[linux-audio-user] RE: Invert And Mix

[Mike Rawes]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:55:08 -0400
"Len Moskowitz" <vze24hrw at verizon.net> wrote:

> We use a variety of waveforms, including sawtooth and real music with
> a silence leader.  Using Windows tools like Cool Edit and WaveLab it's
> a simple task to clip the silence (or anything else for that matter). 
> I haven't yet found a Linux tool that makes it quite as easy. 
> Audacity new(version 1.2.0-pre1) vertical scale expansion feature is
> inadequate to examine samples down to within 1 amplitude bit of
> silence (-90 dB for a 16-bit sample, or -138 for a 24-bit sample). 
> Know of any Linux tools that provide that capability?

Sweep (http://sweep.sf.net) does this - roll the mousewheel on the left
hand dB scale (rolling it on the display zooms the time axis - very
nice). Not sure how you do it without a wheeled mouse, though.

- 
Myk