Hi,
I need to create an application that automatically records audio from a line input. This is all pretty straight forward with your audio recorder component but what I need is to detect the audio level BEFORE the recording is started, so I need to monitor the line input and, if the signal raises above a certain level, I need to start the recording session. Is this possible with one (or a combination) of your products? I see that I could monitor VU levels during a recording, but can I do the same before the recording starts?
Thanks in advance
Nadia
Hello Nadia,
what you request is quite simple to develop; when you need to start monitoring the input device, please, do the following:
- set the EncodeFormats.ForRecording property to ENCODING_FORMAT_NOFILE
- start a dummy recording session through one of the recording start methods (StartFromDirectSoundDevice or StartFromAsioDevice or StartFromWasapiCaptureDevice method depending upon the type of driver in use): this recording session will not produce any output (ENCODING_FORMAT_NOFILE is just available for this purpose) and will only update the visual feedbacks each 15 ms; at the same time, if you have set a VU-Meter, you will also receive the VUMeterValueChange event which reports in real time the peak volume, allowing to detect when a certain threshold is crossed.
- when you really need to start a real recording session, after having detected the needed level through the event VUMeterValueChange mentioned above, stop the current one through the Stop method.
- set the EncodeFormats.ForRecording property to the format you need to produce in output, for example to ENCODING_FORMAT_WAV for WAV format or ENCODING_FORMAT_MP3 for MP3 format
- start the real recording session through a new call to the recording start method (StartFromDirectSoundDevice or StartFromAsioDevice or StartFromWasapiCaptureDevice method).
As a second alternative, you could also use the embedded "Sound Activation System" which is described inside the tutorial named "How the Sound Activation System works" available inside the documentation:
http://www.multimediasoft.com/asrecnet/help/asrecnet_000021.htm (http://www.multimediasoft.com/asrecnet/help/asrecnet_000021.htm)
Kind regards
Severino Delaurenti