aanl.lib

A library for antialiased nonlinearities. Its official prefix is aa.

This library provides aliasing-suppressed nonlinearities through first-order and second-order approximations of continuous-time signals, functions, and convolution based on antiderivatives. This technique is particularly effective if combined with low-factor oversampling, for example, operating at 96 kHz or 192 kHz sample-rate.

The library contains trigonometric functions as well as other nonlinear functions such as bounded and unbounded saturators.

Due to their limited domains or ranges, some of these functions may not suitable for audio nonlinear processing or waveshaping, although they have been included for completeness. Some other functions, for example, tan() and tanh(), are only available with first-order antialiasing due to the complexity of the antiderivative of the x * f(x) term, particularly because of the necessity of the dilogarithm function, which requires special implementation.

Future improvements to this library may include an adaptive mechanism to set the ill-conditioned cases threshold to improve performance in varying cases.

Note that the antialiasing functions introduce a delay in the path, respectively half and one-sample delay for first and second-order functions.

Also note that due to division by differences, it is vital to use double-precision or more to reduce errors.

The environment identifier for this library is aa. After importing the standard libraries in Faust, the functions below can be called as aa.function_name.

References

https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlibraries/blob/master/aanl.lib
Reducing the Aliasing in Nonlinear Waveshaping Using Continuous-time Convolution, Julian Parker, Vadim Zavalishin, Efflam Le Bivic, DAFX, 2016
http://dafx16.vutbr.cz/dafxpapers/20-DAFx-16_paper_41-PN.pdf

Auxiliary Functions

`(aa.)clip`

Clipping function.

`(aa.)Rsqrt`

Real-valued sqrt().

`(aa.)Rlog`

Real-valued log().

`(aa.)Rtan`

Real-valued tan().

`(aa.)Racos`

Real-valued acos().

`(aa.)Rasin`

Real-valued asin().

`(aa.)Racosh`

Real-valued acosh()

`(aa.)Rcosh`

Real-valued cosh().

`(aa.)Rsinh`

Real-valued sinh().

`(aa.)Ratanh`

Real-valued atanh().

`(aa.)ADAA1`

Generalised first-order ADAA function.

Usage

_ : ADAA1(EPS, f, F1) : _

Where:

EPS: a threshold to handle ill-conditioned cases
f: a function that we want to process with ADAA
F1: f's first antiderivative

`(aa.)ADAA2`

Generalised second-order ADAA function.

Usage

_ : ADAA2(EPS, f, F1, F2) : _

Where:

EPS: a threshold to handle ill-conditioned cases
f: a function that we want to process with ADAA
F1: f's first antiderivative
F2: f's second antiderivative

Main functions

Saturators

These antialiased saturators perform best with high-amplitude input signals. If the input is only slightly saturated, hence producing negligible aliasing, the trivial saturator may result in a better overall output, as noise can be introduced by first and second ADAA at low amplitudes.

Once determining the lowest saturation level for which the antialiased functions perform adequately, it might be sensible to cross-fade between the trivial and the antialiased saturators according to the amplitude profile of the input signal.

`(aa.)hardclip`

First-order ADAA hard-clip.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.hardclip : _

`(aa.)hardclip2`

Second-order ADAA hard-clip.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.hardclip2 : _

`(aa.)cubic1`

First-order ADAA cubic saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-2.0/3.0; 2.0/3.0].

Usage

_ : aa.cubic1 : _

`(aa.)parabolic`

First-order ADAA parabolic saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.parabolic : _

`(aa.)parabolic2`

Second-order ADAA parabolic saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.parabolic : _

`(aa.)hyperbolic`

First-order ADAA hyperbolic saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-1.0; 1.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.hyperbolic : _

`(aa.)hyperbolic2`

Second-order ADAA hyperbolic saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-1.0; 1.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.hyperbolic2 : _

`(aa.)sinarctan`

First-order ADAA sin(atan()) saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-1.0; 1.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.sinatan : _

`(aa.)sinarctan2`

Second-order ADAA sin(atan()) saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-1.0; 1.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.sinarctan2 : _

`(aa.)tanh1`

First-order ADAA tanh() saturator.

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-1.0; 1.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.tanh1 : _

`(aa.)arctan`

First-order ADAA atan().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-π/2.0; π/2.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.arctan : _

`(aa.)arctan2`

Second-order ADAA atan().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ]-π/2.0; π/2.0[.

Usage

_ : aa.arctan2 : _

`(aa.)asinh1`

First-order ADAA asinh() saturator (unbounded).

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.asinh1 : _

`(aa.)asinh2`

Second-order ADAA asinh() saturator (unbounded).

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.asinh2 : _

Trigonometry

These functions are reliable if input signals are within their domains.

`(aa.)cosine1`

First-order ADAA cos().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.cosine1 : _

`(aa.)cosine2`

Second-order ADAA cos().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is [-1.0; 1.0].

Usage

_ : aa.cosine2 : _

`(aa.)arccos`

First-order ADAA acos().

The domain of this function is [-1.0; 1.0]; its theoretical range is [π; 0.0].

Usage

_ : aa.arccos : _

`(aa.)arccos2`

Second-order ADAA acos().

The domain of this function is [-1.0; 1.0]; its theoretical range is [π; 0.0].

Note that this function is not accurate for low-amplitude or low-frequency input signals. In that case, the first-order ADAA arccos() can be used.

Usage

_ : aa.arccos2 : _

`(aa.)acosh1`

First-order ADAA acosh().

The domain of this function is ℝ >= 1.0; its theoretical range is ℝ >= 0.0.

Usage

_ : aa.acosh1 : _

`(aa.)acosh2`

Second-order ADAA acosh().

The domain of this function is ℝ >= 1.0; its theoretical range is ℝ >= 0.0.

Note that this function is not accurate for low-frequency input signals. In that case, the first-order ADAA acosh() can be used.

Usage

_ : aa.acosh2 : _

`(aa.)sine`

First-order ADAA sin().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.sine : _

`(aa.)sine2`

Second-order ADAA sin().

The domain of this function is ℝ; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.sine2 : _

`(aa.)arcsin`

First-order ADAA asin().

The domain of this function is [-1.0, 1.0]; its theoretical range is [-π/2.0; π/2.0].

Usage

_ : aa.arcsin : _

`(aa.)arcsin2`

Second-order ADAA asin().

The domain of this function is [-1.0, 1.0]; its theoretical range is [-π/2.0; π/2.0].

Note that this function is not accurate for low-frequency input signals. In that case, the first-order ADAA asin() can be used.

Usage

_ : aa.arcsin2 : _

`(aa.)tangent`

First-order ADAA tan().

The domain of this function is [-π/2.0; π/2.0]; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.tangent : _

`(aa.)atanh1`

First-order ADAA atanh().

The domain of this function is ]-1.0; 1.0[; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.atanh1 : _

`(aa.)atanh2`

Second-order ADAA atanh().

The domain of this function is ]-1.0; 1.0[; its theoretical range is ℝ.

Usage

_ : aa.atanh2 : _

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