Output a sound of a certain frequency

Question

This is a rather simple challenge, but I couldn't find any question that was really similar to it. The challenge is to take a frequency in using STDIN or an equivalent, and then output a tone that matches that frequency, in Hz, for 5 seconds. For example

Input: 400
Output: (a tone of 400 Hz with a duration of 5 seconds)

Rules

• Input must be taken in through STDIN, or your language's equivalent
• The answer must be a full program
• Builtins may be used
• The frequency will be anywhere from 50 - 5000 Hz
• The output must be played for 5 seconds
• The output must be in the form of a sine wave

Test cases

Input: 440

Output:

Input: 200

Output:

Input: 4000

Output:

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• This is not about finding the language with the shortest solution for this (there are some where the empty program does the trick) - this is about finding the shortest solution in every language. Therefore, no answer will be marked as accepted.

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Answer 1

QBasic, 18 bytes (disqualified)

Like @pabouk mentioned, this uses the PC speaker, so it plays a square wave, not a sine wave like the problem asks. (This requirement was added to the problem after this answer was posted, hence the votes.) I'll leave it here for posterity anyway.

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INPUT F
SOUND F,91

Play a sound at the inputted frequency for 91 ticks, which is equal to 5 seconds.

Answer 2

Python2, 40 bytes

from winsound import*
Beep(input(),5000)

Only works on Windows.

Answer 3

Mathematica, 42 bytes

Well if we can use built-ins...

Input[]
EmitSound@Play[Sin[2t%Pi],{t,0,5}]

Thanks to the requirement for a full program, this was the first time I got to use my recently discovered golfing tip of using % (result of last evaluation) to save two bytes.

Mathematica also has a built-in Sound which takes a pitch and a duration as arguments, but unfortunately the pitch has to be given as a musical note. Specifying your own sound wave via Play seems to be the only way to work with a frequency.

Answer 4

MATLAB, 36 bytes

sound(sin(pi*input('')*(0:8^-4:10)))

Thanks to flawr for saving two bytes.

Answer 5

C#, 80 bytes

class P{static void Main(string[]a){System.Console.Beep(int.Parse(a[0]),5000);}}

Answer 6

PowerShell, 32 bytes

[console]::beep((read-host),5kb)

Answer 7

FakeASM, 12 bytes

RDA
BEEP 5e3

Works with the Windows reference implementation (download). It calls Windows' Beep function, which is a sine wave on modern platforms.

Answer 8

Bash + X11, 27 20 bytes

xset b 9 $1 5;echo 

This contains an unprintable, so here's a hexdump:

0000000: 7873 6574 2062 2039 2024 3120 353b 6563  xset b 9 $1 5;ec
0000010: 686f 2007                                ho .

This takes the frequency as a command-line argument and plays the appropriate beep at a volume of 9% (since no volume was specified).

(Note: I was unable to test this due to some issues with my computer, but I'm 99% sure it works.)

Answer 9

Bash + Linux utils, 95

bc -l<<<"obase=16;for(;t<5;t+=1/8000){a=s($1*t*6.3);scale=0;a*30/1+99;scale=9}"|xxd -p -r|aplay

This is a true sine wave. No beeps. Input frequency entered via the command-line:

./hz.sh 440

Answer 10

Processing, 148 114 106 bytes

import processing.sound.*;
Engine.start().sinePlay(int(loadStrings("s")[0]),1,0,0,0);delay(5000);exit();

(For some reason Processing requires both using the import statement and the new line, otherwise it does not recognize the library.)

I still haven't figured out how to pass arguments into Processing, though I know it's possible, so this code requires having a file called "s" in the sketch folder which has the frequency value. If I can figure out how to pass in arguments I could replace file loading with args[0].

Answer 11

JavaScript, 114 bytes

p=prompt();c=new AudioContext;with(c.createOscillator()){frequency.value=p;connect(c.destination);start();stop(5)}

Requires a somewhat cutting-edge browser, enter the frequency in the prompt. JSFiddle

Answer 12

VB.net, 90 bytes, 74 bytes

Module m
Sub Main(a() as String)
Console.Beep(a(0),5000)
End Sub
End Module

Thanks to Sehnsucht

Module m
Sub Main()
Console.Beep(My.Application.CommandLineArgs.First,5000)
End Sub
End Module

This is my first post so if I did any thing wrong please let me know

Answer 13

Turbo/Borland/Free/GNU Pascal, 95 bytes

Due to issues with the delay function on modern computers (well, anything faster than 200Mhz) trying to run Turbo / Borland pascal, this might not wait 5 seconds, even with a patched CRT library

Program a;Uses crt;Var i,k:Integer;BEGIN Val(ParamStr(1),i,k);Sound(i);Delay(5000);NoSound;END.

The String to Integer conversion can be done shorter (77 bytes) on FreePascal, and modern derivates, as they have the StrToInt function:

Program a;Uses crt;BEGIN Sound(StrToInt(ParamStr(1)));Delay(5000);NoSound;END.

Answer 14

Perl, 27 bytes

Basically a Perl version of the Python answer (also only works on Windows), if we're allowing modules.

use Audio::Beep;beep<>,5000

Answer 15

Vitsy + X11, 20 bytes

"5 "WX" 9 b tesx",7O

A translation of my bash answer. Does not work in the online interpreter (obviously).

Takes input as any non-numeric character followed by the frequency (so for an input of 440 Hz you could do "a440").

Explanation

"5 "WX" 9 b tesx",7O
"5 "                   Push " 5"
    WX                 Reads input and removes the first character (which is used to force string context)
      " 9 b tesx"      Push "xset b 9 "
                 ,     Pop everything and execute as a shell command.
                  7O   Output bell char.

Answer 16

C with WinAPI, 82 bytes

#include<windows.h>
#include<stdio.h>
main(){int x;scanf("%i",&x);Beep(x,5000);}

Uses the WinAPI Beep() function.

Answer 17

Hassium, 38 Bytes

func main()Console.beep(input(), 5000)

Answer 18

Shadertoy GLSL Sound Shader, 86

#define F 440.0
vec2 mainSound(float t){return vec2(sin(6.3*F*t)*(t<5.0?1.0:0.0));}

"Input" is given via #define. Outputs a sinewave with approximate frequency of FHz. Rounded 2*Pi to 6.3, instead of "default" 6.2831, but sounds pretty much the same.

Sadly there isn't much to golf here.

Answer 19

Jolf, 4 bytes, noncompeting

This language addition came after the challenge.

Αc5j
Αc     create a beep
  5     five seconds long
   j    with the input as a frequency

The default wave is a sine wave.

Answer 20

SmileBASIC, 84 bytes

INPUT F
N=LOG(F/440,POW(2,1/12))+57BGMPLAY FORMAT$("@D%D@255T12N%D",(N-(N<<0))*63,N)

Converts from Hz to half steps, and plays the a certain note with the a detune value to produce the frequency.