"What you Hear"

[styx]

Hello all
I have something on my chest...
I tried many sound editors in 2 years.
And what is very irritating with all these things is , for record there is always a microphone , nothing else.
Once I had mixcraft , 8 years ago or so , and in this program was for record a button that says "what you hear" Terriffic !!!!
I have keyboards connected , and want to play them outside the program ( I have fruity loops to play inside a program)
But if I want to play them outside the program , and my windows let me hear what I play , it should be possible to record that.
But since all editors seem to be hooked at the "recording device" of windows , I cannot record what "I hear" ....
Many have also problems with the "Asio" devices , but not with directly connecting their instruments to the pc....
So please be one of the easy-ones , and put a "what you hear" inside audacity....
( mixcraft did stop doing that for a reason I cannot understand , probebly they want to be "modern" )
And making a USB device input ( or codec) would be nice ( if this is possible , most of the time windows has to see a usb codec)
Sorry if my englisch could be not right , I am dutch , and a "old man"
Cheers Paul .

[Gale Andrews]

I have something on my chest...
I tried many sound editors in 2 years.
And what is very irritating with all these things is , for record there is always a microphone , nothing else...
But since all editors seem to be hooked at the "recording device" of windows , I cannot record what "I hear" ....
So please be one of the easy-ones , and put a "what you hear" inside audacity....

Any support Audacity provides for recording computer playback depends on the sound device and its drivers providing a suitable input, and the operating system listing that input so that Audacity can see it.

If the input you want is not visible in Audacity or does not record, please read the relevant documentation on the Wiki:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Mixer ... _Issues#cp

Read all of that green panel "HELP WITH RECORDING COMPUTER PLAYBACK OR STREAMING AUDIO".

Then scroll down to see the system mixer images for whatever version of Windows you are on.

I've added your vote that Audacity should provide some kind of virtual recording device to grab application audio streams on Windows... but I would be amazed if it ever happened.


Gale

[whomper]

... I want to play them outside the program , and my windows let me hear what I play , it should be possible to record that....

sounds like a windoze problem

steve will tell you why this idea sucks
but you can put a mike in front of a speaker to record

i do not recommend it
although a lot of guitar players love that approach

but better than not being able to record

if its coming out the line to a speaker amp for you to hear
tap in and run it to a stand alone recorder
H2 eg would record to an SD card
drag and drop into the pc afterwards
then you would be at same point now as if you had recorded in the pc simultaneously

[Gale Andrews]

... I want to play them outside the program , and my windows let me hear what I play , it should be possible to record that....

if its coming out the line to a speaker amp for you to hear
tap in and run it to a stand alone recorder

If the computer has a line-in you can also send the audio from line-out of the keyboard to line-in of the computer and record that. Connecting a cable between audio out of the computer and line-in also gives you a potentially higher quality way to record "what u hear" than the microphone-by-speaker method. If the keyboard has a headphones out you can also connect that to line-in.

To hear the keyboard (or audio piped from computer line-out) you could try unmuting line-in in the playback side of the sound card. You can also use software playthrough in Audacity to listen, but that will have a delay.



Gale