Virtual recording

Traditionally, sound card is referred to an expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer. With the development of computer science, virtual sound card comes into commence. Virtual sound card takes no physical shape. It’s a computer program or part of a computer program.

Virtual sound card emulates the functions of real sound card. A small piece of program called “virtual sound card” will be installed to the computer. This program is designed to facilitate input and output signals.

The big difference between virtual sound card and real sound card is that, virtual sound card does not need output devices like amplifier or headphones. All the functions of sound card are processed in the computer, hard disc to store sound file and media player to play the sound.

The virtual sound card technology has hatched a new type of digital recording—virtual recording.

Virtual recording is carried out by a piece of special software program called virtual sound card. Virtual sound card emulates the functions of real sound card.

All the processes of virtual recording are processed within the computer, using the hard disc to store sound file and media player to play the sound.

SoundTaxi (www.soundtaxi.info) is one of the software applications that adopt virtual recording technology. For instance, SoundTaxi can play DRM m4p songs with built-in media player, and sample the audio steam and virtually record the audio in mp3 format simultaneously. The output file is stored in computer disc.

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Another application of virtual recording is Tunebite (www.tunebite.com). Utilizing High-Speed Digital Dubbing virtual recording technology, Tunebite can theoretically perform up to 27x speed recording process and convert up to 9 audio (video) tracks at the same time.