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- From: scm3775@tamsun.tamu.edu (Sean Malloy)
- Subject: Yeech! Adventures with PCM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.105245.27873@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:52:45 GMT
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- Okay, so my project's a little ambitious... But before I reinvent
- the wheel, I'd like to see if anyone out there has written/seen/
- heard a rumor about something similar.
-
- I want to make my machine (with MV's Thunderboard) be able to do
- some signal processing. Tone generation, signal mixing, transformations
- etc. So far, I've written code that will produce a .wav file which
- is a constant tone for frequency F at sampling rate S. (Whee!)
- Mixing tones is trivial, and I should be able to do that when I get
- a few spare hours.
-
- But what I need is a spectrum analyzer, and I don't have the $$$
- (or the relatives at HP) to get one. So, I was wondering if there
- was an application out there that could take a .wav (.voc .snd .au etc)
- file and show me frequency components. I suppose I could write one,
- but it's shaping up to be a bear... Get a Taylor Series for the waveform
- reconstructed from the PCM data, and do a Fast Fourier Transform on it.
- Not a fast series of operations...
-
- Not to mention that this is somewhat inaccurate, since the Taylor
- Series expansion is an approximation of the analog waveform,..
-
- Aargh! Any people out there already walked this path and willing
- to share information? All help appreciated.
-
- -Sean
- --
-
- Sean C. Malloy - Texas A&M University - scm@tamu.edu
-