EasyAudio

EasyAudio is a simplified wrapper for the portaudio library, which allows to you play or record audio directly from your sound card.

$ gem install easy_audio

Note: if you are on a Linux or Windows machine you will need to manually install portaudio to a location in your library paths. The gem will attempt to install this automatically on OS X through Homebrew.

Here's how you can easily play a sine wave at 440hz:

require 'easy_audio'

EasyAudio.easy_open(&EasyAudio::Waveforms::SINE)
sleep 2 # play for 2 seconds

Play a custom waveform (a cosine wave):

require 'easy_audio'

EasyAudio.easy_open { Math.cos(Math::PI * 2 * step) }
sleep 1

Here's a triangle wave that increases its frequency over 3 seconds:

require 'easy_audio'

stream = EasyAudio.easy_open(freq: 220, &EasyAudio::Waveforms::TRIANGLE)
Thread.new { loop { stream.frequency += 50; sleep 0.2 } }
sleep 3

Record audio from your microphone and play it back a second later:

require 'easy_audio'

EasyAudio.easy_open(in: true, out: true, latency: 1.0) { current_sample }
sleep 10 # for 10 seconds

See the API documentation on rubydoc.info.

EasyAudio is copyright © 2014 by Loren Segal and licensed under the BSD license. See the LICENSE file for more information.