Tonbandfetzen is a collection of command-line tools that allow you to compose music based on audio fragments generated from plain text input. It contains:

• tz mel – generate sound fragments from plain text
• tz guitar – read guitar tablature
• tz stick – concatenate audio data
• tz stack – superimpose audio data
• tz stretch – rescale audio data
• tz repeat – loop audio data
• tz trim – strip leading and trailing silence
• tz mono – unzip audio channels
• tz harmonics – show spectra of wave samples
• tz inspect – show information on audio file
• tz riff2aiff – convert .wav(e) into .aif(f) files
• tz aiff2riff – convert .aif(f) into .wav(e) files
• tz tag – add ID3v2 metadata to .wav(e) files
• tz play – generate and play sound fragments

github.com/janberges/Tonbandfetzen