Hello Brad,
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Brad Stewart <brads...@fastmail.us> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing an embedded project using some of the code in FluidSynth. > > The target is an ARM Cortex M4 and am using integer math. Most of the > coefficients are in Q15 format. > > So far, I'm able to generate different notes with sound font files and use > some of the CMSIS DSP libraries to generate high order IIR filters. > > But I am having no luck with any interpolation routines. I ran some tests > using the command line version of FluidSynth on a laptop running Ubuntu 14. > > I created a sine wave sound font (using Swami) with a sample rate of 20050 > Hz, root note is 86. It's looping over several cycles. The image > *Midi_60_no_interpolation.jpg* picture shows the result with no > interpolation (I get the exact same results on my embedded platform). This > is using "interp 0". (Note that the ringing is due to the sinc function in > the Codec filter/decimator.) > > If I then set "interp 1", I get the image as shown in > *Midi_60_linear_interpolation.jpg* which is a major improvement. > > I have reviewed the code inside *fluid_voice_dsp.c* and have set up my > program to emulate the equations. I converted the floating point > coefficients to Q15 format. It seems to do exactly what it's supposed to > do. Yet I see no improvement what-so-ever except at higher note values. > > However...I don't see how linear interpolation can work. If you have > straight lines (i.e. the "steps" in the first waveform), a linear > interpolation won't change anything since the current sample and the next > sample are the same over several samples. > > Are you up-sampling before you to do the linear interpolation? I didn't > see any evidence in the code. Or do you simply take the loop sample as is > and step through it using dsp_phase_index? I don't think the bi-quad post > filter has an effect since it has a very high cut-off. Nor should the > reverb or chorus blocks have any effect (since they're disabled anyway in > my test). > > What am I missing? > > Thanks for your time and consideration. Any advice or insight is > appreciated. I really like FluidSynth. > > Brad Stewart > > P.S. I also implemented the 4th order interpolation but it didn't change > anything--I still get the "stepped" waveform. (At 50MHz clock, the M4 can > process 128 samples in <1uS with sound fonts stored in internal Flash > memory. Pretty impressive.) > > Let me make sure I understand your situation correctly.. So you have taken the interpolation code in fluid_rvoice_dsp.c and adapted it to integer math and there is something wrong with the ported code, since it is not interpolating as expected. It has been a while since I delved into the interpolation code and I did not originally write it (though I did muck about in that area a bit). If you look at the fluid_rvoice_dsp_config() routine you will see that it initializes the interpolation tables, including interp_coeff_linear, which essentially stores 2 tables of linearly increasing and decreasing values from 0 to 1. These values are then used depending on the current sample index fraction (think of the current sample pointer as being at a position which may be in between 2 consecutive samples - the fraction component). If the fractional position is closer to the first sample, then it will have a higher weight in the linear calculation of the sample value which gets synthesized. I hope that makes sense and perhaps you already knew this - seeing as you have done this port. I would make sure that your ported code retains this fractional sample pointer component and is using it properly and that your linear coefficients table is properly initialized. You should be able to see this stuff at work by single stepping the code and looking at the calculations to see if they are behaving as expected. Hope that helps. Maybe I did not get your scenario right though, if so, please explain in more detail. Best regards, Element Green
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