Jede Störung, die durch ein elastisches Medium wie Luft, Boden oder Wasser durch das menschliche Ohr zu hören ist. Wenn ein Körper vibriert oder sich hin - und herbewegt (siehe Vibrationsschwingung, in der Physik, üblicherweise eine oszillierende Bewegungsbewegung zuerst in eine Richtung und dann wieder in die entgegengesetzte Richtung, sie wird zum Beispiel durch ein schwingendes Pendel ausgestellt Zinke einer Stimmgabel, die geschlagen worden ist, oder durch die Streichung eines Musicals. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen.), Die Oszillation verursacht eine periodische Störung der umgebenden Luft oder eines anderen Mediums, das nach außen geradlinig in Form von ausstrahlt Eine Druckwellenwelle, in der Physik, die Übertragung von Energie durch die reguläre Vibration oder oszillierende Bewegung entweder eines Materialmediums oder durch die Größenänderung der Feldvektoren eines elektromagnetischen Feldes (siehe elektromagnetische Strahlung). . Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Die Wirkung, die diese Wellen auf das Ohr erzeugen, wird als Klang wahrgenommen. Aus der Perspektive der Physik wird der Klang als die Wellen der Vibrationsbewegung betrachtet, ob sie vom menschlichen Ohr gehört werden oder nicht. Erzeugung von Schallwellen Schallwellen werden von jedem vibrierenden Körper erzeugt. Zum Beispiel, wenn eine Geigen-Saite vibriert, wenn sie gebeugt oder gezupft wird, drückt ihre Bewegung in einer Richtung die Moleküle der Luft vor sie und verdrängt sie zusammen in ihrem Weg. Wenn es wieder an seiner ursprünglichen Position vorbei und auf die andere Seite zurückkehrt, hinterlässt es einen fast leeren Raum, d. h. einen Raum mit relativ wenigen Molekülen darin. Mittlerweile haben die Moleküle, die zuerst zusammengedrängt wurden, einige ihrer Bewegungsenergie auf andere noch weiter entfernte Moleküle übertragen und kehren zurück, um den ursprünglich besetzten Raum wieder zu füllen und nun von der zurückziehenden Geigenschnur leer gelassen zu werden. Mit anderen Worten, die Vibrationsbewegung, die durch den Violinstring aufgebaut wird, bewirkt abwechselnd in einem gegebenen Raum eine Verdrängung der Moleküle der Luft (eine Kondensation) und eine Ausdünnung der Moleküle (eine Verdünnung). Zusammengenommen bilden eine Kondensation und eine Verdünnung eine Schallwelle, eine solche Welle heißt Längsrichtung oder Kompression, weil die Vibrationsbewegung vorwärts und rückwärts in der Richtung ist, in der die Welle folgt. Weil eine solche Welle durch die Störung der Teilchen eines materiellen Mediums reist, können Schallwellen nicht durch ein Vakuum laufen. Charakteristiken von Schallwellen Sounds sind für das menschliche Ohr allgemein hörbar, wenn ihre Frequenz (Anzahl der Schwingungen pro Sekunde) zwischen 20 und 20.000 Vibrationen pro Sekunde liegt, aber die Reichweite variiert erheblich mit dem Individuum. Schallwellen mit Frequenzen kleiner als die von hörbaren Wellen werden als Subsonic bezeichnet, die mit Frequenzen oberhalb des hörbaren Bereichs Ultraschall genannt werden (siehe Ultraschall Ultraschall, Studie und Anwendung der Energie von Schallwellen, die bei Frequenzen größer als 20.000 Zyklen pro Sekunde, dh jenseits der Reichweite des menschlichen Gehörs Die Anwendung der Schallenergie im hörbaren Bereich ist fast ausschließlich auf die Kommunikation begrenzt, da. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen.). Eine Schallwelle wird gewöhnlich grafisch durch eine wellenförmige, horizontale Linie dargestellt, wobei der obere Teil der Welle (der Kamm) eine Kondensation anzeigt und der untere Teil (der Trog) eine Verdünnung anzeigt. Dieser Graph ist jedoch nur eine Darstellung und ist kein wirkliches Bild einer Welle. Die Länge einer Schallwelle oder der Wellenlänge wird als der Abstand von einem Punkt der größten Kondensation zum nächsten darauf oder von jedem Punkt auf einer Welle zu dem entsprechenden Punkt auf dem nächsten in einem Wellengang gemessen. Die Wellenlänge hängt von der Schallgeschwindigkeit in einem gegebenen Medium bei einer gegebenen Temperatur und von der Häufigkeit der Vibration ab. Die Wellenlänge eines Schalls kann bestimmt werden, indem der numerische Wert für die Schallgeschwindigkeit in dem gegebenen Medium bei der gegebenen Temperatur durch die Häufigkeit der Vibration dividiert wird. Zum Beispiel, wenn die Schallgeschwindigkeit in der Luft 1,130 ft pro Sekunde beträgt und die Häufigkeit der Schwingung 256 beträgt, beträgt die Wellenlänge etwa 4,4 ft. Die Schallgeschwindigkeit ist jedoch nicht konstant, denn sie variiert in verschiedenen Medien und in Das gleiche Medium bei verschiedenen Temperaturen. Zum Beispiel in der Luft bei 0degC. Es ist ungefähr 1.089 ft pro Sekunde, aber bei 20degC. Es wird auf etwa 1,130 ft pro Sekunde erhöht, oder eine Zunahme von etwa 2 ft pro Sekunde für jeden Celsius-Anstieg der Temperatur. Schall bewegt sich langsamer in Gasen als in Flüssigkeiten und langsamer in Flüssigkeiten als bei Feststoffen. Da die Fähigkeit, Schall zu leiten, von der Dichte des Mediums abhängt, sind Feststoffe bessere Leiter als Flüssigkeiten, Flüssigkeiten sind bessere Leiter als Gase. Schallwellen können reflektiert, gebrochen (oder gebogen) werden und als Lichtwellen absorbiert werden. Die Reflexion von Schallwellen kann zu einem Echo-Echo führen, die Reflexion einer Schallwelle zurück in ihre Quelle in ausreichender Stärke und mit einer ausreichenden Zeitverzögerung separat zu unterscheiden. Wenn eine Schallwelle innerhalb von 1-10 Sek. Zurückkehrt, ist das menschliche Ohr unfähig, es von der ursprünglichen zu unterscheiden. . Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Mdashan wichtiger Faktor in der Akustik Akustik Gr., Die Fakten über das Hören, die Wissenschaft des Klanges, einschließlich seiner Produktion, Ausbreitung und Effekte. Verschiedene Zweige der Akustik, die sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten von Klang und Hören beschäftigen, beinhalten Bioakustik, physikalische Akustik, Ultraschall und Architektur. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Von Theatern und Auditorien. Eine Schallwelle kann mit Wellen von einem Körper mit der gleichen Schwingungsstärke verstärkt werden, aber die Kombination von Wellen mit unterschiedlichen Schwingungsfrequenzen kann Schläge oder Pulsationen erzeugen oder zu anderen Formen von Interferenzstörungen führen, in der Physik die Wirkung, die durch erzeugt wird Die Kombination oder Überlagerung von zwei Wellensystemen, in denen diese Wellen verstärken, neutralisieren oder auf andere Weise miteinander interferieren. . Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Charakteristiken von musikalischen Klängen Musikalische Klänge unterscheiden sich von Geräuschen, indem sie sich aus regelmäßigen, gleichmäßigen Vibrationen zusammensetzen, während Geräusche unregelmäßige und ungeordnete Schwingungen sind. Komponisten verwenden jedoch häufig Geräusche und musikalische Klänge. Ein musikalischer Ton unterscheidet sich von einem anderen auf der Grundlage von Tonhöhe, Intensität oder Lautheit und Qualität oder Klangfarbe. Die Tonhöhe beschreibt, wie hoch oder niedrig ein Ton ist und von der Schnelligkeit abhängt, mit der ein klingender Körper vibriert, d. h. nach der Häufigkeit der Vibration. Je höher die Häufigkeit der Vibration ist, desto höher wird der Ton der Tonhöhe einer Sirene höher und höher, wenn die Häufigkeit der Vibration zunimmt. Die scheinbare Änderung der Tonhöhe eines Schalls als eine Quelle nähert sich oder bewegt sich von einem Beobachter weg, wird durch den Dopplereffekt-Dopplereffekt beschrieben, eine Änderung der Wellenlänge (oder Frequenz) von Energie in Form von Wellen, z. B. Ton oder Licht, als Folge der Bewegung der Quelle oder des Empfängers der Wellen wird die Wirkung für den österreichischen Wissenschaftler Christian Doppler benannt, der die Wirkung gezeigt hat. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Die Intensität oder Lautstärke eines Schalls hängt davon ab, in welchem Ausmaß der Klangkörper schwingt, d. h. die Schwingungsamplitude. Ein Klang ist lauter, wenn die Schwingungsamplitude größer ist und die Intensität abnimmt, wenn der Abstand von der Quelle zunimmt. Die Lautstärke wird in Einheiten gemessen, die Dezibel Dezibel, Abbr. DB, Einheit zur Messung der Lautstärke des Klangs. Es ist ein Zehntel eines Bel (benannt nach A. G. Bell), aber die größere Einheit wird selten benutzt. Das Dezibel ist ein Maß für die Schallintensität als Funktion des Leistungsverhältnisses, wobei der Unterschied in den Dezibel zwischen zwei Tönen liegt. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen. Die Schallwellen, die von verschiedenen Vibrationskörpern abgegeben werden, unterscheiden sich in der Qualität oder dem Timbre. Eine Notiz von einem Saxophon unterscheidet sich zum Beispiel von einer Note der gleichen Tonhöhe und Intensität, die von einer Violine oder einem Xylophon ähnlich vibrierenden Schilf, Spalten von Luft und Strings alle verschieden gemacht wird. Die Qualität hängt von der Anzahl und der relativen Intensität der vom Vibrationskörper erzeugten Obertöne ab (siehe harmonische Harmonische). 1 Physikalischer Begriff, der die Schwingung in Segmente eines tonbildenden Körpers beschreibt (siehe Klang), ein String vibriert gleichzeitig in seiner ganzen Länge und in Segmente von Hälften, Dritteln, Vierten usw. etc. Klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere Informationen.), Und diese wiederum hängen von der Natur des vibrierenden Körpers ab. Bibliographie Siehe G. Chedd, Ton (1970). Die mechanische Erregung eines elastischen Mediums. Ursprünglich war das Geräusch nur das, was gehört wird. Dies gab zu, wie z. B. ob der Ton von Bäumen erzeugt wurde, wo er niemand hören konnte. Ein eher mechanistischer Ansatz vermeidet diese Fragen und erlaubt auch akustische Störungen zu hoch in der Frequenz (Ultraschall) zu hören oder zu niedrig (Infraschall) als Erweiterung der Ereignisse zu hören, die man hören kann. Eine Schallquelle erfährt rasche Form-, Größen - oder Positionsänderungen, die benachbarte Elemente des umgebenden Mediums stören, wodurch sie sich über ihre Gleichgewichtspositionen bewegen. Diese Störungen werden wiederum elastisch auf benachbarte Elemente übertragen. Diese Kette von Ereignissen breitet sich zu größeren und größeren Abständen aus und bildet eine Welle, die durch das Medium fließt. Wenn die Welle den passenden Frequenzbereich enthält und auf das Ohr trifft, erzeugt sie die Nervenimpulse, die als Gehör wahrgenommen werden. Schalldruck Eine Schallwelle komprimiert und erweitert die Materialelemente, die sie durchläuft, wodurch entsprechende Druckschwankungen erzeugt werden. Ein geeigneter Sensor (z. B. ein Mikrofon), der in das Schallfeld platziert wird, zeichnet eine zeitvariable Abweichung von dem Gleichgewichtsdruck auf, der an diesem Punkt innerhalb des Fluids gefunden wird. Der sich ändernde Gesamtdruck P variiert um den Gleichgewichtsdruck P 0 um einen kleinen Betrag, der als akustischer Druck bezeichnet wird, p P - P 0. Die SI-Einheit des Drucks ist der Pascal (Pa), gleich 1 Newton pro Quadratmeter (Nm 2). Der normale atmosphärische Druck (14,7 lbin 2) beträgt etwa 1 bar 10 6 dynäcm 2 10 5 Pa. Für einen typischen Klang in der Luft kann die Amplitude des Schalldrucks etwa 0,1 Pa betragen (ein Millionstel einer Atmosphäre) Relativ geringe Störungen des Gesamtdrucks Siehe Druck. Druckmessung Druckaufnehmer. Schalldruck Flugzeugwellen Einer der einfacheren Schallwellen ist die reisende Flugwellenwelle. Dies ist eine Druckwelle, die durch das Medium in einer Richtung voranschreitet, sagen die x-Richtung, mit unendlicher Ausdehnung in der y - und z-Richtung. Ein zweidimensionales Analogon ist die Ozean-Brandung, die zu einem sehr langen, geraden und sogar Strand führt. Siehe Wave (Physik). Wellengleichung. Wellenbewegung Eine wichtigste ebene Welle, genannt harmonie, ist die glatt oszillierende monofrequente ebene Welle, die durch Gl. (1). Die Amplitude dieser Welle ist P. Die Phase (Argument des Kosinus) nimmt mit der Zeit zu, und an einem Punkt im Raum wird der Kosinus einen vollen Zyklus für jede Erhöhung der Phase von 2amppgr durchlaufen. Die für jeden Zyklus erforderliche Periode T muß also so sein, daß 2amppgr fT 2amppgr oder T 1 f. So dass f 1 T als die Frequenz der Oszillation der Druckwelle identifiziert werden kann. Während dieser Zeit T. Jeder Teil der Wellenform ist durch einen Abstand x3bb cT vorgerückt. Und dieser Abstand x3bb muss die Wellenlänge sein. Dies ergibt die Grundbeziehung (2) zwischen der Frequenz, der Wellenlänge und der Geschwindigkeit des Klangs c in jedem Medium. Zum Beispiel bei Luft bei Raumtemperatur beträgt die Schallgeschwindigkeit 343 ms (1125 ft). Ein Klang der Frequenz 1 kHz (1000 Zyklen pro Sekunde) hat eine Wellenlänge von x3bb cf 3431000 m m (1,1 ft). Niedrigere Frequenzen haben längere Wellenlängen: ein Klang von 100 Hz in Luft hat eine Wellenlänge von 3,4 m (11 ft). Zum Vergleich: In Süßwasser bei Raumtemperatur beträgt die Schallgeschwindigkeit 1480 ms (4856 ft) und die Wellenlänge des 1-kHz-Schalls beträgt fast 1,5 m (5 ft), fast fünfmal größer als die Wellenlänge für die gleiche Frequenz in Luft. Beschreibung des Klanges Die Charakterisierung eines Klanges beruht primär auf menschlichen psychologischen Reaktionen darauf. Wegen der Natur der menschlichen Wahrnehmungen sind die Korrelationen zwischen grundsätzlich subjektiven Auswertungen wie Lautstärke, Tonhöhe und Klangfarbe und mehr physikalischen Qualitäten wie Energie, Frequenz und Frequenzspektrum subtil und nicht unbedingt universell. Die Stärke einer Schallwelle wird durch ihre Intensität beschrieben. Aus den physikalischen Grundprinzipien wird die augenblickliche Geschwindigkeit, mit der Energie durch eine Schallwelle durch die Einheitsfläche übertragen wird, durch das Produkt des Schalldrucks und der Komponente der Teilchengeschwindigkeit senkrecht zur Fläche gegeben. Der Zeitmittelwert dieser Menge ist die akustische Intensität. Werden alle Mengen in SI-Einheiten ausgedrückt (Druckamplitude oder effektive Druckamplitude in Pa, Schallgeschwindigkeit in ms und Dichte in kgm 3), so liegt die Intensität in Watt pro Quadratmeter (Wm 2). Siehe Klangintensität Wegen der Art und Weise, wie die Klangstärke wahrgenommen wird, ist es konventionell geworden, die Intensität des Klanges in einer logarithmischen Skala mit der (dimensionslosen) Einheit des Dezibel (dB) zu spezifizieren. Eine