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		emillon on Oct 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Manipulate audio with a simple Python library I've been similarly frustrated with DAWs too. In the last few weeks I had a go at writing a DSL that shells out to SoX for audio manipulation. This way I don't have to manipulate audio samples myself. It's way less polished than pydub but here it is if anyone is interested: https://github.com/emillon/tmc Example: https://github.com/emillon/tmc/blob/master/Music/TMC/Example... At first it was a pretext to play with free monads, a way of building EDSLs. But right now I'm not sure it's not just a complication. Though, having an intermediate representation before executing the SoX commands makes it possible to write an optimizer (for example, collapsing two audio shifts).

jiaaro on Oct 12, 2014 | [–]

I was thinking of using sox as well - turns out a lot a lot of the audioop module in the Stdlib comes directly from sox :)

relevant comment in the audioop source: https://github.com/python-git/python/blob/master/Modules/aud...

conradfr on Oct 13, 2014 | [–]

I know it's not available on Linux and not free but have you tried Reaper ? It has lots of scripting / coding capabilities.

emillon on Oct 13, 2014 | [–]

Interesting, I didn't know about these capabilities, thanks!

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