Hi,

I just got a sound card, like yesterday, and am itching to
start programming it. I found the ref in the FAQ about playing
wav's, but can someone recommend a book (or ftp site, or web
site,or VBX) about how to access the sound card for recording?
The next couple steps are:

1) hit a record button, record something and hit a stop button
2) leading up to 'watching' the card for some threshold and
then record everything until so many seconds after the input
has quieted
3) and eventually do stuff like FTT on the signal

Does Windoze 95 and VB4 do this any easier than 3.1/3?

BTW, I don't expect to do this in VB. I would like to think I
could write a DLL or VBX (or device driver) to handle the
heavy duty I/O and do the interface in VB.  I've done a fair
amount of device driver/interrupt driven/TSR DOS programming.
 I just wanna access the sound card. Its what I do.

ttfn  fiz

checkout the API section in the below VB site.
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: Hi,
: 1) hit a record button, record something and hit a stop button
: 2) leading up to 'watching' the card for some threshold and
: then record everything until so many seconds after the input
: has quieted
: 3) and eventually do stuff like FTT on the signal

welcome to the 20th century with your purchase of sound card :)

actually, sound's not my thing, so there may be (prolly are) better
sources, but VENTANA PRESS's 'Visual Basic power toolkit' had a number of
routines and whatot that sound like they should do the trick for you.

it's a good book too, btw.. but a little old by now.

regards,

adrian

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