[music-dsp] SVF stereo operation

[Russell Borogove]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:35:26PM -0700, Joshua Scholar wrote:
> Like in our mixing thread, constraints make simple problems subtle.
> 
> I just realized that my suggestion (using constant amplitude sample noise)
> isn't the perfectly general solution I thought it was.
> 
> I though making the noise a constant amplitude and adding it at every stagem
> would make creating the occasional denormal impossible by getting rid of all
> zeros, but it turns out that in a specific case, it can give you 50% zeros
> back!  If a stage turns out do do exactly nothing, or just a subtraction,
> then adding the next bit of noise can exactly cancel out the noise you added
> at the previous stage, for some samples - giving you (horrors) zeros!

Nothing wrong with zeros, though. Because of the precision 
limitations of floating point numbers, the operation:
 denormal + tinynumber - tinynumber 
is unlikely to result in a denormal. Denormals generally occur 
as a result of recursive multiplications. Finally, if you do 
occasionally generate a lone denormal, it's not that big a deal;
the problematic performance hit occurs when you get into long 
streams of denormals. 

-Borogove