using CDR to back-up

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I have a pair of DR4d Akai's with Kingston Data Silo's (1gb each)that are currently full with my bands first group of original tunes...I don't own a DAT and I don't want to buy pull out drives for the kingstons, however I do have a really good stand alone CD burner does any one out there know if I can successfully back up to CD so that I can save the master material to work on later?
 
heyster howster,

I am not familiar with any of your gear so I don't know if your data silos are storing .wav files. The stand alone burner sounds neat, but again I do not understand how it functions. If you can get both pieces of gear to communicate you may have something.
I have a CDR in the CPU tower, burns wave files right off the hard drive.
You may consider software and a pc so you can store and edit your masters, which would require transfering to a new format, some dedicated burners will patch into pc's. Most cd's are made of wav files, which should, for all practical purposes, already be finalised. No clear cut answer here that I know of - sounds like you have outgrown your current capacity and it is time to expand.
 
BBall,thanks you are probably correct I'm thinking Jaz drive to download and archive my data...I don't believe that the Akai units output as actual wav. files but it is digital at the same rate as CD's use (44.1) the soft ware in the Akai unit "sees" the data as one song... you have to start and stop the recordings to get your track breaks (the CD Burner I have will do this automatically,but I digress)when you set the recorder to back-up it assumes that you are recording to a DAT and converts the rate to 48 kHz... anyhow I found all this out posthumously... I backed up to CD and things looked like they went fine but It won't reload so I am out of luck(so far) I may have sucess changing the record rate on the Akai to 48 and trying again, but it could be that the reason that I was able to get these units so (comparatively) cheap is that they aren't fully functional and I'll have to spend more big bucks to get what I want.I really am trying to save up for that new Mackie 24 track HDR....
 
So you're like,speaking to us from the realm of the departed?
 
Only Virtually,Ray...
the tracks are gone... may they rest in peace and if I am lucky the boys won't be too pissed at having to redo the vocals and extras so I'll live.
 
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