audible graphs and sound synthesis on linux

Ari Moisio arimo at netsonic.fi
Thu Jul 26 07:33:46 UTC 2007


Hi Peter

  Your solution is quite similar to used with vOICe, 
www.seeingwithsound.com. vOICe also uses time for x-axis and freqyency for 
y-axis. It also have stereo panning.

  There is, iirc, even a C sample code available somewhere.



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arimo

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Peter Rayner wrote:

> I'm contemplating rescuing some very old work I did on a NextStation
> for audiolisation of simple line graphs.  Very simple idea, time to
> represent the abscissa and frequency (probably note value from
> experience) the ordinate.  Different left-right position would enable
> several lines and there's always the possibility of modulation for
> mimicking line styles.   I'd like this to run on Linux, be pretty
> broadly available and fairly easy to interface to programs that
> produce such data, such as R, gdl and the numerous python data
> analysis packages.
>
> Two questions:
> 1) Am I reinventing the wheel?
> -- 2) Does anyone have a recommendation on sound synthesis?  Last time
> I used the MusicKit which, afaik, has been ported but it's a pretty
> big hammer for basic monotone synthesis and possible modulation.  Does
> anyone have another suggestion for a package that
> a) works with ALSA
> b) Does what I need and
> c) Doesn't impose a big instalation burden on users.
>
> I will, of course, make the resulting code (if I finish) freely
> available.
> thanks in advance
> Peter
>
>
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