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By Popo Thu May 03, 2007 6:10 am
So I've made a song in song mode and am trying to transfer the beat to a WAV file via the main out. The problem is that I cannot record more than 1 minute and 23 seconds. I think because I have created two other songs and transfered them to WAV and they have used up the memory. However when I deleted one WAV. file (which was a song) the time doesnt change (still 1 min 23 seconds.).

I need the songs in MP3 format tonight!!!!!!

Please help!

Thank you!

J :cry:

By deranger Thu May 03, 2007 10:55 am
Try deleting unused samples and the song WAVs (like you did), then save your entire memory (well, the song&samples at least), turn off and back on your MPC, load your song and try again.

Or just play your song and record it with a soundcard in your PC... Will degrade the quality a bit unless you use the digital out (gotta have digital IN on your soundcard then)...
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By Sanova Thu May 03, 2007 3:18 pm
deranger wrote:
Or just play your song and record it with a soundcard in your PC... Will degrade the quality a bit unless you use the digital out (gotta have digital IN on your soundcard then)...


How would it degrade the quality? A multitude of synths and samplers (namely all of them that don't use digital) are recorded into the mixers which in change go into the soundcard. Unless you were referring to his PC stock soundcard ?
By K-Mello Thu May 03, 2007 3:48 pm
Sanova wrote:
deranger wrote:
Or just play your song and record it with a soundcard in your PC... Will degrade the quality a bit unless you use the digital out (gotta have digital IN on your soundcard then)...


How would it degrade the quality? A multitude of synths and samplers (namely all of them that don't use digital) are recorded into the mixers which in change go into the soundcard. Unless you were referring to his PC stock soundcard ?


I imagine any recording of an analog signal is going to have some loss in sound quality because you cannot accurately reproduce the levels and frequencies without an infinite sample rate. There SHOULD BE no loss of quality with digital because it is an EXACT DUPLICATE of the source. You may not be able to hear the loss in quality with analog if your working with good enough equipment, but it's always there. Think back to when we still used audio tapes, and if you copied a tape enough times, by the time you got to a say 4th or 5th generation dub, you could hear the difference from the original. If you had cheap equipment or a cheap audio tape, you could hear the difference right away.

Peace,
KM