how do i put my song on minidisc to my computer?

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chalman

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dear audio recording buffs,

i have a problem. i have a yamaha MD8 mini-disc recorder. i record my songs on this. what i want to do is transfer my songs i recorded on this to my computer. i bought an audigy platinum 2 drive with the soundcard. here's the link of it's manual if you wanna do a quick research of its capabilities:

http://www.americas.creative.com/support/manuals/files/aud2plat.pdf

anyhow, i hooked the audigy up to my computer so it gives me RCA hookup capability now. so what i tried to do is hook up RCA out on the yamaha mini-disc player to RCA in on the audigy drive. i opened a sound program on the computer (i think it was "audio stream recorder", a program that came with my soundcard). anyways, i saw none of the levels go up in the sound program when i pressed play on the mini-disc recorder. i tried messing with knobs and stuff but could never figure it out. can you help me? do i need something between the minidisc recorder and the audigy drive? do i need a certain program? do i need to turn something on or off that i don't know about? i'm confused!! if you could help me, that'd be great! thanks for your time...

sincerely,
chalin...the confused recorder guy
 
You have so much to learn that it's hard to know where to start.

I think the "Audio Stream Recorder" is for recording mp3's and such off the internet, so you can save "streaming" audio as a file.

You need to read your manual and find out which software program it came with that will let you record wav. files.

Your connections (rca etc. ) sound correct, you just need an application like Wavelabs, or other stereo audio editor software that you can use to record wav files. When you do record, be sure to set your bit depth to 16 and sample rate to 44.1 or you won't be able to burn to an audio CD without sample rate conversion (let's not even go there)

Are your intensions are to work with individual separate tracks (instruments), and mix and record on your computer, or just do mix down and mastering on your computer?

Am I speaking Greek to you?

Hope I helped.
 
By the way double (and triple ) posting is frowned upon here, and can put you on "the list".
 
posting

i realize that multiple postings would probably be looked as "nerdy", but no one was going into the minidisc section to help my question, and since this question was really important, i decided for this one time that i could probably slide..

thanks for the advice though..

chalman
 
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