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cornburger
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this is a very in depth question so bare with me. i bought a new dell p.c. with a sound blaster live sound card installed. i installed the mia by echo sound card and now have both in my computer. i would have taken out the sound blaster but there is no way to connect the c.d. player to the mia. now my question comes in two parts. 1) can someone explain how to set these two cards up together so i can listen to c.d.s and record them, assuming i'm using windows media player 7? 2) how do i get the c.d. player to work on cool edit pro (se) so i can record samples straight from c.d. to cool edit. i really need a step a to step z explanation for someone who is starting from scratch. thanks
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johnschultheiss
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| Posted - Mon Apr 09, 2001 1:08 pm |
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You can listen to CDs using the Windows Media player, or whatever it's called on your version of Windows, provided that the soundcard is still hooked up to the CD player. Sounds like you left it that way, so you're fine there.
As far as recording CDs goes, what I'd do is use a CD ripper, which you can download from a bunch of places. I've used WinDAC, and it works fine. It's shareware, but reasonably priced, so I recommend you pay them for it, but obviously that's your decision. Search for it on Google, or go to Tucows and see if they're offering it.
The reason to rip cds instead of recording them is that the information remains digital from the CD to the hard disk. If you record the CD, it goes D/A then A/D. In addition, ripping is MUCH faster than recording (it's something like 10X realtime on my system). Once the ripper has saved a wav file, you can do whatever you like to it using CoolEdit.
-- John Schultheiss
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cornburger
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| Posted - Wed Apr 11, 2001 1:37 pm |
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once you've saved a c.d. to your hard drive, how do you open it on cool edit pro?
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johnschultheiss
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| Posted - Thu Apr 12, 2001 12:51 pm |
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File/Open works for me. Do this from the waveform view in Cool Edit Pro. Having opened it as a wav in CEP, use Ctrl+M to put it into the mix. Go back to multitrack view, and there it is.
-- John Schultheiss
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