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Novella Poinsett

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:33:50 PM8/3/24

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Hi there. I am working on a very similar project on real-time audio input calculation (with Resonance as well) in VR, using a microphone. Is there any news on the Studio API implementation, by any chance?

You can use FMOD to record input from a microphone, although at the moment it is only supported through the API, ie. System::recordStart. There is an example in our API download but not for C# at this point.

I can remember the first time I tried to figure out how to record vocals in FL Studio.
It seemed like some weird technical nightmare to figure out all the different buttons I had to press, and things I had to check.

So now that everything is connected, I need to make sure that I have everything routed correctly in FL Studio so that it sees the microphone, and I can get the audio into the song that I am producing.

At the top of the audio tab you have the option to select the driver for the audio interface that you have plugged into your computer. The audio interface that I am using on this project is the Presonus Audiobox iTwo.

Usually when I am recording a vocal or any audio, I want to make sure that I get the buffer size as low as I can without introducing any clicks or pops into my recordings.
I usually try to be around 256 samples.

RULE OF THUMB: keep buffer size low when you are recording to keep from hearing a weird delay of your voice in the headphones. You can increase the buffer size when you move into mixing, which will help you with processing lots of plugins in your mix.

I am going to select Input 1 from the dropdown menu.
Make sure you are using the mono channel and not the stereo channel,
otherwise you will get everything showing up on the left side.

This will open up a dialog box that will ask what you want to call the file and where you want to save it.
I try to name files in a way that makes sense so that when I open the project later, I can tell at a glance what the files are.

And then I like to make sure that I have the countdown timer (2) turned on. This just adds a metronome countdown before the recording starts, and gives you a little extra time to get ready before you have to sing.

Thanks for hanging out with me, and make sure that you check out this post on how to record multiple takes of vocals and other instruments to get some ideas for putting together really good takes for your productions.

What I want to do is also record microphone input, but instead of having the audio of my speakers and mic on the same audio track, I want to have a track with just my speaker audio in the video file, with my microphone input on a separate track in order to make "editing" microphone input easier if needed.

To not hear yourself in FL Studio, you need to disconnect the Insert Track that you have set up to record on from the Master Channel. You can do this by following the green line at the bottom of the Insert track to the Master Channel. Left click on the end that is connected to the Master Channel. This will remove the sound from that insert being sent to the Master channel, but there are some other things to consider.

I think that it is a good thing to get used to hearing yourself sing in the microphone.
So my recommendation instead of disconnecting, is simply to turn down the level that is being sent to the Master channel from Insert 5, or whatever insert you set your mic up on.

This process of setting up a headphone mix is just one part of the vocal production process. If you want to learn more about vocal production, then be sure to check out this next article on vocal editing.

Having finally installed the market place and the Google Voice Search app - I am so close to enabling my emulator to do what I want - recognize my speech. First I need to enable the emulator to record audio , or at least think that a microphone is present.

hi try by enabling the audio recording support while creating the virtual device in emulator... While creating device go to hardware part and select new button. A dialog will appear in which select the property combo and select "Audio Recording Support" and give k and apply...

What version of Android is your Emulator running? I've had similar issues with audio in general when I try to run an Emulator with Android 2.2, which had no sound at all on Windows 7 32-bit. Still haven't been able to fix it, but when I swapped to an Android 2.3 emulator, the sound automatically worked. Maybe you could try this...

I'm attempting to create a "Record Screen" Replay project but running into issues with audio. I want to record the audio from the source (my Storyline output) and not the external microphone built into my laptop. Is this possible?

I've got something similar. I have an old project with video in it but we don't have any sourcefiles. I'd love to just record the screen and get the audio directly from the output to the speakers, not pick it up via a microphone placed near the speakers... Can we do this?

If it's a sound (of any sort) that lives on your computer, then there is an audio file for it somewhere. You don't have to "record" anything. Just locate that sound file and bring it into your project.

