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?
Thanks...
--
Kevin