Person mit ungehindertem Hörvermögen hat eine Schwelle der Wahrnehmung nahe 10 -12 Wm 2 zwischen etwa 2 und 4 kHz, der Frequenzbereich der größten Empfindlichkeit. Da die Intensität eines Schalls der festen Frequenz erhöht wird, steigt auch die subjektive Bewertung der Lautstärke, aber nicht proportional. Vielmehr neigt der Zuhörer dazu, zu beurteilen, dass jede sukzessive Verdoppelung der akustischen Intensität dem gleichen Anstieg der Lautheit entspricht. Bei Geräuschen, die höher als 4 kHz oder kleiner als 500 Hz liegen, wird die Empfindlichkeit des Ohres deutlich verringert. Töne an diesen Frequenz-Extremen müssen höhere Schwellenintensitätsniveaus haben, bevor sie wahrgenommen werden können, und eine Verdoppelung der Lautstärke erfordert kleinere Änderungen in der Intensität mit dem Ergebnis, dass bei höheren Stufen Töne gleicher Intensitäten dazu neigen, ähnliche Ähnlichkeiten zu haben. Es ist wegen dieser Eigenschaft, dass die Verringerung der Lautstärke der aufgezeichneten Musik verursacht es klingen dünn oder tinny, fehlt sowohl Höhen und Tiefen der Häufigkeit. Da die meisten Schallmessgeräte den Schalldruck anstelle der Intensität ermitteln, ist es zweckmäßig, eine äquivalente Skala in Bezug auf den Schalldruckpegel zu definieren. Die Intensitätsstufe und der Schalldruckpegel sind in der Regel als identisch, aber das ist nicht immer wahr. Siehe Dezibel Wie x201chighx201d Klang einer bestimmten Frequenz zu sein scheint, wird durch das Gefühl der Tonhöhe beschrieben. Ein paar Minuten mit einem Frequenzgenerator und einem Lautsprecher zeigen, dass die Tonhöhe eng mit der Frequenz verknüpft ist. Höhere Tonhöhe entspricht höherer Frequenz, mit kleinen Einflüssen abhängig von Lautstärke, Dauer und der Komplexität der Wellenform. Für die reinen Töne (Monofrequenz-Töne), die vor allem im Labor angetroffen werden, sind Tonhöhe und Häufigkeit nicht proportional. Verdoppeln der Frequenz weniger als verdoppelt die Tonhöhe. Für die komplexeren Wellenformen, die üblicherweise angetroffen werden, begünstigt das Vorhandensein von Oberschwingungen jedoch eine proportionale Beziehung zwischen Tonhöhe und Frequenz. Ausbreitung von Klang Ebenen Wellen sind eine erhebliche Vereinfachung eines tatsächlichen Klangfeldes. Der Klang, der von einer Quelle abgestrahlt wird (wie ein Lautsprecher, ein Handklatschen oder eine Stimme), muss sich nach außen wie die sich verbreiternden Kreise aus einem in einen See geworfenen Kiesel verteilen. Ein einfaches Modell dieses realistischeren Falles ist eine sphärische Quelle, die gleichmäßig in alle Richtungen mit einer einzigen Frequenz der Bewegung vibriert. Das Schallfeld muss sphärisch symmetrisch sein mit einer Amplitude, die mit zunehmender Entfernung von der Quelle abnimmt, und die Fluidelemente müssen Partikelgeschwindigkeiten aufweisen, die radial gerichtet sind. Nicht alle Quellen strahlen ihren Klang gleichmäßig in alle Richtungen aus. Wenn jemand in einem unbeschränkten Raum spricht, zum Beispiel ein offenes Feld, hört ein Zuhörer, der den Sprecher umkreist, die Stimme, die am deutlichsten definiert ist, wenn der Sprecher dem Zuhörer zugewandt ist. Die Stimme verliert die Definition, wenn der Sprecher vom Hörer abgewandt ist. Höhere Frequenzen neigen dazu, vor dem Sprecher stärker ausgeprägt zu sein, während niedrigere Frequenzen mehr oder weniger gleichmäßig um den Lautsprecher wahrgenommen werden. Beugung Es ist möglich zu hören, aber nicht um die Ecke eines hohen Gebäudes zu sehen. Allerdings neigt der höherfrequente Klang (mit kürzerer Wellenlänge) dazu, sich weniger um Kanten und Ecken zu biegen oder zu verkürzen, als um tiefe Frequenz zu klingen. Die Fähigkeit einer Welle, sich nach einer Reise durch eine Öffnung zu verbreiten und um Hindernisse zu beugen, wird als Beugung bezeichnet. Deshalb ist es oft schwierig, einen Zuhörer von einer unerwünschten Lärmquelle abzuschirmen, wie das Blockieren von Flugzeugen oder Verkehrslärm von nahe gelegenen Residenzen. Einfache Errichtung einer Ziegel - oder Betonwand zwischen Quelle und Empfänger ist oft ein unzureichendes Heilmittel, denn die Töne können sich um die Oberseite der Wand beugen und die Hörer mit ausreichender Intensität erreichen, um ablenkend oder störend zu sein. Siehe akustisches Geräusch. Beugung Da die Schallgeschwindigkeit mit der lokalen Temperatur (und dem Druck, in anderen als den perfekten Gasen) variiert, kann die Geschwindigkeit einer Schallwelle eine Funktion der Position sein. Verschiedene Teile einer Schallwelle können mit unterschiedlichen Schallgeschwindigkeit fahren. Jedes kleine Element einer Fläche von konstanter Phase verfolgt eine Linie im Raum und definiert einen Strahl, entlang dessen akustische Energie fährt. Der Schallstrahl kann dann als Strahlenbündel betrachtet werden, wie eine Weizenbasis, wobei die Strahlen über die Querschnittsfläche der Oberfläche konstanter Phase verteilt sind. Da sich der Hauptlappen mit Abstand ausbreitet, nimmt dieser Bereich zu und die Strahlen sind weniger dicht konzentriert. Die Anzahl der Strahlen pro Flächeneinheit quer zum Ausbreitungsweg misst die Energiedichte des Schalls an diesem Punkt. Es ist möglich, das Konzept der Strahlen zu verwenden, um die Ausbreitung eines Schallfeldes zu studieren. Die Strahlengänge definieren die Trajektorien, über die die akustische Energie durch die Wanderwelle transportiert wird, und die Flußdichte der Strahlen misst die Intensität, die an jedem Raumpunkt zu finden ist. Dieser Ansatz, ein alternativer Weg, um die Ausbreitung von Klang zu studieren, ist in der Natur angenehm, hat aber den Vorteil, dass er sehr leicht zu visualisieren ist. Reflexion und Transmission Wenn eine Schallwelle, die in einem Fluid fährt, eine Grenze zwischen der ersten Flüssigkeit und einer Sekunde trifft, dann kann es eine Reflexion und Übertragung von Schall geben. In den meisten Fällen genügt es, die Wellen planar zu betrachten. Die erste Flüssigkeit enthält die einfallende Welle der Intensität I i und die reflektierte Intensitätswelle I r die zweite Flüssigkeit, aus der der Ton reflektiert wird, enthält die übertragene Welle der Intensität I t. Die Richtungen der einfallenden, reflektierten und übertragenen ebenen Schallwellen können durch die Weidewinkel x398 i angegeben werden. X398 r Und x398 t (gemessen zwischen den jeweiligen Ausbreitungsrichtungen und der Ebene der reflektierenden Oberfläche). Siehe Reflexion des Schalls Absorption Wenn sich der Schall durch ein Medium ausbreitet, gibt es eine Anzahl von Mechanismen, durch die die akustische Energie in Hitze umgewandelt wird und die Schallwelle geschwächt wird, bis sie vollständig zerstreut ist. Diese Absorption von akustischer Energie ist durch einen räumlichen Absorptionskoeffizienten für Wanderwellen gekennzeichnet. Siehe Schallabsorption Die Empfindung, die in den Hörorganen durch eine Schwingungsstörung stimuliert wird. Im weitesten Sinne die Vibrationsbewegung der Teilchen im anelastischen Medium, die sich als grenzenförmige, flüssige oder feste Mittel im engeren Sinne als Wellen ausbreiten, ein Phänomen, das von einem besonderen Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren wahrgenommen wird. Menschen hören Ton mit einer Frequenz zwischen 16 und 20.000 Hertz (Hz). Das physikalische Klangkonzept beinhaltet sowohl hörbaren als auch unhörbaren Klang. Sound mit einer Frequenz unter 16 Hz heißt Infraschall mit einer Frequenz über 20.000 Hz, Ultraschall. Sehr hochfrequente elastische Wellen im Bereich von 10 9 bis 10 12 ndash10 13 Hz heißen Hyper-Sound. Die infrasonische Frequenzregion hat praktisch keine untere Grenze Infrasonic Vibrationen sind in der Natur bei Frequenzen von Zehntel und Hundertstel eines Hertz angetroffen. Der Frequenzbereich der Hyperschallwellen ist an der Spitze durch physikalische Faktoren begrenzt, die die atomare und molekulare Struktur des Mediums charakterisieren: Die Länge einer elastischen Welle muss wesentlich größer sein als die freie Weglänge von Molekülen in Gasen und größer als die interatomaren Abstände In Flüssigkeiten und Feststoffen. Infolgedessen kann sich Hypersound nicht in Luft mit einer Frequenz von 10 9 Hz oder höher oder in Feststoffen mit einer Frequenz von mehr als 10 12 ndash10 13 rdquo Hz ausbreiten. Grundmerkmale Ein wichtiges Merkmal des Klangs ist sein Spektrum, das durch die Erweiterung des Klangs in einfache harmonische Vibrationen (sogenannte Frequenztonanalyse) erzeugt wird. Das Spektrum ist stetig, wenn die Energie der Schallschwingungen kontinuierlich über einen ziemlich breiten Frequenzbereich verteilt wird, ist es ein lineares Spektrum, wenn es einen Satz von diskreten Frequenzkomponenten aufweist. Klang mit einem kontinuierlichen Spektrum wird als Lärm wie das Rauschen von Blättern im Wind oder die Geräusche von Mechanismen im Betrieb wahrgenommen. Ein musikalischer Klang hat ein lineares Spektrum mit mehreren Frequenzen, wobei die Grundfrequenz die Tonhöhe des Klangs bestimmt, wie es durch das Hören wahrgenommen wird, und die Menge der harmonischen Komponenten unterscheidet sein Klangbild. Das Spektrum der Sprachlaute enthält Formanten, die stabile Gruppen von Frequenzkomponenten sind, die bestimmten phonetischen Elementen entsprechen. Der Energieparameter der Schallschwingungen ist die Schallintensität der Energie, die von der Schallwelle durch eine Einheitsfläche, senkrecht zur Ausbreitungsrichtung, pro Zeiteinheit getragen wird. Die Schallintensität ist eine Funktion der Schalldruckamplitude sowie der Eigenschaften des Mediums und der Form der Welle. Der subjektive Parameter, der mit der Intensität des Klanges verbunden ist, ist die von der Frequenz abhängige Lautheit. Das menschliche Ohr ist im Frequenzbereich von 1 bis 5 kHz am empfindlichsten. In dieser Region ist die Schwelle der Hörbarkeit, die ist, die Intensität der schwächsten hörbaren Soundsmdashis in der Größenordnung von 10 -12 Watt pro Quadratmeter (Wm 2), und der entsprechende Schalldruck beträgt 10 -5 Neun Tonnen pro Quadratmeter (Nm 2 ). Die Obergrenze der Intensität für die Klangwahrnehmung durch das menschliche Ohr heißt die Schwelle des Schmerzes, die von der Frequenz im hörbaren Bereich etwas abhängt und etwa gleich 1 Wm 2 ist. Es werden viel größere Intensitäten (bis zu 104 kWm 2) erreicht Ultraschalltechnik. Schallquellen Schallquellen sind Phänomene, die eine lokale Variation von Druck oder mechanischer Belastung hervorrufen. Vibrierende feste Körper, wie die Kegel in den Lautsprechern, die Membranen in den Telefonen und die Saiten und Klangplatten in Musikinstrumenten, sind die häufigsten Schallquellen im Ultraschallfrequenzbereich, wobei die Quellen Platten und Stäbe aus piezoelektrischen oder magnetostriktiven Materialien sein können . Schwingungen von begrenzten Volumina des Mediums selbst, z. B. in Orgelpfeifen, Blasinstrumenten und Whistles, können auch Schallquellen sein. Der Gesangsapparat von Mensch und Tier ist ein komplexes Vibrationssystem. Die Vibration von Schallquellen kann durch einen Schlag (im Falle einer Glocke) oder durch Zupfen (im Falle einer Saite) erregt werden, kann ein selbst erregter Vibrationsmodus in solchen Objekten durch einen Luftstrom (im Wind) aufrechterhalten werden Instrumente). Elektroakustische Wandler, bei denen mechanische Vibrationen durch Umwandlung von elektrischen Stromschwingungen gleicher Frequenz erzeugt werden, sind eine breite Klasse von Schallquellen. In der Natur wird ein Klang erzeugt, wenn Luft durch feste Körper fließt, weil der Wind und die Abwanderung von Wirbeln (z. B. wenn der Wind über Drähte, Pfeifen und die Wappen der Ozeanwellen weht). Niederfrequenz - und Infraschall-Sounds werden durch Explosionen und Lawinen erzeugt. Zu den akustischen Geräuschen gehören Maschinen und Mechanismen, die in der Technik eingesetzt werden, sowie Gas - und Wasserstrahlen. Das Studium der industriellen, transport - und aerodynamischen Lärmquellen wird angesichts ihrer schädlichen Auswirkungen auf den menschlichen Körper und die industrielle Ausrüstung sehr viel beachtet. Sound-Receiver. Klangerzeuger nehmen Klangsenergie auf und konvertieren sie in andere Formen. Das Hörgerät von Mensch und Tier ist in dieser Kategorie. In der Technik werden elektroakustische Wandler in der Regel für den Empfang von Ton verwendet: Mikrofone in Luft, Hydrophone in Wasser und Geophone in der Ohrröhre Kruste. Zusätzlich zu solchen Wandlern, die die zeitabhängige Abhängigkeit des Tonsignals wiedergeben, gibt es Empfänger, die die Parameter der Schallwellen messen, die im Hinblick auf die Zeitmessung gemittelt werden, z. B. die Raleigh-Platte und das akustische Radiometer. Ausbreitung von Schallwellen. Die Ausbreitung von Schallwellen zeichnet sich vor allem durch die Schallgeschwindigkeit aus. Die Längswellen breiten sich in gasförmigen und flüssigen Medien aus (die Richtung der Teilchen-Vibrationsbewegung fällt mit der Richtung der Ausbreitung der Welle zusammen) mit einer Geschwindigkeit, die durch die Kompressibilität und die Dichte des Mediums bestimmt wird. Die Schallgeschwindigkeit in trockener Luft bei einer Temperatur von 0 ° C beträgt 330 ms, und in Süßwasser bei 17 ° C ist es 1.430 ms. Zusätzlich zu den Längswellen können sich transversale Wellen, für die die Richtung der Vibrationen senkrecht zur Ausbreitungsrichtung der Welle ist, sowie Oberflächenwellen (Rayleigh-Wellen) in Festkörper ausbreiten. Für die meisten Metalle reicht die Geschwindigkeit der Längswellen von 4.000 bis 7000 ms die Geschwindigkeit der transversalen Wellen zwischen 2.000 und 3.500 ms. Während der Ausbreitung von Wellen mit großer Amplitude breitet sich die Kompressionsphase mit einer höheren Geschwindigkeit aus als die Seltenheitsphase, so daß die sinusförmige Form der Welle allmählich verzerrt wird und die Schallwelle in eine Stoßwelle umgewandelt wird. In vielen Fällen wird eine Klangdispersion beobachtet, dh die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit ist eine Funktion der Frequenz. Die Schalldispersion führt zu einer Veränderung der Form komplexer akustischer Signale, einschließlich einer Anzahl harmonischer Komponenten und insbesondere der Verzerrung von Schallimpulsen. Die Phänomene der Interferenz und der Beugung, die für alle Wellenarten typisch sind, können bei der Ausbreitung von Schallwellen auftreten. Wenn die Größe der Hindernisse und die Inhomogenitäten des Mediums im Vergleich zur Wellenlänge groß sind, so folgt die Ausbreitung des Schalls den üblichen Gesetzen der Reflexion und Brechung