RE: VikingCon

replyFrom: Dixon, Steven E

> If you check out the Musician's Friend web site there are some
> cards specifically made for audio and midi input. Most handle
> both analog and digital.
>
> http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ex/ds/home/010816083726012013226011102332
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I looked over this site, and found no cards that allowed both digital input _and_ were less than $200. For that price, you could get a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum, save a few bucks (or pay for installation, though I'll do it for you), and get everything you probably need (and for which you would want to pay).

Actually, if your computer is old enough, I actually know of a "bare-bones" computer kit that comes with a Celeron 433Mhz CPU, a decent case, a motherboard, all the cables you need, and a built-in SoundBlaster Live! with the Platinum kit allowing for digital input, output, FM reception, and IR remote control (I believe the last was part of it). The kit costs $150 plus shipping. For another $20 the site has 128 MB of PC133 RAM, as well. If your computer is an older Pentium (or older), we could possibly take the parts out of it, combine it with this, and make you a considerably better computer for not much more than a soundcard with digital inputs alone. The very best price that I have found for the soundcard with digital input is $40 for a SoundBlaster Live! Value plus $70 for the upgrade to a Platinum card with digital input.

However, if you can do an analog input that is good enough, then almost certainly the problem you described is a side effect of the software you are using. There are freeware and shareware programs that should be able to load the entire Minidisk onto your computer as one file, assuming that you have enough hard drive space.

Filksinger
AKA David Nasset, Sr.
Geek Prophet to the Technologically Declined Received on 08/23/01