Musical Instrument Inputs and Outputs

I just got a new Mac Pro 2.8 ghz 8-Core and need some advice for my musical instrument inputs and outputs. In my old Mac I used the stereo in and out that were attached to a PA system. Now I want to downsize and am not sure how to connect my musical instruments that have 1/4 plugs.
Can I use the optical audio in and out in some way?
Should I get a small mixer? Firewire output?
Any recommendations for a low cost audio recording set up would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I think I need to be more specific with my question.
I need to record my keyboard, which has a 1/4" connections and cables.
I also need to record voice through a mic with an XLR connection.
I do not record the keyboard and mic at the same time.
I need to be able to monitor the sound while recording and for playback.
I will be using SoundTrack Pro (Or Bias Deck 3.5) to record.
Obviously I will need to convert the analog signal to digital, but I want to do it with least amount of interference and shortest route possible.
I guess what I'm asking is about the set up.
Keyboard>Mixer>Line Out>A to D converter>Line in Mac Pro?
Speakers>Line out>Mixer>Line In ?

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Hi J. Kim,
To begin, you say you want to synchronize your analog input and output so that they start at the exact same time, yes? To achieve tight synchronization, you need to use DAQmx VIs instead of the DAQ Assistant. There's a good overview of DAQmx VIs here. There's also a document that deals specifically with synchronization in DAQmx here. Additionally, if you go to Help>>Find Examples in the LabVIEW example finder, you can see many other examples of acquiring data using DAQmx.
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Hello,
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I think there is much confusion here!
In summary, you wont be able to control the recording level of S/PDIF.
The reason is that you don't want to!
You need to think of the SPDIF connection as being more like a file transfer method. You are copying the digital data at an output to your harddrive in effect. If I send you an MP3 via email you'd never imagine that your email software is capable of changing the gain of the MP3 I send you. This might sound daft but its a useful analogy. If you need to increase the "volume" of that MP3 then you'd need to ask the sender. Its the same with your set-up.
There could well be somewhere on your synth that adjusts the instruments level, other than the master (analogue) output control. For example, make sure the midi volume of the intrument being played is set to full - ie midi vol 128. Perhaps there is somesort of virtual mixer onboard to control all the muti-timbral parts so make sure your part has its virtual fader turned up.
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When things go to your sound card/ daw...
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Digital signals are far more predictable though and there is no advantage to your recordings if the incoming digital signal gets an increase of level at the input stage. All you are doing here is effectively adding a few zeros to the binary digital data!
Lets face it the point of recording is to get a copy of the original sound, that is as similar to the original as possible. With S/PDIF you get a perfect copy of what's coming out of your synth - so job's a good un!
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The analogue headroom (how loud you can go before things distort) depends on the analogue electronics and varies with different design. Analogue stuff, like mixers) often has headroom of 24dB or more. So that digital stuff can interface with analogue properly we allow for that analogue headroom to be around 18dB (usually enough in practise!)... hence -18dBFS(digital)=0dBVU(analogue).
To make your digital and analogue input signals sound similar in level you will probably have to reduce the gain of the analogue input. If you set the incoming analogue signal to peak around -14dB (or less!) or so you will probably find things more equal. If you are working in 24 bit your analogue levels can be seemingly very low before sound quality is affected. Its quite safe to record at -20 or even -30dB as shown on logic's meters for eg.
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I did a search of course, and came up with something about an aggregate. I have no idea what this is, how to do it, or if it would even work for me.
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Kind Regards

Limping_Twerp wrote:
Alright: I see: An xcontrol is either an input OR an output. How do I achieve an output? Secondly: So you are saying the only Elements that can have multiple inputs and outputs are VIs?
Can you take a few steps back and explain what you are actually trying to do. SubVIs and Xcontrols have nothing in common and it is not clear why you even try to compare them side by side (e.g. in terms of the number of connectors).
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With useful help from Jamie Hodge, fbm and Nicholas Stokes (mainly)
I could manage to write a command for inputting and outputting from Final Cut Server Annotations.
So lets go to the fun part:
INPUTTING:
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d - Event Type Filter: Created, Modified
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Listing multiple: 2
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{ASSET_ENTITYID} = Is the entityid of your asset. You can find what number it is by issuing:
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This will output ALL your assets, so if you know the name or want to parse the name you can use:
/Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Server/Final\ Cut\ Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin/fcsvr_run psql px pxdb -c "SELECT pxmdvalue.entityid, pxmdvalue.value AS asset_name FROM pxmdvalue INNER JOIN pxentity ON pxentity.entityid = pxmdvalue.entityid WHERE pxmdvalue.fieldid='1543' AND pxmdvalue.value='ASSETNAME' AND pxentity.address LIKE '/asset/%';"
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ASSETNAME | TCIN | TCOUT | ANNOTATIONS | USER
But as I`ve said I`m no programmer
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/Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Server/Final\ Cut\ Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin/fcsvr_run psql px pxdb -c "SELECT pxmdvalue.value AS Asset_NAME, pxtcmdvalue.value, pxtcmdvalue.begintc, pxtcmdvalue.endtc FROM pxmdvalue INNER JOIN pxtcmdvalue ON pxmdvalue.entityid = pxtcmdvalue.entityid WHERE pxmdvalue.value='ASSETNAME';"
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(I`m having problem with this, it doesn`t work).
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6- Add exporting annotations md group to Media md set.
In theory it`s possible to modify the FinalCutServerIntegrationSample get and input annotations instead of adding another "comment" field to md group list.
Few!
Ok so please help beautify this out!
This will be very useful for a lot of people.... We know that it`s only a matter of time to FCSVR have this function built-in... but this "time" could be years.
So let`s start ourselves!
Thank you very much!!
Regards!

