Re: playing more than 2 sounds with synth option

Noah Essl <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I am playing 2 frequencies like this:
>> play -qn synth $a_number_variable sine $sound_1 sine $sound_2 fade h
> $some $random $numbers
>
> and I am trying to play even more sounds like:
>> play -qn synth $a_number_variable sine $sound_1 sine $sound_2 sine
> $sound_3 sine $sound_4
> or like:
>> play -qn synth $a_number_variable sine $sound_1 sine $sound_2 synth
> sine $sound_3 sine $sound_4
>
> but that doesn't work. How would I do it to play 4 frequencies parallel
> with the same command? Is there no support for that and if so, why limit
> it to 2?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!

Your commands create a new channel for each tone.  If you want to mix
them you can do that in a few ways.  One is like this:

$ play -n synth 10 sine 1k synth sine mix 2k synth sine mix 3k

Another way:

$ play -n synth 10 sine 1k sine 2k sine 3k remix -

If that's not what you're looking for, you'll have to describe in more
detail what you're trying to achieve.

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Måns Rullgård