für Wellen und kann aus der Sicht der geometrischen Akustik behandelt werden. Während der Ausbreitung einer Schallwelle in einer gegebenen Richtung tritt eine allmähliche Dämpfung auf, deren Intensität und Amplitude abnehmen. Die Kenntnis der Gesetze der Dämpfung ist von praktischer Bedeutung bei der Bestimmung des maximalen Ausbreitungsabstandes für ein akustisches Signal. Die Dämpfung hängt von einer Anzahl von Faktoren ab, die sich nach den Merkmalen des Klanges selbst (vor allem seiner Häufigkeit) und den Eigenschaften des Mediums mehr oder weniger stark manifestieren. Alle diese Faktoren können in zwei große Gruppen eingeteilt werden. Die erste Gruppe enthält Faktoren, die mit den Gesetzen der Wellenausbreitung im Medium verbunden sind. So fällt im Falle der Ausbreitung in einem unendlichen Medium die Intensität eines Schalls aus einer endlichen Endquelle umgekehrt als das Quadrat der Distanz ab. Inhomogenität der Mittelwelleneigenschaften bewirkt eine Streuung der Welle in verschiedenen Richtungen, wodurch sie in der ursprünglichen Richtung schwächen, wie dies bei dem von Blasen in Wasser gestreuten Schall durch die gerührte Oberfläche eines Ozeans und durch atmosphärische Turbulenz-Hochfrequenz-Ultraschall der Fall ist Ist in polykristallinen Metallen und durch Versetzungen in Kristallen gestreut. Die Ausbreitung des Schalls in der Atmosphäre und im Ozean wird durch Temperatur und Druckverteilung und durch die Kraft und Geschwindigkeit des Windes beeinflusst. Diese Faktoren verursachen das Biegen des Schallstrahls, das ist, refractionmdashwhich insbesondere für die Tatsache, dass Klang ist hörbar weiter mit dem Wind als gegen sie. Die Verteilung der Schallgeschwindigkeit mit der Tiefe im Ozean erklärt die Existenz des sogenannten Unterwasserschallkanals, bei dem eine extrem weitgehende Schallausbreitung beobachtet wird: Zum Beispiel breitet sich der Schall einer Explosion für mehr als 5.000 km aus. Die zweite Gruppe von Faktoren, die die Schalldämpfung bestimmen, ist mit den physikalischen Prozessen in einer Substanz verbunden, einschließlich der irreversiblen Umwandlung von Schallenergie in andere Formen, vor allem Wärme, die die Schallabsorption ist, die durch die Viskosität und Wärmeleitfähigkeit des Mediums verursacht wird (Ldquoklassische Absorptionsrate) mdashand die Umwandlung von Schallenergie in die Energie der intramolekularen Prozesse (molekulare oder Entspannungsabsorption). Die Schallabsorption nimmt mit der Frequenz deutlich zu. Daher breiten sich Hochfrequenz-Ultraschall und Hypersound in der Regel nur über sehr kurze Distanzen, meist nicht mehr als mehrere Zentimeter. Infraschallwellen, die sich durch geringe Absorption und schwache Streuung auszeichnen, breiten sich am weitesten in der Atmosphäre, im Wasser und in der Krugkruste aus. Bei hohen Ultraschall - und Hyperschallfrequenzen tritt in den Feststoffen eine zusätzliche Absorption infolge der Wechselwirkung der Wellen mit den thermischen Schwingungen des Kristallgitters mit Elektronen und mit Lichtwellen auf. Unter bestimmten Bedingungen kann diese Wechselwirkung ldquonegative Absorption, rdquo oder die Verstärkung von Schallwellen erzeugen. Die Bedeutung der Schallwellen und damit ihre Studie (in Akustik) ist sehr groß. Seit der Antike diente der Klang als Mittel der Kommunikation und Signalisierung. Das Studium aller seiner Eigenschaften ermöglichte die Entwicklung fortschrittlicherer Datenübertragungssysteme, eine Zunahme des Spektrums an Signalisierungssystemen und die Schaffung verbesserter Musikinstrumente. Schallwellen sind praktisch die einzige Form von Signalen, die sich in Wasser ausbreiten, wo sie für U-Boot-Kommunikation, Navigation und Echolokation verwendet werden. Niederfrequenz-Sound ist ein Werkzeug für das Studium der Ohrringe Kruste. Die praktische Anwendung von Ultraschall hat Ultraschall, eine ganze Branche der modernen Technologie geschaffen. Ultraschall dient zur Überwachung und Messung (insbesondere bei der Fehlererkennung) sowie für den Betrieb von Stoffen (Ultraschallreinigung, mechanische Bearbeitung und Schweißen). Hochfrequenz-Schallwellen, besonders Hypersound, sind ein wichtiges Mittel für die Forschung in der Festkörperphysik. REFERENZEN Strutt, J. (Lord Rayleigh). Teoriia zvuka 2nd ed. Vols 1ndash2 Moskau, 1955. (Übersetzt aus dem Englischen) Krasilrsquo nikov, V. A. Zvukovye i ultrazvukovye volny v vozdukhe, vode ich tverdykh telakh. 3. Aufl. Moskau, 1960. Rozenberg, L. D. Rasskaz O neslyshimom zvuke. Moskau, 1961.Created von Olli Niemitalo am 2003-01-21, zuletzt geändert 2012-08-04 Im Jahr 1998 hatte ich einige zusätzliche Zeit, während andere für die Abschlussprüfungen der höheren High School zu lesen, und bekam in digitale Signalverarbeitung. Ich habe geschrieben, wie ich gelernt habe, und hier ist das Ergebnis. It is not entirely accurate in places but may serve as a nice tutorial into the world of audio DSP. Previously this document was called Yehars digital sound processing tutorial for the braindead, but I have kinda grown out of my scene identity over the years. Enjoy the ASCII art This is written for the audio digital signal processing enthusiasts (as the title suggests ) and others who need practical information on the subject. If you dont have this as a linear reading experience and encounter difficulties, check if theres something to help you out in the previous chapters. In filter frequency response plots, linear frequency and magnitude scales are used. Page changes are designed for 60 linespage printers. Chapter Shuffling IIR equations is written by my big brother Kalle. And, thanks to Timo Tossavainen for sharing his DSP knowledge Copy and use this text freely. by Olli Niemitalo, oiki. fi Note that sample can mean (1) a sampled sound or (2) a samplepoint Sampled sound data is a pile of samples, amplitude values taken from the actual sound wave. Sampling rate is the frequency of the shots. For example, if the frequency is 44100, 44100 samples have been taken in one second. Heres an example of sampling: The original sound is the curve, and 0s are the sampled points. The horizontal straight line is the zero level. A sampled sound can only represent frequencies up to half the samplerate. This is called the Nyquist frequency. An easy proof: You need to have stored at least two samplepoints per wave cycle, the top and the bottom of the wave to be able to reconstruct it later on: If you try to include above Nyquist frequencies in your sampled sound, all you get is extra distortion as they appear as lower frequencies. A Sound consists of frequency components. They all look exactly like sine waves, but they have different frequencies, phases and amplitudes. Lets look at a single frequency: Now, we take the same frequency from another sound and notice that it has the same amplitude, but the opposite (rotated 180 degrees) phase. Merging two signals is done simply by adding them together. If we do the same with these two sine waves, the result will be: It gets silent. If we think of other cases, where the phase difference is less than 180 degrees, we get sine waves that all have different amplitudes and phases, but the same frequency. Heres the way to calculate the phase and the amplitude of the resulting sinewave. Convert the amplitude and phase into one complex number, where angle is the phase, and absolute value the amplitude. If you do this to both of the sinewaves, you can add them together as complex numbers. As you see, the phase of the new sine wave is 45 degrees and the amplitude sqrt(1212) sqrt(2) about 1.4 It is very important that you understand this, because in many cases, it is more practical to present the amplitude and the phase of a frequency as a complex number. When adding two sampled sounds together, you may actually wipe out some frequencies, those that had opposite phases and equal amplitudes. The average amplitude of the resulting sound is (for independent originals) sqrt(a2b2) where a and b are the amplitudes of the original signals. The main use of a filter is to scale the amplitudes of the frequency components in a sound. For example, a lowpass filter mutes all frequency components above the cutoff frequency, in other words, multiplies the amplitudes by 0. It lets through all the frequencies below the cutoff frequency unattenuated. If you investigate the behaviour of a lowpass filter by driving various sinewaves of different frequencies through it, and measure the amplifications, you get the magnitude frequency response. Heres a plot of the magnitude frequency response curve of a lowpass filter: Frequency is on the - axis and amplification on the axis. As you see, the amplification ( scaling) of the frequencies below the cutoff frequency is 1. So, their amplitudes are not affected in any way. But the amplitudes of frequencies above the cutoff frequency get multiplied by zero so they vanish. Filters never add any new frequency components to the sound. They can only scale the amplitudes of already existing frequencies. For example, if you have a completely quiet sample, you cant get any sound out of it by filtering. Also, if you have a sine wave sample and filter it, the result will still be the same sine wave, only maybe with different amplitude and phase - no other frequencies can appear. Professionals never get tired of reminding us how important it is not to forget the phase. The frequency components in a sound have their amplitudes and. phases. If we take a sine wave and a cosine wave, we see that they look alike, but they have a phase difference of pi2, one fourth of a full cycle. Also, when you play them, they sound alike. But, try wearing a headset and play the sinewave on the left channel and the cosine wave on the right channel. Now you hear the difference Phase itself doesnt contain important information for us so its not heard, but the phase difference, of a frequency, between the two ears can be used in estimating the position of the origin of the sound so its heard. Filters have a magnitude frequency response, but they also have a phase frequency response. Heres an example curve that could be from a lowpass filter: If you filter a sound, the values from the phase frequency response are added to the phases of the frequencies of the original sound. Linear (straight line) phase is the same thing as a plain delay, although it may look wild in the plot if it goes around several times. If your, for example, lowpass filter doesnt have a linear phase frequency response, you cant turn it into a highpass filter by simply subtracting its output from the original with equal delay. Complex math with filters The response of a filter for a single frequency can be expressed as a complex number, where the angle is the phase response of the filter and the absolute value the magnitude response. When you apply the filter to a sound, you actually do a complex multiplication of all the frequency components in the sound by the corresponding filter response values. (Read chapter Adding two sinewaves together if you find this hard to understand.) Example: The response of a filter is (0,1) at 1000Hz. You filter a sine wave, with the phase amp amplitude information presented as the complex number (0,1), of the same frequency with it: The phase of the sine wave got rotated 90 degrees. No change in the amplitude. Combining filters The combined response of these two filters put in serial is the response of A multiplied by the response of B (Complex numbers as always). If you only need to know the magnitude response, you could as well multiply the absolute values. In the figure, both filters get their inputs from the same source. Their outputs are then added back together, forming the final output. Now you need to use addition in solving the combined response. FIR filter is more straightforward, and easier to understand. Finite impulse response means that when the filter input has remained zero for a certain time, the filter output also becomes zero. An Infinite impulse response filter never fully settles down after turning off the input, but it does get quieter and quieter though. A basic FIR filter could be: where input means the sample values fed to the filter. In this case, people would speak of a 3 tap filter. Its up to the coefficients (a0, a1, a2) what this filter will do to the sound. Choosing the coefficient values is the hardest part, and well get to that later. To design your own filters, you need to understand some of the math behind and know the right methods. In the above filter example, only past input values are used. In realtime filters, this is a requirement, because you dont know the future inputs. In sample editors and such, you dont have this limitation, because you have the whole input data ready when you begin. If your filter is: and you need a realtime version of it, just convert it to: The only difference is the one sample delay in the realtime filter. Unlike FIR filters, IIR filters also use their previous output values in creating their present output. Heres a simple example: This could be called 3 input, 3 output tap filter. IIR filters can never use future output values, because such dont yet exist There can be several ways of implementing the same IIR filter. Some may be faster than the usual input-output-and-coefficients way. Anyhow, every IIR filter can be written in this form, and it must be used in filter design and examining calculations. An impulse response ( What the filter will do to a one samplepoint impulse) of an IIR filter often looks more or less like this in the sampledata: Some badly designed IIR filters are unstable. This results in ouput getting louder and louder instead of quieter and quieter. A simple example of this is: output(t) input(t) 2output(t-1). As soon as it gets input data, it gets crazy. The above described filter types process the data sample by sample. Not so, if you implement your filter using FFT, Fast Fourier Transformation. FFT usually operates on chunks of length 2n. First, you should have your planned filter impulse response ready. Then convert it, using FFT, to spectral information - complex numbers representing the phases and amplitudes of the frequency components. These components are called bins, because their frequencies are fixed and evenly distributed, and if the original data contained any in-between frequencies, then most of the energy of such a frequency will be distributed amongst the nearby