[PD] 4-point interpolation changes timbre depending on sample rate

Max abonnements at revolwear.com
Sun Apr 25 16:52:18 CEST 2021


Here is a testpatch for delreadsinc~ (to open you must compile the 
feature/delreadsinc~ branch in [2]).
If you don't want to compile Pd, I uploaded a video:

https://youtu.be/bT74Qj_zmfU



On 25.04.21 14:45, Max wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> the 4-point interpolation in tabread4~ has been a popular topic in the 
> past, going back to at least 2008. [1]
> 
> A similar issue is in delread4~. In fact a simple resonator changes its 
> timbre quite drastically by just changing the sample rate of the audio 
> interface. Attached is a test patch.
> 
> The issue becomes audible when choosing an odd delay time and compare 
> the result between an odd and an even sample rate (e.g. 44.1k vs. 48k).
> 
> This is not good. In fact this is a serious defect. Imagine you want to 
> market a product like a synth plugin (based on libpd) which sounds 
> different depending on if the daw is opened in 44.1 or 48 kHz.
> 
> Cyrille Henry has coded tabread4c~ with a four-point cubic interpolation 
> in the nusmuk library, but there is no delread4c~ equivalent in nusmuk.
> 
> Clemens Wegener has coded delreadsinc~ which implements a 
> Whittaker–Shannon interpolation (Sinc function). This implementation 
> does sounds consistent in any sample rate. It also sounds much better at 
> very slow speeds inside a pitch shifter where delread4~ produces serious 
> artefacts. The Sinc function requires a larger padding for the 
> interpolation.
> 
> There are a couple of questions regarding on how to contribute this to Pd.
> Vanilla objects are currently:
> 
> delwrite~ = the sink
> delread~ = control rate tap
> delread4~ (vd~) = audio rate tap with a four-point interpolation
> 
> 1. the code in delwrite~ isn't agnostic towards the interpolation since 
> it already provides the padding for the 4 point interpolation
> 
> 2. if we add more interpolation methods to delread / tabread, the 
> cleanest way would be to just have one tap object and the interpolation 
> can be changed by a message and argument to it. currently there are 
> implementations for the miller 4pt, cubic 4pt and Sinc.
> 
> Unfortunately delread4 already carries the 4 from 4-point interpolation 
> in its name, so probably it would be the best to deprecate that and find 
> a new name like varidelay~ or so.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] Review of tabread4~ threads in the archive 
> https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2019-06/125391.html
> 
> [2] https://github.com/chairaudio/pure-data/tree/feature/delreadsinc
> 
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