Code/AudioClip Recorder

I was inspired by a thread in the forum about the cross fader script. I never use it, mostly because I do not have any free spots to allow for intermission music. But what I DO do is record little snippets of people singing, and play them back after they finish, while I am waiting for the next singer to fight their way to the mic. I have to time the recording to give me a buffer so that I can use the mixer to fade them in and out, and sometimes it can get a bit rough, with sudden, loud beginnings or abrupt endings. So I wrote this pair of scripts to automate the process. The first is a simple script to tell QuickTime to record the current input channel. You can set it to internal mic or (preferably) the line in (you'll need to run a line from your mixer to the microphone input of your mac. Sorry, I don't do Windows scripting. Someone else will have to take care of that, once the Windows version comes out!) You have the option after the recording is done to save the recording to disk if you want a permanent copy. This is not necessary, even for the next part.

The second script then automates the playback. Activate the script and it will fade out the current song (usually at the end) in kJams, and fade in the most recent recording. You can either let it play out, or you can stop playback early, in which case it will fade back out, reset the volume in kJams, and bring kJams to the frontmost application.

Hope someone finds this useful.