Patent Application: US-31460999-A

Abstract:
a tone synthesis system employs digital filtering methods to enable the practical usage of unstable filter elements in a real - time synthesis model . truncated infinite impulse response filters are used to approximate portions of the reflection impulse response of an acoustic horn such as a trumpet bell . methods for resetting filter state enable the use of internal unstable filter poles . similar state resetting methods enable the use of unstable one - pole filters in the scattering junction formed between two conical acoustic bores . high quality tone synthesis can be achieved without the necessity of a complicated filter representing large sections of the bore of a woodwind instrument .

Description:
the present invention solves the two main difficulties described above pertaining to implementing real - time physical models of acoustic instruments in accordance with the diagram of fig1 b . the first difficulty has to do with simulating the bell 6 of a wind instrument , and the second has to do with simulating the junction 8 between two acoustic tube sections in which the taper angle is decreasing . the first difficulty is solved using a specialized truncated infinite impulse response ( tiir ) digital filter structure utilizing one unstable pole which is reset periodically in order to avoid excessive build - up of round - off error . the second difficulty is solved using a technique similar to the first in which unstable model components are periodically reset to avoid excessive build - up of round - off error . these aspects of the invention will now be described in detail , including program listings written in the c ++ language in the appendices . fig2 shows a one - pole based tiir filter developed in the course of the present invention ; it can be configured to have either a truncated growing exponential or truncated constant impulse response . there are several alternative structures possible , and we believe the structure shown in fig2 is preferable to the others . it is a “ shared delay , shared dynamics ” structure which allows use of a single delay line for any number of cascaded tiir filter sections , and which requires only a single one - pole filter per tiir instance . by conceptually “ pushing ” the one - pole filter 100 backwards through the subtraction block 101 , for example , one obtains the more straightforward case of an initial one - pole filter with a second one - pole filter subtracting off the tail after a delay of n samples . fig2 illustrates the computations associated with a single one - pole tiir filter section . the filtering characteristic implemented is that of a finite impulse response ( fir ) digital filter : y  ( n ) = ∑ m = 0 n - 1  h  ( n )  x  ( n - m ) where x ( n ) denotes the input signal at time sample n , y ( n ) denotes the output signal 106 , and h ( n ) is the filter &# 39 ; s impulse response , which is defined as follows : h  ( n ) = { h 0  p n for   0 ≤ n ≤ n - 1 0 otherwise this filter is constructed as the difference of two recursive one - pole filters as follows : the tiir filter output is where y 1 ( n ) is the output of a one - pole filter described by y 1 ( n )= x ( n )+ py 1 ( n − 1 ). here , p is the pole location , and g = p n is the gain needed to obtain cancellation of the impulse - response tail . that the tail is in fact canceled can be seen by noting that the one - pole filter ( connecting x ( n ) to y 1 ( n )) has the impulse response where u ( n ) is the heaviside unit - step function : u  ( n ) = { 1 for   n ≥ 0 0 for   n & lt ; 0 we now have y  ( n ) = y 1  ( n ) - g · y 1  ( n - n ) = p n  u  ( n ) - p n · p n - n  u  ( n - n ) = p n · [ u  ( n ) - u  ( n - n ) ] = [ 1 , p , p 2 , …  , p n - 1 ] n = { p n for   0 ≤ n ≤ n - 1 0 otherwise thus , the difference of two one - pole filters synthesizes an fir filter having an impulse response which is a truncated sampled exponential . referring to fig2 and 3 , consider when the upper one - pole filter 100 (“ filter 1 ”) is switched in ( as the figure indicates ), and the lower one - pole filter 102 (“ filter 2 ”) is switched out and not being computed at all . this situation begins after the falling edge of control signal select ( n ), and ends on the falling edge of control signal warm ( n ), as illustrated in fig2 . the next event is to tell filter 2 to “ start warming up ” on the falling edge of warm ( n ). “ filter warm - up ” proceeds for at least n samples , where n is the length of the overall fir filter being synthesized by the entire block diagram . during this warm - up time , the subtraction 101 must be “ blanked .” during a blanking interval , only the ‘+’ input 103 of the subtractor is fed to the one - pole filter , since both inputs to the subtraction operation 101 must see the same input histories . the control signal blank 2 ( n ) may be derived as where “& amp ;” denotes logical “ and ”, and “−” denotes logical negation . while blank 2 ( n ) is high , only the input to the subtractor 101 is fed to filter 2 ( 102 ). at other times , the output of subtractor 101 is used as the filter input . after n or more samples of warm - up , filter 2 is ready to be switched in . this is effected in fig2 by the rising edge of the select ( n ) control signal . the same signal may be used to halt and clear filter 1 ( or simply not compute it in a software implementation ). the