bins. Now, you FFT also the sample data you want to filter, and multiply the resulting frequency bins with those from the filter. Then IFFT (Inverse FFT) is used to convert the information into a chunk of filtered sample data. So, multiplication of the two frequency domain data resulted in convolution of the two time domain data. However, theres a catch: FFT operates on periodic signals, that is, if you have a filter impulse response as long as the FFT chunk then any non-zero sample data in the middle of the FFT chunk will result with the convolution wrapping the tail of the filter around the FFT boundary. In order to avoid this problem, you can use FFT twice as long as the filter impulse response, and when doing FFT on the sample data, only fill up the FFT input buffer to half way and set rest of the input to zero. For longer inputs, you would process the data in chunks like that and then add the resulting filtered chunks together. This is called the overlap-add method. Another option is overlap-save (look it up if you like). FFT can also be used to analyze the frequency content of sample data, for whatever reason. If you just take a chunk of sample data, it has sharp edges, which is bad for FFT. Windowing functions are used to smoothen these edges. Raised cosine, cos(x pi2)2, is one possible windowing function. Here you see what happens when you apply that windowing function to a chunk of sample data: Sometimes (resampling, precisely defined delay) you need to get samplevalues from between the known samplepoints. Thats when you need interpolation. If you dont interpolate, and just throw away the fractional part of your sampleoffset, you get a lot of high frequency distortion: In the example, the original samplepoints try to represent a sine wave. The closer the interpolated curve is to a sine wave, the better the interpolation algorithm is. The simpliest interpolation method is linear interpolation. Straight lines are drawn between two adjacent samplepoints: Still looks quite edgy to be a sine wave. However, the improvement to uninterpolated is significant. Theres also a drawback - the frequencies just below the Nyquist frequency get attenuated, even more than without interpolation. Heres the formula for linear interpolation: new old(int)(old(int1)-old(int))fract, where int means the integer part of sample offset and fract the fractional part. Next step could be Hermite curve, which gives in every way better quality than linear interpolation: With linear interpolation, you needed to know 2 samplepoints at time to be able to draw the line. With Hermite curve, the number is 4. The interpolation curve goes through the two middle points, and the points 1 and 4 are used in shaping the curve. The formula is a cubic: And this one here is where a, b,c, d were solved from: A perfect interpolation also exists. By replacing all the sample points with correctly scaled sinc curves, sin(pi x)(pi x), and by adding them together, you get exact, perfect interpolation. Here is one of the samplepoints replaced with a scaled sinc curve: Sinc curve is endlessly long, so youd have to use all the samplepoints in calculation of one interpolated value. A practical solution would be to limit the number of samples to say 1000. It will still be too slow for a realtime application, but itll give great accuracy. If you insist to use sinc in a realtime interpolation algorithm, try using a windowing function and a low number (at least 6) of sinc curves. Downsampling If you want to downsample (decrease the samplerate), you must first filter away the above Nyquist frequencies, or they will appear as distortion in the downsampled sample. In the process of filter design, you often need to make compromises. To have sharp edges or steep slopes in the magnitude response, you will need a big, and therefore slow filter. In other words, filters with low number of taps practically always have gently sloping magnitude responses. In the case of IIR filters, sharp edges in magnitude often mean an ugly (very nonlinear) phase frequency response, and close-to-linear phase response a gently sloping magnitude response. With FIR filters, an attempt to create very sharp edges may cause waving in the magnitudes of nearby frequencies. IIR filters are great for a realtime routine, because they are fast, their properties (for example cutoff frequency) can be quickly changed in the middle of action, and, they sound like real analog filters. ) The nonlinear phase response of IIR filters usually doesnt matter. FIR filters could be used where the quality and linear phase are important, for example, in a sample editor. People who filter other signals than sound, often desire linear phase frequency response. With stereo signal, it is important to have identical phase changes on left and right channels. Some filters and their stylized magnitude frequency responses: If you have a symbolic calculation program, i strongly recommend you to use it in the mechanical calculations, just to make your life easier. Derive is an old DOS program, but still very useful. White noise White noise means the sort of noise that has flat spectrum. You can easily create it by using random numbers as samplevalues. If you want to know the magnitude frequency response of a filter, apply it on a long sample of white noise and then run a spectrum analysis on the output. What you see is the magnitude frequency response of the filter. Another way is to send a one-sample impulse, which originally has a flat spectrum. An impulse looks like this in the sampledata: 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0 - where the impulse is the 1 in the middle. From the two, the impulse thingy is faster, but using white noise can give cleaner-looking results, because errors will be less visible. For much the same reasons, when you are watching videos, a still picture will look more snowy than the running picture. Taking a spectrum analysis on a long sample is usually done by dividing it to smaller pieces, analyzing them separately and then taking the average of all the analyses. My personal choice here would be the program Cool Edit 96, which is for Windows. Pole-zero method is the easiest way of designing fast and simple IIR filters. When you have learned it, you will be able to design filters by yourself. Heres the complex Z-plane, the one used in the pole-zero method: Imagine the frequencies to be wrapped around the unit circle. At angle 0 we have 0Hz, at pi2 we have samplerate4, at pi we have samplerate2, the Nyquist frequency. You shouldnt care about higher frequencies, since they will never appear in the signal, but anyway, at 2pi (full cycle) we have the sampling frequency. So if you used sampling frequency 44100 Hz, 0 Hz would be at (1,0), 11025 Hz at (0,1) and 22050 Hz at (-1,0). What are poles and zeros then They are cute little things you can place on the Z-plane, like this: There are some rules you have to remember. Poles must always be inside the unit circle, never outside or on it. Zeros can be put anywhere. You can use any number of poles and zeros, but they must all have conjugate pairs, if they are not positioned on the - axis. Conjugate pairs means that if you put for example a zero to (0.6, 0.3), you must put another zero to the conjugate coordinate, (0.6,-0.3). And the same thing with poles. But hey What do poles and zeros DO Poles amplify frequencies, zeros attenuate. The closer a pole is to a frequency (on the unit circle, remember), the more it gets amplified. The closer a zero is to a frequency, the more it gets attenuated. A zero on the unit circle completely mutes the frequency it is sitting on. Now it could be the right time to try this out yourself. There are free filter design programs around that allow you to play with poles and zeros. One candidate could be: QEDesign 1000 demo for Windows. Its somewhere on the Internet, youll find it. Designing a bandpass filter The simpliest filter designed using pole-zero is the following bandpass filter: Poles amplify frequencies, so you could draw the conclusion that the most amplified frequency is the one at the same angle as the pole. And you are almost right The only problem comes from the conjugate pole, which also gives its own amplification. The effect is strongest at angles close to 0 and pi, where the distance between the two poles is the smallest. But dont let this confuse you, well get back to it later. So the angle of the pole determines the passband frequency. Whats the effect of the absolute value ( radius) then As stated, poles amplify frequencies, and the amplification is stronger when the pole is closer to a frequency. In our bandpass filter, increasing the radius of the pole causes the magnitude response to become steeper and passband narrower, as you see here: Positions of poles: Corresponding magnitude frequency response plots (normalized): Lets call the radius r from now on. (Some of you might remember the letter q from analog, resonant filters. This is much the same.) In this case we have the limitation: 0 r lt 1, since poles must be inside the unit circle. So changing r changes steepness, resonance. This resonance - its not a magic thing, just one frequency being amplified more than others. From poles and zeros to filter coefficients There is a transfer function: where z is frequency, in the (complex) wrapped-around-the-unit-circle coordinate form. H(z) gives the response (complex) of the filter at the frequency z. P1, p2, p3 and so on are positions of poles and z1, z2, z3 and so on positions of zeros. A0 is the first input coefficient of the filter. Heres the IIR filter formula again, in case you have forgotten: Our bandpass filter only has one pole, and its conjugate pair, so we can simplify the transfer function: and replace p1 and p2 with the coordinates of the conjugate poles: Lets give the divisor a closer look. Say: Powers of z here are actually indexes to the output of the filter: So we know how to calculate the output side coefficients from the position of the pole: OK Lets say the passband frequency is at the Z-plane at position ph: The pole is at the same angle as the frequency on the unit circle, but has radius r. Therefore: Now that we know how the position of the pole depends on the frequency, we can rewrite the output side coefficients: But we mustnt forget the dividend (of the transfer function), where powers of z are indexes to the input of the filter: This must be added to what we already have solved from the output side: Next we have to decide what to put to a0. This is called normalization. The purpose of a0 is just to scale the output of the filter. In our bandpass filter, we want the amplification at the passband frequency to be 1. So we can write the equation: There it is Now the filter is ready: Improving the simple bandpass filter We could compensate the effect of the conjugate pole by adding a zero onto the - axis, between the poles. For example, if we had poles at coordinates (0.6, 0.5) and (0.6,-0.5), wed put a zero at (0.6, 0): The transfer function for this is: The output side coefficients are exactly the same as before. Input side coefficients can be solved like this: In case you want to use this filter, you should be able to do the normalization yourself. I wont do it here. Words of wisdom It is easy to make a filter more efficient: Double all poles and zeros. The frequency response of the new filter is the square of the old. There are better ways, but this is the easiest. If you put a zero on a pole, you neutralize both. A pole outside the unit circle causes the filter to become unstable. A pole on the unit circle may turn the filter into an oscillator. Large number of poles and zeros means large number of taps. Zeros affect the input coefficients, poles output. Poles and zeros must have conjugate pairs, because otherwise youd get complex filter coefficients and, consequently, complex output signal. With low r values, the most amplified frequency is not always at the same angle with the pole, because of the effect of the conjugate pole. Try differentiating the magnitude response if you want exact precision. An IIR filter with no poles is a FIR filter. 0 r lt 1 always applies. Bandpass with r Read chapter IIR filter design using pole-zero method. Notch with r The higher the r, the narrower the stopband. Lowpass with r This can be done in several ways: The higher the r, the stronger the resonation. Resonant lowpass filter is surely the most used filter type in synthesizers. Allpass with r Highpass with r Impulse, sinc If you read about sinc interpolation in the chapter Interpolation of sampled sound, you know that you can replace a single sample peak ( impulse) in the sampledata with a correctly stretched sinc function. Correctly stretched means amplitudesinc(t). When you run a spectrum analysis on an impulse, you get a flat spectrum with upper limit at samplerate2, the Nyquist frequency. Because impulse sinc, this is also the spectrum of sinc: You could draw the conclusion that you get the sinc function if you sum together all the frequencies from 0 to SR2, and divide the sum by the number of frequencies, to fulfil the equation sinc(0) 1. And youd be right. From the spectrum analysis, you know that all the frequencies summed together have equal amplitudes. But whats their phase at the center of the impulse Sinc function is symmetrical around x0, so is cosine - so sinc must be made of cosines. If you test this with about 100 cosines, you get a pretty close approximation of sinc. The sum of all frequencies from 0 to 1 (comparable to SR2), divided with their number, can be written as: (Here oo means infinite) As done above, x must be replaced with pi t, because the cycle length of sin is 2 pi, which must be stretched to 2 (which is the wavelength of the Nyquist frequency in the sampledata). Phase shift What if we replaced the cosines with sines Lets try it Theres a universal formula (which, btw, i invented myself) we can use: Now, if we replace all the impulses in the sound with this new function, we actually perform a -90 degree phase shift This can be done by creating a FIR filter, where the coefficients are taken from this new function: (1-cos(pi t))(pi t), but in reverse order, by replacing t with - t, so it becomes: (cos(pi t)-1)(pi t). Heres an example that explains why it is necessary to use - t instead of t: Say you want to replace all the impulses in the signal with