Analysis utilities
These utilities perform various types of spectral and time-domain analysis on audio files:- atsa - ATS (Analysis-Transformation-Synthesis) analysis for sinusoidal modeling
- pvanal - Phase vocoder analysis for time-frequency domain processing
- lpanal - Linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis for speech and sound modeling
- hetro - Heterodyne filter analysis for fixed-frequency harmonic decomposition
- cvanal - Convolution analysis for impulse response processing
File information and conversion
Utilities for examining and converting audio files:- sndinfo - Display detailed information about sound files
- srconv - High-quality sample rate conversion
Audio processing
Utilities for audio manipulation and mixing:- mixer - Mix multiple sound files with arbitrary start times and gain curves
- scale - Scale audio file amplitude by constant or time-varying factors
Common features
Most Csound utilities share these common characteristics:- Command-line interface - All utilities are invoked from the terminal
- Standard options - Many utilities support similar flags for file I/O and format specification
- File format support - Support for various audio formats including WAV, AIFF, and raw formats
- Channel selection - Ability to process specific channels from multi-channel files
- Time windowing - Options to analyze specific time segments of audio files