Purpose

Recorder captures the audio flowing through it and writes it to a WAV file on disk. It passes the signal through unchanged, so you can drop it anywhere in a chain to bounce a take without altering the sound.

TouchDesigner Use

Set Filepath to the WAV you want to write, wire audio into audio, and turn Record on to start writing. Turn Record off to stop and finalize the file. Because out is a transparent passthrough, you can leave Recorder inline on a bus and arm it whenever you want to capture.

Inputs And Outputs

• Input 0: audio is the signal to record. It accepts mono or stereo PCM and is required.
• Output 0: out passes the input through unchanged.

Main Controls

• Filepath: destination WAV path. The file is created when recording starts.
• Record: toggles capture. On starts a fresh file; off stops and finalizes it.
• Maxseconds: safety cap on recording length, from 1 to 3600 seconds. Capture stops at this limit even if Record stays on.

Notes

• Output is written as a stereo 32-bit float WAV.
• Writing happens off the audio path, so recording does not interrupt playback.
• The file is finalized when you stop, so let Record turn off before opening the WAV elsewhere.
• If no file appears, check that Filepath is set to a writable location and that Record was turned on.

Parameters

This operator does not expose user parameters in the extracted schema.

Catalog metadata

Roles

• transform
• recorder
• utility
• effect

Tags

• record
• wav
• file
• capture
• write
• bounce
• export

Search groups

• audio
• utility
• recording