Active Sound Recorder is an ActiveX control (OCX control) developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy to add sound recording and CD ripping capabilities to applications
written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls; thanks to the integration with DirectShow codecs and with the BASS library, both allowing decoding capabilities for the most common sound formats such as MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others, Active Sound Recorder allows creating powerful audio recording applications.
.NET version available
In case you should be developing Winforms applications, we strongly suggest you considering our Winforms native component Audio Sound Recorder for .NET or, in case you should be developing WPF applications, console applications or Windows services, our .NET API Audio Sound Recorder API for .NET. |
Active Sound Recorder is designed to work directly with a sound card or with CD/DVD player, so you can record almost any audio source including a microphone, a line-in jack or a CD player (CD ripping), at near-perfect quality. This makes it ideal for implementing a variety of audio applications from music recording and editing to powerful dictation applications.
Recorded sounds can be kept in memory for later use or stored on the hard disk in any of the supported formats or using the ACM codecs in the system. Once a recording session has been completed, it is possible to play the recorded audio using the embedded playback system. If you need more sophisticated playback features (such as changing the tempo or pitch), consider using this component in conjunction with our Active DJ Studio component.
Active Sound Recorder supports deep analysis of the recorded sound waveform with rich visualisation capabilities including range selection, zooming and panning. Recorded sounds can be edited, resampled, mixed with other sounds and exported to different formats.
Many tutorials are available to help you beginning your developments with this powerful control.
Brief summary of available features:
Audio recording from physical devices
Audio recording from sound files
Audio recording from the Internet
Audio editing
Audio effects
Audio playback
Audio export
Audio analysis
Protocols and sound cards management
Ripping of CD tracks
Graphical features
Tagging features
Misc features
Supported target systems
Audio recording from physical devices
- Recording from any DirectSound, ASIO or WASAPI compatible sound card available inside the system.
- Support for half-duplex devices (like the Phillips SpeechMike™).
- Support for switching the output file without stopping the recording session and without loosing any sound data.
- Support for adding position markers during a recording session.
- Support for multi-channel recording with ASIO devices
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Recording sessions can be stored inside output files (on both disk or memory buffer) in the following audio formats:
| - AAC (4) |
- NIST |
- PVF |
| - AAC+ (9) |
- MP2 (5) |
- RAW formats |
| - AIFF |
- MP3 (6) |
- SVX |
| - AU |
- MP4 (4) |
- VOC |
| - CAF (1) |
- OGG Vorbis (7) |
- W64 |
| - FLAC |
- OPUS (8) |
- WAV (2) |
| - IRCAM |
- PAF |
- WMA (3) |
(1) Support for PCM 8/16/24/32 bits, PCM 32 bits floating point, G711 U-LAW, G711 A-LAW
(2) Support for uncompressed PCM and compressed formats whose ACM codec is installed inside the system, multi-channel support with ASIO devices
(3) Requires the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC, multi-channel support with ASIO devices
(4) Requires the availability of the external Faac.exe encoder, multi-channel support with ASIO devices
(5) Requires the availability of the external TwoLame.exe encoder
(6) Requires the availability of the external Lame.exe encoder
(7) Requires the availability of the external OggEnc.exe encoder, multi-channel support with ASIO devices
(8) Requires the availability of the external OpusEnc.exe encoder, multi-channel support with ASIO devices
(9) Requires the availability of the external Fdkaac.exe encoder, multi-channel support with ASIO devices.
Audio recording from sound files
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Recording directly from sound files stored on disk, memory buffer or clipboard with resampling capabilities for the following input audio formats (see Audio recording from physical devices for the list of available output audio formats):
| - AAC and AAC+ |
- M4A and MP4 |
- PCM RAW format |
| - AC3 |
- MOD Music |
- PVF |
| - AIFF |
- Monkey's Audio (APE) |
- Speex |
| - ALAC |
- MP3, MP2, MP1 |
- SVX |
| - AU |
- Musepack |
- VOC |
| - CAF (1) |
- NIST |
- W64 |
| - CD tracks |
- OGG Vorbis |
- WAV (2) |
| - FLAC |
- OPUS |
- WavPack |
| - IRCAM |
- PAF |
- WMA and WMV (3) |
(1) Support for PCM 8/16/24/32 bits, PCM 32 bits floating point, G711 U-LAW, G711 A-LAW
(2) Support for uncompressed PCM and compressed formats whose ACM codec is installed inside the system
(3) Require the availability of Windows Media Player modules on the target PC
- Through integration with our Active DJ Studio component, possibility to load the audio track of video clips.
- Extraction of the audio track of a video clip with possibility to store it into an output audio file of a chosen format.
Audio recording from the Internet
- Recording directly from HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or MMS sites with resampling capabilities (see Audio recording from physical devices for the list of available output audio formats).
- Downloading and recording audio tracks of Youtube video clips
Audio editing
- Restart of a stopped recording session in "Append mode", "Insert mode", "Mix mode" and "Overwrite mode".
- Sound editing basic capabilities with possibility to export portions of sound to the clipboard.
- A background sound can be applied to the current recording session, also in loop mode.
- Possibility to perform append and mixing automation operations on previously recorded audio tracks through integration with our Active Sound Editor control.
Audio effects during recording
- Sound Activation System (automatically skips silent periods).
- Automatic Gain Controller applied to data coming from an input channel.
- Support for custom DSP effects.
- Common filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band)
- Equalizer..
Audio playback
- Play the recorded sound or any portion of the same.
- Sound card output choice.
- Support for playback in reverse.
Support for changing sample rate during playback.
Audio export
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Exporting of the recorded sound into an audio file in the same audio formats available for recording sessions (see Audio recording from physical devices for the list of available output audio formats).
Audio analysis
Protocols and sound cards management
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DirectSound protocol
- ASIO protocol
- WASAPI protocol on Windows Vista and higher versions: allows recording from both capture and loopback devices with the possibility to mix what is being recorded from multiple sources into a single output file.
- Management of audio endpoints (CoreAudio) on Windows Vista and higher versions
- Sound card output choice and volume setting for playback
Ripping of CD tracks
Graphical features
Tagging features
- Support for adding basic tag information (Author, Title, Album, Year) to recording sessions in the following formats:
| - MP3 |
- OGG Vorbis |
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| - MP4 |
- WMA |
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Misc features
Supported target systems:
- From Windows XP up to the latest Windows version in both x86 and x64 flavours
- From Windows Server 2003 up to the latest Windows Server version in both x86 and x64 flavours
As already mentioned before, Active Sound Recorder can be fully integrated with our existing audio related ActiveX controls Active Sound Editor and Active DJ Studio and, for your convenience, this product is actually available inside the following convenient suite of products:
See also:
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