Steve Pope wrote:

> I see a distinction between the "maximum output component" of
> a polynomial function being n-th order, and the polynomial function
> having "up to n-th order harmonics".

Not "up to n-th order harmonics", "up to and including n-th order
harmonics".

Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>
>> zebra <ezra@eastwestsounds.com> writes:
>> 
>>> there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
>>> up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...
>> 
>> I don't recall seeing that anywhere. Do you have a reference? Or is it
>> so simple it's obvious? :)
>
>
> It simply falls out in the algebra. Take a signal:
>
>      s(t) = sin (2 pi f t)
>
> and substitute it for x in a polynomial like:
>
>      p(x) = a + b x + c x^2 + ... n x^n
>
> Once you expand out the trig identities you will find the
> maximum output component by inspection.

Oh yeah. Cool - thanks Erik. 
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Erik de Castro Lopo  <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote:

>Randy Yates wrote:

>> zebra <ezra@eastwestsounds.com> writes:

>>> there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
>>> up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...
>> 
>> I don't recall seeing that anywhere. Do you have a reference? Or is it
>> so simple it's obvious? :)

>It simply falls out in the algebra. Take a signal:
>
>     s(t) = sin (2 pi f t)
>
>and substitute it for x in a polynomial like:
>
>     p(x) = a + b x + c x^2 + ... n x^n
>
>Once you expand out the trig identities you will find the
>maximum output component by inspection.

I see a distinction between the "maximum output component" of
a polynomial function being n-th order, and the polynomial function
having "up to n-th order harmonics".

Steve

Randy Yates wrote:

> zebra <ezra@eastwestsounds.com> writes:
> 
>> there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
>> up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...
> 
> I don't recall seeing that anywhere. Do you have a reference? Or is it
> so simple it's obvious? :)


It simply falls out in the algebra. Take a signal:

     s(t) = sin (2 pi f t)

and substitute it for x in a polynomial like:

     p(x) = a + b x + c x^2 + ... n x^n

Once you expand out the trig identities you will find the
maximum output component by inspection.

Erik
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zebra <ezra@eastwestsounds.com> writes:

> there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
> up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...

I don't recall seeing that anywhere. Do you have a reference? Or is it
so simple it's obvious? :)
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On Sep 24, 4:53&#4294967295;pm, zebra <e...@eastwestsounds.com> wrote:
> > you should try to design the non-linear operation or waveshaper so
> > that it inherently does not create any frequency components above fs/
> > 2. &#4294967295;at the &#4294967295;fs at which it is operating...
>
> oh right, for sure
>
> there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
> up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...
>

bingo!

jungledmnc wrote:

> But there are some things that bother me:
> 1) No filter is perfect. I don't know much about filter theory, but since
> there are typically parameters like -12dB per octave, then it does not look
> very good to me. 

With a halfway decent FIR you can do a lot better than -12dB per octave.

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On Sep 24, 2:28&#4294967295;pm, "jungledmnc" <jungled...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >i've lately been tweaking a lookup waveshaper. even when filled with
> >polynomial curves there are some additional interpolation artifacts
> >(hard to hear, though, amid all the intermodulation)
>
> Btw. what does exactly "lookup waveshaper" mean? I understand that it has
> a table. But how is that possible? In 32-bit floating point arithmetics it
> sounds impossible. You always have to limit the number of entries, but it
> creates "stairway" or you can use some kind of interpolation, which leads
> to a question if it is worth it, since modern processors rely on cache,
> that does not like tables very much :-).
>
> dmnc

yes, of course one interpolates, in a floating point world.

certainly there is a tradeoff, not the fastest thing nor the least
memory intensive but you can load arbitrary data, morph through stacks
of tables (which allows for variable assymetry and whatnot), and
generally have a very flexible synth component. that's the kind of
thing i have been working on for a while, your application is likely
very different.

and, of course, not all applications involve "modern" processors or
even floating-point arithmetic... i've done a lot of work with
synthesizers on 8051 arch chips...

-zeb

>i've lately been tweaking a lookup waveshaper. even when filled with
>polynomial curves there are some additional interpolation artifacts
>(hard to hear, though, amid all the intermodulation)

Btw. what does exactly "lookup waveshaper" mean? I understand that it has
a table. But how is that possible? In 32-bit floating point arithmetics it
sounds impossible. You always have to limit the number of entries, but it
creates "stairway" or you can use some kind of interpolation, which leads
to a question if it is worth it, since modern processors rely on cache,
that does not like tables very much :-).

dmnc

> you should try to design the non-linear operation or waveshaper so
> that it inherently does not create any frequency components above fs/
> 2. �at the �fs at which it is operating...

oh right, for sure

there is the always handy fact that an n-th order polynomial produces
up to nth order harmonics. so upsample by a factor of n...

i've lately been tweaking a lookup waveshaper. even when filled with
polynomial curves there are some additional interpolation artifacts
(hard to hear, though, amid all the intermodulation)