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Goertzel
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Calculate a single DFT bin, to detect presence of a frequency

Description

The Goertzel algorithm is a way to calculate the magnitude and phase of a signal's content at a single specified frequency. It's the equivalent of running an FFT, and then only looking at the output corresponding to a single bin. If you're only interested in a small number of bins then it is more efficient; if you're interested in the majority of bins, you typically want to do an FFT instead.

Class Methods

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Arguments:

in
bufsize

used in the same way as an FFT buffer size - the larger this value, the better the frequency resolution, but the worse the time resolution.

freq

target frequency. This can not be modulated.

hop

same meaning as in the FFT UGen. Supply a value between zero and one, for the amount of overlap between Goertzel "frames". The default is a hop of 1 (meaning no overlap between frames). If you specify 0.5 then the analysis value will be produced twice as often; 0.25, four times as often.

Examples