ExtraWindows
ExtraWindows
A Quark that extends the Signal class of SuperCollider to support more windowing functions.
Developed by @khoin at DXARTS, University of Washington for an Independent Study (Winter 2019) under supervision of Dr. Joseph Anderson (@joslloand).
Installing
Requirements
ExtraWindows depends on certain special functions only available in SuperCollider 3.10.0 and up. Make sure your SuperCollider is up-to-date.
Then, execute the following code:
supercollider
Quarks.install("https://github.com/khoin/ExtraWindows.git");
List of Supported Windows
Below are windows supported by this quark. Some window methods are overriden over SuperCollider's default so as to provide the symmetry parameter; they are as such marked below.
All implementations below are in terms of x from 0 to 1 exclusive.
Bartlett (Triangular)
Also named Fejér window. Its main lobe is twice as wide as the rectangular window that's one sample longer. Its first side lobe twice far down as retangular (-26 dB). [3] Its implementation:
|1 - (x - 0.5)|
Blackman-Harris
Blackman-Nuttall
These windows are of the cosine-sum family with four terms. The Blackman-Nuttall window has peak side-lobe level at -98 dB while Blackman-Harris is at -92 dB.
Heinzel, et al. describes their purposes as "suitable for the detection of small sinusoidal signals adjacent in frequenct to large signals [...], as a general-purpose window [... for] high dynamic range if amplitude accuracy [...] is not very important". [1]
Gaussian
From J.O. Smith's SASP [3], "The Gaussian ''bell curve'' is possibly the only smooth, nonzero function, known in closed form, that transforms to itself."
Its implementation in SuperCollider:
supercollider
((-0.5) * ((x-0.5) * a * 2).squared).exp;
Hann
Hamming
Again, these two windows are of the consine-sum family, but with two terms. The Hann window's first sidelobe is at -31.5 dB compared to rectangular's first side lobe at -13 dB. The Hamming window is defined such that the first side lobe of Hann's is cancelled down to a fifth of Hann's.
Kaiser
Formulated by J.F. Kaiser [2], "The [Kaiser] window [...] is convenient to explore the tradeoffs between record length, spectral resolution, and leakage in digital spectrum analysis."
Its implementation in SuperCollider:
supercollider
(0.cylBesselI(pi*a*(1-(2*x - 1).squared).sqrt)) / (0.cylBesselI(pi*a));
When a is zero, Kaiser window reduces to the retangular window.
The half-width of the mainlobe is shown to be: sqrt(pi^2 + a^2)/(2pi*length)
.
The first side lobe ampltiude is: 20log10(sinh(a)/(0.217234*a))
. [2]
Lanczos
The Lanczos window is essentially a window which terminates at the first zeroes about the origin of the sinc function.
Tukey (Tapered Cosine)
Tukey window is the Hann window with 1's filled at its center.
References
- Heinzel, G.; Rüdiger, A.; Schilling, R., "Spectrum and spectral density estimation by the Discrete Fourier transform (DFT), including a comprehensive list of window functions and some new flat-top windows" Max Planck Institute (MPI) für Gravitationsphysik / Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy. http://edoc.mpg.de/395068
- Kaiser, J.; Schafer, R., "On the use of the I0-sinh window for spectrum analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 105-107, February 1980. doi: 10.1109/TASSP.1980.1163349 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1163349&isnumber=26144
- Smith, J.O., "Spectral Audio Signal Processing", online book, 2011 edition,http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/
License
See LICENSE
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Installation
Repository
URL
https://github.com/khoin/ExtraWindows
Since
2019-01-15
Last update
2019-03-29
Current version
0.1.1
Quark info
name
ExtraWindows
since
2019
author
Koi Nil
schelp
ExtraWindows
summary
Extra windowing functions for Signal class
version
0.1.1
organization
DXARTS, University of Washington