scale

Langue: en

Version: 06/05/2009 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

scale - Scale the amplitude of a sound file. . 

DESCRIPTION

Takes a sound file and scales it by applying a gain, either constant or variable. The scale can be specified as a multiplier, a maximum or a percentage of 0db.

SYNTAX

 scale [OPTIONS ... ] infile
 

INITIALIZATION

Flags:

• -A = Generate an AIFF outout file.
• -W = Generate an WAV outout file.
• -h = Generate an outout file with no header.
• -c = Generate 8-bit signed_char sound samples.
• -a = Generate alaw sound samples.
• -u = Generate ulaw sound samples.
• -s = Generate short integer sound samples.
• -l = Generate long (32 bit) integer sound samples.
• -f = Generate floating point samples.
• -F arg = Specifies the gain to be applied. If arg is a floating point number that gain is applied uniformly to the input. Alternatively it could be a file name which specifies a breakpoint file for varying the gain for different periods.
• -M fpnum = Scales the input so the maximum absolute displacement is the value given.
• -P fpnum = Scales the input so the maximum absolute displacement is the pencentage given of 0db.
• -R = Continually rewrite the header while writing soundfile (WAV/AIFF).
• -H integer = Show a "heart-beat" to indicate progress, in style 1, 2 or 3.
• -N = Alert call (usually ringing the bell) when finished.
• -o fname = output file name (default: test.wav)

EXAMPLES

     scale -s -W -F 0.96 -o out.wav sound.wav
 

This creates a new sound file with a constant gain of 0.96. It is particularly useful if the input file is in floating point format.

CREDITS

Author: John ffitch

1994

AUTHORS

Barry Vercoe
MIT Media Lab
          

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Dan Ellis
MIT Media Lab,
          Cambridge
          Massachussetts
        

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