Aha! Thank you, just tried those apps, seems perfect. Thanks! -Noj
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Paul Mullen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:40:15PM -0700, Noj wrote: >> I was going to build my own normal-open pressure switch (unless >> someone knows where I can buy one, maybe electronic keyboard pedal?) >> and wire it to short out the spacebar on a cheap pc keyboard via cat5 > > It might be easier to repurpose the guts of an old mouse. Multiple > buttons and position encoders (if you could think of a use for them), > plus a ready-made bus (PS/2 or USB) to connect to the PC. > >> Anyone know a good scriptable wav recording/playback app I can put on >> the box (maybe command line oriented)? > > The ALSA command-line utilities "arecord" and "aplay" have always > worked well for me, and they should be standard fare in any reasonable > distribution. > >> presumed the ability to detect 'keydown' and 'keyup', or an >> application that can alternate 'play while key held down' with 'record >> while key held down with max clip length' behavior. > > I don't know of any existing software that does this off-hand, but it > should be easy enough to implement as a shell script. "arecord" > accepts an optional max duration after which it will automatically > cease recording. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
