Re: tapping hardware & software

[Mohinish <mohinish.s@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniele,

you could also look at Psyscope X. It is freeware.
http://psy.ck.sissa.it/

It's Mac-only, but has good timing accuracy and fairly easy to use.  
They also have a very responsive user group. I should say though -  
it's not COMPLETELY straightforward to ensure very very precise timing  
- but there is a lot of info on the website for sound timings. You  
could play sounds, and collect all keypresses time-locked to the start  
of the sounds.

For analysis. you could use the output (key-press times) from Psyscope  
and use these to markup the sound files using Praat (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ 
) which is also freeware.

Mo



On Mar 24, 2011, at 4:32 AM, daniele schon wrote:

> Dear all,
> I am trying to think to a simple and cheap solution to record  
> children in a tapping task (eg along with a metronome or a piece of  
> music).
> I have up to now found several solutions commonly used, but none of  
> them is cheap. For instance, using a software such as Presentation  
> to send the auditory stimulus and record with the space bar  
> (requires Presentation/E-Prime license), or using Cakewalk and a  
> tapping pad (requires Cakewalk license and a tapping pad).
> So I would be glad if you could share your advice on the "optimal"  
> solution, optimizing the real cost (in euros), the precision (in  
> milliseconds) and the other cost (the hours I'll spend analyzing  
> data, for instance recording the tapping on a microphone ...).
>
> my warmest regards
> daniele
>
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