mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Marty Kent) (09/21/88)
I'm looking for a audio digitzing system that will allow me to process the
digitized sounds in "realtime" as they're acquired. For instance, I'd like
to have certain events triggered by sudden peaks in the sound (like a
voice-activated switch).
The Farallon thing (I think it's called MacRecorder) has an acceptable
digitizing rate (22kHz is fine with me) and a nice price, but no
programmer's interface - all it can do is write the data to a file, for
LATER processing. So it's out. Meanwhile, I'm familiar with more serious
data acquisition boards from people like Data Translation, National,
Strawberry Tree, GW etc. but these are all in the $1000 range.
Are there any cheap (less than a couple hundred bucks) audio digitizers
around with reasonable programmer's interfaces? I remember hearing about
one that had a realtime "oscilliscope" display of the sounds - Impulse,
maybe? Please drop me email if you know about such things. I'll summarize
to the net if I get requests to do so...
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