[Discuss] Digital tone generator.

[David Bronaugh]

chris wakefield wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 06:56, pw wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris W.
>>>       
>> Audacity will allow you to do that.
>> You could just make an mp3 file with a tuning tone.
>> It's an Xwindows program.
>>
>> Peter
>>     
> Hi Peter.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> For some reason the audacity.deb won't see my soundcard, so I compiled from 
> source;  this version sees my card but won't play the generated tones.  I get 
> clicks & pops when I try to play stuff. 
> NOW, I think its my deb kernel 2.6.20-1 (kbuild) timer frequency which is set 
> at 250 htz.   I think this, because rosegarden complains about the timer 
> frequency being to low.
> I would like to re-set the kernel timer frequency to the max - 1000 htz, but I 
> need the boot - timer frequency boot parameter.
>
> I would like to re-compile a kernel, but the latest kernels don't support my 
> new Mboard (m2npv-vm).  This is why I'm running a kbuild kernel.
>
> Is anyone familiar with a way of changing the kernel timer frequency via boot 
> or a system call?
>
> Thanks to all offering help on this.
> Chris W.
>   
Since no one has mentioned it, may I suggest xmms?

Put in as a url tone://2600 -- you get the idea.

David