I know this topic has been visited several times ,but I recently came across this Wav. conversion tool from Sony which allows you to burn CDs from your sessions recorded on MD. I know it works very well for HiMD, and the CD quality is excellent.
........................................................."Great News for Live Recording & MiniDisc!
It's official! You can now do high-speed digital uploads of your microphone and line input recordings on Hi-MD and convert them to WAV format. If you own a Hi-MD unit and have been waiting for the ability to export files from Sonic Stage to WAV format, the wait is over! Go here to download Sony's WAV Conversion Tool for FREE:
Meanwhile, Mac users are still waiting. I wound up going to a friend's home studio, downloading Sony's Sonic Stage onto his PC, uploading my Hi-MD recordings to his computer, and burning audio CDs to take home. It was a little tricky getting it all to work (I had to go home and search for the MD manual - we couldn't figure it out ourselves), but once we got it working, it worked well.
It did have an undesireable side-effect, changing some setting on his computer so that all of his sound files opened in Sonic Stage instead of the program he had been using. There's probably some easy way to change it back, but he claimed to have to reset each file individually.
It's nice that there is a new direct-load software tool. My studio is Mac-based (ProTools) and, although it takes some more work, I don't mind taking a plain old audio signal from MD outputs (thru some nice preamps, but that's just me) into the computer and making CDs from there.
The MD D/A converters and compression algorithms work well inside the MD box, and using the audio output, there's no chance of transferring any of the data compression artifacts to the audio that way.
Anyone know of any good freeware available ,that works on the older models( ie MZR37 with line out, optical line in, mic line in configuration) with no USB. I,ve tried Wavepad but find it awkward and not worth the cash, ( and now the free trial has run out anyway). It goes in thru the sound card in my PC, which is basically analog. I don,t mind the analog, as I,m not that concerned about super quality sound , just a decent way to burn my recordings onto CDR, it,s still ahead of a cassete recorder, (arn,t they obsolete now anyway??) Any tips appreciated!
I use "NERO Wave Editor " (coming together with "NERO Burning CD" software) to "record" from the analog input of my sound card.
The tool allows you to work on the file and store it in various formats incl. MP3.
You can then easily burn onto a CD using "NERO burning CD" which again offers options to change the file format and burn a "normal audio CD" even if the source is MP3 (or other formats).
Burn CDs from minidisc
Burn CDs from minidisc
I know this topic has been visited several times ,but I recently came across this Wav. conversion tool from Sony which allows you to burn CDs from your sessions recorded on MD. I know it works very well for HiMD, and the CD quality is excellent.
........................................................."Great News for Live Recording & MiniDisc!
It's official! You can now do high-speed digital uploads of your microphone and line input recordings on Hi-MD and convert them to WAV format. If you own a Hi-MD unit and have been waiting for the ability to export files from Sonic Stage to WAV format, the wait is over! Go here to download Sony's WAV Conversion Tool for FREE:
http://sonyelectronics.sonystyle.com/walkmanmc/wav.html "
# Posted on April 24th 2005 by Backer
Re: Burn CDs from minidisc
Meanwhile, Mac users are still waiting. I wound up going to a friend's home studio, downloading Sony's Sonic Stage onto his PC, uploading my Hi-MD recordings to his computer, and burning audio CDs to take home. It was a little tricky getting it all to work (I had to go home and search for the MD manual - we couldn't figure it out ourselves), but once we got it working, it worked well.
It did have an undesireable side-effect, changing some setting on his computer so that all of his sound files opened in Sonic Stage instead of the program he had been using. There's probably some easy way to change it back, but he claimed to have to reset each file individually.
# Posted on April 24th 2005 by GaryAMartin
Re: Burn CDs from minidisc
It's nice that there is a new direct-load software tool. My studio is Mac-based (ProTools) and, although it takes some more work, I don't mind taking a plain old audio signal from MD outputs (thru some nice preamps, but that's just me) into the computer and making CDs from there.
The MD D/A converters and compression algorithms work well inside the MD box, and using the audio output, there's no chance of transferring any of the data compression artifacts to the audio that way.
stv
www.cdbaby.com/Culchies
# Posted on April 24th 2005 by stv culchie
Re: Burn CDs from minidisc
Why did they wait until everyone's dumped their mini-disc cos getting it into distributable format was so bloody awkward?
Grumble, whinge, etc.
# Posted on April 24th 2005 by Bren
Re: Burn CDs from minidisc
Anyone know of any good freeware available ,that works on the older models( ie MZR37 with line out, optical line in, mic line in configuration) with no USB. I,ve tried Wavepad but find it awkward and not worth the cash, ( and now the free trial has run out anyway). It goes in thru the sound card in my PC, which is basically analog. I don,t mind the analog, as I,m not that concerned about super quality sound , just a decent way to burn my recordings onto CDR, it,s still ahead of a cassete recorder, (arn,t they obsolete now anyway??) Any tips appreciated!
# Posted on April 25th 2005 by mandobrynley
Re: Burn CDs from minidisc
I use "NERO Wave Editor " (coming together with "NERO Burning CD" software) to "record" from the analog input of my sound card.
The tool allows you to work on the file and store it in various formats incl. MP3.
You can then easily burn onto a CD using "NERO burning CD" which again offers options to change the file format and burn a "normal audio CD" even if the source is MP3 (or other formats).
# Posted on April 25th 2005 by low b flat