Comments on: Garfunkel in need of sounds.

By: brunobol

brunobol — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:27:10 +0000

@iain: Thank you so much!

By: Davyd

Davyd — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:43:42 +0000

@thomas: that’s what a sound editor is for

By: iain

iain — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:13:07 +0000

http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/garfunkle-sounds.tar.gz

two different types of sound
I can produce more if needed. All normalized to the same level
Making sounds in 300ms and 400ms that sound good is pretty tricky
So I ignored that, and the difference in 100ms of sound is barely noticable.

By: brunobol

brunobol — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:34:26 +0000

@Thomas: Great idea! Can you do it for me? Sets of different instruments would be great!

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:24:58 +0000

Further thought:

There could be a set of different sounds and the user could choose one, like the sets of different spheres in same-gnome

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:21:43 +0000

I have a crazy idea: my housemate is a violinist and I could ask him to play these sounds for these lengths, maybe? Unlikely to get exactly 300ms or whatever though.

By: brunobol

brunobol — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:05:12 +0000

I tried many ways, but always I hear a pop when the sound starts adn again when it ends (using gstreamer). Testing gnome-games (from where I copy the sound play code) I hear no pops.

By: Neil Roberts

Neil Roberts — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:23:03 +0000

You could try generating wav files for these sounds with sox:

for duration in 0.3 0.4; do
for pitch in 110 220 147 196 ; do
sox -n garfunkel-$pitch-$duration.wav synth $duration sine $pitch;
done;
done

By: Mukund

Mukund — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:57 +0000

If it’s a simple sine wave you’re looking for, you should be able to write a small program easily using libsndfile to generate these tones.

Also, audio editors such as Audacity have a tone generator which can also be used to generate these tones.

By: Baz

Baz — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:56:55 +0000

http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/wavetools.html
make wfct
wfct 110Hz 300ms > A110-300.wav
wfct 110Hz 400ms > A110-400.wav
etc.

Does it have to use exactly those tones? Might be more interesting to try something new. This sound generator sees a lot of use in the games created over at tigsource:

http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html