[plt-scheme] (clarification) Looking for Psychology lab applications

> To clarify: I am wondering about functions that perhaps would let me
> provide frequency, volume, and duration arguments and would play a
> simple tone (at the given frequency, etc).
>
> Just now I was successful at installing the sound teachpack identified
> for v.205 but it worked on 360 (under linux).  But as far as I can
> tell, it is designed to play pre-recorded sound files.  (At any rate,
> sound "can" work on linux.)
>
> The larger context for my query would be a lab setting where a human
> subject is waiting for a stimulus (e.g. listening for a certain tone)
> and then presses a certain key upon detection of a particular stimulus.
>   The software controls timing of stimuli and records reaction time,
> etc.

One way of doing this is to use the Open Sound Control protocol (OSC)
network messages to trigger a synthesisier. One such way of doing this is
using rsc http://slavepianos.org/rd/f/306948/ as a way of using PLT with
supercollider.

cheers,

dave