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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:41:20 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>
Cc:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: writing a sine to a .wav
Message-ID:  <20010718184119.A64530@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010718092628.A42443@lns.com>; from pozar@lns.com on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:26:29AM -0700
References:  <200107181542.f6IFgtl63993@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20010718114559.Q49286@numachi.com> <20010718092628.A42443@lns.com>

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Nice. That's very close to what I'm looking for. Thanks. I'll play 
with it and try to understand what you are doing.


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:26:29AM -0700, Tim Pozar wrote:
> I have a quicky program that will generate the raw PCM sine audio
> (sans WAV headers) that you can run into SOX or write directly to
> /dev/dsp (OSS).  It is called tonegen and is availible at:
> 
> 	http://www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/
> 
> Functions include...
> 
> tonegen: Generates a sine wave on the sound card or standard out.
>    -a dB       Sets attenuation from "all ones" in dB.  Default is "0 db".
>    -d device   Sets device name.  Default is "/dev/dspW".
>                If "device" is "-" then it uses STDOUT
>    -f Hz       Sets tone in Hertz.  Default is "400 Hz".
>    -r rate     Sets device sample rate in Hertz.  Default is "44100 Hz".
>    -t seconds  Sets time to run.  Default is infinite.
>                The length of the tone will run over slightly until full
>                cycle stops at a "zero crossing" to prevent clicks.
> 
> It is distributed as source only and compiles on FreeBSD and Linux.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:45:59AM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:42:55PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a function (API) or whatever that allows for generating
> > > .wav data (or .mp3) data out of mathematical functions like sin(x),sin(2x),
> > > sin(3x) etc.
> > 
> > Well, sox(1) seems to be the switchblade knife for sound file
> > conversion, and it can accept 'raw' and 'textual' data.
> > 
> >        .dat      Text Data files
> >                  These  files contain a textual representation of
> >                  the sample data.   There  is  one  line  at  the
> >                  beginning that contains the sample rate.  Subse-
> >                  quent lines contain two numeric data items:  the
> >                  time  since  the beginning of the sample and the
> >                  sample value.  Values are normalized so that the
> >                  maximum  and  minimum  are 1.00 and -1.00.  This
> >                  file format can be used to create data files for
> >                  external programs such as FFT analyzers or graph
> >                  routines.  SoX can also convert a file  in  this
> >                  format  back into one of the other file formats.
> > 
> > I have no idea if that's useful for you, though...
> > 
> > Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert		<reichert@numachi.com>
> > 37 Crystal Ave. #303			Daytime number: (603) 434-6842
> > Derry NH 03038-1713 USA			Intel architecture: the left-hand path
> > 

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
"The Hammond Tonewheel Organ - God's harmonica"
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