Hi all,
This is a strange and rather specific question, so please bear with me.
I study insect song as a hobby, and I was recently made aware of a graph that measures the relationship of frequency (kHz) and pulses per second (Hz) of the songs of tree crickets at different temperatures. The graph does not include sound recordings, but I think I can remedy this by creating simulations with sine-wave tones. These simulations would give me, as a blind person who thinks in terms of subjective pitch ratios, a better idea of how the graphed measurements translate to what I hear in nature.
So I need to be able to do the following:
1) Create a short sine-wave tone at a given kHz frequency (e.g., 2.2, 3.6, etc.);
2) control the exact number of times that tone will repeat per second (Hz), e.g., 47, 53, 65, etc.;
3) Have each simulation last ~10 seconds.
Can I do this accessibly with GarageBand? If not, can anyone recommend an alternative app?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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Examples
If examples would help, this, this and this are similar to what I want to simulate. To be clear, though, I'm not simulating these recordings; my data on frequency and pulse rate is coming from an Excel spreadsheet.
Data Sonification
I did some searching and came across the concept of Sonification.
I am interested in the subject because I Want to use programs that measure room acoustics. Would like to turn The graphs into something I can understand and actually use. Here's a link to one page that explains a lot about it.
How to Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound
https://hogonext.com/how-to-data-sonification-turning-data-into-sound/?amp=1
I didn't find any specific apps so far. There seems to be growing interest in this general subject to help present complex information to researchers and scientists, As well as the visually impaired.
I think you're going to need to program.
To be fair, I haven't used Garage Band enough to say that it absolutely can't. But it's designed for music, so I doubt it. But I'll bet if you converted your Excel data to CSV, you could hammer something together in Python fairly easily.
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This is the nerdiest thing I've ever read here and I love you so much dude for that alone :)
To be fair though I am also interested in sonification for different reasons, it's a huge opportunity to break one of the remaining barrier visually impaired people have in education, have somehow accessible alternative to visual graph in math and related field.