For transfering cassette tape to audio files. Would also work for vinyl, I guess. The only reason I made this was so I could press play on the tape deck and leave, and it will automatically start new files between tracks and stop at the end. Because of the select object's dual purpose, as of now this will make an extra empty file at the end. I'm not sure why, but it also started a file and never stopped it when I used it, I ended up with a 3.4 GB wav file... so that's kind of questionable. It also might make a few empty files at the beginning, depending how much silence is at the beginning of the tape. The values will probably need tweaked depending on the tape.
The alternative I thought of was to have it automatically switch between [writesf~]s every 5 minutes, overlapping by like 5 seconds so I could line up the samples later and divide it into tracks manually. That way there'd be no chance of missing the very beginning of a tune if it starts while Pd is preparing the next file. Come to think of it a simple 5-minute timer would be much simpler than this. :-/
At any rate, I can't imagine trying to do this with a commercial recording program.
-Chuckk
What kind of music are you going to "transcript"? Are you sure it would
really universally work? I remember once having bought a commercial Cd
with Debussy preludes (live concert recording), and one of them was
divided into 3 Tracks (!), + the 2'' pause (it wasn't meant that way for
sure).
If you want to use it with several types of music, it would be more
effective to make a patch that records everything and lets you very easily
divide the big file into many others (automatic fades, global/individual
normalisation, etc). But if you're transfering Dixieland music, it's quite
clear when it's playing or not. If you're working with Nono/Sciarrino,
then the difference between soft and loud will be so big that one piece
might be divided into several (like the Debussy example), or the
"absolute" silence won't be detected.
Am 25.05.2006, 11:18 Uhr, schrieb Chuckk Hubbard
badmuthahubbard@gmail.com:
For transfering cassette tape to audio files. Would also work for vinyl, I guess. The only reason I made this was so I could press play on the tape deck and leave, and it will automatically start new files between tracks and stop at the end. Because of the select object's dual purpose, as of now this will make an extra empty file at the end. I'm not sure why, but it also started a file and never stopped it when I used it, I ended up with a 3.4 GB wav file... so that's kind of questionable. It also might make a few empty files at the beginning, depending how much silence is at the beginning of the tape. The values will probably need tweaked depending on the tape.
The alternative I thought of was to have it automatically switch between [writesf~]s every 5 minutes, overlapping by like 5 seconds so I could line up the samples later and divide it into tracks manually. That way there'd be no chance of missing the very beginning of a tune if it starts while Pd is preparing the next file. Come to think of it a simple 5-minute timer would be much simpler than this. :-/
At any rate, I can't imagine trying to do this with a commercial recording program.
Good point. This is for several tapes of Romanian folk music my Romanian g/f gave me before going to Romania for a month. The only tape deck I have is a big 4-track, and I don't want to keep it sitting on my desk all summer. It's pretty clear when it is and isn't playing.
On 5/25/06, João Miguel Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com wrote:
What kind of music are you going to "transcript"? Are you sure it would really universally work? I remember once having bought a commercial Cd with Debussy preludes (live concert recording), and one of them was divided into 3 Tracks (!), + the 2'' pause (it wasn't meant that way for sure).
If you want to use it with several types of music, it would be more effective to make a patch that records everything and lets you very easily divide the big file into many others (automatic fades, global/individual normalisation, etc). But if you're transfering Dixieland music, it's quite clear when it's playing or not. If you're working with Nono/Sciarrino, then the difference between soft and loud will be so big that one piece might be divided into several (like the Debussy example), or the "absolute" silence won't be detected.
Am 25.05.2006, 11:18 Uhr, schrieb Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard@gmail.com:
For transfering cassette tape to audio files. Would also work for vinyl, I guess. The only reason I made this was so I could press play on the tape deck and leave, and it will automatically start new files between tracks and stop at the end. Because of the select object's dual purpose, as of now this will make an extra empty file at the end. I'm not sure why, but it also started a file and never stopped it when I used it, I ended up with a 3.4 GB wav file... so that's kind of questionable. It also might make a few empty files at the beginning, depending how much silence is at the beginning of the tape. The values will probably need tweaked depending on the tape.
The alternative I thought of was to have it automatically switch between [writesf~]s every 5 minutes, overlapping by like 5 seconds so I could line up the samples later and divide it into tracks manually. That way there'd be no chance of missing the very beginning of a tune if it starts while Pd is preparing the next file. Come to think of it a simple 5-minute timer would be much simpler than this. :-/
At any rate, I can't imagine trying to do this with a commercial recording program.
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