SMPLAY(1)

📦 version 0.6.1, in arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 SMPLAY — like, the manual page but make it make sense 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the smplay manual page (that's the smplay Manual Page for the uninitiated ✨). this is the whole thing, every single flag, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

smplay — a program to play a SpectMorph model. that's literally it. it plays your models. slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

smplay [OPTIONS] SM-File|SMSet-File

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so smplay is a command line based player for SpectMorph models, which, btw, you can create using smenc (go check that one out, iykyk). playing can use the audio card so you actually hear the model with your ears, or instead it can create a wav file if you use the --export option. your choice, main character energy either way ✨

and since the SpectMorph model is made of sine waves and noise, there are options to disable one of these components. so you can vibe with just the sines or just the noise if you want. iconic.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

smplay follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). periodt.

  • -h, --help — shows a brief help message. short, sweet, helpful. we love.
  • -v, --version — prints out smplay version. so you know what you're working with 💁‍♀️
  • --rate <sampling rate> — set replay rate manually; also useful for specifying the desired rate of the wav file, if --export is used. you're in control, bestie.
  • --no-noise — disable noise decoder, so that only the sine wave part of the signal is decoded. bye noise 👋
  • --no-sines — disable sine decoder, so that only the noise part of the signal is decoded. bye sines 👋
  • --det-random — use deterministic random generator; this will produce identical noise components if the same file is decoded twice, making the audio output exactly the same. consistency is key, fr fr.
  • --export <wav filename> — instead of playing the file, write the output to a wav file. for the archivists and the editors 🫶
  • -m, --midi-note <note> — select midi note to play, in case an SMSet-File was specified as input file. pick your note, live your truth 🎵

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

smenc.1 <https://testbit.eu/wiki/Smenc.1> — go read it, bestie. it's giving "the origin story."

okay that's the whole page, no details skipped, no cap. this was Revision 581, dated 2011-07-19 — yeah it's an oldie but a goodie, and the manual name is smplay Manual Page in case you forgot already 😭💜. mwah, go play some models 💅✨

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