After installing the latest update for DartPro 98, I don't have a shortcut to CD-Recorder 4 Basic in my 'Start' / 'Programs' folder. What's going on? How do I fix this?"

It is not possible to convert Wave into DSS; when you convert into wave it is always saved as a copy. Please, do not delete the original DSS file if you still want to use it.

MIDI isn't really sound! MIDI is a bunch of commands that tell a compatible sound module or sound card which sounds it has to generate. Although this seems to be rather complicated if you consider a whole piece of music, the amount of data that's necessary to do this is incredibly much less than in an audio recording of the same sound! The MIDI file is about 500 times smaller than a CD quality recording of the sound that the sound module generates.

Please run command "Sndvol32.exe /p" from your computer's "Start > Run..." dialog. Then check the volume control to "All Mute". Please pay attention that you must uncheck the "All Mute" after conversion, otherwise, when you play an audio file, it will have no sound.

Even though the registered MIME type for MIDI files is audio/midi, some browsers are not set up to recognize it as such; instead, they look for audio/x-midi. There are two things you can do to address this: Configure your browser to treat documents of type audio/midi correctly. This is the type that Apache sends by default. This may not be workable, however, if you have many client installations to change, or if some or many of the clients are not under your control.

MP3 enable to compressed sound in various conditions. The quality of sound depends on the following standards. It is possible to replay sound very close to the original when kbps and kHz are increased, which enable them to keep more information. The general setting for MP3 is 128kbps/44.1kHz. This level will make it possible to reply any sound in close to CD.

Here is a brief explanation of some of the questions you may have about the Music Disussion & Help section of Shareware Music Machine.

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. This kind of music type is composed by 128 instruments at the most. The file size is very small compared to the WAV files or MP3 files.

Some programs do allow you to convert single tones (monophonic instruments and such) to a midi data, but as far as converting complex recordings and arrangements, currently, it hasn't been done. The first person who comes up with an accurate way to convert complex audio recordings into midi will be rich though (maybe), and will need to adopt me as their son.

To save MIDI data to disk, use the 'midiToDisk' object. To route MIDI to other software in Windows (for example Logic, Cubase or Sonar), you can use for example Hubi's MIDI Loopback Device or MidiMux. To route MIDI to other software inside MacOSX, you do not have to install everything, because software also appears automaticly inside hardware-lists.

Yes, if you have Unified Messaging set up in your email client. Unified Messaging will list your voice mail messages along with your e-mails in your e-mail client view and will allow you to listen to your voice mails from your e-mail client through the media player on your computer. The file format of the voice mail is known as a wave file. Once you listen to it you may save it or delete it.

WAV is the file name extension for Wave Form Audio File Format (also called a RIFF WAVE). It is a Microsoft audio format introduced in Window 3.1 which contains a RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) header. This header tells the computer (or IVR) what the format, bit rate and sampling rate of the audio data to follow is going to be.

A - scuzzphut, NAS, Mikael Adle, DDummer - Drag-and-drop of midi clips and wav audio *is* supported, through the built-in browser (press F3) and works fairly well. There are some niggles (midi clips always import by creating a new track) but otherwise it's very well implemented. With eXT as a VSTi in Logic, drag/drop works from eXT to Logic, both audio and midi files. It works in Tracktion too, but not in in Cubase SL 2.0 and in Sonar right now.

Yes, in most cases you can. However, different systems may require different recording source settings. There are several ways to play a midi file. Most sound cards are capable of midi synthesis through special on-board hardware. Some midi players are capable of software midi synthesis (e.g. RealPlayer with the Crescendo plug-in). There are also some special drivers (e.g. Yamaha SXG) that provide software midi synthesis.

The MP3 compression consumes a lot of computation time, actually, the lame encoder that's used by CDex is relatively fast compared to other MP3 encoders (with comparable sound quality, listen the output of the Xing 'fast' encoder, and you know what I mean). The ripping process can be slow when you have With certain CD-ROM drives you might get better performance when you set the CD-SPEED to 32, but this might increase the change of jitter errors.

This is not a question, and I'm not interested in playing Twenty Questions to pry your actual question out of you — I have better things to do. On seeing something like this, my reaction is normally of one of the following:

The Group tool has a "File->Write->Standard MIDI File" menu item. So, typically, you copy things to a Group tool in order to write them out as a MIDI file. However, you can also write a MIDI file from the console, or in a script, using the writemf function like this: writemf(Snarf,"file.mid");