same signal can also be used to end the blanking interval . a signal running 1 ( n ) which is high only when filter 1 is computing can be derived as where “|” denotes logical “ or ”. logic expressions for the other derived signals are given in fig3 . the next event , triggered by the rising edge of warm ( n ), is to warm up filter 1 . after n or more samples during which it receives only the earlier signal from the delay line ( the blanking interval for filter 1 warm - up ), it is switched back in , and filter 2 is halted and cleared , and so on . note that the control signal warm ( n ) is a low - speed , 50 % duty - cycle square wave , and select ( n ) can be obtained from warm ( n ) by a simple delay . all other control signals are derivable from these two by elementary logic operations . note that , while filter 1 will not be in the same state as filter 2 after n times steps , its tail - canceling difference , which synthesizes an fir filter , is identical ( ignoring round - off errors ). therefore , the switching resets can be as often as every n samples . it is desirable , however , to switch much less often than every n samples in order to minimize computations . the minimum switching rate , at the other extreme , is determined by the exponential growth rate and available dynamic range . for example , if computations are being done in 32 bit fixed - point arithmetic , and the final output signal will occupy 20 bits ( e . g ., for high - quality digital audio ), then there are 32 − 20 = 12 “ guard bits ” during which the round - off error may be allowed to grow . the growth rate of the round - off error is determined by the location p of the pole of the filter . the root - mean square ( rms ) round - off error due to a single multiplication is generally estimated to be q / 23 ≈ 0 . 3q , where q is the quantization step size ( i . e ., the value of the least - significant bit ). in the present example , the rms round - off error may therefore grow by approximately 2 12 / 0 . 3 ≈ 13 , 000 before it will begin disturbing the upper 20 bits in a 32 - bit fixed - point number format . since the rms round - off error at the output of an unstable one - pole filter grows by approximately | p | each sample period , this translates to log ( 13 , 000 )/ log ( p ) samples of computation before the filter must be reset . as a specific example , suppose p = 1 . 001 , which corresponds to a one - pole filter with an impulse response that is a rising exponential with time - constant l / log e ( p )≈ 1 /( p − 1 )= 1000 samples . such an unstable one - pole filter can be computed in 32 - bit fixed - point for approximately log ( 13 , 000 )/ log ( 1 . 001 )= 9 , 477 samples before it must be reset to avoid round - off errors accumulating into the high - order 20 bits of the output signal . when the structure of fig2 is used to implement a truncated constant impulse response , the one - pole becomes a digital integrator ( no multiplies ), and the tail - canceling multiply - subtract becomes only a subtraction . the digital integrator can be described by the difference equation where x ( n ) denotes the input signal at time n , and y ( n ) denotes the output signal at time n . resets for digital integrators can be considerably less often than for growing exponentials , because the round - off error grows more slowly in an integrator . it is well known that , given the typical assumption of uncorrelated round - off errors , the rms level of the round - off error at the output of a digital integrator grows by approximately m after m samples of computation . in the preceding example of a 32 - bit fixed - point number format with a 20 - bit final output signal , we may thus run the digital integrator for approximately 13 , 000 2 = 69 , 000 , 000 samples before a reset is required . so far we have described the operation of a single tiir one - pole filter having an impulse response which is a truncated constant or exponential . to piece together a longer fir impulse response consisting of several such segments , we can simply repeat the structure of fig2 as many times as needed along the shared delay line 104 . if fig2 depicts the first segment , a second segment can be constructed immediately to its right in the figure . note that the first segment has a first input signal 103 and a second input signal 105 . the second segment &# 39 ; s first input signal becomes signal 105 , thus not requiring an additional delay - line output , or “ tap ”, and its second input is extracted from farther down the delay line ( not shown in the figure ). finally , the outputs from all of the segments are weighted by gain factors and summed to produce the complete multistage tiir filter output . in summary , we have described a first - order truncated infinite impulse response ( tiir ) filter which is capable of providing a truncated - constant or truncated - exponential impulse response segment . several such segments can be combined to create an fir filter having an impulse response consisting of successive constant , exponential , or even polynomial segments . in the case of a constant or exponential , each segment can be computed at a computational cost typically close to that of a single one - pole filter , a ( tail canceling ) multiply - add , plus some associated switching and control logic . a truncated k th - order polynomial impulse response can be implemented