Sound programming?

[Tim Lavoie]

In article <3CB50DBC.1B0E533F at alum.mit.edu>, Will Ware wrote:
> Somebody was asking me this evening if there's an easy way to
> play a tone of a specified frequency and duration in Python.
> I didn't know off the top of my head. I've since poked around
> the web a bit and it appears like the Snack Sound Toolkit
> (http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/) might be a good way to go.
> One of its virtues is being cross-platform, which I suspect is
> among his unstated wishes. Are there any other options?

Another is Csound, which is a wickedly powerful software synth. It's
written in C, runs on multiple platforms, and has lots of extras like
front-ends written, including some Python. It might be waaay too much
for a simple task, but the extra power is rather intoxicating.

  Csound: http://www.csounds.com

  Python bits:
    http://pythonsound.sourceforge.net/
    http://web.tiscali.it/mupuxeddu/software/CSFE/index.html

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