Microphone

[Bridger Maxwell]

Hey,
  I am in desperate need for some way to record sound, besides the
record command.  The record command takes half a second to start and
end, and it saves the data to a file.  This is just not what I am
looking for.  If there is any way to directly read from the microphone
port (on a mac and pc) I desperately need to know how.  Thanks for
your help.

  Thank You,
     Bridger