the sequence 1,2,3. If the input signal is 0,1,0, common sense says it should become 1,2,3. If you just use 1,2,3 as filter coefficients in that order, the filtered signal becomes: Which is not what you asked for But if you use coefficients 3,2,1, you get the right result, Ok, back to the -90 degree phase shift filter. When you are picking the filter coefficients from (cos(pi t)-1)(pi t), at t0 you unluckily get a division by zero. Avoid this by calculating the limit t-gt0, on paper, or with a math proggy. If you use your brains a little, you notice it is 0, because the filter formula is a sum of sines, and sin(0)0, so at t0 it is a sum of zeros. Like sinc, our new function has no ending, so a compromise must be made in the number of taps. This causes waves in the magnitude response, and attenuation of the very lowest and highest frequencies. By applying a windowing function to the coefficients, you can get rid of the waves, but i dont know anything that would help with the attenuation, except more taps. The windowing functions used with FFT work here also. The center of the windowing function must be at t0, and it must be stretched so that the edges are lay on the first and the last tap. You can also get a phase shift of any angle a: Note that reversing t has already been done here, so we can take the coefficients directly from this formula. The limit t-gt0 is naturally cos(a), because all the cosines added together had phase a at x0. In case you didnt yet realize it, the main idea in FIR filter making is to create a function that contains the frequencies you want to pass the filtering. The amplitudes of the frequencies in the function directly define the magnitude frequency response of the filter. The phases of the frequencies define the phase response. Reversing the coefficients is only necessary with phase shifting filters, because filters that do not introduce a phase shift of any kind are symmetrical around t0. Defining the frequency range included If you use sinc as your filter coefficient formula, you actually do no filtering, because all the frequencies from 0 to Nyquist are equally presented in sinc. Here youll see how you can select which frequencies will be present in your filter coefficient formula. Remember where we originally got sinc from: In the integral, the upper limit (1x) actually represents the highest frequency included (1), and the lower limit (0x) the lowest (0). So if you want a formula for a bandpass filter, you can write: where top and bottom are the cutoff frequencies in such way that 1 means the Nyquist frequency, and 0 means 0Hz. Now just put there whatever frequencies you want, calculate, and replace x with (pi t). Theres your filter coefficient formula ready For example, if you want to make a halfband lowpass filter (which naturally has cutoff frequency at samplerate4, same as Nyquist frequency 2): To create multi-band filters, you can combine several bandpass filter formulas by adding them together. The equalizer example If you want to make an equalizer (a filter that allows you to define the magnitudes for certain frequencies), you probably sum together a lot of bandpass filter formulas, scaled by the magnitudes you want for the frequency segments. This gives you a magnitude response that looks very much like as if it was made of bricks: Maybe youd want it to look more like this instead: There are three ways. The first way is to use smaller bricks, meaning that you divide the frequency into narrower-than-before segments and use interpolation to get the magnitude values for the new narrow bandpass filters you then combine. The second way is to define a polynomial (like ax3bx2cxd) that has the wanted characteristics (and where x1 represents freqSR2), and to make the magnitude response of your filter to follow it. This is possible. The third way is to add together several bandpass ramp filter formulas. In the magnitude response this solution looks like straight lines drawn between the adjacent defined frequencies. This is also possible, and, in my opinion, the best solution. Polynomial shaped magnitude frequency response In sinc, all the cosine waves added together have equal amplitudes, as you see here - all the frequencies are treated equally: You can change this by putting there a function g() that defines the amplitudes of the cosine waves of different frequencies: If the function g(x) is form axb, the calculations go like this: For a simple example, if we want the magnitude frequency response to be a straight line, starting from 0 at 0Hz, and ending at 1 at SR2, we define g(x) x: And the filter coefficient formula calculations for this: In other cases, to get the formula for a full polynomial, do the calculations for each of its terms (axb) separately and sum the results. Bandpass magnitude-ramp Heres an example of the magnitude frequency response of a ramp filter: To make a bandpass ramp, you must first define the polynomial g(x) that describes how the magnitude behaves inside the bandpass limits. The magnitude is linear inside the limits, so the polynomial g(x) must be form cxd. C and d can be solved from the equations: where x1 is the lower frequency limit, and x2 the higher. Y1 and y2 are the magnitudes of the limit frequencies. Remember that here x1 equals frequencySR2. OK, here are c and d solved: G(x)cxd is a polynomial, and you already know how to make the magnitude frequency response have the same shape (Section Polynomial shaped magnitude frequency response) as a polynomial. You also already know how to include only limited range of frequencies (Section Defining the frequency range included) in your coefficient formula. Combine this knowledge, and you can write the coefficient formula for the ramp bandpass filter: A note about implementing the equalizer. If the equalizer is to be adjustable realtime, recalculating the whole equalizer filter formula with all the trigonometric functions may turn out too heavy. It may be better to precalculate coefficients for several overlapping filters, for example these for a three-channel equalizer: When calculating the coefficients for the whole equalizer, just pick the corresponding coefficients from these, scale according to the equalizer sliders, and sum. If you take your FIR filter coefficients directly from your filter formula, you get a very wavy magnitude response. The reason is simple: The number of coefficients is limited, but the filter formula is not, it continues having nonzero values outside the range you are using for the coefficients. A windowing function helps. Not using a windowing function is the same thing as using a rectangular ( flat inside its limits) windowing function. Using a windowing function means that you multiply the values taken from your infinitely long filter formula by the corresponding values taken from your finitely long windowing function, and use the results as filter coefficients. Here are some windowing functions, and the produced magnitude responses of a FIR lowpass filter with a low number of taps, illustrated: As you see, the steeper the cutoff, the more waves you get. Also, if wed look at the magnitude responses in dB scale, wed notice that from the three, cos4 gives the best stopband ( the frequency range that should have 0 magnitude) attenuation. Mathematically, multiplication in the time domain is convolution in the frequency domain, and windowing is exactly that. (Also, multiplication in the frequency domain is convolution in the time domain.) I hope i didnt slam too many new words to your face. Time domain means the familiar time-amplitude world, where we do all the FIR and IIR filtering. The frequency domain means the frequency-amplitudeampphase world that you get into through Fourier transformation. And convolution In the time domain, FIR filtering is convolution of the input signal with the filter coefficients. Say you convolute 0,1,0,0,2,0,1,0 with 1,2,3 (where 2 is at the center): Youll get 1,2,3,2,4,7,2,3. If you understand this example, you surely understand convolution too. Ideally (impossible), there would be no windowing, just the constant value 1 infinitely in time. And a steady constant value in the time domain is same as 0Hz in the frequency domain, and if you (in the frequency domain) convolute with 0Hz, it is the same as no convolution. Convolution in the frequency domain equals to multiplication in the time domain, and convolution in the time domain equals to multiplication in the frequency domain. Sounds simple, eh But note that in this frequency domain, there are positive AND NEGATIVE frequencies. Youll learn about those in chapter Positive and negative frequencies. Words of wisdom You get flat (but not necessarily continuous) phase response if your filter (filter coefficients) is symmetrical or antisymmetrical (sides are symmetrical but have opposite signs, and the center crosses zero) around t0, even if you limit the number of coefs andor window them. Sometimes you can optimize your filter code a lot. Some coefficients may turn zero, so you can skip their multiplications. If your filter is symmetrical around t0, you can instead of input(t)ainput(-t)a write (input(t)input(-t))a). If your filter is antisymmetrical around t0, replace input(t)a-input(-t)a) with (input(t)-input(-t))a. Sinc(t) is 1 at t0, and 0 at other integer t values. Calculating the limit t-gt0 is very simple. If your filter formula was originally a sum cosines (meaning its not a phase shift filter), the limit t-gt0 is simply the area of the magnitude frequency response, in such way that the area of no filtering is 1. The actual filter implementation (after possible coefficient calculations) depends much on how the input data is fed to the filter. I can see three cases: You have the whole input data in front of you right when you start. A sample editor is a good example on this. This is the easiest case. With FIR filters, just take values from the input data, multiply with coefficients and sum, like this: output(t) a0input(t-2) a1input(t-1) a2input(t) a3input(t1) a4input(t2). The only problem is what to do at the start and at the end of the input table, because reading data from outside it would only cause problems and mispredictability. A lazy but well working solution is to pad the input data with zeroes, like this: This is how its mostly done with FFT filtering. With FIR filters, it isnt that hard to write a version of the routine that only uses a limited range of its taps, like this: and to use that version at the start and at the end. For this, it is easiest if you have a table of coefficients instead of hard-coding them into the routine. Data is fed to the filter in small chunks, but it is continuous over the chunk borders. This is the most common situation in programs handling realtime audio. One sample at a time. Case 2 can be treated as this, because the chunks can always be chopped into single samples. It is a fact that you cannot use future inputs in this case, so a FIR filter would have to be of form such as: output(t) a0input(t-4) a1input(t-3) a2input(t-2) a3input(t-1) a4input(t). Clearly this kind of a filter creates a delay, but thats just a thing you have to learn to live with. Also, you only get in one sample at a time, which is not enough for filtering, so you have to store the old input values somehow. This is done using a circular buffer. The buffer is circular, because otherwise youd soon run out of memory. Heres a set of pictures to explain the scheme: The buffer must be at least as long as the filter, but it is practical to set the length to an integer power of 2 (In the above example: 2532), because then you can use the binary AND operation to handle pointer wrapping always after increasing or decreasing one (In the above example, AND with 31). Even better, use byte or word instructions, and wrapping will be automatically handled in overunderflows caused by the natural limits of byte or word. Note that the buffer should be filled with zeroes before starting. A similar circular buffer scheme is also often the best solution for implementing the output part of an IIR filter, no matter how the input part was realized. There are both positive and negative frequencies. Until now we havent had to know this, because we have been able to do all the calculations by using sines as frequencies. Dont be fooled that positive frequencies would be sines, and negative ones something else, because that is not the case. In all real (meaning, not complex) signals, positive and negative frequencies are equal, whereas in a complex signal the positive and negative frequencies dont depend on each other. A single sinewave (real) consists of a positive and a negative frequency. So any sine frequency could be expressed as a sum of its positive and negative component. A single, positive or negative, frequency is: and could also be written as: As stated, a sinewave consists of a positive and a negative frequency component. Heres the proof: (The phase of the negative frequency must also be inverted, because it rotates to the other direction) As you see, the imaginary parts nullify each others, and all that remains is the real part, the sine wave. Amplitude of the sine wave is the sum of the amplitudes of the positive and the negative frequency component (which are the same). This also proves that in any real signal, positive and negative frequencies are equal, because a real signal can be constructed of sine waves. The complex Z-plane is a good place to look at positive and negative frequencies: Positive frequencies are on the upper half of the circle and negative frequencies on the lower half. They meet at angles 0 and the Nyquist frequency. Aliasing usually means that when you try to create a sine wave of a frequency greater than the Nyquist frequency, you get another frequency below the Nyquist frequency as result. The new frequency looks like as if the original frequency would have reflected around the Nyquist frequency. Heres an example: The cause of aliasing can be easily explained with positive and negative frequencies. The positive component of the sine wave actually gets over the Nyquist frequency, but as it follows the unit circle, it ends up on the side of negative frequencies And, for the same reasons, the negative component arrives on the side of positive frequencies: The result is a sine wave, of frequency SR-f. Analytic signal It is sometimes needed to first create a version