Windows Sound Recorder

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Sound Recorder on Windows 95.

Sound Recorder is a simple audio recording program that ships with most versions of Microsoft Windows.

Sound Recorder can record from a microphone or headset; many modern sound cards allow their output channels to be recorded (the loopback channel is typically called "Wave Out Mix" or similar). The recorded audio can be saved in WAVE format.

The application is available in Windows XP, although unskinned.

Sound Recorder can apply some simple audio transformations:

Inserting and/or mixing in audio from other files.
Splicing out parts of the current audio clip.
Increasing or decreasing volume in 25% increments.

Sound Recorder on Windows XP.

Increase or decrease playback speed in 100% increments.
Adding an echo (without reverb).
Reversing the current audio clip.

Sound Recorder records audio to memory, rather than to hard disk, and the length of recording is limited to 60 seconds. Therefore, the usablility of Sound Recorder is minimal. However, by recording blank noise for the sixty seconds and then decreasing the speed by 100% using the special effect; it is then possible to record over this increased time. For example, if you decreased it by 100% once, then the total recording time would be 120 seconds, rather than sixty.

Computers fitted with more than 2GB of physical memory will return an error message saying there is not enough memory. This is a design fault with Sound Recorder and cannot be solved other than by reducing the amount of physical memory.