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stk::BlitSaw Class Reference

STK band-limited sawtooth wave class. More...

#include <BlitSaw.h>

Inheritance diagram for stk::BlitSaw:
stk::Generator stk::Stk

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

 BlitSaw (StkFloat frequency=220.0)
 Class constructor.
 ~BlitSaw ()
 Class destructor.
void reset ()
 Resets the oscillator state and phase to 0.
void setFrequency (StkFloat frequency)
 Set the sawtooth oscillator rate in terms of a frequency in Hz.
void setHarmonics (unsigned int nHarmonics=0)
 Set the number of harmonics generated in the signal.
StkFloat lastOut (void) const
 Return the last computed output value.
StkFloat tick (void)
 Compute and return one output sample.
StkFramestick (StkFrames &frames, unsigned int channel=0)
 Fill a channel of the StkFrames object with computed outputs.

Detailed Description

STK band-limited sawtooth wave class.

This class generates a band-limited sawtooth waveform using a closed-form algorithm reported by Stilson and Smith in "Alias-Free Digital Synthesis of Classic Analog Waveforms", 1996. The user can specify both the fundamental frequency of the sawtooth and the number of harmonics contained in the resulting signal.

If nHarmonics is 0, then the signal will contain all harmonics up to half the sample rate. Note, however, that this setting may produce aliasing in the signal when the frequency is changing (no automatic modification of the number of harmonics is performed by the setFrequency() function).

Based on initial code of Robin Davies, 2005. Modified algorithm code by Gary Scavone, 2005.


Member Function Documentation

void stk::BlitSaw::setHarmonics ( unsigned int  nHarmonics = 0  ) 

Set the number of harmonics generated in the signal.

This function sets the number of harmonics contained in the resulting signal. It is equivalent to (2 * M) + 1 in the BLIT algorithm. The default value of 0 sets the algorithm for maximum harmonic content (harmonics up to half the sample rate). This parameter is not checked against the current sample rate and fundamental frequency. Thus, aliasing can result if one or more harmonics for a given fundamental frequency exceeds fs / 2. This behavior was chosen over the potentially more problematic solution of automatically modifying the M parameter, which can produce audible clicks in the signal.

StkFrames & stk::BlitSaw::tick ( StkFrames frames,
unsigned int  channel = 0 
) [inline, virtual]

Fill a channel of the StkFrames object with computed outputs.

The channel argument must be less than the number of channels in the StkFrames argument (the first channel is specified by 0). However, range checking is only performed if _STK_DEBUG_ is defined during compilation, in which case an out-of-range value will trigger an StkError exception.

Implements stk::Generator.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK)
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