whitenoise

Description

whitenoise is a small utility which turns your computer into an ambient random noise generator. You may find this useful for relaxing, helping you get to sleep, or drowning out your noisy neighbors. This software is released under the GNU General Public License.

whitenoise is a console-based program, but version 1.0 can be controlled in realtime by (possibly graphical) frontends. Shannon -jj Behrens has been working on a GNOME frontend. An experimental version is available here: gnome-whitenoise-0.1.1.tar.gz (screenshot). gnome-whitenoise was created using the Python bindings for GNOME 2.

Requirements

You will need a sound card with Open Sound System-compatible drivers, such as those found in GNU/Linux (my development platform). Some users have reported that this older version of whitenoise works fine on Windows via the Cygwin Linux emulation layer, but the current version apparently does not.

If you would like whitenoise to interface with aRts, then you will need the libartsc header and libraries.

whitenoise can generate plots of the filter frequency response. To take advantage of this optional feature, you need FFTW 3.x and gnuplot.

Download

The latest version is 1.0, available since 2004-02-11. You can get it here: whitenoise-1.0.1.tar.gz (ChangeLog). New in this release is plotting of filter frequency response, aRts integration, low-latency capability, and the ability to adjust options in realtime.

News

2004-02-13

It has come to my attention that the compile was failing on some systems, due to a missing "-lm" linker flag. The download link now points to whitenoise-1.0.1, which has a fix.

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Contact Info

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