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GUS Musician's Digest       Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:19 PST     Volume 5: Issue  41  

Today's Topics:
                        recording audio tracks

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 15:08:00 +0200
From: iddos@math.tau.ac.il
Subject: Re: recording audio tracks

echen@verdi.sra.com (Eugene Chen) and Francois Dion discussed audio rec on 
GUS/CW. Perhaps you will find the following useful.

My current .wrk file is over 4MB, mostly audio, but i don't actually record 
this audio - I "download" it from CD or DAT via SPDIF digital i/o (using a 
Session8, not the GUS). I suppose if you want to record vocals, you could 
play your sequence, sing a couple versions into a DAT or tape, with no 
synch at all, then sample the version that you prefer, and load it as a WAV 
event into CW. This will be loaded and played using the computer RAM and 
does not use up the 1MB on board the GUS. I suppose it's the cheapest 
rec-2-disk-and-sampler system available. BTW, if it's a DAT, download it as 
I do if you can so your vocal track is sampled only once, by the DAT.

If this looks complicated, consider how much you will need to spend in 
order to have a slightly better solution. The only really bright idea I 
*heard* is a rumor that new TB cards come with a program that playbacks a 
MIDI file while recording audio. If it works, I hope one day will be 
implemented for GUS too. 

BTW, what's this ADPCM you guys are discussing?

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