[WriteLog] F-keys on-the-fly recording, revisited

[Jerry Pixton]

All,

As I was setting up new voice wave files for the upcoming phone contests, I 
discovered something that may have given rise to some of the recent 
discussion about on-the-fly recording not working.

Here are my observations -

First, I am using Writelog 10.48F on a computer running Win XP pro (have 
not put Service pack 2 on this computer yet) and a Sound Blaster PCI 16 card.

I was also having trouble getting any waves files recorded!

First I checked the Keyboard Shortcuts per Wayne's guidance. Everything 
looks ok.

But when I opened the audio control panels for Record and Playback, I could 
see the problem.

Under normal conditions with this version of Writelog and this soundboard, 
the channel selected for Recording is "Line In". This is probably the 
initialization position. When you activate Shift+FunctionKey, the input 
selected STAYS on Line In. It does NOT switch to the microphone input 
channel. When I manually selected the Microphone Input then on-the-fly 
recordings worked just fine. And the selection would stay there for 
multiple recordings.

But as soon as I played one of the just-recorded files to see if I liked 
it, Writelog would reset the Recording input back to Line In and then of 
course on-the-fly recording would no longer work.

To summarize:

When on-the-fly recording was activated, Writelog was not selecting the 
Microphone input channel.

On playback, Writelog was moving a Record setting to Line In.

So before doing any on-the-fly recording I had to manually move the 
Recording input to Microphone!

Maybe this will help others get some wave files recorded. But this 
certainly will be a trap to change a message during the heat of a contest.

Jerry, W6IHG
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Dr. Jerry R. Pixton, PIXOS Designs LLC
http://www.pixos.com/designs/RadioTuner/
jpixton at shentel.net
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