On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Gilbert Hangartner wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Right, but buying a docking station when you actually want to edit the
> thing on a computer is a bit expensive ...
>
>
> Anyway, am I paranoid if I do not want to do the D/A-A/D conversion when
> capturing minidisk audio data into a computer? Does this really not
> matter when working with radio quality interview and nature sounds????
at "radio quality" you probably won't lose too much if any in the
sound quality of the final product. The nature sounds (and this really
depends on the sounds) might have some minor loss, but if you're recording
with MD, you might have some loss as well (ATRAC compression)
The D/A-A/D and back again isn't as bad as you're thinking. If it was
Decompress, transferred and recompressed, THEN it would be as bad as you're
thinking. This is where the generational loss of ATRAC (and just about any
other medium) comes in. If you're editing the sounds on your computer
and then sending them back to the MD, it would have a first generational
loss, just at though you'd sent from the fist MD, straight to the second.
>
> I'm new in audio, but having grown up with computers I can't hardly
> belive that D/A-A/D is the way people do this ...
We don't have the tools (they don't exist, or haven't been made available
at lest in the consumer market) to edit the digital sample of the compressed
data of ATRAC on the MD. One possible exception to this, is a company
out of the UK (sorry, the name escapes me) that was modifying the
MDH-10 to read AND write audio MDs, and was also creating a full
audio editing software package, for moving the digital data directly.
The downside to this was, it was additional hardware, computer dependent,
only ran in Windows9x (last I heard)((not as slam, but not eveyrbody is playing
in the MS ball park)), and cost around 500US or more (I forget what the
conversion rate was when I looked at it last year.)
good luck
-Jeffrey
--
The day MS makes something that doesn't suck
will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
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