"Clueless in Seattle" wrote ...
"Soundhaspriority" wrote:
Will, every DAW software package does provide a graph. Every single one
of
them.
Hi Bob!
Wow! That was a speedy reply! It looks like I've come to the right
place.
I had to Google DAW to figure out what it meant. According to a
Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation
"Besides having high-end sound cards most DAWs also require a large
amount of RAM, fast CPU(s) and sufficient free hard drive space."
I'm an older fellow (65 last August) disabled by chronic health
problems and haven't been able to work for many years, so I try to
scrape by on a small SS disability benefit and have to depend on hand-
me-down computer hardware.
So, I'm wondering if you might be able to recommend a free and easy-to-
learn audio recording program that would work on older equipment, and
which would produce that linear graph of amplitude.
Audacity (
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is frequently mentioned as a
popular free audio recording application. It is free, likely works on your
older computer, but not necessarily "easy-to-learn". You can't have it all
for free. If you have a lot of time on your hands, maybe you have the
patience to figure out how to use it. Note, however, that it wasn't
exactly designed for day-long recordings.
Not clear if you objective is to *record* the noise, or to *view* the noise,
or to *log when* it happens?
Just as there is software that records video from a webcam if movement is
detected, it's not unlikely that there is (or could easily be) similar
applications
for audio, where sound is recorded (and logged) when it exceeds some
preset threshold. I don't know of any such software, but some Google
searching might turn up something.