On 29 December 2005 at 14:59, Greg Wilder
<greg(a)gregwilder.com> wrote:
On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:34, Kevin
Cosgrove wrote:
Hi, I'd like to record about 6-8 hours of one
channel, very
low fidelity sound. I'll be recording silence, punctuated
by sound. It'd be even better if rather than recording that
much silence, that the recorder would only record to hard
drive when there was sound present. What recording software
would be good for either task?
PD is perfect for this kind of task. It would be fairly easy
to build a patch that monitored input level and recorded only
above a certain threshold.
I've ready about PD in Linux Journal. It seems quite obtuse to me.
I think I stared at a tutorial somewhere once and got a bit put off.
Where's a good place for someone like me to look to get acquainted
with enough of PD to accomplish this task?
Outside of that, I'd suggest having a look at the dozens of tutorial and
example files included with the release. Given what you're looking to do, it
should be fairly simple to pull together a patch from pre-existing examples.
G