[linux-audio-user] RE: harddisk sampler

Mark Knecht markknecht at comcast.net
Tue Mar 23 00:44:09 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 21:24, Hawkeye Parker wrote:
> "It might not be very 'artistic', but I suspect that a lot of this
> stuff
> could be done at the command line with scripts that take sample files,
> pitch shift them, concatenate and mix them, etc. Linux has lots of
> tools
> that could do things like that."
> 
> hi mark,
> thanks for the kind and helpful words.  if you have a sec, could you
> elaborate a little?  i'm very comfortable at the commandline, but
> applying this sort of paradigm to computer audio is still unfamiliar
> for me.  do you mean simply writing my own bash/python/whatever
> scripts and the like to process waveform audio?  or are you thinking
> of some specific, smaller audio applications that are geared towards
> this kind of scripted approach, and could be strung/glued together
> using scripts?  do you have an example(s) . . . ?
> 
> if not, no worries, just thought i'd ask.
> 
> cheers,
> hawkeye
> 

I guess at the time I was thinking mostly of ecasound and sox, both of
which I've used very little, but every time I do I'm quite impressed as
to how much they encompass:

Ecasound documentation:

http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/Documentation/examples.html

With this you can concatenate, mix, etc.

Sox - pitch shifting, time stretching, filtering, applying effects, etc.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/

Since you weren't terribly interested in the GUI based apps (I guessed
they weren't quite doing what you were thinking of doing) I thought I'd
suggest these.

Good luck,
Mark




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