more on the recorder

[rand valentine]

 Well, I've had some interesting experiences recording sound into Revolution
(Studio 2.7.2). Here's what I've found:

1. If I set the inputsource to "dflt" on my g4 powerbook, and try to record,
I get audio files that sounds like pigs on acid. I'm sure my students would
find this entertaining, but not exactly what I want to do. The only working
choice on the Mac (Tiger) seems to be "imic" Nothing else works, either
producing silence or the above stated porcophony. And I have to choose imic
regardless of whether I'm using the internal or a plug-in mike. But this
only works if I go to the System Preferences Sound settings, and _there_
change the input source to either internal or external. That setting seems
to override anything in RunRev.

2. When I take my file over to my Dell 5100 running latest Windows, the only
setting that works is "dflt" I don't think this dell has a built-in mike,
and have been recording with an external. That works fine, as long as
inputsource is "dflt" Using "imic" or "emic" doesn't seem to work. I haven't
looked at the Windows system pref to see if there might be any variables
there to play with. Too many variables in the world.

 Please let me know if you've written up some notes on these sorts of
things, or even could point me to a well-coded stack. Thanks so much.

rand valentine