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Title: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 18, 2018, 09:45:47 AM
Need the Classic Concentration timer from this site: https://t.co/tgqnnAVdVm but it only goes up to 90 seconds...need a 2 and 3 minute timer as well...can anyone help? Also, when I try to record the timings I can get with sound recorder,  don't hear the beeping at all. Need Would like to have a 15 30 45 second and one tw and three minute timers. Can anyone help? (Mods, move this if you need to.)
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: clemon79 on May 18, 2018, 11:54:51 AM
"Need" is such a strong word.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: MikeK on May 18, 2018, 12:16:32 PM
Maybe the production company behind "Who Dares Wins" will help you in exchange for never trying to stake a claim on their show again.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: TLEberle on May 18, 2018, 12:17:03 PM
If you really need a digital timer that badly then here y'are:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts/digital-timer?dept_uri=&dept_name=
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 18, 2018, 12:27:12 PM
If you really need a digital timer that badly then here y'are:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts/digital-timer?dept_uri=&dept_name=

Timers arent the problem, it's the ticking sound I need. Hell if I wanted a non-ticking timer I could use my phone.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: TLEberle on May 18, 2018, 12:41:02 PM
There are ways to get the sound--from an episode is probably going to be your best bet. Then loop it to however long you need.

/do you get the feeling that we're not going to do the work for you here?
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 18, 2018, 12:55:13 PM
From an episode wouldn't work...there's a Youtube with a 60 second Pyramid timer though, but I wouldn't know how to lengthen it because the buzzer is there. Shortening it is the easy part methinks.

/I don't want anyone to do something I couldn't...I'm just terrible at the editing part.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: clemon79 on May 18, 2018, 02:19:06 PM
/I don't want anyone to do something I couldn't...I'm just terrible at the editing part.

Isn't the entire reason you are asking someone else to do this is because you can't?

Didn't you, like, record an entire album? Have you never used an audio editor before? Literally, you need a clip of three beeps (Four would make it even easier.). Beep, pause, beep, pause, beep. Clean up the end, chop off the first beep such that the clip is two seconds long, loop as long as needed. (With four beeps (or three plus quiet ambient sound at either end), you just crop it to literally ANY two-second long portion and then loop as needed.)
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 18, 2018, 02:23:51 PM
I wasnt the producer. I sang and wrote the lyrics, someone else did the music. I know zilch about sound editing. Especially when all I have is the windows 10 sound recorder...if I had xp again it'd be much easier.

Edit: Plus, the sound recorder itself isn't even picking up the ticking. So I have no idea how to proceed. I love Windows 10, but the sound recorder is absolute crap.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: PYLdude on May 19, 2018, 12:48:01 AM
http://www.qwizx.com/gssfx/usa/cc.html
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 19, 2018, 02:54:45 PM
THANKS!! Now all I need is software to loop it..again, if there were a way to find the XP sound recorder, it'd be easy! I'm trying with this sound recorder and it's not even picking the beeps up, at all.. Hmmm

Edit..looping is easy, but recording the looped files are the hard part being that my sound recorder isn't picking it up.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: WhammyPower on May 19, 2018, 03:02:50 PM
Grab Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/download/). It's an open-source audio editor.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 19, 2018, 03:28:09 PM
Way ahead of you there, but I have no clue what I'm doing. I have the file in there, but duplication will only play the same 5 second timer over and over though, with the beeps in the same places no? I just need to make it longer.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: dazztardly on May 19, 2018, 07:01:02 PM
Here's a tutorial from YouTube on how to create a loop and paste it within the Audacity timeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKklMWNI_M

-Dan
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: PYLdude on May 19, 2018, 08:09:41 PM
And practice makes perfect.
Title: Re: I have...NO IDEA where to put this...help requested?
Post by: cyclone45 on May 20, 2018, 02:19:12 PM
Thanks guys! (Wonder why the sound recorder isnt picking up the ticking though)