of the original signal that only contains the positive frequencies. A signal like that is called an analytic signal, and it is complex. How does one get rid of the negative frequencies Through filtering It is possible to do the job with an IIR filter that doesnt follow the conjugate-pair-poles-and-zeros rule, but a FIR filter is significantly easier to create. Well use the old formula that we first used to create sinc: but this time, instead of cosines, only including the positive frequencies: As you see, the filter coefficients are complex. We should also halve the amplitude of the positive frequency (it should be half of the amplitude of the cosine, because the negative component is gone) but thats not necessary, because itd only scale the magnitude. To convert the complex analytic signal back to real, just throw away the imaginary parts and all the frequencies get a conjugate (on the z-plane) pair frequency. Here the amplitudes drop to half, but as we skipped the halving in the filtering phase, it is only welcome. The real to analytic signal conversion could also be a good spot for filtering the signal in other ways, because you can combine other filters with the negative frequency removal filter. Amplitude modulation Amplitude modulation means multiplying two signals. All samplepoints in the modulated signal are multiplied by the corresponding samplepoints in the modulator signal. Heres an example: What happens if we modulate a signal with a sinewave The original signal is (as we have learned) a sum of frequecy components, sinewaves of various frequencies, amplitudes and phases. Note that the signal we are talking about here is real, not complex. Say sNUMBER is one of the frequency components. So, we can write the original signal as: Now, if we multiply this signal with the modulator signal m, we get: This is good, because as you see, its the same as if the frequency components were processed separately, so we can also look at what happens to each frequency component separately. A frequency component can be written as: where amp is the amplitude, f the frequency and a the phase. The modulator sine can be written the same way (Only added the letter m): Multiply those and you get: If we discard the phase and amplitude information, we get: which is two frequencies instead of the origial one. Heres a graph that shows how the frequencies get shifted and copied. The original frequency is on the - axis and the resulting frequencyfrequencies on the axis: In the graph Modulated, the frequencies that would seem to go below zero, get aliased and therefore reflect back to above zero. In sampled signal, the Nyquist frequency also mirrors the frequencies. Frequency shifting With some tweaking and limitations, you could make a frequency shifter by using sinewave modulation, but theres a better way. Lets try modulating the signal with e(i mf x) instead of cos(mf x). Phases and amplitudes are irrelevant, so ive just ignored them. (I hope you dont mind) Lets see what happens to a single positivenegative frequency when it is modulated: The answer is very simple. The original frequency got shifted by the modulator frequency. Notice how the rule Multiplication in the time domain is convolution in the frequency domain. applies here also. Heres an example on the z-plane unit circle. p0, p1, p2 are the positive frequencies and n0, n1, n2 their negative conjugate frequencies. Say the modulator frequency rotates the frequencies 14 full cycle counterclockwise: In the modulated signal, the original pair frequencies (like p0 and n0) are no longer conjugate pairs. Thats bad. Another bad thing is that negative frequencies get on the side of positive frequencies and vice versa. But if we first filter all the negative, and those of the positive frequencies that would arrive on the wrong side of the cirle, and then modulate the filtered signal: (The filter formula is in the chapter A collection of FIR filters in section Combined negative frequency removal and bandpass) Now it looks better To make this filtered amp modulated complex signal back to real again, just discard the imaginary part and all the frequencies get a conjugate pair: For most sounds, frequency shifing doesnt do a very good job, because they consist of a fundamental frequency and its harmonics. Harmonic frequencies are integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. After you have shift all these frequencies by the same constant frequency, they no longer are harmonics of the fundamental frequency. There are ways to do scaling instead of shifting, but just scaling the frequencies would be same as resampling, and resampling also stretches the sound in time, so it has to be something smarter. The main idea is to divide the sound into narrow frequency bands and to shiftscale them separately. OK, so frequencies usually come with harmonics - Why Just think where sounds in nature originate from: vocal cords in our throat, quitar strings, air inside a flute. All vibrating objects, and you have probably learned at school that objects have several frequencies in which they like to vibrate, and those frequencies are harmonics of some frequency. What happens in those objects is that they get energy from somewhere (moving air, players fingers, air turbulence), which starts all kinds of vibrationsfrequencies to travel in them. When the frequencies get reflected, or say, go around a church bell, they meet other copies of themselves. If the copies are in the same phase when they meet, they amplify each other. In the opposite phases they attenuate each other. Soon, only few frequencies remain, and these frequencies are all harmonics of same frequency. Like so often in physics, this is just a simplified model. A note about notation. ) The fundamental frequency itself is called the 1st harmonic, fundamental2 the 2nd, fundamental3 the 3rd, and so on. Chromatic scale In music, harmonics play a very important role. The chromatic scale, used in most western music, is divided into octaves, and each octave is divided into 12 notes. The step between two adjanced notes is called a halftone. A halftone is divided into hundred cents. An octave up (12 halftones) means doubling the frequency, an octave down (-12 halftones) means halving it. If we look at all the notes defined in the chromatic scale on a logarithmic frequency scale, we note that they are evenly located. This means that the ratio between the frequencies of any two adjacent notes is a constant. The definition of octave causes that constant12 2, so constant 2(112) 1.059463. If you know the frequency of a note and want the frequency of the note n halftones up (Use negative n to go downwards) from it, the new frequency is 2(n12) times the old frequency. If you want to go n octaves up, multiply by 2n. But why 12 notes per octave As said, harmonics are important, so it would be a good thing to have a scale where you can form harmonics. Lets see how well the chromatic scale can represent harmonics. The first harmonic is at the note itself: 0 halfnotes 1. The second harmonic is at 1 octave 2. The third harmonic is very close to 1 octave 7 halftones 19 halftones 2(1912) 2.996614. Und so weiter. Heres a table that shows how and how well harmonics can be constructed: Not bad at all The lowest harmonics are the most important, and as you see, the errors with them are tiny. I also tried this with other numbers than 12, but 12 was clearly the best of those below 30. So, the ancient Chinese did a very good choice The above table could also be used as reference when tuning an instrument, for example a piano (bad example - no digital tuning in pianos), to play some keys and chords more beautifully, by forcing some notes to be exact harmonics of some other notes. A common agreement is that one of the notes, middle-a, is defined to be at 440Hz. This is just to ensure that different instruments are in tune. Flanger is simply: where d is the length of the variable delay. D values have a lower limit, and the variation comes from sine: Because d is not integer, we must interpolate. Most probably, annoying high frequency hissing still appears. It can be reduced by lowpass filtering the delayed signal. Wavetable synthesis means that the instruments being played are constructed of sampled sound data. MOD music is a well-known example. Also most of the basic home synthesizers use wavetable synthesis. Say you have a sampled instrument, and want to play it at frequency f 440Hz, which is middle A in the chromatic scale. To be able to do this, you need to know A) the samplerate of the sample and the frequency of the sampled instrument, or B) the wavelength of the instrument expressed as number of samples (doesnt have to be integer). So you decide to precalculate the wavelength to speed up the realtime routines a little: The samplerate of your mixing system, SR, is 44100Hz. Now that you know this, you can calculate the new wavelength, the one you want (number of samples): In the mixer innerloop, a sample offset variable is used in pointing to the sampledata. Every time a value is read from the sampledata and output for further mixing, sample offset is advanced by adding variable A to it. Now we must define A so that ol (256) is stretched (here shortened) to nl (100.22727), in other words, so that for ol samplepoints in the sampledata, you produce nl output values: Everything on one line: Thats it By using A as the addvalue, you get the right tone. Click removal There are some situations when unwanted clicks appear in the output sound of a simple wavetable synthesizer: Abrupt volume (or panningbalance) changes. A sample starts to play and it doesnt start from zero amplitude. A sample is played to the end and it doesnt end at zero amplitude. (Biased sampledata or badly cut out sample) A sample is killed abruptly, mostly happens when new notes kill the old ones. Poor loops in a sample. And what does help Heres some advice: Volume changes must be smoothed, maybe ramped, so that itll always take a short time for the new volume to replace the old. Clicky sample starts can be muffled, meaning that the volume is first set to zero and then slided up. This could of course be done beforehand too, and some think muffling sample starts is wrong, because the click may be deliberate. Some drum sounds lose a lot of their power when the starts are muffled. Another case is when the playing of a sample is not started from its beginning. That will most probably cause a click, but muffling is not the only aid - starting to play from the nearest zero crossing also helps. Abrupt sample ends should also be faded down. This may require some sort of prediction, if you want to fade down the sound before its ran over by another sound. This prediction can be made by using a short information delay buffer. It may be easier to just use more channels, to allow the new sound to start while the other one is being faded out in the background, on another channel. When the sampledata ends at a value other than zero, the cause may be that the sampledata is not centered around the zero level, or that the creator of the sample has just cut the end of the sample away. The easiest way to fix this is to fade out the end of the sample beforehand. However, this is not always possible. Symmetric form Turning an IIR filter backwards Getting rid of output(tn) Getting rid of input(tn) FIR frequency response IIR frequency response. Olli wrote he tried to make his text as down-to-earth as possible. Well, heres a more mathematical approach. But Ive still tried to make this intuitive and FUN rather than boring myself with lengthy proofs. This also means that there may be errors, most probably in signs. Symmetric form Say you have this IIR filter: You can put its equation to this symmetric form: Now define a new function, middle(t): You can rewrite this as: Notice how the transition from input(t) to middle(t) is a FIR filter and the transition from output(t) to middle(t) is another. So the IIR filter in fact consists of two FIR filters facing each other. This gives a simple approach to frequency response calculations (see the section IIR frequency response). Turning an IIR filter backwards You can solve input(t) from the IIR equation: Now swap input and output and you have a filter that undoes what the original did. But if the frequency response of the original filter was ZERO for some frequency, the inverted one will amplify that frequency INFINITELY. This is just logical. The inverted filter will also have an opposite phase shift, so that if R(f) is the frequency response of the original filter as a complex number and r(f) is the frequency response of the inverted filter, R(f)r(f)1 for every f. Getting rid of output(tn) Say you have somehow found that you need an IIR filter like this: You need to know both output(t2) and output(t-2) to be able to compute output(t). Doesnt seem very practical. But you can shuffle the equation a little: Now define a new variable ut2 and use it instead of t: Then solve output(u): Now you can use the filter. Getting rid of input(tn) Notice how in the previous example, input(t) became input(u-2). Had there been input(t1), it would have become input(u-1) which can be used in real time filters. Generally, you can get rid of input(tn) this way if the equation also uses output(tm) where mn, because you can define utm which turns input(tn) to input(u-(m-n)) which you get in time. If mltn, this is not possible: Here m0 and n1, so you cant get rid of input(t1) and keep the filter mathematically equivalent to the original. However, you can delay the output by one time unit: Usually, this small delay doesnt matter. But it changes the phase frequency response of the filter and this DOES matter if you then mix the filtered signal with the original one or others derived from it in that case, youd better make sure that all of the signals have the same delay. (Except if you happen to like the extra effect.) (For example, if you have a filter output(t)input(t-1), it doesnt do much as such. But if you mix the filtered signal with the original one, the mixing becomes a filter in itself and you can compute its frequency response and all.) If you try to force the original filter through the utm trick by introducing a dummy 0output(t1) term: youll just get division by zero. FIR frequency response Treat a sine wave as a rotating phasor e(it2piffs) where: The real component of this