[Discuss] Digital tone generator.

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-03-22 23:01-0700 chris wakefield wrote:

> Evening all.
>
> I'm trying to find a current name for an application that will generate simple
> musical tones.  I'm a singer, and I'd like to hear a "A" every once and a
> while.  I would call it a:  "Sound or tone generator"
>
> I don't want to have to load a file of any sort, or learn another
> *undocumented* command line option <hours on Google>
>
> I'm finding that there are many applications out there in Debian land, for
> example, that have the word "Sound" in them, and it's a vast list.
>
> I would like to simply click a button, or just:
> ~$binary --pitch A --duration 10
>
> Does anyone know of such a program, or even a source compileable on X86_64?

I haven't tried it myself, but you might want to look at the beep programme.
It's a Debian package and also available at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/beep/.  My understanding is it uses the PC
speaker to generate the various tones.  A lot of distros turn that off by
default, and http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/TurnOffBeep gives further
instructions for doing that, but of course you can negate those instructions
to turn on your PC speaker (if that is what the beep programme needs).

Alan
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