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List:       linux-sound
Subject:    Re: Playing a sine wave
From:       Jeff Tranter <tranter () pobox ! com>
Date:       1999-05-12 21:44:59
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

> A much easier way is using /dev/dsp. You only need to construct few cycles
> of sine wave at given frequency to a buffer. Then just keep writing this
> buffer to /dev/dsp as many times as you need. In fact it may even be
> possible that somebody has already written this kind of app (look at
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound).

Yes, I wrote such a program using /dev/dsp. Look for "wave"
on sunsite.unc.edu, probably in the directory mentioned above
unless they moved it.

It can do sine, square, triangle, and ramp waveforms, in stereo.

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Jeff Tranter (mailto:tranter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~tranter)
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