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Some notes on the 'tones' program. Jim Jackson
---------------------------------- May 1999
The tones program has growed out of a simple sequential tone generator that
I wrote for Michael Meifert <mime@dk3hg.hanse.de> for generating a sequence
of tones for control purposes. Since then I've expanded it to maintain a set
of 'channels', each channel having a seperately configured waveform,
frequency and intensities. All the channels are mixed to provide the output
signal. Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org> provided a base patch for adding
intensity levels. However this showed up bugs in the digital mixer which
have now been fixed and the amplitude handling much expanded - see the
relevant sections in the manual page.
Musical note generation
Also I've added the ability to generate musical notes, by being able to
specify a note + optional sharp + octave digit, e.g. C3 is middle C. The
tuning is based on the standard concert A of 440Hz (A3), and an equally
tempered scale. Thanks to Ivor Dykes for the music lessons! If you want a
different tuning then the frequencies are defined in an array in tonesgen.c,
and can easily be altered to taste. Thanks also to Robert P. Hanssen
<hanssen@nova.org> for pointing out a correction to the freq. numbers used
for generating named notes.
Some examples
tones 2000 sin c3,e3,g3
plays the C Major chord
tones 100 sin 941,1336 0,0 697,1209 0,0 697,1209 0,0 697,1477 0,0
generate the dtmf dial tones for '0' '1' '1' '3'
Here are the frequencies to use.....
1 = 697,1209 2 = 697,1336 3 = 697,1477 4 = 770,1209
5 = 770,1336 6 = 770,1477 7 = 852,1209 8 = 852,1336
9 = 852,1477 0 = 941,1336 * = 941,1209 # = 941,1477
tones -loop :2000 sin 1000 square 1000 tri 1000 saw 1000 0
generate a series of test waveforms repeatedly. The ':' infront
of the default duration setting forces this to be a duration setting
even on the loop - otherwise it would be treated as a freq. spec.
Yeah it's a bug - but I couldn't see an easy fix.
More examples in the tones.eg directory
In sub-directory, tones.eg, there are some examples using the tones program.
Run make in the tones.eg directory to create the programs ramp, randtone,
randnote and shepard-risset, and create some more complex loadable waveforms
in the tones.eg/samples directory. Then try the shell scripts ramp.sh,
randtone.sh, randnote.sh, slide.sh (the shepard-risset sliding scale) and
tune.sh .
ramp.sh generate a slow ramp modulated frequency. Edit the script to
change the parameters. 'ramp' simple generates a suitable series
of incrementing (or decrementing) numbers that tones converts into
successive short tones.
randtone.sh generates random tones of varying duration.
randnote.sh generates random notes
slide.sh creates and plays a sample shepard-risset sliding scale
tt.sh plays "There's a hole in my bucket" using the loadable
waveform given as a parameter to the script.
tune.sh plays a couple of tunes! File hole_bucket.notes contains the
notes for a simple tune. clementine.notes contains the notesi
for a more complex tune with harmony (clementine). Just for fun.
dtmf script to create dtmf dial tones for single digits given
as parameters to the script. e.g. dtmf 0 1 1 3 6 6 6
shepard-risset is a C program to generate tones commands for generating
Shepard-Risset sliding tones - often called elevator sounds
because they appear to be moving up (or down) permanently.
Try this:
% shepard-risset 700 7 1.2 15 -50 > /usr/tmp/slide
% tones -c 7 -v -l :200 /usr/tmp/slide
or just run the slide.sh script. It uses precomputed sequences for
rising and falling elevator sounds.
Read the C code or run shepard-risset with no arguments
to see what the parameters are. See paper
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/shortpap/Beaudoin-Lafon/Mbl_txt.htm
for more some more details on shepard-risset tones.
Installation of the stuff in tones.eg
You can run 'make' in the tones.eg directory and then run the example
shell scripts.
e.g. % cd tones.eg
% make
% ./tune.sh
If you wish, you can copy the scripts into a suitable directory, your
own ~/bin directory or /usr/local/bin. You will have to edit the scripts
to put in the location of the tones program - usually /usr/local/bin.
The only script worth installing really is 'dtmf' - and I'm sure that
can be improved! Feel free - let me know the results.
Jim Jackson jj@franjam.org.uk
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