[music-dsp] help

[Damien Cirotteau]

Hi Martial,

Did you considered have a look at fluidsynth [0] or timidity [1] source
code?

As they are softsynth which manage soundfonts, they should adress the
problems you are facing. 

Please take in consideration that those soft are free software, so if
you use some code (and even if you take some inspirations) from them,
you will have to release your soft under the same license (GPL for both
of them).

Good work,
damien

[0] http://www.fluidsynth.org/
[1] http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/timidity/

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:17:38PM -0500, martial.berthod at labtronix.biz wrote :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new and my English is not very good but I'll try to do my best.
> 
> First I read a lot of post and it's very interesting. But some questions
> came thought my head. Are the people who post the message works only on the
> PC or on other platforms (I mean by this some microprocessor like
> TMS320C6XXX DSP from TI). I don't want to bother them with my questions.
> 
> Second, I'm working on a MIDI sequencer and synthesizer, based on SoundFont
> technologies. Do you think somebody is interesting in that kind of thing ?
> 
> Third , when I want to post a topic or reply to a message, which form my
> mail must have ?
> 
> I want to post a topic and if everything is ok, post the following text:
> 
> Subject : Pitch-shifting and efficient algorithms
> 
> Hi everybody
> 
> I am a newbie but I have read a lot of post.
> Ok this is my question now; stop me if I am going wrong: 
> 
> I am working on a DSP from TI (TMS320C6711 DSK). I'll try to implement a
> MIDI synthesizer in it, based on SoundFont technologies (www.soundfont.com
> <http://www.soundfont.com>  for details). I know this is a big enterprise
> and I am not so far in the project. 
> 
> The thing that stops me is the pitch modification when (suppose this) you
> receive a "note on" message. The sampling rate of the sample reference is
> 16KHz and the root key is C4. Therefore, you press the key near this one
> like D4 and the scale tune is 100 cents. Forgot all others parameters for
> now.
> 
> If you want that your sample play like a D4, you can modify the sampling
> rate, right?
> This is here the problem. Modifying a sampling rate is not quiet difficult,
> you can use this formula
> Pitch_modification = 1200 log2 (f2/f1) where pitch_modification is in cents,
> f1 is the actual sampling rate and f2 the desired sampling rate.
> 
> Like this, the proceed works well (I try it on MatLab) but the difficulties
> is to adapt this new sampling rate with the output sampling rate of the
> CODEC (in my case 48000Hz). To pass from 16KHz to 48KHz it's easy with a
> small interpolate filter or even a linear interpolation but from 16951Hz to
> 48KHz in my example, it's not easy.
> 
> This is why I need some help to find the best way to compute the new sample
> at the good sampling rate.
> I found some documents on a phase vocoder, from the MatLab function, I
> printed the "automatic technique in frequency..." from Jordi Bonada and some
> other document on pitch shifting and things related. 
> 
> An other question, hardware this one, is somebody knows how a sample rate
> converter is build inside a CODEC.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Martial
> 
> Martial Berthod
> martial.berthod at labtronix.biz
> trainee engineer
> Labtronix R&D
> Drummondville, Canada
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