Playing sound without displaying the graphic?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg12814] Playing sound without displaying the graphic?
- From: Jeffrey K Mackie-Mason <jmm at umich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:05:44 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm trying to use Mathematica to set up a demo of 12 Shepard tones. (See Gray and Glynn's _Exploring Mathematics with Mathematica_ for a discussion.) I'm creating a button palette with the 12 tones arrayed in a rough ring (it's ugly, but it works). The problem is, each time I play a tone, a large block of output is created in the Notebook front end (if it matters, I'm using Mathematica on a Windows NT 4.0 machine). When I play the whole sequence of 12 tones, it means 12 blocks of wasted space, each about 2 inches high in my configuration. All I want is to hear the tones, and not to have to delete lots of useless output cells. I can make the waveform graph stop displaying by setting the Prolog to something, but the output cell is still generated. I can't figure out how to muck around with $SoundDisplayFunction or any of the related internals. Seems like I must be missing something obvious. Is there some way I can play tones without eating up Notebook real estate for unneeded output cells? --- Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/ Dept. of Economics and School internet: jmm at umich.edu of Information Univ. of Michigan phone: 313-647-4856 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 fax: 313-764-2475