as a linear combination of k + 1 tiir digital integrators in cascade . the output of the first integrator gives a single pole at z = 1 and provides a truncated constant . the output of the second integrator exhibits two poles at z = 1 and generates a truncated ramp signal . the third shows three poles at z = 1 and generates a truncated quadratic signal , and so on , up to the k + 1 st which has k + 1 poles at z = 1 and which generates a sampled signal proportional to n k . the appropriate weighted sum of the outputs of all k + 1 tiir integrators can be used to create a finite segment of any order k polynomial impulse response h ( n )=[ a 0 + a 1 n + a 2 n 2 + . . . + a k n k ]·[ u ( n )− u ( n − n )] appendix a provides program listings in the c ++ language for implementing the tiir filter described above . appendix e further provide listings of the modified software utilities from the synthesis tool kit ( stk ) used in the programming examples . in this section , we apply the tiir filter structure of the previous section to the problem of modeling a trumpet bell in two different cases . these examples are illustrative of the steps required in general to apply the techniques of the invention . the first example starts from a theoretical horn model , and the second example builds the computational model based on acoustic properties of a real trumpet bell measured in the laboratory . a general characteristic of musically useful horns is that their internal bore profile is well approximated by a bessel horn . although any real instrument bell will show significant deviations from this approximation in its bore shape and acoustic reflectance , a theoretically derived bessel horn reflection function may serve as a suitable generalized target response . in order to obtain such a target response , the pressure reflectance of a bessel horn that approximates the shape of a trumpet bell was computed using a pulse reflectometry method . this method is based on a discretization of the horn into segments of equal lengths and constant flare rate . the influence of the radiation impedance on the reflectance , which is relatively small in the case of strongly flared musical horns , was neglected . as shown in fig5 the bessel horn reflection impulse response has a slow , quasi - exponentionally growing portion at the beginning , corresponding to the smoothly increasing taper angle of the horn . phase - sensitive digital filter design methods perform very poorly when applied to the theoretical bell reflectance due to the very slow build - up in the time domain . a one - pole tiir filter gives a truncated exponential impulse response h ( n )= ae cn , for n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , n − 1 , and zero afterwards . we can use this truncated exponential to efficiently implement the initial growing trend in the horn response ( c & gt ; 0 ). we found empirically that improved accuracy is obtained by using the sum of an exponential and a constant , i . e ., h  ( n ) = { a    cn + b for   n = 0 , 1 , 2 , …  , n - 1 0 otherwise we will refer to this construct as an offset exponential . the truncated - constant b can be generated from a second one - pole tiir filter with its pole set to z = 1 . in this case , the only multiply needed is the scale factor b . the complete transfer function of the tiir filter which models a single segment of the horn impulse response as an offset exponential can be written as h  ( z ) = h 0  1 - p n  z - n 1 - pz - 1 + b  1 - z - n 1 - z - 1 ( 1 ) the remaining reflection impulse response has a decaying trend , and can therefore be modeled accurately with one of many conventional filter design techniques . the filter design method should accurately capture both the magnitude and phase of the desired frequency response . here , the known steiglitz - mcbride iir filter design algorithm was applied ( see , e . g ., the stmcb () function in matlab ). the complete filter structure can be realized with a single delay - line , as shown in fig4 . alternatively , the remaining response may be further divided into an exponentially decaying tail ( modeled with eq . ( 1 )) and a middle segment that contains the main ‘ swing ’ ( approximated as a truncated cubic polynomial ). in fig5 a , 5 b , and 5 c , the tiir horn filter structure ( using a 3 rd - order iir tail filter approximation ) is compared with the theoretical response . the phase delay ( directly proportional to the “ effective length ” of the bell for standing waves ), has a particularly good fit , which is important for accurate musical resonance frequencies in a brass instrument . appendix b provides a software implementation of the bessel horn model . appendix e further provides listings of all modified stk utilities . acoustic pulse reflectometry techniques can be applied to obtain empirically the impulse response of a trumpet ( without mouthpiece ). in the present example , a piecewise cylindrical section model of the bore profile was reconstructed using an inverse - scattering method , taking into account the viscothermal losses , and representing the open - end reflection as a continuation of the cylindrical section model having an equivalent reflectance . the piecewise cylindrical model corresponds well to the physical bore profiles for non - flaring tube - segments , thus giving a good physical model up to the bell . the remaining cylindrical