Lowering the tone
October 18, 2008 4:51 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for a software DTMF generator (no, not that kind of DTMF) with certain capabilities...
Specifically, it needs to have the ability to handle a very long stream of data for conversion to tones (over 1,000,000 characters/digits). Everything I've tried/found so far craps out at more than a page or so of numbers.
I want to use this for a sound/art project, but I'm a bit of a novice in this particular department (and I don't code) so please go easy on the tech speak. Forgive me if I'm asking for either the obvious or the impossible, but so far my google-fu has failed me. Thanks!
Specifically, it needs to have the ability to handle a very long stream of data for conversion to tones (over 1,000,000 characters/digits). Everything I've tried/found so far craps out at more than a page or so of numbers.
I want to use this for a sound/art project, but I'm a bit of a novice in this particular department (and I don't code) so please go easy on the tech speak. Forgive me if I'm asking for either the obvious or the impossible, but so far my google-fu has failed me. Thanks!
Response by poster: Thanks for that bigmusic, that's certainly a possibilty that I'll look into, ideally though it would be great if I could find something that's either freeware or cheap would be ideal, as I think it's going to need to be installed remotely (i.e. in another country on a strange computer without me being there). And there's (almost) zero budget... Sorry, I should have mentioned that in the OP.
posted by Chairboy at 5:09 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by Chairboy at 5:09 PM on October 18, 2008
Well, the runtime is free. So if you can make the script and have the runtime open the patch - they can't modify the programming - but they can run the patch no problem.
posted by bigmusic at 5:28 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by bigmusic at 5:28 PM on October 18, 2008
Best answer: Have a look at this patch - Phone Tones - you can customize it to how you want it to work - I just tested it out on the latest version of Max and it works well.
posted by bigmusic at 5:42 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by bigmusic at 5:42 PM on October 18, 2008
Response by poster: thanks, I'll see what i can do with that :)
posted by Chairboy at 5:58 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by Chairboy at 5:58 PM on October 18, 2008
Response by poster: Not so much don't as can't, really - I would like to start to learn though...
posted by Chairboy at 7:00 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by Chairboy at 7:00 PM on October 18, 2008
Best answer: Max/MSP is based upon Miller Puckette's Pure Data, which is freeware. It has virtually the same graphical coding environment as Max/MSP. You might give that a try if you need a free alternative.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:24 PM on October 18, 2008
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:24 PM on October 18, 2008
Response by poster: Thanks, I had heard of that too, but it's good to know that might offer a way into this problem as well.
posted by Chairboy at 4:23 AM on October 19, 2008
posted by Chairboy at 4:23 AM on October 19, 2008
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posted by bigmusic at 5:00 PM on October 18, 2008