I'm doing some audio recording on my Windows XP PC and I want it to behave as though it's tape controlled ie: the recording will
only proceed when a specific volume is reached and the recording will pause if the volume drops below a certain level.
Is there any software that will do this?
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card in my machine. I'd prefer recording software that can do this but if no such program is
available I do have a physical setup comprising two jack plugs on the end of a cable - one is a mono 3.5mm jack plug giving
continuous audio and the other is a a mono micro jack plug offering on/off switching tape control. Problem is I don't know of any
hardware that could interface this with my PC.
Thanks for any help.

"tg" wrote in message
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I'm doing some audio recording on my Windows XP PC and I want it to behave
as though it's tape controlled ie: the recording will
only proceed when a specific volume is reached and the recording will
pause if the volume drops below a certain level.
Is there any software that will do this?
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card in my machine. I'd prefer
recording software that can do this but if no such program is
available I do have a physical setup comprising two jack plugs on the end
of a cable - one is a mono 3.5mm jack plug giving
continuous audio and the other is a a mono micro jack plug offering on/off
switching tape control. Problem is I don't know of any
hardware that could interface this with my PC.
Thanks for any help.

Dunno about the "as though it's tape controlled " bit, but SoundForge 8 has
a level-threshhold recording mode. I guess pretty much most other apps do
too...

geoff

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"tg" wrote in message ...
I'm doing some audio recording on my Windows XP PC and I want it to behave as though it's tape controlled ie: the recording will
only proceed when a specific volume is reached and the recording will pause if the volume drops below a certain level.
Is there any software that will do this?
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card in my machine. I'd prefer recording software that can do this but if no such program is
available I do have a physical setup comprising two jack plugs on the end of a cable - one is a mono 3.5mm jack plug giving
continuous audio and the other is a a mono micro jack plug offering on/off switching tape control. Problem is I don't know of
any
hardware that could interface this with my PC.
Thanks for any help.

Dunno about the "as though it's tape controlled " bit, but SoundForge 8 has a level-threshhold recording mode. I guess pretty
much most other apps do too...

yeah but that's just noise gating which is not the same thing. I already have software that will stip out silence and low level
stuff from an audio recording but what I want is to control the stop and start of the recording depending on volume level. There's
a lot of intermittent silence in the recording |I'm doing and I don't want my hard drive filled up with recordings of silence.

"tg" wrote in message
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Dunno about the "as though it's tape controlled " bit, but SoundForge 8
has a level-threshhold recording mode. I guess pretty much most other
apps do too...

yeah but that's just noise gating which is not the same thing. I already
have software that will stip out silence and low level stuff from an audio
recording but what I want is to control the stop and start of the
recording depending on volume level. There's a lot of intermittent silence
in the recording |I'm doing and I don't want my hard drive filled up with
recordings of silence.


No. This is RECORDING based on an audio level threshold. When the level
drops below your selected level for your selected time (up to 300 sec) it
stops recording, then when threshhold exceeded again resumes with either a
new file, or an appended section to the oiginal file with marker inserted.

geoff

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"tg" wrote in message ...
Dunno about the "as though it's tape controlled " bit, but SoundForge 8 has a level-threshhold recording mode. I guess pretty
much most other apps do too...

yeah but that's just noise gating which is not the same thing. I already have software that will stip out silence and low level
stuff from an audio recording but what I want is to control the stop and start of the recording depending on volume level.
There's a lot of intermittent silence in the recording |I'm doing and I don't want my hard drive filled up with recordings of
silence.


No. This is RECORDING based on an audio level threshold. When the level drops below your selected level for your selected time
(up to 300 sec) it stops recording, then when threshhold exceeded again resumes with either a new file, or an appended section to
the oiginal file with marker inserted.

yes you were right geoff, thanks for your help.
SF8 is exactly right for the job.

"tg" wrote in message
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I'm doing some audio recording on my Windows XP PC and I want it to behave
as though it's tape controlled ie: the recording will
only proceed when a specific volume is reached and the recording will
pause if the volume drops below a certain level.
Is there any software that will do this?
I am using a Midiman Delta 44 sound card in my machine. I'd prefer
recording software that can do this but if no such program is
available I do have a physical setup comprising two jack plugs on the end
of a cable - one is a mono 3.5mm jack plug giving
continuous audio and the other is a a mono micro jack plug offering on/off
switching tape control. Problem is I don't know of any
hardware that could interface this with my PC.
Thanks for any help.

Making the PC work this way, starting and stopping recording is probably on
the difficult side, but there's an easy work-around. Use software like
Audition that deletes the parts of a file whose level is less than some
amount for some amount of time.

Arny Krueger wrote:

Making the PC work this way, starting and stopping recording is probably on
the difficult side, but there's an easy work-around. Use software like
Audition that deletes the parts of a file whose level is less than some
amount for some amount of time.

This is another one of those situations where we don't know the whole
story. That would be a reasonable approach for a recording that spans a
few hours, but if he's looking to set something up to record sporadic
bits of sound unattened over a period of a week or so, it wouldn't make
sense to record continuously and throw away 90% or more. It would take
a lot of disk space and a lot of patience.

Perhaps, depending on what he's recording, it would be more practical
to do the job with a dedicated recorder that has a sound-activation
feature. Or maybe hire an intern to start and stop the recording.
Though I find it hard to believe that there isn't some sort of computer
audio recording program that's threshold-triggered.

"tg" wrote in message news:43ca955b$0$29577.

yes you were right geoff, thanks for your help.
SF8 is exactly right for the job.

Oh yeah, don't forget to disable any power-saving scheme, and probably
screen-savers as well, for 'safety'.

geoff

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Though I find it hard to believe that there isn't some sort of computer
audio recording program that's threshold-triggered.

SF8, emntioned earlier in thread. I would imagine most other
recording/editing apps would have something similar though. Surely .....?

geoff

"geoff@away" wrote:

SF8, emntioned earlier in thread. I would imagine most other
recording/editing apps would have something similar though.
Surely .....?



Without going and checking, I'm not aware of Pro Tools being able to
start and stop recording according to level threshold. If it can, I
would wonder why? I can't think of ANY situation in which that would be
a likely application for that software.

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"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good

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Lorin David Schultz wrote:

Without going and checking, I'm not aware of Pro Tools being able to
start and stop recording according to level threshold. If it can, I
would wonder why? I can't think of ANY situation in which that would be
a likely application for that software.

I wouldn't expect it in ProTools. Sound Forge is different in that it's
marketed to a broader range of users. You can buy it at Best Buy.

I would expect that there's some little program that recording
engineers wouldn't know about, but that gamers or would-be spies would
know.

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"geoff@away" wrote:

SF8, emntioned earlier in thread. I would imagine most other recording/editing apps would have something similar though.
Surely .....?



Without going and checking, I'm not aware of Pro Tools being able to start and stop recording according to level threshold. If
it can, I would wonder why? I can't think of ANY situation in which that would be a likely application for that software.

recording of broadcast material picked up on a frequency scanner.
When searching through frequencies there is a lot of silence with the occasional spurt of noise. And even if/when you find a
frequency there might be a lot of silence between the transmissions. When recording continuously over a long period one doesn't
want recordings of silence filling up the hard drive.