Introduction to Digital Filters (2024)

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/

108•ofalkaed•7mo ago

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o11c•7mo ago

Title misses important context: "for sound"

galangalalgol•7mo ago

A lot of it applies to software defined radio processing as well, other than tending to work in real vs complex, but you can always do either.

sfpotter•7mo ago

Vast majority of this book covers DSP in very broad generality, much akin to what you would see in an undergrad EE course on the topic. Compare with Oppenheim and Schafer. Different focus but much of the same content.

munificent•7mo ago

For any one-dimensional signal, honestly.

Audio is just the most common use case.

Blackthorn•7mo ago

Without loss of generality.

monster_truck•7mo ago

Do you think that's air you're breathing

stapedium•7mo ago

I was hoping to see something on Kalman filters. But it was good to see info on state space analysis. Also good to see a simple example on why dynamic range compression is nonlinear. Would have been nice to see more info on what makes a system non-time invariant with examples.

iainctduncan•7mo ago

Check the rest of his writing, I'd be surprised if it's not covered somewhere!

vmilner•7mo ago

He has a joint paper using one here:

https://www.dafx17.eca.ed.ac.uk/papers/DAFx17_paper_21.pdf

khiner•7mo ago

Self plug: I made Jupyter notebooks for each chapter of this and the DFT and Physical Modeling books in this series, with Python animations/audio for some key concepts:

https://karlhiner.com/jupyter_notebooks/mathematics_of_the_d...

https://karlhiner.com/jupyter_notebooks/intro_to_digital_fil...

https://karlhiner.com/jupyter_notebooks/physical_audio_signa...

florilegiumson•7mo ago

Thank you: these are excellent.

em3rgent0rdr•7mo ago

My god, animating convolution makes it so much easier to understand than having a professor draw the process on a chalkboard back in the day.

djmips•6mo ago

There's also a nice 3blue1brown video on the subject

iainctduncan•7mo ago

The Julius Smith books are some of the most respected resources in the audio world. Here is a page linking to way more.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/

anyfoo•7mo ago

And not just for audio. In fact, I don't care about audio that much, and they're still some of my most treasured technical books (I have them in print form, and still reference them online pretty regularly).

Those changed my life, in a sense. Not my professional life, but outside of work it led me down a deep rabbit hole into mathematics, digital signal processing, and even analogue electronics and some light RF engineering. (This is not relevant to my professional life, since I started to take great care not to make any more of my hobbies my job.)

I spent endless hours thinking about this stuff on my commute, and hunched over Matlab.

The other book I recommend is Richard G. Lyons "Understanding Digital Signal Processing".

ktanvr1•7mo ago

Shout out to kewltools that have a free online digital creator - the nice thing is it generates and outputs source code of the digital filter in multiple languages!

https://kewltools.com/digital-filter

Llamamoe•7mo ago

I wish there was something like this but for working with arrays of values. I want something that works on frequencies like 1,2,3,4,6,8, not "0.25 to 0.375". I don't even know what that would mean in the context of an array of discrete values.

CamperBob2•7mo ago

Your question is an excellent example of why skipping all that math wasn't a good idea. (The answer literally goes all the way back to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

You don't need to be able to regurgitate it all on a test, but you must be comfortable with the general ideas behind the DFT and what motivates them.

Llamamoe•6mo ago

The answer is also completely unnecessary to actually using said filters. There are countless data structures and algorithms built on decades of research, and yet no programmer writes tutorials where they demand you understand the entire history of computation before you're worthy of learning them the way mathematicians do with even the most basic of concepts.

CamperBob2•6mo ago

Largely true, although eventually you'd wonder why it sounded so awful when you tried to create infinitely-narrow filter passbands.

In this case, if you'd known there was such a thing as time-frequency uncertainty, you'd never have needed to ask the question in the first place.

Llamamoe•7mo ago

I wish there was a practical, no-math code-centric resource somewhere.

I just want to see practical examples of how to process my array of floats to extract or attenuate different frequencies(in discrete integer increments), not read walls of math equations and how to derive the discrete form of continuous algorithms over a hundred pages of dense text.

Blackthorn•7mo ago

There are tons and tons of libraries for just running filters. scipy.signal has basic filter construction methods.

This resource is for learning the why and the how, which makes the math rather important.

Archit3ch•7mo ago

As an aside, for anyone interested in _analog_ filters, professor Lanterman has you covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe3DwoBP8g

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