...Please Help.

from what i've heard this can be caused by lack of free memory (gotta have alot of RAM for audio stuff) and perhaps the quantize may help. my cakewalk does a similar thing, i just try to copy and paste it to the right places... takes a long time.

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