I don't want a Plex server or anything like that just that. I want a stand alone music player that just plays music. I don't really need it to do anything else.

As a matter of interest, how was your Pi4 experience? Was it time consuming? Was it what you expected?

I'm thinking of building a dedicated music player and am looking at the Raspberry Pi. Al the machine will be doing is acting as a controller to read Flac files from the USB drive and send them to a hi end DAC, perhaps an RME. The analogue output of the DAC will then be sent to the Preamp. The R Pi w...

thanks for that. I assume that there is no way to reverse engineer the distorted voice. To prevent this I suppose we need some kind of random noise added so that it would be impossible to reverse engineer.

Am I right?

I'm doing an interview with someone who needs to disguise their voice for legal reasons.

Any software apps that I can use for this purpose?

Many thanks

It is a back up drive, so it contains back ups of files.

The SATA to USB adapter has an external power connector as well, that connects to the mains.

I will try connecting to the mobo directly again.

I can hear some clicking when I power it with the SATA to USB cable, but nothing happens.

I dont really know an IT geek to run software on this. I am the IT Geek!!!.

Can you recommend any software recovery tools?

I have a HDD that I used as one of my back drives but I can no longer read it. This is when it is connected as an internal drive. The drive letter just doe snot appear or if if does Windows can not access it. I cant even run chkdsk to repair the drive. Although the system does try to repair it on bo...

Happy New Year everyone. Just a quick update on this matter. I seem to have fixed the issue by buying a new Midi to USB interface. I went for the one made by ESI. It looks the same as the other one I had but I suppose the electronics in it are more reliable and actually do what they are supposed to ...

James, I did just re install the Juli@ drivers. That seems to have reduced the issue with the USB - MIDI interface but not completely eliminated it.

I still can't seem to get anything from the midi connections into the Juli@.

Do I need to install specific Midi drivers for the Juli@?

Many thanks.

I managed to find the place in the BIOS where this was enabled and disabled it.

Thanks for the replies.

Dave, I see two se ct ions in Active MIDI inputs: Listen to MIDI inputs & USB 2.0-MIDI. Both of these are ticked. The Audio Device type is ASIO and the device is ASIO 2.0 - ESI Juil@ with both 1/2L and 1/2R ticked as the output channels. I get the thing working if I use the USB - MIDI interface ...

James, I looked in Device Manager and did not see any Midi devices.

I can see them if I use the USB interface but not if I only use the midi cables connected to the ESI Juli@ directly.

I have installed Midi OX but I need to go through the manual to figure how to use it!!!

I installed Midi OX and it says that there are no midi devices installed.

Ok, So I bought another USB- Midi interface and that did not even work, let alone work badly. I have also dug out my midi cables and ESI Juli@ midi interface connector and connected the midi cables directly into the ESI Juli@ card. And Nothing. Not a sound. So what on earth am I doing wrong here? An...

So I bought Pianoteq 7 (now upgraded to 8) and I am having constant issues with sticking notes, repeated notes, notes not playing. I often have to unplug my usb to midi cable and plug it back in. Sometimes this solves the issues. I have an ESI Juli@ sound card, so in the options I a using the ASIO 2...

Great. Thanks for that guys. I will take a look in the bios and see if there is anything there that is causing this.

I certainly don't have any dogs wagging their tails near my computer. Not even cats!!!!

As some of you may know I had some issues with my PC not being able to start or with it randomly switching itself off, as in someone just pulled the power chord out. I changed the Mobo, the CP, added new RAM and the issue still occurred. So now I have installed a new PSU. Its also more powerful than...

Thanks for this everyone. It is much appreciated. I think that the best solution will be the 212 in this case. 4i4 is definitely overkill for this situation.

I have a Solo that is great for my needs though.

quick question; can all the above DACs be used to record one stereo input for tapes? I have a friend who wants to convert his cassette tapes to digital and I suggested one of the above. I have a Scarlett Solo but I only use that for playback. I assume that any of the above will do the job. Many than...

I've managed to get it working in the end. It was selecting the midi channel that I needed. I must admit though that my initial impressions of the Embertones Mega set are not great. I compared to the Pianoteq samples and the later just seems richer. So I might just ask for a refund from Embertones a...