AlphaBlue wrote:
jverd wrote:
What were you hoping for? Someone reading your mind for what exactly you need, and handing you a giftwrapped answer, without you doing any work or clearly communicating a specific problem? This site doesn't really work that way.Fair enough. I'm asking for insight into how to input from and output to a StarOffice Spreadsheet into/from a Java program. (Think java.io except with spreadsheet files instead of .txt files.) I already answered that question.
I need to accomplish this without the use of a community-created library.That's a bizarre requriement. Why?
>
Okay, [here you go|http://lmgtfy.com/?q=communication+between+StarOffice+Spreadsheets+and+Java].
If you don't have any knowledge or experience, on the matter, please refrain from directing me to a google search. I assure you, I have already performed such a task.How would I know that.
But okay, let's say I know that. Let's say you bothered to point out that you've already done that. Further, let's say I do have knowledge of the subject at hand. Maybe I'm an expert. Maybe I wrote Star Office and an open source library (which wheel for some reason you must reinvent). You are assuming that I also have psychic powers, so that I can read your mind and know exactly what you've read so far and exactly what parts of your very broad and vague question said reading did not answer.
In short, you have received answers commensurate with your questions.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/2c/4fb240ac052817e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/6a/3f93404f673028e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
Hope these help you.
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To All

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END IF;
-- This part outputs the DATA
IF NOT v_samefile THEN
    v_fh := UTL_FILE.FOPEN(upper(p_dir),p_data_file,'w',32767);
END IF;
LOOP
    v_ret := DBMS_SQL.FETCH_ROWS(c);
    EXIT WHEN v_ret = 0;
    v_finaltxt := NULL;
    FOR j in 1..col_cnt
    LOOP
      CASE rec_tab(j).col_type
        WHEN 1 THEN DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(c,j,v_v_val);
                    v_finaltxt := ltrim(v_finaltxt||',"'||v_v_val||'"',',');
        WHEN 2 THEN DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(c,j,v_n_val);
                    v_finaltxt := ltrim(v_finaltxt||','||v_n_val,',');
        WHEN 12 THEN DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(c,j,v_d_val);
                    v_finaltxt := ltrim(v_finaltxt||','||to_char(v_d_val,'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),',');
      ELSE
        v_finaltxt := ltrim(v_finaltxt||',"'||v_v_val||'"',',');
      END CASE;
    END LOOP;
-- DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_finaltxt);
    UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(v_fh, v_finaltxt);
END LOOP;
UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(v_fh);
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(c);
END;This allows for the header row and the data to be written to seperate files if required.
e.g.
SQL> exec run_query('select * from emp','TEST_DIR','output.txt');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.Output.txt file contains:
empno,ename,job,mgr,hiredate,sal,comm,deptno
7369,"SMITH","CLERK",7902,17/12/1980 00:00:00,800,,20
7499,"ALLEN","SALESMAN",7698,20/02/1981 00:00:00,1600,300,30
7521,"WARD","SALESMAN",7698,22/02/1981 00:00:00,1250,500,30
7566,"JONES","MANAGER",7839,02/04/1981 00:00:00,2975,,20
7654,"MARTIN","SALESMAN",7698,28/09/1981 00:00:00,1250,1400,30
7698,"BLAKE","MANAGER",7839,01/05/1981 00:00:00,2850,,30
7782,"CLARK","MANAGER",7839,09/06/1981 00:00:00,2450,,10
7788,"SCOTT","ANALYST",7566,19/04/1987 00:00:00,3000,,20
7839,"KING","PRESIDENT",,17/11/1981 00:00:00,5000,,10
7844,"TURNER","SALESMAN",7698,08/09/1981 00:00:00,1500,0,30
7876,"ADAMS","CLERK",7788,23/05/1987 00:00:00,1100,,20
7900,"JAMES","CLERK",7698,03/12/1981 00:00:00,950,,30
7902,"FORD","ANALYST",7566,03/12/1981 00:00:00,3000,,20
7934,"MILLER","CLERK",7782,23/01/1982 00:00:00,1300,,10The procedure allows for the header and data to go to seperate files if required. Just specifying the "header" filename will put the header and data in the one file.
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