Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by milkmiruku | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

milkmiruku

Here's some software for generating them;

http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/

http://discord.sourceforge.net/

http://sbagen.sourceforge.net/

http://entrainer.sourceforge.net/

View on HN

Or, since this is Hacker News, you can use ChucK, which is a realtime programming language for processing audio:

    SinOsc left => dac.left;
    SinOsc right => dac.right;
    300 => left.freq;
    310 => right.freq;
    while (1) 1::second => now;

The last time I looked at ChucK had to have been almost 5 years ago. I was doing some interesting phase shift work where I would offset one channel by a few samples. Lots of fun.

Are you talking about a fixed offset, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_effect, or a variable offset, sort of like a flanger?

or:

xmms tone://300;310

Some good, more general purpose and programmer-y alternatives:

ChucK => http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

Pure Data => http://puredata.info/

SuperCollider => http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

There's also http://overtone.github.io/, which sits over super collider. Overtone provides an emacs mode, but you can also use it in http://www.lighttable.com/ which is a bit more accessible.

It's funny, here I was futzing around to make emacs part of my PD workflow... Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of it before.

There is another open source software which generates binaural beats. The software is Paulstretch, an extreme-audio time stretching software I wrote few years ago: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Here is a screenshots of binaural-beats generator: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/screenshot3.p...

But I don't know if there are real psychological effects of the binaural beats :)

Paulstretch and ZynAddSubFX are both great software. Thanks for writing them!

I used rhybag, from the author of sbagen, to create a melody for a song I've yet to finish writing. It's a very cool tool.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com