On Friday 30 December 2005 01:36, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > On 29 December 2005 at 14:59, Greg Wilder <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? There's a large and very supportive community around PD: http://pure-data.iem.at/community/ 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