sections do not provide valid geometrical information , but they retain all relevant acoustical information for characterizing the bell reflectance , including the complex effects of higher order transverse modes and radiation impedance . the impulse response of this non - physical section of the model , corresponding to the bell and radiation load , is defined here as the empirical estimate of the isolated bell reflectance . the main bore of a trumpet is essentially cylindrical , with an initial taper widening ( mouthpipe ) ( see fig6 ). thus , an accurate digital waveguide model of the trumpet can be derived by approximating the bore profile data with a cylindrical bore , plus a conical section to model the mouthpipe , and modeling the remaining part of the reconstruction as the bell reflectance h bell ( ω ). the complexity of the model is further reduced by lumping the viscothermal losses of the main bore with the bell reflectance filter , yielding the “ round - trip filter ” h rt ( ω ): h rt  ( ω ) = h bore  ( ω ) h bore ′  ( ω ) * h bell  ( ω ) ( 2 ) where h bore ( ω ) represents the response “ seen ” from the bell ( see fig6 ) while assuming an ideal closed end at the junction between the mouthpipe and the main bore , and h ′ bore ( ω ) is the theoretical value of h bore ( ω ) assuming no losses . the inverse fourier transform h rt ( t ) differs from the theoretical bessel horn response primarily in its two - stage build - up towards the primary reflection peak ( see fig5 and 7 ). this characteristic was observed for a variety of brass instruments . by adding another offset - exponential tiir section ( eq . ( 1 )) to the basic horn filter structure in fig4 the filter design methodology is sufficiently flexible to cover the two - stage build - up . the resulting impulse response and corresponding input impedance curve z in ( ω ) (“ seen ” from the start of the main bore ) are depicted in fig7 a and 7b . the small amplitude deviations are mainly due to the fact that the tiir approximation of the initial slow rise is insensitive to reflections caused by bore profile dents . such deviations may be compensated within a mouthpiece model . note that the resonance frequencies controlled by the phase delay of h rt ( t ) are accurately modeled . appendix c provides a software implementation of the empirically derived horn model . appendix e further provides listings of modified stk utilities . fig8 a , 8 b , and 8 c illustrate a digital waveguide model of a cylindrical tube adjoined to a converging conical tube . it is well known that the wave impedance at frequency ω rad / sec in an anechoic converging cone is given by z ξ  ( jω ) = ρ   c s  ( ξ )  jω jω - c / ξ where ξ is the distance to the apex of the cone , s ( ξ ) is the cross - sectional area , and ρc is the wave impedance in open air . ( in fig8 a , 8 b , and 8 c , ξ = l 2 = 25ct = 25 spatial samples .) a cylindrical tube is the special case ξ =∞, giving r ∞ ( jω )= ρc / s , independent of position in the tube . under normal physical assumptions at the cylinder - cone junction 200 , and assuming no reflected waves from either the conical tip 201 or the cylinder cap 202 , the junction reflection transfer function ( reflectance ) seen from the cylinder looking into the cone is derived to be r j  ( s ) = - c / ξ c / ξ - 2  s = - 1 1 - 50  st ( where s is the laplace transform variable which generalizes s = jω . similarly , the junction transmission transfer function ( transmittance ) to the right is given by t j  ( s ) = 1 + r j  ( s ) = - 2  s c / ξ - 2  s = - 50  st 1 - 50  st . the reflectance and transmittance looking into the junction from the right are the same when there is no wavefront area discontinuity at the junction . both r j ( s ) and t j ( s ) are first - order transfer functions : they each have a single real pole at s = c / 2ξ . since this pole is in the right - half plane , it corresponds to an unstable one - pole filter . to take these reflectances and transmittances to the digital domain , we may choose the well known bilinear transformation : st = 2  1 - z - 1 1 + z - 1 ( 3 ) where t is the desired digital sampling interval . accordingly , we define the digital reflectance and transmittance filters r ( z ) and t ( z ) by r  ( z ) = r j  ( 2 t · 1 - z - 1 1 + z - 1 ) = ( ct 4  ξ - ct )  1 + z - 1 1 - ( 4  ξ + ct 4  ξ - ct )  z - 1 = 1 99 · 1 + z - 1 1 - 101 99  z - 1 t  ( z ) = t j  ( 2 t · 1 - z - 1 1 + z - 1 ) = ( 4  ξ 4  ξ - ct )  1 - z - 1 1 - ( 4  ξ + ct 4  ξ - ct )  z - 1 = 100 99 · 1 - z - 1 1 - 101 99  z - 1 = 1 + r  ( z ) since the bilinear transformation preserves filter order , the corresponding digital filters are also first order , having a single real pole at ( 4ξ + ct )/( 4ξ − ct )= 101 / 99 . since the bilinear transform preserves stability , we have that r ( z ) and t ( z ) are also unstable one - pole digital filters . an alternative order - preserving conversion from continuous - time to discrete - time filtering is the impulse - invariant transformation : r ii  ( z ) = 1 1 -  ct / 2  ξ  z - 1 the impulse - invariant method preserves the impulse response exactly at the sampling instants , which is ideal for matching impulse responses published in the musical acoustics literature . on the other hand , the impulse invariant method has the disadvantage of aliasing , due to sampling , which distorts both the amplitude and phase response at all