Re: Sound - handmade how?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

Hartwig Atrops wrote:
> I want to write a program that generates sounds - sinus waves, random sound 
> and so on. What is the format I can send to the sound card? Which device to 
> use? The program should work on different architectures (i386, sparc ...)

I wrote an audio recorder and audio player based on the Open Sound 
System (OSS) API back in 2002.  Compiling and testing just now, my stuff 
doesn't work (no /dev/dsp on Debian 5.0.3 desktop OOTB).  :-(


FWIW, I used the OSS Programmer's Guide:

    http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf


Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) was an upcoming, competing API 
at the time.


Now I see references to Pulse Audio.


So, I'm also curious as to the how to read/ write audio devices (and 
files) on modern Linux...


HTH,

David