Sound Overview

Introduction:

These GCBASIC methods generate tones of a given frequency and duration.

Method Controls

Tone

Generate a specified tone for a specified duration in terms of a frequency of a specified Mhz and units of 10ms

ShortTone

Generate a specified tone for a specified duration in terms of a frequency of a 10Mhz and units of 1ms

Play

Play a tune string. The format of the string is the QBASIC play command.

PlayRTTTL

Play a tune string. The format of the string is the Nokia cell phone RTTTL format.

Relevant Constants:

These constants are used to control settings for the tone generation routines. To set them, place a line in the main program file that uses #define to assign a value to the particular constant.

Constant Name Controls Default Value

SoundOut

The output pin to produce sound on

N/A - Must be defined

Note: If an exact frequency is required, or a smaller program is needed, these routines should not be used. Instead, you should use code like this: 

    Repeat count
    PulseOut SoundOut, period us
    Wait period us
    End Repeat

Set count and period to the appropriate values as follows:

period to 1000000 / desired frequency / 2
count to desired duration / period.

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