Topic: DAT transfer help

[jmerin]

hey all,
I am upgrading one of my friends to transfer dats into his computer.
He is the m -audio 24/96.

the card and drivers are installed right.
When i go and use cd wave editor. i am not getting music from the dat to go on the computer.

I have tried an M1 and a D8 with the oade cable.  its the modified one. if you can help please respond

thanks

[MULETAPER]

are you plugging into mic in on the soundcard directly?

[udovdh]

I believe he wants a digital transfer to be done.
Are you using optical or coaxial?
Be sure to use an output and plug it into the input of the card.
Please re-check.
Then set the card for external clocking or whatever it is called in the windows driver. (Linux here...)
Then check the card's mixer.
I don't know what that looks like on your PC so others should explain that.

[Erick del Valle]

In the recording software you use must assign the SPDIF input for recording and in the sound card software (I don't know m -audio 24/96) the master clock to external.


Hope this helps


Erick del Valle
Santiago de Chile

[jmerin]

thanks everyone now i need to figure out a way to transfer dats to a mac, any idea

[H₂O]

If it's a newer Macbook pro or even macbook they have optical in/out so you would need a deck with an optical out (there is a optical cable for the D8/M1 but it's pretty rare now) and a cable that goes to mini-toslink.


Or you can get a firewire SCSI adapter (such as the Ratoc FR1SX), a DDS drive that supports audio (such as Seagate CTD-8000, Sony SDT-9000, etc) and use DATXtract.  This is the route I have gone.


What kind of MAC?

[greenone]

You can use a little external breakout box to go S/PDIF>USB; I used to use what is now the ESI U24XL, ran me around $100. Nowadays I just feed the signal into my Microtrack and record it to CF, then use a card reader to transfer.

[Erick del Valle]

can provide more information to make an accurate analysis? what dat player, cables, sound card and mac model you will use for this purpose?


Erick del Valle
Santiago de Chile