Fun with pc speaker

[Ayr3s]

Yesterday I decided I wanted to play music with the pc speaker in my new file server, so I installed 'beep' that makes controlling the pc speaker easy. After that I just made a simple awk one-liner that reads a file containing the notes.

Here is the awk 'player':

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
awk '{print "beep -f " $1 " -l " $2}' $1 | sh


and the first song I made is the star wars theme:

Code: Select all

261     1000   C
392     1000   G
349     172     F
329     172     E
294     172     D
523     1000    C5
392     500     G
349     172     F
329     172     E
294     172     D
523     1000    C5
392     500     G
349     172     F
329     172     E
349     172     F
294     1000   D
196     250     G3
196     250     G3
261     1000    C
392     1000    G
349     172     F
329     172     E
294     172     D
523     1000    C5
392     500     G
349     172     F
329     172     E
294     172     D
523     1000    C5
392     500     G
349     172     F
329     172     E
349     172     F
294     1000    D
196     250     G3
196     250     G3
220     375     A3
220     250     A3
349     250     F
329     250     E
294     250     D
261     250     C
261     172     C
294     172     D
329     172     E
294     250     D
246     500     B3
196     250     G3
196     250     G3
220     375     A3
220     250     A3
349     250     F
329     250     E
294     250     D
261     250     C
392     500     G
294     1000   D
196     250     G3
196     250     G3
220     375     A3
220     250     A3
349     250     F
329     250     E
294     250     D
261     250     C
261     172     C
294     172     D
329     172     E
294     250     D
246     500     B3
392     250     G
392     250     G
523     250     C5
466     250     Bb
415     250     Ab
392     250     G
349     250     F
311     250     Eb
294     250     D
261     250     C


Now I want to make a simple 'compiler' to write only the note names and lenghts in a symbolic way and later convert it to this format to make writing easier.
Maybe later I'll go and make the speaker tell me info via morse code xD

[pretentious]

This is pretty sweet. I just installed beep and can't get any audio for some reason but I'll figure it out.
audio processing isn't something I've had much success with in the past but I just had a thought. You could get a music file, maybe remove vocals if possible and sample its frequency at x milliseconds, use like 10 different frequency thresholds and create your music tabs

I wonder what tamagotchi skrillex would sound like

[ghostheadx2]

what language is that?

[ghost107]

what language is that?

Its a command language called Shell, available on linux(similar to Batch command language on windows), also try too look into bash their both scripting languages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVt3Rst ... E693D8E790

[Ayr3s]

what language is that?

it is in a shell script, but all the work is actually done by awk.

This is pretty sweet. I just installed beep and can't get any audio for some reason but I'll figure it out.
audio processing isn't something I've had much success with in the past but I just had a thought. You could get a music file, maybe remove vocals if possible and sample its frequency at x milliseconds, use like 10 different frequency thresholds and create your music tabs

I wonder what tamagotchi skrillex would sound like

that sounds like it would be neat, but I'm guessing that any polyphonic part would break thigs... have you tried anything like that before?

[-Ninjex-]

Haha, very interesting indeed. I will be playing with this, hell maybe I'll even make my own tunes
+1