Homemade Windows/DOS audio tools



While I tend to dislike computers and dislike people who "are interested in computers" even more, it hasn't stopped me from writing software to perform tasks that I can't do myself. Oddly (or, maybe not), I've never advanced past the stage where the programs run in the little black DOS window...2010 might be the year I advance forward, skipping over Windows entirely, and start to write elegant Mac software. we'll see.

* drumbutt--an introductory stab at automated percussion.
* skunch--another crude DOS audio app. this one scrunches .wav files into unintelligibility. Works well w/ samples from talk radio. skunch was inspired by the weird inarticulate vocals in Mat Bergman's Fortunate Fun Shapes.
* Bert!--this might be the coolest thing I ever wrote. an audio "travesty" program patterned after Henry Lowengard's BITE program which was written for the Amiga.

My current favorite c++ compiler (for Windows/DOS or whatever) has got to be Dev C++, made by the good folks at Bloodshed Software.

looking for c++ code for handling .wav files? I may at some point post up here the header file I wrote, but in the meantime, check out the code at this site: How to Read and Write WAV files - in C and VB for the simplest explanation of how that stuff works, that I've found.

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