[RWP] audio level bassed recording in reaper

[Patrick Perdue]

You can do this with the "save live output to disk (bounce)" option, 
control+alt+b, but I'm not sure about individual tracks. There is an 
option to pause recording if a signal goes below a certain threshold for 
a specific length of time. By default, this is set to -60DB for 2000 ms, 
so set this to whatever matches the situation and noise level. 
Fortunately, with the ability to read meters, both real time and peak, 
this is quite easy to do.

In order to make this work, you'll need to have at least one track armed 
and monitoring, routed to the master send. Save live output to disk 
records anything that comes across the master track in real time. 
Depending on your situation, this might be a bit annoying, and not the 
best way to go about doing what you want, but it will technically work.

I do these sorts of things in SoundForge, because it also has a 
prebuffer, which captures a bit of audio before the threshold is hit, so 
you don't have the bad cut-in effect so common to vox triggers. You can 
also have it mark each start/stop as a new region, and then extract 
those regions to separate files. There are programs dedicated to doing 
this sort of thing, like VRS Recorder from NCH, and others that I've 
never used.

On 7/2/2011 5:36 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me weather reaper allows one to use
> input level bassed recording.
> This means that when a certain threshhold of audio is reached, recording
> begins, and then if that threshhold goes below a certain user defined DB
> level, the recording is paused until the threshhold is breeched again.
> I used this in other audio software to record a police scanner where I
> didn't want to have the long silences between transmissions
> recorded...so the software would start recording as soon as there was
> audio coming from the radio, then pause the recording as soon as there
> was silence.
> This way I could leave the program recording for say 12 hours, and only
> actually record what was said and not the long stretches of silence
> between.
>
> any help would be appreciated.
> I've already looked in the actions list to see if there is something
> there...there might be, but it could be defined in different terms.
>
> regards
> Colin
>
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