Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus

A recording apparatus comprising:

• a microphone;
• an analog to digital converting circuit for converting an output signal from said microphone into a digital output signal;
• a storage device for storing said digital output signal from said analog to digital converting circuit;
• an input device for causing a recording start operation and a recording end operation;
• a controller for starting and stopping a writing into said storage device of said digital output signal from said analog to digital converting circuit, said controller starting said writing of said digital output signal from analog to digital converting circuit into said storage device upon a lapse of a predetermined time interval after said input device is operated,
• wherein said predetermined time interval is equal to or longer than a time interval required for attenuation to an unhearable level of a noise generated upon operation of said input device;
• and
• a cabinet in which said microphone and said input device are arranged,
• wherein said controller starts writing into said storage device when said predetermined time interval has lapsed after said input device is first-half operated, and stops writing of said digital output signal into said storage device during a lapse of the predetermined time interval after said input device is second-half operated.

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising:

• a microphone;
• an analog to digital converting circuit for converting an output signal from said microphone into a digital output signal;
• a semiconductor memory for storing said digital output signal from said analog to digital converting circuit;
• a digital to analog converting circuit for converting a digital signal read from said semiconductor memory into an analog output signal;
• an input device operable by a user of said apparatus for entering at least a recording start mode;
• a controller for controlling in response to an input from said input device a writing of said digital output signal from said analog to digital converting circuit into said semiconductor memory and a reading of a stored digital signal from said semiconductor memory;
• and
• a cabinet in which said microphone, said analog/digital converting circuit, said digital/analog converting circuit, and said input device are arranged,
• wherein said semiconductor memory includes at least two files and said output signal from said microphone converted by said analog to digital converting circuit into said digital output signal is written in one of said two files as specified by said input device as audio data and each of said at least two files can be written to by a plurality of audio data,
• wherein said controller includes a switch for entering a recording start mode, and
• said controller starts writing into said storage device when said predetermined time interval has lapsed after said input device is first-half operated, and stops writing of said digital output signal into said storage device during a lapse of a predetermined time interval after said input device is second-half operated.