Hello,
I have a DAB -tuner, which has an optical out. My computer has an optical in on the Abit Motherboard.
I have a cable to connect them. The aim is to make .wav files from the tuner. If I connect the tuner it plays back correctly on the PC, so I suppose the signal is recongnised. When I try to record it with Sound Forge, he gives a very streange signal. Instead of waves, like with any normal sound, I have 'cubical' waves, with rectangular edges...The amplitude of these 'cubes' is very small, so very less music is heared. It is possible though to recognise in some way the music, though with a very weak and deformed signal. It looks like something is wrong with the software or something: the signal is wrong captured or wrongly set from digital to analoge.
If I do the same with the normal analoge RCA connectors I have the same problem (the playback is OK though...). I remeber that on my previous PC, the analoge signal was recorded very wel bij Sound Forge. At that time I didn't had an optical connection.
Do I have to change settings in Sound Forge or are there more easy programs to wrok with, or is there a conversion program (read: free ware ;-) )to do this work? Oh yes, I only have Sound Forge v4.5
That's maybe 8 years old...