Couple questions about audacity and card readers

I currently have a usb zip drive connected to my mac and am trying to load a sequence (.mid). When I load it it just comes up as a millisecond noise, but if I load a .snd file it plays the sample. What can I do about this? Sorry if it's been asked before. I searched but couldn't find anything

Also I finall got OS 1.2 on my mpc but it's still not recognizing the card reader, at first when it was on 1.4 the card reader showed up in the load screen with a in the disk type but now it just doesn't show up at all. Thnnks

Hmm, so how should I go about of transferring from mpc to mac. Is there any way I can save a sequence as a .snd?

And I'm not sure what you mean about master and single drives

lonnie wrote:Hmm, so how should I go about of transferring from mpc to mac. Is there any way I can save a sequence as a .snd?

you record the audio coming out of your mpc into your mac.
no you cant convert a sequence to a snd.

the mpc is not a drag and drop type device...it is a musical instrument.

lonnie wrote:And I'm not sure what you mean about master and single drives

usually drives have a jumper / switch in the back that allows you to set it to 'master' or 'slave' - the card reader needs to be master.

i would suggest going back to os 1.14 if os 1.2 doesnt work (why did you upgrade?), but that means using another drive if you cant use the card reader to do this.

So I would record from the out of my mpc to my mac? Would a y cable take care of this?

lonnie wrote:So I would record from the out of my mpc to my mac? Would a y cable take care of this?

yes, a dual-mono 1/4" to stereo 1/8" y cable would allow you to do this.

or in a pinch, a single 1/8" to 1/8" plug with a 1/4" adapter on one end plugged into the mpc headphone out would work - but this is probably about the most ghetto way to do it.

still works though!

Thank you Tape god!!

Will try this out thank you b foreals