AvSound is freeware, and should remain so.

AvSound takes a wavesample in WAV format, and converts it to another wavesample that represents something that could best be described as 'The average sound' of the original wavesample.

AvSound does not use Spectrum Analysis, but a brute force method. The procedure is this :

The destination wavesample ( usually longer than the source wavesample ) is treated as an looped tape. The source wavesample is mixed in at random starting points. After say 1000 mixes the individual mixes cannot be distinguished and the process is finished.

• The destination wavesample has a perfect loop.
• The destination wavesample can be of any size, although long loops work best, so you won't recognize a repetition of the wavesample.
• Because of the randomness of the mixing, the destination wavesample sounds monotonous yet alive.

To get things really interesting I use the following technique:

I take one source wavesample and generate two destination wavesamples. One of 100000 samples and one of lets say 100093 samples. I pan the first wavesample a little to the left, and pan the second a little to the right. Also I detune the wavesamples a little. Because the wavesamples are not exactly the same, the detuning doesn't create a synthetic sounding chorus. Secondly, because the two wavesamples run with two different loops, it takes ages for the whole sound to repeat, so what I get is a ever changing sound.

To download avsound follow this link : avsound.zip ~34K