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Ted,
You may just want to stick with Krystal for the moment, so as not to get even more confused with all of the different learning curves of other programs.
What you are trying to do is rather simple.
Connect your mixer, in the manner stated above, to the Line In (blue jack with the arrow pointing in).
Using input monitoring in Krystal is not very practical without having ASIO drivers, but we can work around this for your needs.
On your desktop, down by the clock, double click the little speaker icon.
This will bring up your playback controls.
Make sure the Line In isn't muted and the level is all the way up.
Now click Options at the top and select properties.
Under "Adjust volume for" select Recording.
In the window for "Show the following volume controls" ... Make sure Line In is selected.
Click OK.
Now you will be looking at the recording controls.
Place a check mark in the box to select the Line In as the recording device and set that fader level to about 75% or more. In fact you can even set it all the way up, as you will be controlling the input level via your mixer.
Now, when you play something through your mixer you should hear it on your computer speakers.
If all is good to this point, you are ready to record in Krystal.
In the Waver window on the first track (Waver 1) click the second button from the left. This will set the track to stereo.
Now click the record button to arm the track.
You should be at the point you where before .... showing levels in Krystal, but you should still be hearing output at your speakers.
Good to this point? Lets hope.
Now you can click record on the transport and do some recording.
We'll just stick with a single track at this point, though Krystal does allow you to add 15 more tracks (dubbing) that you can mix together as well as add effects. We'll worry about that at a later date.
Now you've got a recorded track and can play it back in Krystal? Great.
Now we just need to Export Mixdown.
First you will need to set your track markers. This is done just above the first track, in the timeline. Hold the Ctrl button and left click the timeline at the beginning of the track, now while holding the Ctrl button right click the timeline at the end of the track. You should now have a blue line in the timeline above the area of the track that you made your marker selections.
Now you just need to go to File > Export Mixdown.
A window will pop up asking you to name it and where to save the resulting wave file. You can also select to save the file as mono or stereo and as 16 bit, 24 bit or 32 bit float. Just leave it at stereo and 16 bit.
Now click save. You should now have that wave file saved to whatever location you chose.
Seeing as how you would like the file to be an mp3, you will need to convert it.
dBpoweramp Music Converter will do this. Also check out dBpowerAMP CD Writer (which includes the music converter) for writing your mp3's to CD.
Hope this helps.
-Ken
You may just want to stick with Krystal for the moment, so as not to get even more confused with all of the different learning curves of other programs.
What you are trying to do is rather simple.
Connect your mixer, in the manner stated above, to the Line In (blue jack with the arrow pointing in).
Using input monitoring in Krystal is not very practical without having ASIO drivers, but we can work around this for your needs.
On your desktop, down by the clock, double click the little speaker icon.
This will bring up your playback controls.
Make sure the Line In isn't muted and the level is all the way up.
Now click Options at the top and select properties.
Under "Adjust volume for" select Recording.
In the window for "Show the following volume controls" ... Make sure Line In is selected.
Click OK.
Now you will be looking at the recording controls.
Place a check mark in the box to select the Line In as the recording device and set that fader level to about 75% or more. In fact you can even set it all the way up, as you will be controlling the input level via your mixer.
Now, when you play something through your mixer you should hear it on your computer speakers.
If all is good to this point, you are ready to record in Krystal.
In the Waver window on the first track (Waver 1) click the second button from the left. This will set the track to stereo.
Now click the record button to arm the track.
You should be at the point you where before .... showing levels in Krystal, but you should still be hearing output at your speakers.
Good to this point? Lets hope.
Now you can click record on the transport and do some recording.
We'll just stick with a single track at this point, though Krystal does allow you to add 15 more tracks (dubbing) that you can mix together as well as add effects. We'll worry about that at a later date.
Now you've got a recorded track and can play it back in Krystal? Great.
Now we just need to Export Mixdown.
First you will need to set your track markers. This is done just above the first track, in the timeline. Hold the Ctrl button and left click the timeline at the beginning of the track, now while holding the Ctrl button right click the timeline at the end of the track. You should now have a blue line in the timeline above the area of the track that you made your marker selections.
Now you just need to go to File > Export Mixdown.
A window will pop up asking you to name it and where to save the resulting wave file. You can also select to save the file as mono or stereo and as 16 bit, 24 bit or 32 bit float. Just leave it at stereo and 16 bit.
Now click save. You should now have that wave file saved to whatever location you chose.
Seeing as how you would like the file to be an mp3, you will need to convert it.
dBpoweramp Music Converter will do this. Also check out dBpowerAMP CD Writer (which includes the music converter) for writing your mp3's to CD.
Hope this helps.
-Ken
