SoX: Sound eXchange


SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) translates sound samples between different
file formats, and optionally performs various sound effects.

This release understands:

  o Raw files in various binary formats
  o Raw textual data
  o Microsoft .WAV files
    o PCM, u-law, a-law
    o MS ADPCM (Read only)
    o IMA ADPCM (Read only)
  o MAUD files
  o Sound Blaster .VOC files
  o IRCAM SoundFile files
  o SUN .au files
    o PCM, u-law, a-law
    o G7xx ADPCM files (read only)
  o mutant DEC .au files
  o Apple/SGI AIFF files
  o CD-R (music CD format)
  o Macintosh HCOM files
  o Sounder files
  o NeXT .snd files
  o Soundtool (DOS) files
  o Psion (palmtop) A-law files

The sound effects include:

  o Channel Averaging
  o Band-pass filter
  o Chorus effect
  o Cut out loop samples
  o Add an echo
  o Add a sequence of echos
  o Apply a flanger effect
  o Apply a high-pass filter
  o Apply a low-pass filter
  o Display a list of loops in a file
  o Add masking noise to a signal
  o Apply a phaser effect
  o Convert from stereo to mono
  o Change sampling rates using several different algorithms.
  o Apply a reverb effect
  o Reverse the sound samples (to search for Satanic messages ;-)
  o Convert from mono to stereo
  o Swap stereo channels
  o Display general stats on a sound sample
  o Add the world-famous Fender Vibro-Champ effect

Big news! Lots of new effects have been added.  This includes most the
popular "Guitar Effects" talked about in the same named FAQ available.

The 'resample' and 'polyphase' effect does high-grade signal rate
changes using real signal theory.  Yes, it's very slow.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1100    1676  65.6% -lh5- 72e2 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/demo/monkey.au
[generic]                 1104    1685  65.5% -lh5- 478e Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/demo/monkey.voc
[generic]                 4461    9850  45.3% -lh5- 28a4 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/Changelog
[generic]                 1639    3692  44.4% -lh5- 8d35 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/CHEAT
[generic]                 3999   10144  39.4% -lh5- 5fa5 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/CHEAT.eft
[generic]                 1737    3700  46.9% -lh5- be73 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/INSTALL
[generic]                 2553    5928  43.1% -lh5- 9a58 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/libst.3
[generic]                 2818    7002  40.2% -lh5- 70ba Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/libst.txt
[generic]                  928    1896  48.9% -lh5- 2d7b Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/play.1
[generic]                 3129    6322  49.5% -lh5- 92a3 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/README
[generic]                  165     206  80.1% -lh5- 25ce Sep 21  1999 sox-12.16/doc/README.amiga
[generic]                 9030   23511  38.4% -lh5- 3644 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/sox.1
[generic]                 9802   25464  38.5% -lh5- 503e Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/sox.txt
[generic]                 2000    4582  43.6% -lh5- 2477 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/TIPS
[generic]                 1609    3342  48.1% -lh5- af33 Jul 18  1999 sox-12.16/doc/TODO
[generic]                66374  134688  49.3% -lh5- 6348 Sep 21  1999 sox-12.16/sox-m68000
[generic]                63482  128224  49.5% -lh5- 76d9 Sep 21  1999 sox-12.16/sox-m68020
[generic]                21092   64164  32.9% -lh5- 46d4 Sep 21  1999 sox-12.16/sox.guide
[generic]                  866    1784  48.5% -lh5- 455d Sep 21  1999 sox-12.16-bin.readme
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 Total        19 files  197888  437860  45.2%            Sep 21  1999