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. G