MIDI Monitor for Mac

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/01 9:50:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
sdcurtin at lucent.com writes:

> Lately I've been recording to MiniDisc instead of directly to hard disk, but
>  now I have a bunch of stuff I somehow have to transfer to the PC for making
>  CDs and putting on the web.  Has anyone used a digital PC audio card with
>  the optical interface on an MD to transfer the contents?  I also worry 
about
>  what will happen if you MPEG encode a previously MD'd file, since the
>  combination of the two encoding methods could result in nasty artifacts.

Although Soundblaster now makes a card with an optical port, I DO NOT 
recommend that you buy it.  It does not sync to the external clock in your MD 
player, and resamples all the audio coming in through the optical port.  This 
will add even MORE artifacts.  Just a warning.

There are tons of others available.  I use an older Turtle Beach (all analog) 
"Tahiti" soundcard, and I'm quite happy with it.  I'm sure they must have a 
digital option by now.  Also, I beleive there are models made by Zefiro, 
MIDIman, Echo and others

Dave Magnuson