Re: [music-dsp] Auto-tune sounds like vocoder

2019-01-15 Thread Ben Bradley
I'm responding to this response as the original message didn't show up in my inbox. There's more to the sound than just the Autotuned or pitch-shifted signal. To make the 'phasey' sound the pitch-shifted and original signal are mixed together, and the result is a lot like the sound out of a

Re: [music-dsp] Sound Analysis

2019-01-01 Thread Ben Bradley
Your "detecting a wavelength of perhaps 0.7 cent off" caught my eye, as the Hammond tone generation is mechanically tied to the 50Hz or 60Hz power frequency, and I don't think the line frequency has ever been regulated as accurately as 1 cent (1/100th semitone). For accurate recordings, you'd need

Re: [music-dsp] PCM audio amplitudes represent pressure or displacement?

2017-09-30 Thread Ben Bradley
I'm pretty sure an instantaneous [audio] voltage (or a number in a stream of PCM values) represents a pressure differential, and not displacement. A loudspeaker driver in air (within its rated response) is constrained by the air, above its resonant frequency (at the low end of its frequency range

Re: [music-dsp] advice regarding USB oscilloscope

2017-03-07 Thread Ben Bradley
I've used the $400-or-so Rigol model (I forget the number), the interface is a bit clunky as one might expect with all the menus and features, but it works well. The "traditional" scopes only go to 8 bits, or maybe 12 bits at the most. As always, look carefully at the specs. A lower cost