splumer Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Here's my dilemma: I want to digitally transfer MD's I record live to my computer to burn to CD-R, but nothing's coming through. The equipment: Sony JE-510, Acoustic Research optical cable (brand new), Yamaha YM744 sound card, Cool Edit Pro 1.1 running on Win 98. I have a 400 Mhz P3 with 192M of RAM. The Yamaha is the second sound card. The first is a SB something integrated into the mother board. The drivers are installed, the device is selected in Settings, and in the CEP settings, the Yamaha is selected under "Waveform record" in options/settings/devices. I switched the Win98 recording control over to the Yamaha card and selected "Digital In" and made sure the record level was up. I don't get any signal in Cool Edit, nor do I get any sound through the speakers. The analogs on the sound card work. As an experiment, I connected the optical out from the sound card to the optical in on the MD, played a .wav file in CEP and tried recording it on the MD. I got the "Din Unlock" message. I also tried optically recording from the MD deck to my portable (Sharp MD-MT15) and got "Din Unlock" on my portable. Any ideas? I'm fairly new to digital transferring, but not to recording on my PC, nor to recording in general. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[StrangeByte] Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 maybe it is not the "digital in" you want to record (although this would be very illogical)... try enabling all sources for playback (in the windows mixer) and check if the signal is coming out from your speakers. if it works, try figuring out the right source by disabling each source.. hope this helps btw the "din unlock" confuses me... is that the SCMS restriction? not common on spdif outs of soundcards.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 Din Unlock means, that there is NO signal at the input. SCMS protection shows up as "No Copy" It looks like, that the driver is unable to correctly initialize the Yamaha card. Check in the Control panel --> Device manager for any Hardware conflicts. In addition, deactivating the onboard sound in the computers BIOS-Setup could solve the problem as well. Deinstalling and Reinstalling the drivers helps sometimes too. If all fails and there is still a conflict between the Yamaha and the onboard sound, deactivating the onboard sound using the jumpers on the mainboard would do the job as well. Last resort: Backup all data, Reinstall windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splumer Posted September 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 Thanks for your help, but unfortunately, still nothing. There are no hardware conflicts. I even checked the motherboard devices for conflicts on that level, and nothing. The analog ports work fine. I'm thinking I should contact Yamaha, but since they no longer make sound cards, I wonder if they still support them other than offering drivers for download. Thanks for all your suggestions. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splumer Posted September 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 Got it figured out. I think it was that the optical cable wasn't plugged in all the way on my sound card. The plug is really wide, and just has trouble fitting between the edges of the slot. It's like the troubleshooting sections in equipment manuals: "Is unit plugged in?" Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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