PLAY(1)

NAME
play, pplay, sox - play sound file

SYNOPSIS
play filename
pplay filename
sox filename dummy.sbdsp

DESCRIPTION
Play is sox by another name. It converts combines the input sound file as required and sends it to /dev/dsp, or, if the program is called pplay the output goes to /dev/dsp1.

You have to use very low volume levels for playing 16 bit sound files, for some reason. E.g., "play -v 0.002 fname.uw".

This version of sox/play for Linux has some limited support for GUS .pat files. The support is very limited, indeed. Only the first sample in a .pat file is accessible, and in converting sound files in other formats to GUS .pat files, almost all .pat parameters are not appropriately filled in. However, for the special case of converting a .pat file to another .pat file (adding an effect, e.g.), the parameters of the input file are copied to the output file, so that it is somewhat more likely you can get something that would actually be playable on the GUS.

I tried, e.g., "sox trumpet.pat trumpete.pat echo 0.25 0.1" and got a razzy trumpet. It didn't sound great, but it sounded like some sort of trumpet. Maybe fun to play with.

SEE ALSO
sox(1)

AUTHOR
see sox.man
Linux/GUS extension: Greg Lee, lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu