Can Tones Auto-Start Adobe Audition Recording?

[Slip_Cue]

Would anyone know if Adobe Audition is capable of recording AP Radio News feeds by using the tones at the beginning and end of each newscast? If so, how would I set it up?

 

[Emmett1057]

You would need an interface to receive the tones and communicate with Audition. It would basically have to accept the tones and trigger a MIDI shortcut to make it fire. Not that it couldn't be done, but it would not be an easy thing to set up.

Emmett

 

[JohnQuincy]

You can use the Timed Record Mode feature which makes Audition act like an audio VCR. (Right click on the Record button to access it.) But you'd have to reset each timed recording manually...i.e., for each AP newscast you'd want to record.

Still, it's a pretty cool feature for recording things like network feeds or airchecks.

 

[OttoM]

I'd suggest getting a "purpose-build" application that's designed to do what you need rather than trying to adapt Audition to do the recording.

You can use a freeware app like "DART Timer Recorder" (Google that term for the link) or get an inexpensive program like NCH's AudioTime (for a predetermined schedule) or VRS (if you want to use the tones).

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

You can use the Timed Record Mode feature which makes Audition act like an audio VCR. (Right click on the Record button to access it.) But you'd have to reset each timed recording manually...i.e., for each AP newscast you'd want to record.

Still, it's a pretty cool feature for recording things like network feeds or airchecks.

I guess the answer to the question I am going to ask is: "Just sit around and randomly click on anything and everything until you have figured out all the secrets."

Now the question: What resources are available to learn the deeper, hidden features of Audition. The Help File and User Guide from Adobe leaves out a lot. I did purchase a book at Barnes and Noble written by Richard Riley and it helped me some, but over and over he tells you to click on a certain feature but fails to tell you which sub-menu of when menu hides that certain feature. [Audio Editing with Adobe Audition, Richard Riley, PC Publishing]

What else have some of you found?

There is something I miss on today audio hardware. Remember when Ampex reel-to-reel recorders and the cart machines had terminals on the back where you could attach a remote set of control buttons. In my voice studio I have my mic across the desk from the place where I sit to edit and otherwise use the computer. It would be neat to have remote start-stop-record buttons on a keypad by the mic.

I also am responsible for a church sound desk. The play back decks for cassettes and CDs would be a lot handier if they have a terminal for remote starts. Some changes in this old world are good, some leave the good behind.

Oh.... back to topic. Remote terminals would make it easier to slave things into an automation system.

 

[OttoM]

There is something I miss on today audio hardware. Remember when Ampex reel-to-reel recorders and the cart machines had terminals on the back where you could attach a remote set of control buttons. In my voice studio I have my mic across the desk from the place where I sit to edit and otherwise use the computer. It would be neat to have remote start-stop-record buttons on a keypad by the mic.

I also am responsible for a church sound desk. The play back decks for cassettes and CDs would be a lot handier if they have a terminal for remote starts. Some changes in this old world are good, some leave the good behind.

Oh.... back to topic. Remote terminals would make it easier to slave things into an automation system.

This probably belongs on the "Engineering" board...but here goes.

Probably the easiest (and cheapest) way to get those separate start/stop/record buttons is to get a USB 10-key keypad and either remap keys in Audition for the functions you want, or use a key-remapper application (easily found as freeware) to send the appropriate commands to Audition. If you do the latter you can remap the numeric keypad and it won't affect the functions on the other part of the keyboard.

Some use the Griffin PowerMate (http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/) as a way to get a "scrubwheel" for their audio editing software.

As for the other need (remote starts), that is DEFINITELY is a question for the Engineering crew.

 

[Emmett1057]

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There are a few options for remote for you computer!

Emmett

 

[elchupacabras]

As I recall, when Syntrillium owned Cool-Edit they came up with a cool remote control, I think was called "Red Rover." When Adobe took it over, it deep sixed it.