Re: How to make soundfiles (was: Eyn Keyloheynu)

[glenn tamir <klezska...>]

Cool Edit is a great shareware program available for
the PC.  I'm not sure how to get it but try a search
on Google.com (the best search engine)


--- Joe Kurland <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com> wrote:
> At 11:46 PM -0400 5/15/01, AGREENBA (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> >(My website is currently undergoing some major
> work, mostly trying to get
> >sound into it. I?m working with a person in Ohio,
> my domain host and
> >webmaster, and she can?t get the sound files to
> work. How the heck did you do
> >that so easily, just singing into the computer and
> bingo it?s there? Maybe
> >answer off list if I?m the only ignorant one here -
> along with my presumed
> >professional who also can?t figure it out. Argh.)
> 
> I'll answer on list to encourage other list members
> to do the same.
> 
> I have a Mac.  I don't know if it's as easy on a
> Windows machine, but 
> I'd guess it is.  Maybe a Windows user can
> contribute a method.
> 
> A few years back I found a couple of shareware
> programs on the 
> internet called SoundHack and SoundEffects.  The
> writers of those 
> programs were happy to accept $15 or a piece of the
> user's music in 
> return for the downloads.  Both of these programs
> are able to 
> manipulate sound files as well as to record them
> from a microphone 
> plugged into your computer (Mac's come with mics.)
> or import them 
> from CDs.  Among other things you can speed up or
> slow down a sound 
> file while maintaining constant pitch--great for
> picking apart 
> ornamentation on old recordings.
> 
> I've usually used low sampling rates to keep file
> sizes down, so I 
> don't know what kind of quality you can get doing
> all these 
> manipulations with high sampling rates.  With low
> sampling rates, 
> don't expect great sound quality, but it's certainly
> good enough for 
> allowing us to hear what we're talking about when we
> want to compare 
> liturgical melodies.
> 
> But for simple recording, these programs work just
> like a tape 
> recorder, and then you can save the files as .au or
> .aiff files.
> 
> I haven't been keeping track of SoundHack or
> SoundEffects for a 
> couple of years now, as the versions I have have
> been working well 
> enough for my purposes.  But I just went to a
> website where you can 
> download both of them:
>       http://www.music.calarts.edu/
> Scroll down the page till you see "Music Software
> for the Macintosh" 
> and "Music Software for the PC."  From a quick view
> of the PC page, 
> you might need a sound card installed in your
> machine if you have a 
> Windows machine.  The Mac programs will work with
> the mic that comes 
> with the machine.  For electronic music junkies,
> there's lots of 
> other stuff there as well.
> 
> Once you've recorded the sound, you can upload it to
> your website, I 
> do it in a folder called sounds, put a link to it on
> one of your 
> pages, and tell the list how to find it.  There are
> any number of 
> sound player plug-ins for your web browser, some of
> which you can 
> find on the calarts website.
> 
> 
> Zayt gezunt (be healthy),
> 
> Yosl (Joe) Kurland
> The Wholesale Klezmer Band
> Colrain, MA 01340
> voice/fax: 413-624-3204
> http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com
> 
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