importing from minidisk recorder -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:importing from minidisk recorder Posted by: naclenat Date:9/13/2004 12:01:58 PM You all seem quite versed in this technology, which unfortunately is not my forte. This is what I am trying to do: I have an audio file captured on a minidisk (recorded on my sony minidisk recorder). I would like to convert that to MP3 and WAV files using Screenblast Soundforge. Any ideas where to start (besides with the instruction manual)? In layman's terms please.....
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: Iacobus Date:9/13/2004 5:50:59 PM Hmm. Do the minidisc recorders have an export function? If not, maybe you could use the minidisc recorder's headphone/stereo mini out and send that to your soundcard's line in? Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page Guitars 4 Kids
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: MJhig Date:9/13/2004 6:35:52 PM Or maybe you could post your MD manual and one of us could read it for you and tell you what to do. MJ
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:9/13/2004 8:14:33 PM Connect the analogue or digital output to your soundcard line or digital input, configure your Win mixer applet, and hit the record button in SF. geoff
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: rraud Date:9/14/2004 11:37:29 AM You can't import an MD file to PC, unless you have one of the new MDs... even then you can't open the .omg file in SF until the Sony MD export utility becomes available. So for now you will have to digitize the files though your sound card in real time. These threads may be helpful. Thread 1 and Thread 2
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: RiRo Date:9/14/2004 1:55:13 PM I was doing lots of this... haven't for a while. I eventually purchased a MD player with optical out and went optical out to optical in in real time. with the portable player, I think it only has a headphone out. It has line in and maybe optical in... but mine has no digital out... which is why I bought the MD player with digital out. real time through headphone quality amp... best it gets without paying for another bit of equipemnt. RiRo
Subject:RE: importing from minidisk recorder Reply by: vitalforces Date:9/14/2004 3:46:40 PM I got a good result by plugging a minidisc recorder's RCA stereo outputs into the RCA inputs on a digital video camcorder, which digitized the signal and passed it via firewire into my PC via the 1394 card. The trick, however, was that this takes three steps: I had to first record the incoming audio from the minidisc as VIDEO with a soundtrack (the 'video' was a white card in front of the camera lens where I marked the disc number, etc.), recorded onto the miniDV tape in the camcorder. Then after recording, I had to switch the camcorder from "Record" to "VHS" in order to output that signal through the firewire. It came into the PC as an AVI file--digital video with digital audio (using the camcorder also upconverted the 44.1khz audio from the minidisc recorder into 16-bit stereo at 48khz). I then rendered the audio in the avi file into a wav file--you can do that file by file with Sound Forge, or also through Batch Converter.

Subject:importing from minidisk recorder

Posted by: naclenat

Date:9/13/2004 12:01:58 PM

You all seem quite versed in this technology, which unfortunately is not my forte. This is what I am trying to do: I have an audio file captured on a minidisk (recorded on my sony minidisk recorder). I would like to convert that to MP3 and WAV files using Screenblast Soundforge. Any ideas where to start (besides with the instruction manual)? In layman's terms please.....