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sound recorder program

by Steve Fletcher · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 10/09/2002 (9:55 am) · 9 replies

Does anyone know a freeware sound recorder program that's available for download? I found a bunch of shareware ones, but they only record for a total of 40 seconds or so.
All I need is a program that can take input from a microphone and save it as a .wav file and doesn't stop working after some amount of time.

I would really hate to have to buy something (too many college debts).

- Steve Fletcher
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Torque Owner Mark Smithh
#1
10/09/2002 (10:15 am)
Not sure what OS you are using, but windows comes with
a sound recorder that can save files as .wav's.

Torque Owner James Holmes
#2
10/09/2002 (12:22 pm)
A windows option is

www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/Products/Audio_Master/Freeware/freeware...

Torque Owner Nicolas Quijano
#3
10/09/2002 (12:51 pm)
Another Free windows (and maybe others, it's Open Source :)) solution, that is also VST compatible is Audacity
I've been tinkering with it, and so far, I'm quite impressed... 8p

Steve Fletcher
#4
10/10/2002 (1:04 pm)
Thanks. I'll take a look at those. Someone else suggested that I take a look at Silent Bob at http://www.silent-bob.de/en/, which seems to work, but it's a little goofy. So I think I'll look around a little more.

I'm actually using Windows, but I could only use the Windows recorder to record sounds my computer was making not sounds that were coming from my microphone.

However, I think one of the shareware programs I was trying (that stops working after a while) changed some of my settings. Maybe it will work now. I'll try it just to see.

- Steve Fletcher

[removed a spurious adverb, since I was here anyways]

Torque Owner SoundBot Studios
#5
10/27/2003 (11:37 am)
If your running in Windows 98 you can always check out Protools free.

Steve Fletcher
#6
10/28/2003 (11:02 am)
I've been using Audacity.

I do have Windows 98, but I'm about to get a new computer. So I don't think I'll try Protools. But it looks pretty cool.

Robert Brim
#7
10/29/2003 (8:01 pm)
While audacity works well for the initial recording in, I do not like it for manipulation of sounds.

Steve Fletcher
#8
10/30/2003 (12:14 pm)
I concur. Audacity isn't very useful for manipulating the sounds after you've recorded them.

But it's very easy to use, and I don't work with sound much.

So I would suggest it for programmers, etc. who need a few effects, but not for sound professionals.

Robert Brim
#9
10/30/2003 (1:14 pm)
If you are searching the web for sounds, I very much recommend getting the findsounds palette.
http://www.findsounds.com/