.TH SNDFILE-GENERATE-CHIRP 1 "December 14, 2009"
.SH NAME
sndfile-generate-chirp \- generate a sound file containing a chirp
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sndfile-generate-chirp
.RI "[options] <sample rate> <length in seconds> <sound file>"

.SH DESCRIPTION
sndfile-generate-chirp generates a sound file containing a sine wave that
sweeps from a low starting frequency to a higher ending frequency (ie a chirp).
The file is written using libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/).
.LP
The parameters allows the start and end sine wave frequencies to be set as well
as specifying the shape of the sweep (ie linear, quadratic or logarithmic).
Run "sndfile\-generate-chirp \-\-help" for more information.
.LP
The format of the output file is determined by the filename extension
of the output file.

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>.