Harddisc-recording At 8 Khz On Imac??? Options

[Carlos Schnieder...]

Hello everyone,

I urgently need help with my iMac 400 DV SE: I'd like to record speech with a normal mic (and a PlainTalk Converter) on my iMac 400 DV SE at 8 kHz but every software I use (Cubase, SoundStudio, Peak...) says that I can't record at this sample rate.

To record at a higher rate and to sample it down afterwards is no solution because of insufficient quality compared to directly recording at 8 kHz.

Neither recording at 8 kHz with e.g. CoolEdit using VPC (and using the same inbuilt A/D converter!!) is a working solution because there are skips while recording.

I'd be very happy to solve this problem soon

PS: I need the files at this low rate for telecommunication services

[damann]

to record at 8k can never give as good results as post dithering from at least 44.1 khz/16 bit.
there are SO many available solutions.
logic, metro, spark, and peak, are the obvious pro solutions, however
there are some free/shareware programs around that do what you want, including some that record at 8 bit resolution, but they all call themselves variants on "snd" editors/recorders, apple's native sound format, logic etc won't use these files anyway.
check apple's osx download site for EVERYthing currently available.
oh yeah...
buserror said it all really.