Re: playing more than 2 sounds with synth option

[Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>]

On Aug 10 17:57:17, arche1@gmx.at wrote:
> 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

Why the extra invocation of 'synth'?
'play -n synth 5 sine 100 sine 200 sine 300 sine 400' works just fine.

> but that doesn't work.

Meaning what? What actual command are you using,
and what exactly is SoX doing? (That is to say,
show us the output of play -V synth ...)

> 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?

Is your hardware capable of playing more than 2 channels?
If not, you will need the remix effect to mix it down to two channels.

	Jan



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