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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00620000000000000000"></A>
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<A NAME="sect2.sampling"></A>
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Sampling
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"Sampling"
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<A NAME="2203"></A>
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is nothing more than recording a live signal into a wavetable, and then later
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playing it out again. (In commercial samplers the entire wavetable is
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usually called a "sample" but to avoid confusion we'll only use the word
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"sample" here to mean a single number in an audio signal.)
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At its simplest, a sampler is simply a wavetable oscillator, as was shown in
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Figure <A HREF="node27.html#fig02.03">2.3</A>. However, in the earlier discussion we imagined playing
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the oscillator back at a frequency high enough to be perceived as a pitch, at
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least 30 Hertz or so. In the case of sampling, the frequency is usually lower
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than 30 Hertz, and so the period, at least 1/30 second and perhaps much more, is
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long enough that you can hear the individual cycles as separate events.
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Going back to Figure <A HREF="node26.html#fig02.02">2.2</A>, suppose that instead of 40 points the
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ALT="$x[n]$"> is a one-second recording, at an original
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sample rate of 44100, so that it has 44100 points; and let
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ALT="$y[n]$"> in part (b) of the figure have a period of 22050 samples. This
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corresponds to a frequency of 2 Hertz. But what we hear is not a pitched sound
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at 2 cycles per second (that's too slow to hear as a pitch) but rather, we
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ALT="$x[n]$"> played back repeatedly at double speed. We've
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just reinvented the sampler.
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ALT="$t=3/2$"> means transposing upward a perfect fifth), and if we denote the
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<A NAME="2206"></A>Transposition Formulas for Looping Wavetables:
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t = {N / M} = {{N f} / R}
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<!-- MATH
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f = {{2^{h/12} R} \over N}
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<!-- MATH
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N = {{2^{h/12} R} \over f}
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ALT="$y[t]$">, but, as suggested in
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parts (d) and (e) of Figure <A HREF="node26.html#fig02.02">2.2</A>, we could use anything we like as an
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input signal. In general, the transposition may be time dependent and
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is controlled by the rate of change of the input signal.
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<A NAME="2217"></A>Momentary Transposition Formulas for Wavetables:
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<!-- MATH
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<!-- MATH
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h[n] = 12 {{\log_2} \left | y[n] - y[n-1] \right |}
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give rise to pitch) transposed, but so are the frequencies of
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the overtones. Some timbres, notably those of vocal sounds, have characteristic
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frequency ranges in which overtones are stronger than other nearby ones.
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Such frequency ranges are also transposed, and this is is heard as
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a timbre change. In language that will be made more precise in Section
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<A HREF="node76.html#sect5-spectra">5.1</A>,
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we say that the
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<A NAME="2221"></A><I>spectral envelope</I> is transposed along with the pitch or
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pitches.
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In both this and the preceding section, we have considered playing
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repeated quickly enough that the repetition gives rise to a pitch, say between
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30 and 4000 times per second, roughly the range of a piano. In the current
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to a rate of repetition below 30, usually much lower, and going down as low as
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The number 30 is significant for another reason: it is roughly the maximum
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number of separate events the ear can discern per second; for instance, 30
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vocal phonemes, or melodic notes, or attacks of a snare drum are about the most
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we can hope to crowd into a second before our ability to distinguish them
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breaks down.
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A continuum exists between samplers and wavetable oscillators, in that the
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patch of Figure <A HREF="node27.html#fig02.03">2.3</A> can either be regarded as a sampler (if the
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frequency of repetition is less than about 20 Hertz) or as a wavetable oscillator
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(if the frequency is greater than about 40 Hertz). It is possible to move
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continuously between the two regimes.
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Furthermore, it is not necessary to play an entire wavetable in a loop; with a bit
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more arithmetic we can choose sub-segments of the wavetable, and these can change
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in length and location continuously as the wavetable is played.
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The practice of playing many small segments of a wavetable in rapid succession
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is often called
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<A NAME="2225"></A><I>granular synthesis</I>.
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For much more discussion of the possibilities, see [<A
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HREF="node202.html#r-roads01">Roa01</A>].
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Figure <A HREF="#fig02.05">2.5</A> shows how to build a very simple looping sampler. In the
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figure, if the frequency is <IMG
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ALT="$f$"> and the segment size in samples is <IMG
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rate at which the wavetable was recorded (which need not equal the sample rate
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the block diagram is working at.) In practice, this equation must usually
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be solved for either <IMG
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ALT="$f$"> or <IMG
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ALT="$s$"> to attain a desired transposition.
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In the figure, a sawtooth oscillator controls the location of wavetable lookup,
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but the lower and upper values of the sawtooth aren't statically
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specified as they were in Figure <A HREF="node27.html#fig02.03">2.3</A>; rather, the sawtooth
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oscillator simply ranges from 0 to 1 in value and the range is adjusted
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to select a desired segment of samples in the wavetable.
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It might be desirable to specify the segment's location <IMG
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ALT="$l$"> either as its
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left-hand edge (its lower bound) or else as the segment's midpoint; in either
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case we specify the length <IMG
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ALT="$s$"> as a separate parameter. In the first
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case, we start by
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multiplying the sawtooth by <IMG
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ALT="$s$">, so that it then ranges from <IMG
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we add <IMG
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ALT="$l$"> so that it now ranges from <IMG
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location as the segment's midpoint, we first subtract <IMG
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ALT="$1/2$">), and then as before multiply by <IMG
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ALT="$s$">
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(so that it now ranges from <IMG
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ALT="$s/2$">) and add <IMG
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ALT="$l+s/2$">.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="fig02.05"></A><A NAME="2232"></A>
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<TABLE>
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<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 2.5:</STRONG>
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A simple looping sampler, as yet with no amplitude control.
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There are inputs to control the frequency and the segment size and location.
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as the segment's midpoint; otherwise we specify the location of the left
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end of the segment.</CAPTION>
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ALT="\begin{figure}\psfig{file=figs/fig02.05.ps}\end{figure}"></TD></TR>
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In the looping sampler,
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we will need to worry about maintaining continuity between the beginning and the
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end of segments of the wavetable; we'll take this up in the next section.
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<P>
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A further detail is that, if the segment size and location are changing
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with time (they might be digital audio signals themselves, for instance),
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they will affect the transposition factor, and the pitch or timbre of the
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output signal might waver up and down as a result. The simplest way to
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avoid this problem is to synchronize changes in the values of <IMG
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with the regular discontinuities of the sawtooth; since the signal jumps
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discontinuously there, the transposition is not really defined there anyway,
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in <IMG
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