SimSaw: They didn't make fun of you, they just cracked a little joke. The reason being that the statement you made was not fully thought out.
To make a copy of a DAT tape, he would need access to a DAT recorder which was what he was looking for to begin with.
Hope you see the funny part of the situation and not take it as a personal insult.
Unless of course it was meant as an insult.
In that case, disregard this post.

   

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Originally posted by dpolsrod
SimSaw: They didn't make fun of you, they just cracked a little joke. The reason being that the statement you made was not fully thought out.
To make a copy of a DAT tape, he would need access to a DAT recorder which was what he was looking for to begin with.

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I didn't think about it like that.
It does, doesn't it?

   

Being a sound tech student, I know a bit about DAT players.

Most of them, maybe all of them have some kind of digital output. Those I've been using have optical S/P-DIF outputs (and inputs).

Connect this to the S/P-DIF on you computer sound card, and you'll be able to extract the audio with no quality loss at all!

I really can't tell if the results from your converted tape-streamer will be any good.

If this thread was up a year ago, I'd be happy to send you a DAT tape for testing purposes, however I don't have one at the moment! Next time I'm over at my university studios (that'll be in about a week or so) I'll see if the dat-players are still in there (they probably are). If so, I may be able to record some stuff and send it to you

BTW: As DerSchrauber mentioned, there's allso a standard called ADAT. These are the size of VHS, and have 8 tracks of digital audio. DAT tapes are much smaller, and have 2 tracks of digital audio

   

multiaudun said "BTW: As DerSchrauber mentioned, there's allso a standard called ADAT. These are the size of VHS, and have 8 tracks of digital audio. DAT tapes are much smaller, and have 2 tracks of digital audio"

What he said is true as ADAT's can record 8tracks and DATs can record 2tracks BUT DATs are also capable of recording 8 digital tracks onto a tape on the Tascam DA-88's. The 88's are no longer manufactured but im sure you can find them in many places as they were the standard in the recording industry.

My suggestion: If any one around your way has a DAT with optical or spdif outputs (which most do) i say transfering those tracks digitally to Protools hardware/software will give you the best result. You can then save these audio clips to almost any format you need. If you were from around here id do it for you but im too far from the Netherlands.

Good luck!

   

Somehow, I suspect that editing etc would be more likely to take place in something like Audacity than Protools. I can see the next post now "Needed: Digi002 for Protools!" :)

   

Are you guys looking into some kind of re-mastering of the game's music? I'm a producer\composer and fan of the game and might be interested in reproducing the music (which would then be in mp3 format), if you're looking at doing that.

   

We weren't actually planning on remastering the music, mainly due to the lack of skills...
But if you are able to come up with something better than BASS's midi music, we'd certainly add support for it in ScummVM.

   

I threw this together today to give you an idea of how some of the re-made tracks might turn out: http://www.logic.turntablism.info/mp3/bass1.mp3

Keep in mind I haven't spent much time on it, and I'm also often able to make use of live instruments (such as violin and vocals) so that will definitely help with the more melodic parts that never sound right with midi\samples.

Let me know if you think it's worthwhile, and if so, what sort of timeframe you're looking at finishing the audio restoration, so I can aim to have the music ready by that time.

   

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Originally posted by edweird
I threw this together today to give you an idea of how some of the re-made tracks might turn out: http://www.logic.turntablism.info/mp3/bass1.mp3

Keep in mind I haven't spent much time on it, and I'm also often able to make use of live instruments (such as violin and vocals) so that will definitely help with the more melodic parts that never sound right with midi\samples.

Let me know if you think it's worthwhile, and if so, what sort of timeframe you're looking at finishing the audio restoration, so I can aim to have the music ready by that time.

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http://www.logic.turntablism.info/mp3/bass1.mp3

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Originally posted by edweird
Also, why not use Ogg Vorbis for this?

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Originally posted by edweird
I threw this together today to give you an idea of how some of the re-made tracks might turn out: http://www.logic.turntablism.info/mp3/bass1.mp3

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Wow, your sample does sound good, edweird, especcially considering the short time it took you to make it... I like it. And it made me very curios about what else you can come up with, if you decide to do a full remake of all tracks. :)

So far we have absolutely no idea how much time it'll take us to finish the audio data... If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it's a matter of 1-2 months. Sorry :)



The kind of transmission, be it mp3, ogg, flac or wave, is the smallest of our concerns and can easily be decided on when everything else is done.

   

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Originally posted by lavosspawn
Wow, your sample does sound good, edweird, especcially considering the short time it took you to make it... I like it. And it made me very curios about what else you can come up with, if you decide to do a full remake of all tracks.

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