[Gambas-user] Creating Sound

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 07/10/2011 08:32 PM, tobias wrote:
> On 10.07.2011 23:26, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
>>> On 07/10/2011 05:10 PM, tobias wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> (it's not a gambas specific question this time but i think at least
>>>> related and maybe i benefit from your experiences)
>>>> i know how to play sound files using gb.sdl.sound but is there a way to
>>>> create sound based on, let's say, sin() values?
>>> That would be cool. I remember making sound effects that way using GW
>>> Basic ages ago. Maybe there's something in /dev/ that can be opened as a
>>> stream and read/written to directly?
>>>
> wow, i quite can't figure out what my audio output device file is nor
> restore the /dev/dsp without causing my sound to be disabled...
> that's weird!

I'm using Mint 11 and noticed it doesn't have a /dev/dsp, only /dev/snd 
which contains:

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       60 2011-07-06 01:16 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 2011-07-06 01:16 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 2011-07-06 01:16 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 2011-07-09 21:15 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 2011-07-10 17:08 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 2011-07-09 01:09 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 2011-07-06 01:16 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 2011-07-09 01:09 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 2011-07-06 01:16 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2011-07-06 01:16 timer

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