On 15/04/18 20:55, Frank Sheeran wrote:
I'm currently just looping and calling sin() a lot. I use trivial 4-way
symmetry of sin() and build a "mipmap" of progressively octave-higher versions
of a wave, to play for higher notes, by copying samples off the lowest-frequency
waveform. That still is only 8x faster than the naive way to do it.
I know in theory that a FFT or DFT will turn a CONTINUOUS graph of frequency
into a graph of time, and vice versa, but if I don't have a a continuous graph
of frequency but rather an array of strengths, can I still use it?
this sounds a lot like FFT-1 by Freed, Rodet, Depalle:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/IRCAM/hal-01105443
I thought of making a continuous graph of frequency from my harmonics, but 1)
sounds quite imprecise
nope, since you also have to provide the phase
and 2) I note real FFT graphs have smooth "hills" where
harmonics are, rather than point peaks, and am wondering whether I'd get
expected output if I didn't generate those hills.
...Diemo
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