Re: Playing a sine wave

[Hrafnkell Eiriksson <hkelle@rhi.hi.is>]

On 12. May 1999, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> A much easier way is using /dev/dsp. You only need to construct few cycles
> of sine wave at given frequency to a buffer. Then just keep writing this
> buffer to /dev/dsp as many times as you need. In fact it may even be
> possible that somebody has already written this kind of app (look at
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound).

What about creating a patch with the sine wave and use the
wavetable stuff to play it. Thay way the wavetable could
change the playback frequency etc.
(Please note that I hardly know what a wavetable is nor what
it can do :) 

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