[LAU] DSP filter design tools?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu May 6 19:29:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Philipp <hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Mark Knecht's message of 2010-05-06 19:41:25 +0200:
>> Hi all,
>>    I wonder if there are any Open Source tools for learning
>> software-oriented DSP, most specifically designing filters?
>>
>>    I'm an EE but haven't done any real math in years. I just want to
>> fool around, write some equations, see the results in some sort of
>> frequency (filter characteristics) or time (impulse response) plots.
>>
>>    Does anything like that exist?
>>
>>    I started looking at Octave but it's clearly over-kill so I figured
>> I'd ask if there was a better platform?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>
> I think faust might be useful. It should be reasonably easy to write
> whatever you have in faust, and then analyse using whatever audio
> analysis software you want.
> --
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
>

Faust does look interesting but I'm not finding it in Gentoo portage.
Probably it's in an overlay somewhere and I'll have to figure out
which one. (The machine I'm on right now is not something I use for
audio so it's not looking at proaudio if that's where they keep it.)

Cheers,
Mark


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