tone generator

[Tuna]

is there an existing extension to generate tones?

[DavidN]

I seem to vaguely remember the Big Box object can do this, but I'm not certain. There's also the BEEP object, but it goes through the PC internal speaker.

[SEELE]

The big box also outputs the tones thou the internal speaker...

It can however give you the frequencies of the common keys.


You 'could!' use a binary extension to write a wave file with the tones you want, then immediately play it.

[wizkidweb]

I was playing with the Big Box object's BEEP function, but it pauses the program every time a beep is played. I was trying to make a song.

Is there a way to fix this?

[SEELE]

Nothing comes to mind with that..

The other thing i was thinking about was using MIDI; Midi is a dynamic sized file ended by a META expression, that plus the fact that playing a midi file doesn't lock it-it may be possible to fool the midi output to play from a midi as the midi is being written... but that requires some pretty nifty binary object use.