Stereo Or Mono; Specifying The Recording Duration; Sampling Rates - Townshend Computer Tools DAT-Link User Manual

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option are:
:
Select the AES/EBU input connector as the source.
AES
or :
Select the SPDIF (IEC Type II) input as the source.
SPDIF RCA
:
Select the ber-optic input as the source.
FIBER
The above choices may be abbreviated to a single character. If the
provided, then the SPDIF input is used.

6.5 Stereo or Mono

By default, the
narecord
le, with the two channels interspersed. The rst sample in the le is for the left
channel, followed by the right channel, etc. If monophonic recording is required
either the or
-oleft -oright
narecord -oright file
will store only the right channel into the le. The incoming left channel audio will
be discarded. Stereo input can be explicitly speci ed on the command line using
. These options can be abbreviated to
-ostereo
and stereo respectively.

6.6 Specifying the Recording Duration

The and options select the duration of the recording, in samples or seconds
-n -t
respectively. If neither option is used, recording will continue until the program is
interrupted. For example, to record 5 seconds of audio into a le use:
narecord -t 5 file

6.7 Sampling Rates

There are two sampling rates of importance in recording audio; the rate at which
samples are sent from the DAT machine, and the sampling rate of the le that is
being created.
program stores both channels of the stereo data in a
options can be used. For example,
-ol
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option is not
-i
, , and for left, right,
-or -os