Sound recording

alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

I am currently making audition tapes for college admissions and would like to do so by a nice CD-ROM instead of a tape. Looking through the portage tree, I was unable to find any sound recording programs, and a search through freshmeat only brought one sorta-kinda recorder that hadn't been abandoned. Has anyone had experience with Linux as a sound recorder and could share how they went about it? Or will I just end up sticking to SoundForge in WIndows (doesn't work with wine)?

handsomepete · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 5:04 am Post subject:

I've always been curious about this but have never found a definitive answer. I have Cakewalk 9 installed on my Windows box and haven't found anything comparable (unfortunately). I'm surprised no one has taken this particular challenge on yet... when will Linux conquer the studio desktops?

My suggestion - just get a straight .wav recorder that can record the input on your sound card and run a mic through a small mixer. I assume when you say 'audition' it'll be just one instrument, correct? Maybe something like Audacity or TAON (both on freshmeat, neither in portage) might suit your needs for mixing...

rac · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 7:14 am Post subject:

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therobot · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 256 Location: Canada

I too am interested in this, as I do a lot of recording on my comp. There was an article on osnews about this, but I haven't looked into any of the apps yet.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1511

dioxmat · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2002 9:05 am Post subject:

checkout sourceforge.net.
lots of projects, some of them still alive and kicking :)
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TuxFriend · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 151

I'm not sure if this is what you want but you can give it a try:
emerge audacity

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red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

Hi-

I have audacity but ever since I started using alsa I haven't been able to record from it. (I have a soundblaster 16 pci).

When I previously used the kernel modules for sound, recording sound did not always work. (ie I couldn't record while listening to mp3s, so I'd close noatun and have to wait ~1 min to be able to record). Somewhat flakey! Extremely annoying!

Good luck, let me know if you have any success.

TuxFriend · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 151

You could also try:
emerge krecord

IIRC this is an extract from KDE3.1alpha so it's possible that it's not fully functional. For the latest and greatest you need to take this from KDE-CVS.

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TuxFriend · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 151

Just checked again and it seems that not krecord but KRec will be part of KDE3.1

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-multimedia&m=102822192621548&w=2

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sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

I don't think artsd is running....

bash$ ps -aux |grep art
matt 4058 0.0 0.1 1428 260 pts/1 R 01:35 0:00 grep art

What soundcard do you have? Are you running alsa or oss? What device do you have audacity set up to record from?

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

I have a onboard AC97 soundchip. I use alsa 0.9. Sound device in audacity is set to /dev/dsp

french tony · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 10:59 pm Post subject:

There are some active projects that are aiming to music production on Linux station. Ardour, GSMP,
are the ones that I know from experience. Try:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
for more.

These projects are still early in development stage, but are coming on pretty good.
More mature projects are the likes of Pure Data, Jmax, Snd, Ecasound... etc
they provide a different approach to musical software.
Note that pd (pure data), snd and jack (audio connection kit)
ebuilds are available. Thanks to whoever coded them.
you might alsa want to check the Agnula project:
http://www.agnula.org/
Give 2 years (if not less) for killer audio apps in linux

red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

Oddly enough even though ps -aux didn't show artsd (maybe it is beyond 80 chars in the konsole???), it was running.

So if I start audacity like this:
artsdsp audacity
then audacity can play/edit music fine, but I still cannot record.
It appears to be recording (gives no error like before, but no input shows up in the editor). Does anyone know how to remedy this??? Is there some sort of record buffer that is not being filled up?

If I:
killall artsd
audacity
then I can record....

thanks

manniac · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 40 Location: California

if you are the command line type and don't mind playing a lot with it try ecasound http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ it gave me really good results. :mrgreen:

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