phasor is the regular sine wave. The neat thing about this is that you can multiply it with various complex numbers to scale the magnitude and shift the phase at the same time. By defining ze(i2piffs), the phasor can be written as zt. This is the same z that is used in pole-zero calculations (see chapter IIR filter design using pole-zero method). Heres the general FIR equation: Now, lets look what the filter does to an infinitely long sine wave with frequency f. But this sine wave can be replaced with the rotating phasor if we then throw away the imaginary component of the output. m(k) is real so the real and imaginary components cant affect each other. Here the zt factor doesnt depend on k, so it can be moved outside the sum: z depends on f (ze(i2piffs), remember) but the value of the sum doesnt depend on t. Ill call it R(f): output(t) is a rotating phasor at the same frequency as input(t) it just has a different amplitude and phase as defined by R(f). This means that for an infinitely long sine wave of frequency f, R(f) shows how the filter affects its amplitude and phase. In other words, R(f) is the frequency response of the filter. Its a complex function. If you dont remember what this means, see section Complex math with filters in chapter Whats a filter in this file. IIR frequency response When two filters are concatenated so that one filters output is fed to the other filters input, the responses are multiplied at each frequency: A filter that just connects its input to its output and doesnt change the signal at all has a frequency response of 1 at all frequencies: Now assume that we have a filter with frequency response R(f) and we make another filter with frequency response Rinv(f) that UNDOES everything the first filter did to the signal when they are concatenated. So the inverse filter also has an inverse frequency response. Remember, an IIR filter consists of two FIR filters facing each other (see section Symmetric form). This setup can be treated as a normal FIR filter followed by an inverted FIR filter: This means that if you can calculate the frequency responses of the two FIR filters, you can calculate the IIR frequency response by dividing one with the other. An example. You have this IIR filter. Change the names of functions a little: Compute the frequency response of filter input1-gtoutput1 (originally input-gtmiddle). The general formulas: In this particular case: The input2-gtoutput2 (originally output-gtmiddle) filter: Now the whole IIR: To actually calculate the frequency response at some frequency, youd apply Eulers formula and the usual complex number rules: R in the filters means resonance, steepness and narrowness. Fastest and simplest lowpass ever Fast lowpass with resonance v1 19 Comments raquo Thanks for posting this. It8217s a nice collection of audio DSP nuggets. May I suggest that the URL at the top of the original text document (iki. fiodspdspstuff. txt ) be pointed directly to this page. Comment by ColdCold 8212 2009-11-16 16:06 Thanks Mate, Greatly appreciate this tutorial. DSP in simple terms is not easy to come by on the Web Comment by Don 8212 2010-05-10 04:29 Thanks a lot. Very useful concepts explained in a lucid manner. Comment by Ravi 8212 2010-08-30 14:59 Hi, About notch filter.. Why I can8217t get the frequency cut effect Sample rate:1600 freq 1950 q 0.1 z1x cos(2pifreqsamplerate) a0a2 ((1-q)(1-q))(2(fabs(z1x)1)) q a1 -2z1xa0a2 b1 2z1xq b2 -(qq) 8212821282128212- frequency: 1950.000000 q: 0.100000 z1x: 0.195090 a0a2: 0.438887 a1: -0.171245 b1: 0.039018 b2: -0.010000 Each sample calculation: 82128212821282128212821282128212821282128212821282128212 reg0 a0a2 ((double)samplecurrentsampleminus2) a1sampleminus1 b1reg1 b2reg2 reg2 reg1 reg1 reg0 82128212821282128212821282128212821282128212821282128212 Is it correct Output is clean voice, but 1950Hz carrier is still there. BR Comment by Alexander Vangelov 8212 2011-03-16 22:46 Freq should be between 0 and samplerate2. (Just a quick comment before I go to bed) Comment by Olli Niemitalo 8212 2011-03-17 00:53 Thank you, it works :) I missed a zerro digit in parametters (just before I go to bed) Sample rate: 16000 Freq: 1950.000000 q: 0.400000 z1x: 0.720854 a0a2: 0.504599 a1: -0.727484 b1: -0.576683 b2: 0.160000 Comment by Alexander Vangelov 8212 2011-03-17 10:43 Very good tutorial, thanks Comment by Vadim 8212 2011-10-11 19:42 man, this is the best introduction (covering all topics) into DSP I stumbled upon perhaps I do have a chance to pass the exam. D sorry, for a double post. but8230 can you attest everything is correct for example, 822082218221 You can use any number of poles and zeros, but they must all have 8220conjugate pairs8221, if they are not positioned on the 8220-8221 axis. 822082218221 is this true I8217m playing with applets that allow for poles without conjugate pairs and seemingly band-pass filters (with regard to the magnitude response) can be built this way. can you please explain ( laps. fri. uni-lj. sidpsarhivappletiisipsystemv4.0srcapplet. html ) Doug, it is true, IF you want the filter to have a real output, not complex. If you make a bandpass with just one pole, and have the pole so close to the unit circle that the filter output is pretty much a single frequency, then the output of the filter will be a complex phasor rotating in one direction on the complex plane. If you switch the sign of the imaginary part of the position of the pole then you get as output a phasor that rotates in the opposite direction. If you have poles in both of those positions, then the output must contain both of those complex phasors in equal parts, thus the imaginary parts of the phasors cancel each other. So you get as output a real sinusoid. Good luck with the exam Comment by Olli Niemitalo 8212 2011-12-27 13:41 This is the first cogent explanation of poles and zeros that I have ever received. I feel better and worse at the same time, if you know what I mean. In any case. THANK YOU Comment by Mark McConnell 8212 2012-05-09 01:12 8230 Yehar8217s Digital Sound Processing Tutorial for the Braindead 8230 Nice Job Men82308230. I found it very helpful. Vielen Dank. Can you put implementation of audio effects in computer. Comment by Trnform3r 8212 2012-09-16 10:07 Sure, for example as a VST effect. Comment by Olli Niemitalo 8212 2012-09-16 22:14 This is fantastic nice work and a very well explanation of DSP. Thank you :D Comment by tor 8212 2013-02-16 01:42 Thank you so much for this informative writing on the subject which makes life much easier since no-where could I find any book on the subject which makes it as clear as you did here. Keep it going and thank you again. Comment by FJ Botha 8212 2015-02-21 10:14 Frickin delicious Seriously, i thank people like you for simply existing and count my blessings that i found this brilliant introduction you created. The note takingoutline is digestable in one bite and it will stick with me during my upcoming solo winter sound holiday to the pampa and magellians strait, the large uninhabited Falkland rock, and if im still alive - christmas island. Dec to Feb. I hope to capture enough sound to keep me glazed and deadeyed until black metal villians capture Oslo Comment by Mick Dkaye 8212 2016-10-18 19:13 And love that Black Deck. Masonna weeps Comment by Mick Dkaye 8212 2016-10-18 19:16 Leave a commentNyquist Effect Plug-ins Noise Gate Author: Steve Daulton. Noise Gates may be used to cut the level of noise between sections of a recording. While this is essentially a very simple effect, this Noise Gate has a number of features and settings that allow it to be both effective and unobtrusive and well suited to most types of audio. Select Function: Apply the Noise Gate effect Test the noise level View one of the Help screens. Stereo Linking: Link Stereo Tracks (gate audio when both channels fall below the gate threshold) Dont Link Stereo (gate channels independently) Apply Low-Cut filter: No (Do not apply filter) 10Hz 6dBoctave 20Hz 6dBoctave Removes sub-sonic frequencies including DC offset. Gate frequencies above: 0 kHz to 10 kHz Applies the gate only to frequencies above the set level which may be useful for reducing tape hiss, but will also introduce some phase shift. Setting this below 0.1 kHz will switch this feature off. Level reduction: -100 dB to 0 dB How much the gated sections are reduced in volume. Values below -96 dB shut the gate to produce absolute silence. Gate threshold: -96 dB to -6 dB When the audio level drops below this threshold the gate will close and the output level will be reduced. When the audio level rises above this threshold the gate will open and the output will return to the same level as the input. AttackDecay: 10 to 1000 milliseconds How quickly the gate opens and closes. At the minimum (10 ms) the gate will fully open and close almost instantly as the audio level crosses the threshold. At the maximum (1000 ms), the gate will begin to slowly open (fade-in) 1 second before the sound level exceeds the Threshold, and will gradually close (fade-out) after the sound level drops below the Threshold over a period of 1 second. Longer gate times (up to 10 seconds) may be achieved using text input rather than the slider. For more detailed information and usage tips, read the help file included in this ZIP package. or the help screens included in the plug-in. Author: Steve Daulton. The effect is like an upside-down Noise Gate. Whereas a Noise Gate attenuates sounds that are below a specified threshold level, Pop Mute attenuates sounds that are above a specified threshold level. The effect can be used to heavily attenuate loud sounds. It may be useful for rescuing recordings that suffer from loud clicks or pops. Sounds (such as pops) that have a peak level above the Threshold level will be lowered to a residual level set by the Mute Level. Be aware that ALL sounds above the threshold will be affected. Take care to avoid selecting loud sounds that should not be muted. The effect looks ahead for peaks so that it can begin to lower the level of the sound smoothly a short time before the peak occurs. This is set by the Look ahead time value. After the peak has passed, the level will smoothly return to normal over a period set by the Release time setting. To attenuate brief clicks, time values of around 5 ms are likely to work well. For larger pops, values of 10 ms or more may sound better. For reverberant sounds such as hand claps, the Release time may be increased so as to catch some of the reverberation. View Help: No Yes (default No) View the built-in help screen. Threshold: -24 dB to 0 dB (default -6 dB) This is the level above which sounds are acted on (reduced in level) Mute Level: -100 dB to 0 dB (default -24 dB) How much to reduce the peak level by. Look ahead: 1 to 100 milliseconds (default 10 millisecond) How far to look ahead for the next pop or crackle. Release time: 1 to 1000 milliseconds (default 10 millisecond) How rapidly to release the effect and return to normal volume after the pop has passed. Text Envelope Author: Steve Daulton. Provides an alternative to the Envelope Tool that is accessible for visually impaired and other users that do not use pointing devices. This effect provides a means to shape the volume level of a track or selection by fading from one control point level to the next. Control points are defined by a pair of numbers, the first of which sets the time position of the control point and the second defines the amplification level. Initial and final amplification settings may also be defined. Help screens are available in the Select Function control of this effect. Select function: choices: Apply Effect, View Quick Help, View Examples, View Tips. Default Apply Effect Time Units: choices: milliseconds, seconds, minutes, percent. Default seconds Amplification Units: choices: dB or Percent. Default dB Initial Amplification Numeric input. Default none Final Amplification Numeric input. Default none Intermediate Control Points as pairs of time and amplification Pairs of numbers. Default none Note: Decimal values must use a dot as the decimal separator. Band Stop Filter Author: Steve Daulton. A band-rejection filter that passes most frequencies unaltered, but stops those in a specific range. Set the Center Frequency slider, or type in a value for the center of the frequency band to block. Set the Stop-Band Width to determine how wide the cut frequency band will be. Smaller numbers will produce a narrower notch and larger numbers will cut a broader band of frequencies. This filter uses steep high pass and low pass filters to achieve the band stop effect. The filters iterate to improve the band stop efficiency for narrow band width and can thereby perform close to total blocking down to almost 14 octave. For even narrower notches a notch filter should be used. Chebyshev Type I Filter Author: Kai Fisher A Chebyshev filter with options for high-pass or low-pass operation. Type I Chebyshev filters can provide a steeper roll-off than Butterworth filters but at the expense of more ripple in the passband. The plug-in provides unity gain (except for ripple) in the passband. This plug-in is capable of providing an exceptionally steep cutoff transition by selecting a high order. Filter Type: choice: Lowpass Highpass (default Lowpass) Order: choice 2 to 30 in steps of 2 (default 6) The higher the order number, the steeper the cutoff transition from the passband to stopband. Cutoff Frequency: 1 to 48000 Hz (default 1000 Hz). The actual filter frequency is limited to half of the track sample rate (the Nyquist frequency ). For example, if the track sample rate is 44100 Hz, then setting the Cutoff frequency to any value greater than 22050 will produce the same result as setting the frequency to 22050 Hz. Ripple: 0.0 to 3.0 dB (default 0.05) Lower values will produce less ripple in the passband at the expense of a less steep cutoff. Higher values will produce a steeper cutoff but with more ripple in the passband. The difference in ripple and cutoff slope is likely to be most noticeable with low order filters and may be noticed as a slight boost or ringing in the passband just before the cutoff frequency. When Ripple is set to zero, the passband response is essentially flat and the filter has the characteristics of a Butterworth filter. The high-pass and low-pass filters may be used one after the other to produce a flat topped band-pass effect, in