I'm actually recording a storyline project and want to capture the audio from the video, but not from the microphone built-in to my laptop. I want to record the audio the plays in the video but not pick up that audio playing through my computer speakers. Does that make sense?

If you are trying to grab the audio from a tradtional video file (mov, mp4, wmv, etc)... Then open that file with a basic video editor and all of them (pretty much) will let you export/publish the sound only into a music file. (Vegas Home Studio, AVS4You video editor or video convertor, etc)

If you are trying to grab the audio from a published e-learning project.... They (Articulate or otherwise) typically capture sound in stand alone sound files (think MP3) and then pull them in when needed during playback. Just locate that file(s) in the published package and drag them into where you need them.

If you are trying grab sound this is truly "buried" in a Flash file (ie not linked to, but recorded in a SWF, FLV)... you would use a tool like AVS4You audio editor, MP3Grabber, Audacity, to catpure it out of the Flash and into a conventional sound file format.

In any case, you shouldn't have to record the sound from a microphone/speakers as it already exists as a file somewhere. If it's already digitized on your computer somehow, don't even consider converting it multiple times (D>A>spl then back from spl >A >D). Instead just keep it in the digital world as outlined above. Make sense?

Sounds good Steve, I'll play with that. The thing is though that we do not just want audio, we want to record something on the screen that has audio embedded. EG a course for which I don't have a sourcefile but does contain audio and perhaps even some video. Tricky right? I should have thought about it during the beta...

I'm sorry but I'm still not sure what you are asking about... If you are using a screen capture tool like the one you mentioned, it records the audio along with the video right? So you would have both.

If you wanted the audio WITHOUT the video, again simply extract it as I mentioned a few posts above; either from the source file(s) or from the newly captured stream (which is now a recorded video file with audio track).

If you want to MIX various audio and video tracks, don't do that in real time. Instead do the screen capture, then go back in with a an editor (audio or video depending on need) and create the mix you want.

The thing is I have courses for which I don't have source files. When I record the screen the audio I can record is not the sound sent to the speaker (internally) but the sound that comes out the speaker and gets picked up by the microphone which results in crappy sound quality.

You have an old course that you can play fine (with audio), but you want to make a screen recording of that course with a particular screen recorder tool. Guessing that's Articulate's Replay, not Applian's Replay as the latter certainly records the audio directly.

Ok, so an Articulate Replay pro might want to step in here, but guessing to Steve's point and mine earlier, it sounds as if you might have to do this in two passes.... one to record the video via Replay, then one to capture the audio (either by extracting from SWF or recording the Stereo Mix via separate program). Once you have both, you could import the audio file back into the Articulate Replay screen recording as it does allow for that.

Generally speaking, Articulate studio for ppt and quiz, Camtasia studio for the screen capture, Audacity for the sound, and Formatfactory for the file format transformation and Moodle for the e-learning platform could be nice combination.

Never mind. For my laptop, the option is listed as Rec. Playback and my driver was outdated so it would not let me select it when using apps like Replay. Now that I've updated my audio drivers, it works like a charm.

I am running Replay on a Mac through Parallels Desktop 9 / Windows 7. Can anyone troubleshoot with me to get the option to record the internal audio? I've tried the suggestions above but can't seem to locate the Stereo Mix or anything "internal" for that matter.

Are you able to check the sound drivers / microphone drivers on the Windows 7 side of the machine? If those aren't installed or updated, it may not be an option for you or may not be installed properly.

Anyone else think it's strange that people are having to suggest Camtasia and Snagit to record audio for a screen capture when this is a support forum for Articulate Replay? These programs do exactly the same thing as Replay. What the problem looks like is, Replay does not have a user friendly way to record audio directly from the system. You have to go and change settings, update drivers...etc. I don't know about Snagit, but Camtasia has a simple, "Record System Audio" that just works without jumping through hoops. Why doesn't Replay have that?