[linux-audio-dev] Vsound-like tools for ALSA?

[Paul Davis]

>SoX
>The Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio 
>files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and 
>filters during the conversion.

as much as i love sox, its too bad that it can't read WAV files in
IEEE float format let alone Broadcast WAVE. if it used libsndfile, i
believe it could ...