Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-18 Thread Tom Szilagyi
Paul Winkler wrote: The fact is, if you have a normal musical signal, it will have much higher frequency components so zero-crosses occur much more frequently than this limit. I investigated this problem a bit before i settled on that 40 Hz... a mixed signal (a few instruments together), or higher

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:48:02AM +0100, Tom Szilagyi wrote: > Paul Winkler wrote: > >ok - what happens if the input is a 30 hz sine wave? > >assume it's coming from a particularly evil keyboard player ;-) > > > > That's a particularly evil situation. :) i know :-) > The fact is, if you have a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-17 Thread Tom Szilagyi
Paul Winkler wrote: ok - what happens if the input is a 30 hz sine wave? assume it's coming from a particularly evil keyboard player ;-) That's a particularly evil situation. :) The fact is, if you have a normal musical signal, it will have much higher frequency components so zero-crosses occur muc

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:29:41AM +0100, Tom Szilagyi wrote: > Yes you can. No, you can't actually, but you can eliminate the problem > so you don't have to solve it. There is a ringbuffer, with a length > chosen so it is capable of containing a whole half-cycle even at low > frequencies (40 Hz is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-17 Thread Tom Szilagyi
Paul Winkler wrote: > Hi folks, and Tom if you're listening, > > The description of the TAP Scaling Limiter is > very interesting - http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/#limiter > I'm just curious, having done no real DSP coding - > it must do some internal buffering, right? Right, i have to admit it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:47:59AM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > Hi folks, and Tom if you're listening, > > The description of the TAP Scaling Limiter is > very interesting - http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/#limiter > I'm just curious, having done no real DSP coding - > it must do some internal

[linux-audio-dev] TAP Scaling Limiter - how's it work?

2004-02-17 Thread Paul Winkler
Hi folks, and Tom if you're listening, The description of the TAP Scaling Limiter is very interesting - http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/#limiter I'm just curious, having done no real DSP coding - it must do some internal buffering, right? So how does it deal with half-cycles that fall on the