Discrete Summation Formula (DSF)

  • Author or source: Stylson, Smith and others… (Alexander Kritov)
  • Created: 2002-02-10 12:43:30
notes
Buzz uses this type of synth.
For cool sounds try to use variable,
for example a=exp(-x/12000)*0.8 // x- num.samples
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double DSF (double x,  // input
            double a,  // a<1.0
            double N,  // N<SmplFQ/2,
            double fi) // phase
{
  double s1 = pow(a,N-1.0)*sin((N-1.0)*x+fi);
  double s2 = pow(a,N)*sin(N*x+fi);
  double s3 = a*sin(x+fi);
  double s4 =1.0 - (2*a*cos(x)) +(a*a);
  if (s4==0)
     return 0;
  else
     return (sin(fi) - s3 - s2 +s1)/s4;
}

Comments

  • Date: 2002-11-08 11:21:19
  • By: dfl[AT]ccrma.stanford.edu
According to Stilson + Smith, this should be

double s1 = pow(a,N+1.0)*sin((N-1.0)*x+fi);
                   ^
                   !

Could be a typo though?
  • Date: 2003-03-14 17:01:46
  • By: Alex
yepp..
  • Date: 2003-03-20 04:20:51
  • By: TT
So what is wrong about "double" up there?
For DSF, do we have to update the phase (fi input) at every sample?
Another question is what's the input x supposed to represent? Thanks!
  • Date: 2003-04-01 01:45:47
  • By: David Lowenfels
input x should be the phase, and fi is the initial phase I guess? Seems redundant to me.
There is nothing wrong with the double, there is a sign typo in the original posting.

I'm not so sure that there is a sign typo. (I know--I'm five years late to this party.)

The author of this code just seems to have an off-by-one definition of N. If you expand it all out, it looks like Stilson & Smith's paper, except you have N here where S&S had N+1, and you have N-1 where S&S had N.

I think the code is equivalent. You just have to understand how to choose N to avoid aliasing.

I don't have it working yet, but that's how it looks to me as I prepare a DSF oscillator. More later.
  • Date: 2008-11-02 11:47:07
  • By: mysterious T
Got it working nicely, but it took a few minutes to pluck it apart. Had to correct it for my pitch scheme, too. But it's quite amazing! Funny concept, though, it's like a generator with a built in filter. It holds up into very high pitches, too, in terms of aliasing, as far as I can tell... ehm...and without any further oversampling (so far).

Really, really nice! I was looking for a way to give my sinus an edge! ;)