PLEASE HELP!!

[steve]

Well, I need to call cellphones/land lines, so I think I'll just buy Skype credit or whatever. The site says $3 for a month of unlimited calling, and no contract. Sounds good to me. I'm confused about credit vs. money, though. It says $3 per month, so....what does that mean for credit? Do I buy credit and convert, or do I just pay $3?

You will need to ask Skype about that. We are not Skype and we can't answer for them

So, Pamela is absolutely needed in order to do what I wanna do?

There are various ways to record Skype and a number of products designed to record Skype. Some work, some are loaded with adverts, some may have viruses, some don't work or don't work on some computers. Pamela is just one of many products for recording Skype - it is a commercial product but people have reported that it generally works well, and the free version is reasonable. We can't tell you what to buy. We can tell you that there is a free version of Pamela and it will cost you nothing to try it to see if it meets your needs.

[auzer666]

Alright, I think I got all the info I need. I'll figure the rest out on my own.

Thanks alot, guys.

[auzer666]

I have a problem with Pamela. I'm wondering if you guys can help me...

The audio doesn't sync. I've been testing Pamela by calling the sound test thing on Skype, and it's not picking up my voice when it should. Like, I'll say certain words at certain times, and then when I play back the recording, my words don't come in when they should. They come in late. So, yeah, it's basically making my voice way outta sync.

Can you guys help me?

[Gale Andrews]

See here http://www.pamhelp.com/?/pamela/Tickets/Submit


Gale

[auzer666]

See here http://www.pamhelp.com/?/pamela/Tickets/Submit


Gale

Those things never get replies.

Besides, I figured it out. The voice changer program is causing the latency, and there doesn't seem to be a way around it.

I can use a voice changer without latency using Ableton Live and a plugin, but it requires the asio4all driver(to reduce latency).....but, guesssss whaaaaaaat?! You can't use asio4all and windows sound at the same time. Awesome!

What the {word rejected}, man. Is this 2013 or 1932? Why the {word rejected} can't I get such a simple concept to work without any problems???

[Gale Andrews]

See here http://www.pamhelp.com/?/pamela/Tickets/Submit

The point is we don't make Pamela, Ableton, ASIO4all or anything except Audacity. If you don't like Pamela, try another Skype recording software.

I can believe a voice changer could cause latency, which one are you using? Is it this http://www.screamingbee.com/product/MorphVOXJunior.aspx ?

And please don't swear and trigger the censoring filter.


Gale

[auzer666]

See here http://www.pamhelp.com/?/pamela/Tickets/Submit

The point is we don't make Pamela, Ableton, ASIO4all or anything except Audacity. If you don't like Pamela, try another Skype recording software.

I can believe a voice changer could cause latency, which one are you using? Is it this http://www.screamingbee.com/product/MorphVOXJunior.aspx ?

And please don't swear and trigger the censoring filter.


Gale

Sorry. I'm just really frustrated. I can't get this all to work properly. I bought a new mic and everything, and I feel like it was a waste.

No, I haven't tried the "junior", but I'm using Morphvox Pro. Is there a difference in latency?

How can I get all this to work? Do I have to buy a USB soundcard with Asio support or something?



I just wanna be able to use skype to make my calls, use a voice changer to change my voice, use Pamela(or whatever) to record the calls....me AND the other person in STEREO, not that my voice on one side, theirs on another non-sense....and I want my voice to have little to no latency with the voice changer.

What in the world do I have to do to do that???

[steve]

I just wanna be able to use skype to make my calls, use a voice changer to change my voice, use Pamela(or whatever) to record the calls....me AND the other person in STEREO, not that my voice on one side, theirs on another non-sense....and I want my voice to have little to no latency with the voice changer.

"just"?
That is asking an awful lot from a single, general purpose home computer.

You want to

• Route the audio from the microphone, through the computer sound card into a voice changing application
• Route the output from the voice changing application to Skype
• Route the output from the voice changing application to one channel in Audacity
• Route the output from the voice changing application to your sound card so that you can hear it in your headphones
• Send the audio input from Skype across the public Internet
• Receive audio data from the Internet with Skype
• Send the audio output from Skype to the other channel in Audacity
• Send the audio output from Skype to your sound card output
• Record both audio channels with Audacity to your hard drive

And you want to do all of this on one home computer with one sound card, with low latency and all in real time (and free?)
That is a lot of complex audio signal routing - probably more than a Windows PC can do.

You could perhaps run the voice changing software on one computer and run Skype and Pamela on another computer and connect the audio output from the first computer to the audio input on the second computer.

It looks like a lot of work just for a laugh. Why don't you just phone them up and put on a silly voice?

[auzer666]

I just wanna be able to use skype to make my calls, use a voice changer to change my voice, use Pamela(or whatever) to record the calls....me AND the other person in STEREO, not that my voice on one side, theirs on another non-sense....and I want my voice to have little to no latency with the voice changer.

"just"?
That is asking an awful lot from a single, general purpose home computer.

You want to

• Route the audio from the microphone, through the computer sound card into a voice changing application
• Route the output from the voice changing application to Skype
• Route the output from the voice changing application to one channel in Audacity
• Route the output from the voice changing application to your sound card so that you can hear it in your headphones
• Send the audio input from Skype across the public Internet
• Receive audio data from the Internet with Skype
• Send the audio output from Skype to the other channel in Audacity
• Send the audio output from Skype to your sound card output
• Record both audio channels with Audacity to your hard drive

And you want to do all of this on one home computer with one sound card, with low latency and all in real time (and free?)
That is a lot of complex audio signal routing - probably more than a Windows PC can do.

You could perhaps run the voice changing software on one computer and run Skype and Pamela on another computer and connect the audio output from the first computer to the audio input on the second computer.

It looks like a lot of work just for a laugh. Why don't you just phone them up and put on a silly voice?

No, I don't need Audacity, unless, it can be done with Audacity? I was using Pamela earlier and it was working fine, just had latency.

The thing is, yeah, that's a lot, but I did ALL of that EXCEPT the latency part. So, I'm close. Lol.

Seriously, dude, how can I do this? It looks like all I need to do is reduce my computer's latency and I' good. So, how can I do that?

I can spend money if I absolutely HAVE to, but not a whole lot. I can't buy a new computer like that, but I can buy a cheap-ish external soundcard if it'll get the job done.

I have 2 desktop computers right now, but they're in different rooms. Can I connect them somewhow?

Anyway, help me dude, PLEASE. Lol. What am I supposed to do? Buy an external soundcard? Connect my 2 desktops somehow?

I'm lost...

[Gale Andrews]

me AND the other person in STEREO, not that my voice on one side, theirs on another non-sense....

That's down to the Skype recording software you use. Each voice on one side is a kind of stereo, and Audacity will only mix both sides together. Even if your mic is stereo, is the other person's mic stereo?


Gale