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 Published by Ove Peter
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 Date Posted:   August 23rd, 2001
 Last Updated:   January 18th, 2007
 License: GPL
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About SoX:
SoX, the Sound eXchanger, is a command-line utility which converts between a huge number of audio formats. You can add effects and a lot of other useful processes to the audiodata. Think of it as a universal sound sample translator.

The current maintainer of the SoX project is Chris Bagwell.

This release understands:

o Raw files in various binary formats
o Raw textual data
o Amiga 8svx files
o Apple/SGI AIFF files
o SUN .au style files
o PCM, u-law, a-law
o G7xx ADPCM files (read only)
o mutant DEC .au files
o NeXT .snd files
o AVR files
o CD-R (music CD format)
o CVS and VMS files (continous variable slope)
o GSM files.
o Macintosh HCOM files
o Amiga MAUD files
o IRCAM SoundFile files
o NIST SPHERE files
o Turtle beach SampleVision files.
o Soundtool (DOS) files
o Yamaha TX-16W sampler files.
o Sound Blaster .VOC files
o Microsoft .WAV files
o PCM, u-law, a-law
o MS ADPCM, IMA ADPCM
o GSM
o Psion (palmtop) A-law WVE files
o Pseudo-nul file that reads and writes from/to nowhere

The sound effects include:

o Channel Averaging
o Band-pass filters
o Band-reject filter
o Chorus effect
o DCShift audio. Useful to get the best volume adjustments.
o Move sound stage of CD audio to in front of you (for headphone use)
o Add an echo
o Add a sequence of echos
o Fade in and out
o Apply a flanger effect
o Apply a high-pass filter
o Apply a low-pass filter
o Pan sound between channels
o Change the pitch of a sound file
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.A
'resample' and 'poyphase' effect use high-grade signal rate
changes using real signal theory!
o Apply a reverb effect
o Reverse the sound samples (to search for Satanic messages ;-)
o Trim off silence from the beginning of end of a file.
o Change the speed of samples being played (like speeding up the motor
on a tape recorder)
o Convert from mono to stereo
o Display general stats on a sound sample
o Stretch/shorten the duration of a sound file.
o Swap stereo channels
o Create sounds with a simple synthesizer.
o Trim audio data from beginning and end of file.
o Add the world-famous Fender Vibro-Champ effect
o Adjust volume of samples
Latest Version
   
Details about this version:
This is SoX Release 12.18.2
Please read included documentation for a list of all changes since the last release.

Notes for BeOS:
The binaries are compiled for BeOS R5 and up. There is also an x86 version which includes dynamically compiled in support for MP3 and Ogg-Vorbis en/decoding; you'll need LibPak for this.


 
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