Sound Files
The following file is the Hail Purdue song generated from MATLAB. To help distinguish the notes, the sin wave was made to fade linearly with each note (also gives it a unique sound): Media:Jkubasci_hail_purdue_ECE301Fall2008mboutin.wav
The following file is the Hail Purdue song played twice as fast: Media:Jkubasci_hail_purdue_2xfast_ECE301Fall2008mboutin.wav
Here is Hail Purdue played with y(t)=x(2t). This has the effect of doubling the note frequency (raising the note by one octave): Media:Jkubasci_hail_purdue_2xfreq.wav_ECE301Fall2008mboutin
MATLAB Code
mlab_music.m
% HAIL PURUDE Chorus in MATLAB % Written by: Jeffrey Kubascik clear; % Sampling period delta = 1/10000; % Duration of the notes (beats) Wn = 4; Hn = 2; Qn = 1; dQn = 1.5 * Qn; En = 1/2; Sn = 1/4; % Frequency of the notes (Hz) C4 = 264; % Base to calculate all other frequencies B5 = C4 * 15/8 * 2; A5 = C4 * 5/3 * 2; G5 = C4 * 3/2 * 2; F5 = C4 * 4/3 * 2; E5 = C4 * 5/4 * 2; D5 = C4 * 9/8 * 2; C5 = C4 * 2; B4 = C4 * 15/8; A4 = C4 * 5/3; G4 = C4 * 3/2; F4 = C4 * 4/3; E4 = C4 * 5/4; D4 = C4 * 9/8; C4 = C4; R = 0; % A rest (frequency=0 => sin(0)=0 => no sound, since it is constant) % Song data hail_purdue = [Hn,E4, Qn,F4, Qn,G4, dQn,A4, En,B4, Qn,C5, Qn,C5, ... Qn,D5, En,D5, En,D5, Qn,A4, En,B4, En,B4, Hn,C5, Qn,C5, Qn,R, ... Hn,C5, Qn,C5, Qn,B4, dQn,A4, En,B4, Qn,C5, Qn,C5, Qn,B4, En,F4, En,G4, ... Qn,A4, En,G4, En,E4, Hn,B4, Qn,B4, Qn,R, dQn,E4, En,E4, ... Qn,F4, Qn,G4, dQn,A4, En,B4, Qn,C5, En,C5, En,C5, Qn,D5, Qn,D5, Qn,A4, Qn,B4, ... Hn,C5, Qn,C5, Qn,R, dQn,F4, En,G4, Qn,A4, Qn,F4, Qn,E4, Qn,A4, ... Qn,C5, Qn,E4, dQn,F4, En,C5, dQn,B4, En,A4, Hn,A4, Qn,A4, Qn,R]; % Generate the music waveform y = generate_waveform(hail_purdue, 160, delta, 1); % Create a wav file from the music waveform wavwrite(y, 1/delta, 'hail_purdue.wav'); % Place the tune 2x faster (2x tempo) y = generate_waveform(hail_purdue, 2*160, delta, 1); % Create a wav file from the music waveform wavwrite(y, 1/delta, 'hail_purdue_2xfast.wav'); % Scale the frequency by 2 y = generate_waveform(hail_purdue, 1*160, delta, 2); % Create a wav file from the music waveform wavwrite(y, 1/delta, 'hail_purdue_2xfreq.wav');
generate_waveform.m
function waveform = generate_waveform(song, tempo, delta, freq_scale) % Generate the music waveform y = []; length = size(song) / 2; % Number of notes in the array for index = 1:length(2); duration = 60 / tempo * song(index*2 - 1); % Duration of the note frequency = song(index*2); % Frequency of the note % Create a time vector t = 0:delta:duration; % Create the sound wave form % Here, I have modified the sin wave to decay linearly. This helps % distinguish each note, and also prevents any "jumps" in the waveform % i.e. the end of note ends with a non-zero value, and the next note % starts at zero. This creats a "tick" noise. x = sin(2*pi*frequency*t*freq_scale) .* (1 - t/duration); % Append the note to our music waveform y = [y x]; end waveform = y;