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This station is used in combination with our Yamaha 4X CDRW/CDR CD burner, our Tascam DA30 DAT recorder, JAZZ 2 Gig removable drive and Glyph 4 Gig drive for mastering and making Compact Disks.

If you want to make a CD in the studio, you'll use this setup and two important programs:

1. PROTOOLS: this program is used to record your sounds from DAT to computer disk

Here's a series of short quicktime movies showing you some of the steps involved in using Protools to make a CD:

• Opening Protools (launching the program on the G3)
• Open two new tracks to record onto
• Record your DAT sounds into these new Protools tracks (roll the DAT tape, then press "RECORD" and "PLAY")
• Now Bounce your newly recorded tracks to disk (takes two mono files and combines them into one stereo file)

2. TOAST: use this program to move your "bounced" files from the hard disk to the CD-R. Here are two quiktime movies demonstrating how to use TOAST to do this:

•   Launching TOAST
•   Dragging your files from the hard disk into the TOAST window and burn the CD

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DAT

Here is a closer look at our Dennon CD player (with SPDIF digital out!) and our Tascam DA30 DAT machine. Students at Skidmore MASTER their tapes to this DAT machine, then bounce the DAT recordings to CD.

When recording to DAT, be sure you do not SKIP any parts of the tape.... that is...if you want to make a little gap after the last song on the DAT, it's better to RECORD SILENCE, so that the DAT machine knows where it is all the time. Otherwise, if you simply play a few inches of blank tape and try to record, ABSOLUTE TIME will drop out on the DAT display, and this is not good.

Patch Cords

These are our patch cords. There are two kinds:

1) 1/4 inch TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) used in the synth patch bay

2) tt (tiny telephone), smaller in diameter but also TRS (tip ring sleeve), used in the main patch bay