[SqueakAudio] Generating "Soothing Sounds"

[David N. Smith (IBM)]

At 13:18 -0500 2/21/2000, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>I was wondering something this weekend, and thought that maybe this list might have the folk who can point me toward my answer -- though the question is not exactly the main focus of this list.
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>During a particularly child-noisy point this weekend, I got to thinking about those "pleasant sound" generating gadgets that I see in the stores these days: The ones that generate the sound of falling rain, or whatever.
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>- How do these work?  Are they just playing samples over and over (perhaps in different orders)?  Or are they actually synthesizing the sounds?
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>- If the latter, does anyone have any sample code that can do this kind of synthesis?  My preference is for Squeak code, please, but understandable pseudo-code, MATLAB/MATHEMATICA, or even C code would be interesting.
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>Thanks!
> Mark

Mark:

I've only heard one but it seemed not only to play the same sounds over and over but the rain also had a drip that came just often enough that one would have almost forgotten it. I had to finally get up and turn the *#@%$* thing off.

Dave
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