hi
wow, thanx for this post. this doesn't sound like crap at all...:-)
roman
----- Original Message ----- From: "matthew jones" mj@isvr.soton.ac.uk To: "PD-List" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at; "Roman Haefeli" reduzierer@yahoo.de Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [PD] more |vcf~| things
filters tend to get an unlinear behaviour somehow, the closer the cutoff-freq gets
to
the nyquist-frequency. maybe someone else has a more 'academic' explanation for that
behaviour.
yeah, here goes:
considering the filter in the z-plane, the poles (associated with the
peak
of the filter) occur in pairs: one is the conjugate of the other.
This
means that as you move the pole around from zero to pi, another pole
mimics
this, whose position is the same but reflected in the real axis. As
you
approach zero or pi, the peaks begin to merge into one, so there is a
less
rapid fall-off rate. Also the overall gain tends to increase for these regions, if fed
white
noise. This is simply to do with the superposition of the two
responses
(+ve and -ve freqs). The picture attached shows the response with a
single
pole at radius 0.6, first at pi/2 (black) and second at 4pi/5 (red).
Than again, if I'm talking crap please correct me!
Matt
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