How can I record amiga games music on CD?

[pantofis]

Hi, all I want to do is create a cd of my favourite amiga tunes.
What I did is this: I connect the amiga analog outputs to my PC soundcards analog inputs. Then I push record on Wavelab. Done. However: there's a grotesque amount of transformator noise (constant rumble @ 50Hz...) and the signal amplitude is way too low. I could amplify the signal, but then the noise gets louder too.

My question is: how can I extract the pure, authentic sound of the amiga 500, without noise etc? any digital ways (spdif or alike?)

Question 2: has anybody found a way to record amiga music from http://exotica.fix.no/frames.html onto audio cd? How do I do this?

Thanks in advance, Ivan

[Vincent]

There's a plugin for Winamp (that I can't find at the mo) that lets you play .mod files.  You can then output it to mp3 or wav within Winamp.  Then you can put them onto CD :-)

It's very possible because I did it with feekzoid mods from Aminet, but that was a year or two ago now.

--edit--

here's the plugin (different to the one I used) for Winamp.

--edit2--

here's an mp3 output plugin too.

Now all you need is Winamp ;-)

[SKAN]

If you wanna get the real  :-D feeling, use your Amiga with the good old Delitracker, the 14bit genie and MakeCD. So you can get 16bit/44khz samples out of DeliTracker and then burn them as audio tracks using MakeCD.

 See this for help neway: exotica thread

[patrik]

@pantofis:

To lessen the 50hz noise: Make sure both computers have a common ground for their powersupplies, ie connected to the same grounded power-cord.


/Patrik

[Etho]

I use Delitracker PRO on the PC to export MODS as High quality WAV files, similiar to what Vincent suggested.

http://www.delitracker.com/

[Vincent]

Didn't know that was on the PC, I'll have to check that out :-)

[Etho]

@Vincent

It took me a while to dig that out aswell. I belive it's done by almost the same team that did the Amiga version of Deliplayer.

[pantofis]

Hello again! Thanks for all advices!

For the winamp solution. My winamp plays mods, but I just can't figure out how to make a wav from there. Anyway some mods sound different from the real thing.

The deliplayer is very nice actually as it does play these strange things in the lha's and lha's themselves too! The sound is still not quite authentic (robocod,   lotus etc.). It tends to be smoother. Furthermore the wav recorder functions only for mono (shareware)!

My solution at last is still the analogue way...
As somebody here advised me, I made sure both comuters are equally grounded. And most importantly I plug off the cable tv-antenna from the tv(my amiga500 monitor)! That one made most of the noise.
There's still a little amount of noise there, but it's tolerable for me. I have also amplified the input signals within my soundcard +12 dB, so I can use more of the 16 bits of Wavelab.

This solution however requires that I actually have to play the game in order to get to a certain ingame music (lemmings!).

Thanks again, Pantofis

[Piru]

UADE is pretty much the best when it comes to authenticy. It even emulates the lowpass filter. You can use -outpipe option to output 16bit 44100 Hz raw sampledata. This can be converted to AIFF or wav for CD track saving.

This is what I use to convert some modules to mp3's under MorphOS:

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uade big:modules/mod.KnullaKuk -outpipe 1 | lame -h -r IN: t:KnullaKuk.mp3


[Vincent]

pantofis wrote:
For the winamp solution. My winamp plays mods, but I just can't figure out how to make a wav from there.

Ah, I forgot - you'll need a disk writer plugin aswell.

File Writer Output should work fine if you get bored of actually playing the games ;-)