brobinso91285 said:
I recently upgraded to Vs. 2.0 on the 788 and I was delighted to see it allowed "wav export" and "wav import" for CDR burning. However, when I did an export/burn on one of my songs, it exported each mix track separately. When I played the CD, I could only listen to one track at a time! Worthless, to me at least.
Is there a way to export an entire song from my 788 as one wav file? If that's not possible, how do I consolidate the separate tracks into one file once I've burned them to a CD?
Also, is there software that would allow me to convert the proprietary sound files burned from my 788 onto a CD into wav or mp3 files?
Thanks for your help!
Bill Robinson
Ok, I owned a 788, so I can offer you a little help. Any time you want to burn a song to a cd from the 788, it has to be "pre-mastered". This is 788 lingo for what everyone else calls "mastered". This will burn to a cd in audio format that is playable in a normal cd player (.CDA format, I think).
You can burn the project that you are working on to a CD in a file format that is compatible only with the 788 (or 2488, etc.). This is all of your project data (including audio) that you would need to re-load the project into your machine, if you accidentally deleted it, or deleted it to make room. This file that you burn is only compatible with the 788 (or 2488), because it works directly with the software on the machine (which is proprietary).
If you are looking to take your individual tracks to another brand or series of recorder/DAW/computer program, it only makes sense that it would burn each individual track in the .WAV format that you are experiencing now. It does this so you can record/import each audio track into any machince you may need to. Unfortunately, there is no simple, "one-shot" method of getting all of your audio tracks into another environment, you'll have to drop them in one, by one. This is due to the software on the 788 being proprietary, as all workstations are.
P.S. The 644 Tascam CD burner (discontinued) will work with this machine, contrary to what they tell you (it's actually the same exact burner, with a different label on the bottom - it was marketed with a different mastering package shortly before the 788 came out, and it was cheaper, so they didn't want to sell those instead of the cd788 (even though it was the exact same product).
Also, if you have trouble with the CD burner being recognized by the 788, prop the scsi cable up where it connects to the machine - common little quirk with these machines; the scsi connectors they used weren't the best.. Besides that, I do have to say that it is an amazing little machine and sounds excellent in 24-bit mode. Take your time and play with the compression and reverbs, and it can do some pretty impressive stuff.
