I have a musician friend that has the original DAT verision of his song. Can MAGIX PRODUCER import and edit this

fbuono wrote on 3/20/2010, 5:52 PM

I have the DAT files from some original songs recorded in the late 80. Thay are being transfered to CD. Can Magix Producer addition import into indivisual tracks and alow me to edit them.

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Securityman wrote on 3/21/2010, 3:18 PM

From my understanding of Digital Audio Tape (DAT recording you will need a program to "decode" the digital information from the DAT to an analog signal then back to digital (unless you can rerecord the playback direct to digital). The digital information on a DAT recording predates todays "digital" format with lossless encoding. It is closer to MIDI then digital audio. I would play the song through a DAT deck and record it onto your computer digitally. You should not lose much quality if your system is set up for it.

fbuono wrote on 3/22/2010, 11:37 AM

I'm a litttle new to this online forum so I don't know if I'm responding to the reply correctly. Anyhow, I have a mastering guy that tells me that he can transfer this to cd or thumb drive. I just don't know if Magix will open the file and load it into an original multitrack arrangment. Is there a special file firmat or extention that I should tell him to use or will it come to me a=in a bumdle (.bun) format.

Thanks for your reply, now I'm almost there.

Thanks...
Frank

Securityman wrote on 3/24/2010, 9:21 PM

I don't think MM uses .bun file format. Cakewalk does but that is a $1,500 program. You would be best if you can get him to output to a wav or mp3 format. You might be able to find a file-transfer program on the net that will transform it into a sable format but you will no doubt lose quality.