Dimension 9150 on board sound card

In Dimension 9150 with Sound blaster Audigy Advanced MD on board I have
this problem:
I want to record what I hear when I play back a MIDI file, but I can not
select the right recording source: 'what You hear'.
Only can I select recording from: Line in, Microphone or Rear Microphone.

I wonder, is there a work-around?

The solution where you plug a cable from output to input is not what I want

You could install another sound card but then you would loose the
ability to use the front I/O connectors?

 

I had this problem but never found a solution.

In my case I purchased a utility to convert the audio source to a
usable file (in this case realaudio to mp3). Have a google for 'convert
midi to wav'. Alternatively you can get better sound cards that do have
the correct internal connectors (from Dell for a start) ... if they
will allow recording what you hear I'm not sure. In any case running a
conversion should give you better quality.

James.

 

Hi James!

Thanks for your tip! I will try that out

The PC prior to to this one had 'Sound Blaster Live' and there were
never problems recording: 'What You Hear' :-(

 

Hi James!

Now I succeeded in finding a converter program that pleases me very much.

I had to try out at least ten programs. Nine of them relied on the
playback and record functions in my sound-card, so they did not work!

Number ten do not rely on a sound card at all, so it works! You don't
have to fuss with recording levels and it even work faster! I've
measured that it takes less than 12.5% of the playback time to convert a
midi-file to a MP3-file.
On top of it all you can choose the very sound font file (*.sf2) you
want in the conversion.

Anyone who has the same problem, go to:
http://www.pistonsoft.com/midi2mp3.html?gclid=CIiR6Yeyg4oCFREwUAodoGAlOA

Thanks again to you James for putting me on the track

 

No problem ... doing it that way should give you better quality
anyway.

JB.