Active Sound Recorder is an ActiveX control developed by MultiMedia Soft that makes it easy adding sound recording capabilities to applications written with the most widely-used development environments that accept ActiveX controls such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET.

Active Sound Recorder is designed to work directly with your sound card or with your CD/DVD player, so you can record almost any audio, including that from a microphone, a line-in jack or a CD player (CD ripping), at near-perfect quality.

Recorded sounds can be kept in memory for later use or stored on the hard disk using several formats: WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis, AAC and MP4 but also using the ACM codecs installed inside the system; once a recording session has been completed, it's possible to hear recorded sound through the embedded playback system: if you need more sophisticated playback features (like changing tempo or pitch), consider using this component in conjunction with our Active DJ Studio ActiveX control.

Active Sound Recorder allows a deep analysis of the recorded sound waveform with rich visualisation capabilities like range selection, zooming and panning. Recorded sounds can be edited, resampled, mixed with other sounds and exported to different formats: the ideal solution for implementing powerful Dictation Software Applications.

The integrated Sound Activation System allows pausing a recording session automatically when no sound is being heard: this will help saving valuable space both in memory and on disk.

Active Sound Recorder comes with many Internet related features: it can record sound data coming from Internet URLs (HTTP, FTP or MMS): this allows recording directly from Internet radios streaming in WMA, MP3, OGG Vorbis, AAC and AC3 formats. Contents of a recording session can be uploaded to a FTP server.

Thanks to the integration with FreeDb servers (CDDB), the control can obtain information about the CD currently in ripping phase and, if available on the Amazon web site, the control can obtain the CD cover pictures as well.

Active Sound Recorder comes with 3 different editions, each tailored to the differing needs and budgets of software developers:

This chart provides a quick comparison overview of the features available inside the 3 available editions:

	Light	Professional	Deluxe
Recording from the system default sound card
CD ripping of full tracks
Encoding in WAV format
Real-time visual feedback (VU-Meter, Oscilloscope, Spectrum, Waveform display)
Events for reporting memory or file size occupation in real time
Support for half-duplex devices
Recording from any DirectSound compatible sound card available inside the system
Ripping of predefined portion of CD tracks
Sound Activation System (automatically skips silence periods)
Encoding in 32 bits floating point WAV IEEE format
Encoding in MP3 format (through the external Lame encoder)
Encoding in WMA format (through the external Windows Media Audio modules)
Encoding in OGG Vorbis format (through the external OggEnc encoder)
Encoding in AAC and MP4 format (through the external Faac encoder)
Encoding through installed Windows ACM codecs (Audio Codecs Manager)
CDDB database queries (through FreeDb servers)
CD cover pictures retrieval (through Amazon Web Services)
Restart of a stopped recording session in "Append mode"
Sound editing basic capabilities with possibility to export portions of sound to the clipboard
Creation of graphic bars for custom displaying of Vu-Meters, Spectrum and Progress bars.
Waveform analysis with support for generating the waveform bitmap
Advanced waveform visualisation for editing purposes
Restart of a stopped recording session in "Insert mode" or "Mix mode"
Support for recording directly from sound files stored on disk, memory buffer or clipboard with resampling capabilities
Support for recording directly from HTTP, FTP or MMS sites with resampling capabilities
A background sound can be applied to the current recording session, also in loop mode
Support for exporting to file contents of the latest recording session with resampling capabilities
CD ripping of full or partial tracks with resampling capabilities
Automatic Gain Controller applied to data coming from an input channel
Uploading of the last recording session to a FTP server

See also:
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