Soundcard for Win7 64 bit: need to record internal audio (eg. "what you hear")

[herbert]

Hi Sherry,

You said:

“I had avoided doing anything like a physical cable previously because of digital-to-audio-to-digital conversion degradation of signal.”

Recording over the sound card will always result in “digital-to-audio-to-digital conversion degradation of signal”, whether you use an external cable or the sound is directed internally in the analog part of the sound card.

Using the onboard Realtek HD audio by itself should give you the better results, even if you have to use an external cable to connect “out” to “in”. Best results of cause are achieved if the sound remains in digital form at all times and the sound card is only used for monitoring but is not part of the actual recording system.

Best wishes,

Herbert

[Sherry C]

Howdy Herbert,

Originally Posted by herbert

Using the onboard Realtek HD audio by itself should give you the better results, even if you have to use an external cable to connect “out” to “in”. Best results of cause are achieved if the sound remains in digital form at all times and the sound card is only used for monitoring but is not part of the actual recording system.

You're right, of course, on all points The reason that I don't use the Realtek for "both sides" is that the Audigy 2 card can load and play soundfonts along with any other sound libraries I use with Composer. I find it much easier to use various sounds with Composer this way (no advance setup after the initial one-time loading of soundfonts on my sound card) rather than setting up the VST host stuff. The Realtek doesn't have such capability. I guess I'm just lazy

Thanks for your insights here, and I'm sure other folks will find them helpful too!

ttfn,
Sherry

I am having problems with chrome.
The menu works like a charm on IE, FF and Opera but no show in chrome

[Sherry C]

Howdy,

Originally Posted by cidscrihopleea

I am having problems with chrome.
The menu works like a charm on IE, FF and Opera but no show in chrome

The menu for.....?

A description of what program and the steps you're trying to use, as well as the operating system (eg. XP, Vista, Windows 7) will be helpful in figuring out the problem.

Thanks!
Sherry

[veneman]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Howdy,


The menu for.....?

A description of what program and the steps you're trying to use, as well as the operating system (eg. XP, Vista, Windows 7) will be helpful in figuring out the problem.

Thanks!
Sherry

Hello Cherry,

May be I'm wrong here, but Chrome (google) as well as Opera are Internet Browsers, competitors of Internet Explorer.
Its likely meant that the Forum pages do not display well in Chrome.

If so.
There are quite some small incompatibilities between Internet Browsers.
Microsoft's IE is used by the major of users. On my site I see 95 %.
Most WEBsites ans will as Forum, Shop's are primarily designed
for MS-IE. It's the choice of the WEBsite designer/programmer
whether he also test in depth the WEbsite in Chrome and other browsers.
And then resolves most. or all errors.

So the question might be is Notation's Forum programmed and tested
with other that IE. If not then this might clarify why you have these errors.

Cheers Jaap

[Sherry C]

Hi Jaap,

Good to see you

Yes, Chrome is a browser, but I'm not sure if C. is having a problem with (1) the forum (2) the Notation Software website's MIDI pages (3) another linked MIDI website's pages (I get a surprising number of inquiries about them because folks follow a link from our website) (4) the browser launching from Musician or Composer or (5) ????

There are a lot of possibilities where a browser peculiarity could affect a user's experience, so I'm just trying to be efficient and find the specific problem so we can address it. It's much more helpful to know where the needle is, rather than plowing through the entire haystack on my own to try and find it (this is from the saying "trying to find a needle in a haystack")

ttfn,
Sherry