[PLUG] Artsy Audio

Noj nojunkster at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 02:03:47 UTC 2009


Aha! Thank you, just tried those apps, seems perfect.  Thanks! -Noj

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Paul Mullen<pm at nellump.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:40:15PM -0700, Noj wrote:
>> I was going to build my own normal-open pressure switch (unless
>> someone knows where I can buy one, maybe electronic keyboard pedal?)
>> and wire it to short out the spacebar on a cheap pc keyboard via cat5
>
> It might be easier to repurpose the guts of an old mouse. Multiple
> buttons and position encoders (if you could think of a use for them),
> plus a ready-made bus (PS/2 or USB) to connect to the PC.
>
>> Anyone know a good scriptable wav recording/playback app I can put on
>> the box (maybe command line oriented)?
>
> The ALSA command-line utilities "arecord" and "aplay" have always
> worked well for me, and they should be standard fare in any reasonable
> distribution.
>
>> presumed the ability to detect 'keydown' and 'keyup', or an
>> application that can alternate 'play while key held down' with 'record
>> while key held down with max clip length' behavior.
>
> I don't know of any existing software that does this off-hand, but it
> should be easy enough to implement as a shell script. "arecord"
> accepts an optional max duration after which it will automatically
> cease recording.
>
> --
> Paul
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