Tuning

August 25, 2007 at 12:40 am · Filed under Ruby

I was asked today why I was making a WAV file wrapper in Ruby. The short answer is “No reason.” The slightly longer answer is “Because it gives me an opportunity to read things about tuning strategies for fun.”

Two less-loud, better-sounding Ruby-generated WAVs:

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  1. William Cotton said,

    November 9, 2007 @ 6:48 pm

    I’d love to see how you did this. I’m a musician and a programmer and I love mixing the two. I normally use Max/MSP, but I’d love to get in to making some stuff with Ruby. Any chance I could get a copy of your source code?

  2. Chris Shea said,

    November 13, 2007 @ 11:05 am

    All I’m really doing is figuring out the WAV header and plotting sine waves on a byte sequence. I’m planning on fixing it up soonish and releasing it. But if you (or anyone) wants to look early, I’m reachable at chris@tie-rack. Remember, it’s tie-rack.org.

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