Recording the output of your soundcard???

[GypsyMoon35]

Hello, I built a 4 channel mixer. It has load, play, stop, & mute buttons. It all works, BUT I want to record my mix when I'm done, and Save it as a wave file... PLEASE, PLEASE, PlEaSe HELP!! I'v been racking my brains...

Thanks,
GypsyMoon35

[bule]

You're on your own on that one. That is not a feature of the APMS, AFAIK.

[GypsyMoon35]

I found the recorder on here that records the mic input and I tried to mess with the coding but it gives me an error on line 3, somthing about global, somthing. It's on the other Pc, BUT, I got a wave diolog box to pop up but no luck on the actual save... Yet.

Thanks for the reply tho-

[Corey]

If I were going to try that I'd look for a freeware command line tool which captures "wave buss to wave file" and run it from AMS. :yes

[GypsyMoon35]

I am sorry Cory, I have no clue on what you mean.. I am pretty new at AMS and I've only guest on alot of what I figured out so far.

See, I want the mix I create to be saved as a .wav file. Any ideas how I can do this??? I would guess it would have to do with capturing the sound somehow threw the sound Card. Maybe I should add a recording feature as I Mix? Poss?

[Corey]

If I had to do that personally, I would look for a 3rd party sound capture tool which can be launched from AMS. Preferably something free and which can be run silently. That would be my approach. I'd probably start my search at Sourceforge.net and Google. That would be my approach anyhow. :yes

[GypsyMoon35]

I got it to save a wave but i need to direct the capture from the mic input to the soundcards output???? The wave I capture is blank as of now..

Any Ideas???

I'll gladly share this file when Im done for others to learn from.

[Corey]

Like I say the easiest way, and probably the only way which will work on different machines, is to find a way to record the main wave bus output, i.e. if you rely on the mic input then it won't work on any computer without a mic input such as many of today's low price USB audio interfaces. Almost all computers have a main wave out bus.

[GypsyMoon35]

So is there any "main wave bus output comand" to access it? See i want to make this Mixer all original. Thats why I realy dont want to use another app to record the mix.
GREAT idea tho-

So sorry for all the questions, I have been working on this "Idea" since last summer in my spare time. (And thats VERY little) lol.

By the way, AMS 6 Is AWSOME stuff!!!

[Corey]

So is there any "main wave bus output comand"
Not in AMS.

[GypsyMoon35]

Well, i'm kinda at a stand still i guess... But I want to thank you Corey for your quick replies.

If anyone has ideas, please send them this way

:yes

[GypsyMoon35]

Corey, I guess we did converse on this issue befor you wrote: "Seems to me that Worm or someone posted a basic .dll to record audio from your .wav bus, so it's probably not hard to adapt that to record (in real time) your mix and I'm sure any .dll which records also gives you an option for saving the results to file."

Do you know where this post from Worm might be? :)

[Intrigued]

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showpost.php?p=45181&postcount=60

[Corey]

Worm can correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me it was very tricky developing a system with that .dll which will give you a reliable, high quality recording across different systems.

On the other hand that's sure no reason not to try. Maybe you'll be the guy to solve it. :)

[Worm]

Yep, the quality seemed to never really be of par with the code I posted. I've since played with it and have been unsuccesful getting the quality to be any better.

[GypsyMoon35]

Thanks for all your help, I will post it if I can finish it!

You all are realy cool peeps for help me out...

:D

[GypsyMoon35]

I wonder why? I have another idea??!!??

Can you save the values of the volume, mute... like its own application????:D

[Mina]

Produce rich details on what you're trying to do, elaborate

[GypsyMoon35]

Mina,

I am trying to make a mini mixer, for now I'm using 4 channels. I have mute, Volume, (Up and Down) & load on each chann. I have a play & stop button that controls all 4 chann.

I want to be able to mix the 4 channels. (like tracks in Cakewalk) and record the Mix as I'm mixing. (Make a .wav file. out of the mix.) I got all the buttons to work great, but I wanted to have a "Save" button to remember the settings, (Vol., Mute, Etc..) and press a button to record the mix as I'm mixing it. I would post it if anyone wants to help me figure this thing out.

I am a musician (wanting to re-create the wheel) lol, and make the mixer my own. It's a real basic design as far as the graphics go for now but I got tons of graphic Ideas once I can make it work. I'd like to make it record Input sorce for each channel someday...

Thanks to Worm, Corey, and all the AMS forum for making me get this far!!

Let me know if you'd like to check it out and Ill post it...!

[Corey]

Definitely interested in seeing it. :yes

[GypsyMoon35]

I'm trying to upload it but I cant upload it because it says its to big??? So do I do it in pieces??? Its only 1.12MB

[bobbie]

Go to file export and export the apz file and upload that.

[Mina]

I got all the buttons to work great, but I wanted to have a "Save" button to remember the settings, (Vol., Mute, Etc..) and press a button to record the mix as I'm mixing it. I would post it if anyone wants to help me figure this thing out.

Saving values and loading them are pretty easy. There are various ways to do it. The most preferrable methods include the use of

1- An Ini File
2- The System Registry
3- A Text Document

The only problem is, i didn't find out what you need to do after loading these values into variables in ams.
though a .apz export might help. I'm absolutely interested to see what you've come by so far :yes

[GypsyMoon35]

Thanks bobbie! Here You Go! The waves I was using are like 12MB So if anyone wants them, I'll email em'!

Now ANY and ALL coments on this is appreciated! If anyone needs to know more than I posted feel free to ask!

:yes

[bobbie]

Good place to upload files.
http://www.upload2.net/

[Mina]

Hi.
See: Attachment

It now saves the audio files specified in Drums, Bass, Guitar, Vocal and saves the volume values. Method: System Registry
EDIT: they automatically get saved, and then loaded at startup

Hope that helps
Mina

[GypsyMoon35]

Thank You for your help. I know it's gotto be a pain in the @!# to help everyone who "Needs" somthing.

So now when I restart It, it will save the last known settings? Now is there a way to save the settings as my own file? (Like .APZ for instance)... Maybe like .GMP (lol)

I'm realy new to this program, so I got tons of Ideas and questions as well...
I guess thats how you learn!

Thanks again!!!

ALL coments on this is appreciated!

[Mina]

You could save the values to an INI/Text File, then encrypt the file (blowfish) as Settings.GMP for example, but when loading/saving the values you will have to decrypt it back to ini/txt, make the changes and encrypt it again :)

I will make a sample on that sometime tomorrow, the time is too late now and i have a job to take care of in the mornin!

aclamaciones,
Mina

[GypsyMoon35]

Anyone else check it out yet?