[PD] how to create a lowpass filter from first principles?

[Geoff]

Hi
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their guidance,
I am on chapter three of Millers wonderful book which I have printed  
out.
and am just beginning to try out the all stuff you have suggested.

It will take me a while to get to grips with it as I am an absolute  
beginner on both PD and DSP concepts.

Thanks
geoff



On 22 Jan 2009, at 23:56, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Geoff hat gesagt: // Geoff wrote:
>
>> The DSP book I have read gives a simple lowpass filter function as
>>
>> g(n) = (f(n-1) + f(n) + f(n+1))/3
>>
>> i.e the average value of three consecutive samples. I understand how
>> this is in effect a lowpass filter.
>>
>> How do I implement that in PD?
>
> A lot of that is explained in Miller's book:
> http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node127.html
> You better read the previous chapter on Delays first, it contains
> important info as well.
>
> Generally the basic objects for filter design are [rzero~],  
> [rpole~] and
> [czero~], [cpole~] and another one is [biquad~].
>
> With the zero/pole objects you directly give the location of poles and
> zeroes of your filter while the biquad~ is an alternative way to  
> express
> two zero and two pole objects in one.
>
> I don't know the meaning of the variables in your formula,  
> especially the
> f(n+1) looks strange: Is this a value of the future or an output  
> value,
> like the "y" variables in many other filter equations? Anyway you  
> can sum
> up the current and the previous samples easily with rzero~:
>
>  [sig~ 1]
>  |
>  [rzero~ -1]
>  |
>  [snapshot~]
>  |
>  [2 \
>
> For more complex filters check out Miller's book and the examples
> included in Pd.
>
> I recently also wrote a lot of filter abstractions for the RjDj  
> library:
> see http://trac.rjdj.me/browser/trunk/rjlib/rj The interesting objects
> there are e_beequad.pd as a biquad~ clone and these for calculating
> various coefficients: u_lowpass, u_lowpassq, u_highpass,  
> u_highpassq, ...
>
> e_lop4.pd also is interesting: It's a 4 pole resonant lowpass filter,
> good for moogish synths, when combined with the bandlimited  
> oscillators
> of s_osc.pd there. All these filtes use zero/pole objects inside.
>
> RjDj abstractions are for Pd vanilla, so they run everywhere.
>
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank Barknecht
>
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