which the lower cutoff is provided by the high-pass filter and the upper cutoff provided by the low pass filter. The passband is the frequency band that passes between these two cutoff frequencies. Classic EQ Authors: Josu Etxeberria and David R. Sky. An Equaliser (EQ) that can modify more than one band at a time. You have 15 bands to choose from and can manipulate all of of them independently by moving their sliders. Example clips: clip 1 is a phrase spoken twice, first with no equalisation and then with the five lowest frequency bands raised 10 dB in clip 2, the five highest frequency bands are raised 10 dB. Comb Filter The name comb filter comes from how it acts on the audio spectrum its applied to: it looks like a comb with the teeth pointing up. For example, if you set the comb frequency at 1000 Hz, the comb filter emphasizes 1000 Hz as well as 2000, 3000, 4000 Hz and succeeding frequencies. Produces an airy effect, which is more pronounced the higher the comb decay value is set, and resonance is increasingly produced as well. A comb filter can be produced using flanger-like settings on a delay effect, but this filter does not use a delay to get the result, so it does sound somewhat different. Comb frequency: Hz, 20 - 5000, default 440 Comb decay: 0 - 0.1, default 0.025 Normalization level: 0.0 - 1.0, default 0.95 Customizable EQ Center frequency: Hz, 20 - 20000, default 440 Band width in octaves octaves, 0.1 - 5.0, default 1.0 Gain: dB, -48.0 - 48.0, default 0.0 Apply normalization Default no Normalization level: 0.0 - 1.0, default 0.95 Author: Steve Daulton This EQ is modelled on the EQ section of the Allen amp Heath(TM) GL series mixing desk. It is a 4-band EQ (equaliser) with two semi-parametric mids and provides independent control of four frequency bands plus a low frequency roll-off switch (HPF). Allen amp Heath (along with Soundcraft and Neve) are well known for their distinctive British EQ . The two mid filters are bell shaped peakdip filters which affect frequencies around a center point which can be swept from 500 Hz to 15 kHz, and 35 Hz to 1 kHz respectively. The width of the band is selected to provide effective control for both creative and corrective equalisation. 100 Hz HPF: (- 15 dB) attenuates frequencies below 100 Hz by 12 dB per octave. It may be used to reduce low frequency noise such as microphone popping, stage noise and tape transport rumble. HF Gain: sets the gain of the high frequency shelf filter which boosts or cuts high frequencies. Positive values will tend to make the sound brighter. Negative values will tend to make the sound less bright. High-Mid Frequency: (500 Hz to 15 kHz) sets the center frequency of the high-mid band filter. High-Mid Gain: (- 15 dB) sets the gain of the high-mid band filter. Low-Mid Frequency: (35 Hz to 1 kHz) sets the center frequency of the low-mid band filter. Low-Mid Gain: (- 15 dB) sets the gain of the low-mid band filter. LF Gain: (- 15 dB) sets the gain of the low frequency shelf filter. Positive values will tend to give the sound more bass and negative values will reduce the bass. High Pass Filter with q A high pass filter with q, or resonance. A high pass filter attenuates frequencies below a given cutoff point. The higher q is, the more the cutoff frequency will resonate (produce a tone). Applied to white noise, both this filter and the low pass filter with Q can be used to produce wind-like sounds at a constant frequency. See the high pass filter (LFO) and low pass filter (LFO) for ability to modulate a fixed resonance cutoff frequency. Cutoff frequency: 20 - 10000 Hz, default 1000 Filter q (resonance): 0 - 5, default 1 High Pass Filter (LFO) A high pass filter with a low frequency oscillator (LFO). A high pass filter attenuates frequencies below a given cutoff point. The LFO in this plug-in modulates the cutoff frequency up and down, like on an electronic synthesizer. LFO frequency: 0 - 20 Hz, default 0.2 - defines the speed of the oscillation, higher is faster Lower cutoff frequency: 20 - 20000 Hz, default 160 Upper cutoff frequency: 20 - 20000 Hz, default 2560 LFO starting phase: -180 to 180 degrees, default 0 Example clip 1: LFO frequency of 1.0 Hz, lower frequency 113 Hz, upper frequency 3620 Hz, applied to 110Hz square wave. Example clip 2: LFO frequency of 5.0 Hz, lower frequency 113 Hz, upper frequency 3620 Hz, applied three times to a voice. Alternative version Center cutoff frequency: 20 to 20000 Hz, default 640 LFO depth (radius): 0.0 to 10.0, default 1 - how far (in octaves) from center f the filter sweeps. LFO frequency: 0.0 to 20.0, default 0.2 LFO starting phase: -180 to 180 degrees, default 0 Hum Remover Author: Steve Daulton A filter for removing the sound of mains hum from recordings. The frequency of mains electricity is 60 Hz in the US, 50 Hz in Europe. This can create electrical interference in recordings with many harmonics. To remove the hum, this effect applies a series of notch filters based on the frequencies of mains electricity and the harmonics, which have frequencies that are at exact multiples of that frequency. To minimize loss of audio data, the number of harmonics may be adjusted so that only as many notches as required to eliminate the audible hum are applied. There are often more odd harmonics than even harmonics, so this effect allows the number of odd and even harmonic filters to be set independently. Unless the amount of hum is very bad, high level audio will often mask the hum, making removal unnecessary, but during quiet parts of the recording the hum may be unpleasantly obtrusive. This effect therefore has a threshold level control so that only quiet sounds (where the hum will be most noticeable) are filtered. Select Region: Europe (50Hz) or USA (60Hz), default 50Hz - Sets the fundamental hum frequency. Number of odd Harmonics: 0 to 200, default 1 - The first harmonic is 50 or 60 Hz depending on the region selected. Number of even Harmonics: 0 to 200, default 0 - The number of even harmonics to filter. Hum Threshold Level(0 to 100): 0 to 100, default 10 - The signal level, as a percentage of full scale below which the filters are applied. The Plot Spectrum effect can often provide a useful guide as to which frequencies need to be removed. First, select 50 or 60 Hz with the first control as appropriate, then set the other controls to maximum. Preview the effect frequently while reducing one control at a time to find the minimum settings required to remove the hum. Low Pass Filter (LFO) A low pass filter with a low frequency oscillator (LFO). A low pass filter attenuates frequencies above a given cutoff point. The LFO in this plug-in modulates the cutoff frequency up and down, like on an electronic synthesizer. LFO frequency: 0 - 20 Hz, default 0.2 - defines the speed of the oscillation, higher is faster Lower cutoff frequency: 20 - 20000 Hz, default 160 Upper cutoff frequency: 20 - 20000 Hz, default 2560 LFO starting phase: -180 to 180 degrees, default 0 Example clips 1 - 3: LFO frequency of 0.2 Hz, lower frequency 320 Hz, upper frequency 1280 Hz, applied to white noise once, twice and three times respectively. Example clip 4: LFO frequency of 1.0 Hz, lower frequency 320 Hz, upper frequency 1280 Hz, applied to 640 Hz square wave. Alternative version Center cutoff frequency: 20 20000 Hz, default 640 LFO depth (radius): 0.0 to 10.0, default 1 - how far (in octaves) from center f the filter sweeps. LFO frequency: 0.0 to 20.0, default 0.2 LFO starting phase: -180 to 180 degrees, default 0 Low Pass Filter with Q A low pass filter with q, or resonance. A low pass filter attenuates frequencies above a given cutoff point. The higher q is, the more the cutoff frequency will resonate (produce a tone). Applied to white noise, both this filter and the high pass filter with Q can be used to produce wind-like sounds at a constant frequency. See the low pass filter (LFO) and high pass filter (LFO) for ability to modulate a fixed resonance cutoff frequency. Cutoff frequency: 20 - 10000 Hz, default 1000 Filter q (resonance): 0 - 5, default 1 Multiband EQ Select total number of bands (T, from 2 to 30), band number (1 to 30, depending on how many total bands T you chose), and apply gain (-24 to 24 db). Determines width of band depending on total band number T you chose. Author: Steven Jones. Loosely based on the Mutron stomp box from the late 70s. Basically it is a filter controlled by an envelope follower. CenterCutoff: 0 - 10000 Hz, default 100 - sets the static filter frequency Depth: -10000 - 10000 Hz, default 5000 - sets the negative or positive filter modulation depth Band Width: 50 - 400 Hz, default 100 - controls the resonance, lower values being more resonant Mode: 0Low 1High 2Notch 3Band (default) - sets the filter mode: 0 Low pass, 1 High pass, 2 Band Reject (cut a notch at the filter frequency), 3 Band Pass Notch Filter Authors: Steve Daulton and Bill Wharrie. Like its name suggests, a notch filter cuts out a notch in the spectrum of your audio. The default frequency (60 Hz) can remove much of the hum that recordings can acquire from 60 Hz mains supply (as used in North and Central America and much of South America). You can set Frequency to 50 Hz to counteract mains hum in other countries. See chart of mains frequencies by country. Filter frequencies above 10000 Hz may be entered by typing the value but are only valid up to half of the sample rate of the audio being processed. Q values outside of the slider range can be entered by typing the values but must be greater than 0.01. Frequency: 0 - 10000 Hz, default 60 Hz Q: 0.1 - 20.00, default 1.00 - determines the width of the notch. Below 1 creates a wider notch, above 1 creates a narrower notch. Parametric EQ Author: Steve Daulton and Bill Wharrie A parametric equalizer is a variable equalizer effect which provides control of three parameters: amplitude, center frequency and bandwidth. This plug-in provides control of one frequency band that can be tuned to a user defined center frequency. The width of the affected frequency band may be adjusted with the Width control and the defined frequency band may be boosted or attenuated according to the Gain control. Frequency (Hz): 10 to 10000 Hz, default 1000 Hz - sets the center frequency of the filter Width: 0 to 10, default 5 - determines the width of the affected frequency band. Greater width settings affect a broader range of frequencies. Smaller width affects a narrower band of frequencies. Numerically the width setting is approximately the half gain width in half octaves, thus the default setting of 5 has a half gain width of approximately 2.5 octaves. Gain (dB): -15 to 15 dB, default 0 dB (no effect) - how much the filter center frequency is boosted or attenuated. Random Low Pass Filter Like someone is playing around with the cutoff frequency knob of your low pass filter. Because of the way the random signal is generated, the lower the maximum speed is, the higher the depth factor must be to produce a similar depth of filtering changes. If you generate white noise then apply this effect, you can to some extent simulate constant pitch wind noise. Max filter sweep speed: 0.01 - 10.0 Hz, default 0.2 - maximum speed of the random filter cutoff changes Filter depth factor: 1 - 300, default 20 - how extreme the random filter cutoff changes are Maximum cutoff frequency: 20 - 5000 H, default 2000 - the filters maximum cutoff frequency Resonant Filter Author: Steve Daulton A filter with low pass, high pass and band pass options with a resonance control. Audio filters are commonly designed to have a smooth frequency response that is essentially flat in the pass band then rolls off to a lower level in the stop band, but in some cases it is desirable to use a filter that has a peak and accentuates frequencies close to the defined filter frequency. Such filters are commonly used in sound synthesis to cause ringing at specified frequencies. This tends to be most effective with sounds that have complex frequency content, such as noise. Filter frequency: 1 to 20000 Hz (default: 1000 Hz) - The corner frequency of the filter. The frequency must be below the Nyquist Frequency (half the sample rate) or an error message will be displayed. Resonance (Q): 0.1 to 100 (default: 10) - The amount of resonance. Higher values will produce a more pronounced and narrower peak at the corner frequency. Lower values will produce a less prominant peak with values below 0.7 showing no peak at all. Filter type: choice: Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass (default: Low Pass) - Low pass allows frequencies below the corner frequency to pass through the filter and reduces frequencies above the corner. High Pass allows frequencies above the corner to pass and reduces frequencies below the corner. Band Pass reduces frequencies that are below the corner and reduces frequencies that are above the corner, allowing only a band of frequencies around the corner frequency to pass. Output Gain: -60 to 0 dB (default -12 dB) - Because the resonance accentuates frequencies around the corner frequency it is often necessary to reduce the output level of this effect. Lower (more negative) values reduce the level more. Shelf Filter Author: Steve Daulton A shelf filter with options for high shelf, low shelf or mid-band. Low-shelf filter passes all frequencies, but increases or reduces frequencies below the shelf frequency by specified amount. High-shelf filter passes all frequencies, but increases or reduces frequencies above the shelf frequency by specified amount. Mid-band shelf filter passes all frequencies, but increases or reduces frequencies between the low and high cutoff frequencies by specified amount. Filter type: low-shelf high-shelf mid-band - specifies which type of filter Low frequency cutoff: 1 to 10000 Hz - The corner frequency for the low shelf filter, or the lower corner frequency for the mid-band filter. High frequency cutoff: 0.1 to 20 kHz - The corner frequency for the high shelf filter, or the upper corner frequency for the mid-band filter. The high frequency cutoff must be less than half the track sample rate. Filter gain: - 30 dB - how much to boost or cut the filtered audio. Positive values boot and negative values reduce the level. Ten Band EQ An Equaliser (EQ) that can modify one band at a time. Select the band number (1 to 10) and gain (-24 to 24 dB).
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