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Re: White Noise Software For Linux

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William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>On 2014-09-20, Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>On 20/09/14 07:39, William Unruh wrote:
>>>> On 2014-09-19, beforewisdom@gmail.com <beforewisdom@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm running Linux Mint 17.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone recommend any white noise software that is controlled by a GUI?
>>>>
>>>> Wha is White noise sofware tha is controlled by a gui? White noise has
>>>> only one controllable parameter and that is ampliude, and tha is
>>>> conrollable by the volume control.
>>>> I think you need o be a bit less elliptical.
>>>Thnks for sayung that. saved me the trouble
>>
>> White noise is not restricted to just one controllable parameter.
>>
>> Distribution is controllable, hence it might be Gaussian or Poisson, or
>> something else.
>
>Then it is not white noise. It may be noise, but white noise has a very
>particular definition

Look it up though, and you'll find "Gaussian White Noise"... and other
distributions too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Statistical_properties

>> It is also always bandwidth limited, which is controllable too.
>
>Again, not white noise.

It is impossible to have a signal that is not bandwidth limited.
Real life just doesn't work that way.

>White noise is noise such that at each instant
>of time, the noise is uncorrelated with that at the next instant of
>time. And at that instant of time it is gaussian.

Gaussian does not imply white noise nor does white noise imply Gaussian.

>Anyway the OP has still not told us what he wants.

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson                         http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                      floyd@apaflo.com

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White Noise Software For Linux beforewisdom@gmail.com - 2014-09-19 16:41 -0700
  Re: White Noise Software For Linux William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-09-20 06:39 +0000
    Re: White Noise Software For Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-20 09:32 +0100
      Re: White Noise Software For Linux floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-09-20 02:44 -0800
        Re: White Noise Software For Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-20 11:53 +0100
          Re: White Noise Software For Linux floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-09-20 04:25 -0800
            Re: White Noise Software For Linux Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-20 11:52 -0400
        Re: White Noise Software For Linux William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-09-22 18:31 +0000
          Re: White Noise Software For Linux floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-09-22 18:59 -0800
            Re: White Noise Software For Linux Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-22 23:30 -0400
              Re: White Noise Software For Linux floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-09-23 02:51 -0800
                Re: White Noise Software For Linux William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-09-23 23:49 +0000
  Re: White Noise Software For Linux asdf <asdf@nospam.com> - 2014-09-21 09:55 +0000
    Re: White Noise Software For Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-21 12:41 +0000
      Re: White Noise Software For Linux JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-02 23:56 +0000
        Re: White Noise Software For Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-03 01:41 +0000
          Re: White Noise Software For Linux JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 02:13 +0000
            Re: White Noise Software For Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-03 02:55 +0000
              Re: White Noise Software For Linux JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 05:38 +0000
                Re: White Noise Software For Linux JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:50 +0000
                Re: White Noise Software For Linux Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2014-10-07 13:04 +0000
        Re: White Noise Software For Linux William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-03 14:38 +0000
          Re: White Noise Software For Linux JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-08 03:18 +0000

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