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1 1 Aaron Stevens 11, 13 April 2011 CS101 Lecture 28: Python: Computing with Audio Some material copyright Pearson (Guzdial and Ericson) 2 Overview/Questions – Review: audio samples, sampling rate – How can we create/play WAV audio files? – Programming with sound in Python
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Aaron Stevens11, 13 April 2011
CS101 Lecture 28:Python: Computing with Audio
Some material copyright Pearson (Guzdial and Ericson)
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Overview/Questions
– Review: audio samples, sampling rate– How can we create/play WAV audio files?– Programming with sound in Python
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Review: Sound Wave Properties
Wavelength:distance between waves (affectspitch -- high or low sounds)
Amplitude:strength of power of waves (volume)
Frequency:the number of times a wave occursin a second.
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Thinking in waveforms
– What kind of waveform would a high pitched/lowpitched sound look like?
– What kind of waveform would silence look like?
– How would we combine sounds, e.g. similar to animage overlay?
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Sampling: 3-bit depth
For each sample, we need to select a discrete value for the amplitude.These values are recorded in 3 bits (right hand side).
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From Sample to Sound Wave
Using the recorded information, the computer must re-recreate thesound wave. Some of the original information was lost by thesampling process!
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Waveform Audio File Format(.WAV Files)These files store a bitstream of the audio
samples:• compatible with Window, MAC, Linux• typically uncompressed
– What are the benefits of an uncompressedformat?
– What are the drawbacks?
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Recording a .WAV file.Example: using Audacity to record a .WAVfile.
Recall: a speaker has an electromagnet,just like a microphone…
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Reading a WAV File
JES built-in function:
Example:
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JES Sound Explorer
explore(sound) -- bring up sound explorer
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How Sampling Works:
The sampling rate describes howmany samples per unit of time.For example, 1000 samples persecond.• Each sample has a timestamp and a
value• The value describes the amplitude of the
sound wave at one point in time
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Programming with Audio
Reading and playing a WAV FileGet/set individual samplesCreate an empty sound fileSaving a WAV file
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Get Individual Samples
JES built-in function:
Example:value = getSample(sound, 1)
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Setting Sample ValuesJES built-in function:
Example:sound = makeEmptySound(3000, 1000)setSampleValueAt(sound, 0, 0)setSampleValueAt(sound, 1, 2)setSampleValueAt(sound, 2, -3)setSampleValueAt(sound, 3, 3)setSampleValueAt(sound, 4, -2)setSampleValueAt(sound, 5, 0)
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Make it louder!We can increase volume by increasing the amplitude of eachsample.(use example voice.wav)
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The range() functionWhat if we want to modify only some of the samples in a sound,
but not all of them?range() gives us a list of numbers, which we can use as
indexes into a list of samples.
range(<start>,<stop>,<increment>)Show some examples of range…
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SILENCE!How can we create some silence in this sound?(use example back-in-black-mono.wav)
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Combining Sounds
We combinesounds by “adding”the amplitudes ofthe correspondingsamples.
Example:Red + Yellow = Orange
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What You Learned Today
– Choosing the sampling rate– Reading & writing WAV files– Sound objects– Getting & setting sample values in JES
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Announcements and To Do
– Readings:• The CS101 Guide to Python/JES
– http://www.cs.bu.edu/courses/cs101b1/jes/• Optional (free) book about Python:
How to Think Like A Computer Scientist: Learning with PythonAvailable online at: http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/
– HW11 is due Wednesday 4/13– Quiz 5 on FRI 4/15
• Covers lectures 25-26-27-28 (python)
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Creating an Empty Sound
JES built-in function:
Example:sound = makeEmptySound(3000, 1000)
This creates an empty sound with a length of 3000samples, and a sampling rate of 1000 samples persecond. The sound is 3 second long.
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Writing a WAV File
JES built-in function:
Example:writeSoundTo(mySound, “Z:/mySound.wav”)
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JES does MIDI music too
