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- Filter
- Ver 1.00
- By
- Jamie Mueller
-
- Filter is a simple program based on the principles of digital signal
- processing. The program uses 256 point FHTs (Yes 'H' for Fast Hartley
- Transforms, but more on that later) to filter out different frequencies
- according to a filter you design. You can load (in fact you have to, to get
- any results out! :) an IFF sound file and filter out unwanted frequencies
- (i.e. noise) and save it back to another file. The loaded file MUST be an
- IFF sound file, not raw or otherwise.
-
- To design the filter just click in the "Filter Characteristics" window and
- draw in a filter (the mouse pointer will draw wherever you move the mouse,
- but the graph will only be updated when you let go of the left mouse
- button). The filter is designed in decibels; from 0 to -60 db (no
- amplification because if the sample already uses all 8 bits of the sound
- where would it put the 'extra' information??) NOTE: A db is 20 times the log
- of the 'gain' so a gain of -60 db would be equal to multiplying that
- frequency by 0.001 (if it sounds complicated, just play with the program,
- you'll figure it out! :).
-
- In addition to the Filter Characteristics; a plot of the original and
- filtered data can be 'opened' (under windows on the menu). These plots are
- also in db (NOTE: These plots will never show a negative db because that
- corresponds to a decimal and the Amiga stores the audio information in
- integers).
-
- The FHT transform used in the program computes the same information as a
- FFT would except that the 'butterfly' routine has half as many multiplies as
- a comparable FFT! This translates to a little extra speed. For comparison,
- my PrintSpec program uses 256 point FFTs and it gets about .88 sec per
- transform. This program, however, realizes about .55 to .60 sec per
- transform. (NOTE: Both this program and the PrintSpec program use the FFP
- library for math).
-
- If you find this program useful (or otherwise) please let me know! I can
- be located on GEnie as C.MUELLER. (sorry about the other services as I'm not
- rich!).
-
- Jamie C.MUELLER
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