[PD] Avoiding clips

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Fri Jun 13 21:02:39 CEST 2008



I made a lot of assumptions about Laus program there - but wouldn't
a 5ms fade out and in cause a nasty 'drop out' ? A 10ms gap is 
certainly something you'd hear, and I guessed Lau was trying for 
a perfectly smooth join. (?)

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:51:39 -0500
"Kyle Klipowicz" <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am I missing something or wouldn't it be simplest to add a quick and dirty 5
> ms or so fade in/out envelope that follows the timing of the array triggers?
> 
> ~Kyle
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Lau,
> >
> > I guess you're building a beat concatenator so you have no
> > room for introducing timing offsets.
> >
> > First, termminology - let's not call these "clips", I think
> > discontinuities is a better word.
> >
> > Your first solution is similar to what is being discussed in another
> > thread on dynamic delays - Millers "rendezvous" algorithm where
> > the two segments are spliced via a DC offset introduced by a ramp.
> >
> > The second one really amounts to crossfading or short window
> > average filter. Further, how can you
> > be sure your detector won't have a false positive from a fast
> > signal slew  rate?
> >
> > If my assumption is right then for simplicity I suggest
> > revising your constraints. A 64 sample crossfade will introduce
> > negligable timing problems.
> >
> >
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