[PD] biquad~ with elementary filters [was: Re: dinosaurs ...]

[Damian Stewart]

Charles Henry wrote:

>> wow - this is a bit above my head at the moment. i can go from equations in
>> C to pd, but only if i have the equations themselves to look at...
> 
> It's easy.  I've done it half a dozen times.  For example,
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-01/046315.html
> 
> Look at the help file for biquad~ in Pd.  The equations are there.

last time i looked at the equations in biquad~'s help patch, my brain melted.

> Here's the transfer function:
> Y/X=(ff1 + ff2*z^(-1) + ff3*z^(-2))/(1 - fb1*z^(-1) - fb2*z^(-2))
> 
> or
> 
> Y/X=(ff1*z^2 + ff2*z^1 + ff3)/(1*z^2 - fb1*z^1 - fb2)
> 
> All that you need to do to find the complex zeros is to use quadratic formula
> on the numerator (ff1*z^2 + ff2*z^1 + ff3)
> 
> and do the same to find the complex poles on (1*z^2 - fb1*z^1 - fb2)

dude, that's not 'easy'. i can barely remember how the quadratic formula 
works with pen and paper, let alone in C, and let alone to the point where 
i could confidently transfer from C to Pd. i'd have no idea where the bugs 
were... and indeed, no idea

and once i've got these 'complex zeros' and 'complex poles' i don't have 
any idea how to plug them into czero~ and cpole~ (or is it rzero~ and 
rpole~?) objects.

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