[PD] suggestions for spectral "weight" anaylsis

[William Brent]

Hi João,

A measure that would give something near 1.0 for white noise and near 0 for
a sine wave would be "spectral flatness", which is in the timbreID library.
But if you're looking to see how well a spectrum's partials line up
harmonically, you won't find that in timbreID yet. One quick option would
be to use sigmund~ to get the current pitch, then search the spectrum for
the amount of energy in bin ranges related to the expected set of
harmonics. Compare that with energy in non-harmonic bins. But then, for
things like gongs that sound "pitchy" but have inharmonic spectra, that
won't be much help. Depends a lot on what you're trying to do.

You *might* find specSpread~ useful, which measures how widely or tightly
energy is concentrated around the spectrum's center of gravity. It's in
units of Hz though.



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to ask if there are any suggestions for spectral "weight"
> analysis.
> With "weight" I mean a factor which would measure the harmonicity of a
> sound - e.g. white noise being 1, and a sinus/silence 0. Surely it exists a
> propper word for this already, but I don't know one.
>
> Is there any external or patch around that does something similar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jmmmp
>
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