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librosa.tone

librosa.tone(frequency, sr=22050, length=None, duration=None, phi=None)[source]

Construct a pure tone (cosine) signal at a given frequency.

Parameters:

frequencyfloat > 0: frequency
srnumber > 0: desired sampling rate of the output signal
lengthint > 0: desired number of samples in the output signal. When both duration and length are defined, length takes priority.
durationfloat > 0: desired duration in seconds. When both duration and length are defined, length takes priority.
phifloat or None: phase offset, in radians. If unspecified, defaults to -np.pi * 0.5.

Returns:

tone_signalnp.ndarray [shape=(length,), dtype=float64]: Synthesized pure sine tone signal

Raises:

ParameterError

If frequency is not provided.
If neither length nor duration are provided.

Examples

Generate a pure sine tone A4

>>> tone = librosa.tone(440, duration=1)

Or generate the same signal using length

>>> tone = librosa.tone(440, sr=22050, length=22050)

Display spectrogram

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> fig, ax = plt.subplots()
>>> S = librosa.feature.melspectrogram(y=tone)
>>> librosa.display.specshow(librosa.power_to_db(S, ref=np.max),
...                          x_axis='time', y_axis='mel', ax=ax)