Thursday, May 04, 2006

Linux : music compositions with sox

Recently, I created a small web application in php and javascript for Tabla compositions. For those who don't know ... Tabla is a percussion instrument. Currently, it is in its primitive stage. By the way, here is the link to it.

I'd like to take it further and add functionality which will allow merging of wav files with sox command that comes with linux distributions. This will allow composer to download his composition in wave format and hear it ! This will require reading the text file and mergin the sound files in the same order. This should be possible with a script (perl/php ?).

I'll soon be collecting .wav recordings of all the basic tabla bols (aksharas) and give it a try. Your comments or ideas are welcome.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey I do'nt know about PHP or Perl support to sound. But in java there are sound API's are avialble. You can get details on java website. http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/index.jsp

Ketan said...

Thanks. Probably, Java is the right choice to do this but the web-server should support jsp.