Hi Joćo,

A measure that would give something near 1.0 for white noise and near 0 for a sine wave would be "spectral flatness", which is in the timbreID library. But if you're looking to see how well a spectrum's partials line up harmonically, you won't find that in timbreID yet. One quick option would be to use sigmund~ to get the current pitch, then search the spectrum for the amount of energy in bin ranges related to the expected set of harmonics. Compare that with energy in non-harmonic bins. But then, for things like gongs that sound "pitchy" but have inharmonic spectra, that won't be much help. Depends a lot on what you're trying to do.

You *might* find specSpread~ useful, which measures how widely or tightly energy is concentrated around the spectrum's center of gravity. It's in units of Hz though.



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Joćo Pais <jmmmpais@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I wanted to ask if there are any suggestions for spectral "weight" analysis.
With "weight" I mean a factor which would measure the harmonicity of a sound - e.g. white noise being 1, and a sinus/silence 0. Surely it exists a propper word for this already, but I don't know one.

Is there any external or patch around that does something similar?

Thanks,

jmmmp

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