[PD] organizing waveshapers
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Mon Oct 25 23:56:34 CEST 2010
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> zero-crossing detection is the basis of cheap pitch detection,
Yeah, but cheap like that is not worth buying into.
> and it also useful for automatically find cut points in samples so that
> there aren't clicks.
Right... instead, the worst it can get is a click-like artefact of a
different order, which is very much quieter, without any bass in it, and
usually not very noticeable (but there are exceptions). It's that the
waveforms have non-matching angles at the junctions. This is the kind of
problem there is with stretching high frequency signals using [tabread4~],
for example, whereas [tabread4c~] is fine.
In math words we'd say « zero-crossing splicing produces a C0 curve, but
doesn't try to produce a C1 curve, and almost never does ».
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