[PD] Re: [PD-announce] PWM in Pd

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu May 25 17:51:49 CEST 2006


On May 25, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Ah yes, [pwm~] is using zexy's [>~].  I was looking at [pwm].   
>> That  example (I am looking at K01.pulse.width.mod.pd from 0.38.4)  
>> is very  simple, but as it is, it is not usable.  Notice how the  
>> LOW and HIGH  change values.  PWM needs be 0 for LOW and 1 for  
>> HIGH.  That example  is usable in an audio context, since DC  
>> offset doesn't really  matter.  I guess you could rely on the DAC  
>> in the soundcard to remove  the DC, but that is probably asking  
>> for trouble.
>> I am open to suggestions for a different algorithm.  Or perhaps   
>> someone should write [>~] in Pd.
>
> Maybe min~ would work better. The code is in d_arithmetic.c so it  
> seems trivial to make a >~ (and <~, >=~, <=~, ==~, !=~) that uses  
> essentially the same code except for one or two lines in the  
> perform routine.
> ...except for the error caused by the finite sampling rate, which  
> means that you never know exactly when the signal switches inside  
> of one sample time, so you get extra unwanted frequencies. Possible  
> solution to this would be some kind of interpolation between  
> samples so that the output of >~ could be intermediate between 0  
> and 1 if the transition occurred during the sample time and not at  
> the exact edge.

Feel free to make my PWM objects perfect, you can commit directly.

> A generalized band-limited pwm~ object could also be used as a  
> squarewave.

I had [square~] sitting around on my drive for a while, I just  
committed it:

externals/hcs/square~.pd

.hc

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