Urs Heckmann

CLAP

and why it's a great name for an audio plug-in ABI

Let's start with a little essay:

“Since ancient times, clapping has always been deeply associated with music: From the rhythmic clapping at tribal gatherings or concerts, to the iconic clap sound in drum machines. But the ‘high five’ clap signifying shared achievement, closely related to the handshake signifying agreement or . . .

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June 12, 2022

Specimen

or why does my synth sound so different?

So I'm sitting here, tuning my algorithms and parameters to do just what the circuits do in that little black box next to me. I'd match some parameter ranges and curves, such as mapping cutoff frequency to its control voltage down to a few cents and then I'd try some oscillator and envelope on that control voltage. Quite often . . .

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March 30, 2016

One Pole Monster

going hands on with source code

That filter problem I've laid out in my previous blog entry... let's solve it. Unfortunately that code section has become much larger than I expected, so I've concentrated on the various methods to resolve that implicit non-linear equation with the tanh() term. As a drawback I've thrown the highpass input and the inverting . . .

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February 26, 2016

One Pole Unlimited

that tanh() feedback thing

Here's some more in depth analysis of one pole filters which we need later on to create more complex models. I'm dividing this article into several sections. First we'll present a "workable" schematic that lets us handle single pole lowpass filters with a lot of flexibility. Then we'll introduce the concept of . . .

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February 24, 2016

Analogue Modeling

or how we get to these equations

When dealing with music DSP stuff there's a great chance that one day you'll ponder about a mysterious issue: Do audio samples represent the voltages in electronic circuits or do they represent the currents? And somehow the most fundamental difference between sample based signals in DSP and that of analogue stuff seems to be just . . .

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February 23, 2016

Numerical Integration

What's up with that trapezoidal business?

So I finally fired up OmniGraffle to sketch some examples for Forward Euler vs. Trapezoidal Integration. Let's dive right in:

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The idea is, to integrate a known function y = f(x) we simply sample that function and build square blocks between the sample intervals. Those blocks are supposed to approximate the integral of . . .

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February 20, 2016

Zero Delay Feedback

or how we predict the future... not!

There's always a bit of a misconception as to what people mean when they talk about eliminating the unit delay in feedback loops, such as those found in analogue filter models. Here's a more or less comprehensive run down on what is actually meant by that.

Often enough I see people state that, in order to predict the output . . .

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February 04, 2016

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