frequencies . in general , the high - frequency gain tends to rise due to aliasing . the bilinear transformation does not alias , but it warps the frequency axis according to eq . ( 3 ) which has the effect of artificially lowering the gain at high frequencies ( since the true response generally decreases in magnitude as frequency increases ). on the other hand , the entire continuous - time amplitude response is exactly preserved over the warped frequency axis . phase is similarly preserved exactly over the warped frequency axis by the bilinear transform . both methods are equivalent in the limit as the sampling rate approaches infinity ( or as frequency approaches zero ). the resulting scattering junction 203 for pressure waves is depicted in fig8 b . a closed conical tip reflects like an ideal open - end cylindrical tube - hence the negation 204 at the far right . we also assume no simulation outputs are needed from the within the conical cap so that the 1 / ξ scaling normally needed for spherical waves can be omitted . fig9 a shows just the scattering junction 203 from fig8 b . algebraically , the scattering relations for this type of junction are p 2 + ( z )=[ 1 + r ( z )] p 1 + ( z )+ r ( z ) p 2 − ( z ) = p 1 + ( z )+ r ( z )[ p 1 + ( z )+ p 2 − ( z )] p 1 − ( z )= r ( z ) p 1 + ( z )+[ 1 + r ( z )] p 2 − ( z ) = p 2 − ( z )+ r ( z )[ p 1 + ( z )+ p 2 − ( z )] the result of the rightmost factorization is shown as scattering junction 205 in fig9 b . we see that the computations can be organized in “ one - filter form .” finally , incorporating the sign inversion 204 into the junction gives the one - filter form 209 shown in fig8 c . since the filter r ( z ) is unstable , we must periodically clear its state in order to avoid indefinite build - up of round - off error . the overall system must be stable when it consists of only passive physical elements , as we have here . the rising exponentials generated by r ( z ) and t ( z ) must always be ultimately canceled by reflections from the conical tip . thus , the overall conical section itself behaves like a tiir filter . however , the conical cap is not exactly tiir because it is not exactly fir . in principle , “ echoes ” go on indefinitely between conical junctions ( such as between the cylinder - cone junction and the conical tip in our simple example of fig8 a , 8 b , and 8 c ). it can be shown that the unstable poles are always canceled in the context of the complete bore . in practical cases , the overall decay is simply very fast . to apply tiir techniques to conical junction modeling , it is necessary to determine the “ audible length ” of the impulse response after which it can be replaced by zero . typically , bores used in musical instruments have impulse responses which are quite short , as can be tested informally by slapping the small end of the bore with one &# 39 ; s hand and listening to the very short “ ring ” afterwards . a commonly used measure of effective decay time in room acoustics is t 60 which is the time to decay by 60 db . the t 60 of the bore ( or bore section ) can be taken as the minimum “ warm - up time ” for a fresh instance of the tiir model section . while t 60 has no effect on the filter structures themselves , it does place demands upon the dynamic range ( computational word - length ); the round - off noise in all unstable filter elements must remain inaudible for t 60 seconds . the cost of the implementation can be decreased by replacing t 60 by t 40 , with an associated reduction in signal to noise ratio . similarly , a very high quality implementation might choose to use t 100 , etc . referring again to the simple example of fig8 a , 8 b , and 8 c , the unstable conical cap model 206 may be switched with an alternate instance of itself and reset as often as every t 60 / t samples . in summary , all model components containing either rising or constant filter impulse responses may be switched out and cleared periodically . these resets can occur as often as every t 60 seconds , where t 60 is the time for the external response of the model component to decay by 60 db . in fig8 a , 8 b , and 8 c , this is the time for the signal 208 to decay 60 db below its maximum value in response to an impulse applied via signal 207 . other components need not be switched and reset , since their internal states are strictly stable and decay to zero in the absence of a driving input . appendix d provides a programming example for the implementation of the above piecewise conical bore model . appendix e further provide listings of the modified stk utilities . we have presented a computationally efficient modeling framework applicable to piecewise conical bores and flaring horns . the models use tail - canceling iir filters to implement finite - duration exponential , constant , or polynomial impulse responses , with periodic replacement of unstable filter components used to avoid indefinite build - up of round - off errors . the piecewise conical bore model implements a change in conical taper angle using a single one - pole filter , and this filter is unstable when the taper change is convergent , requiring periodic resets applied to the smallest enclosing stable model component . the resets should be spaced by at least the audible length of the impulse - response of the enclosing stable model component , and by more if there is available dynamic range in the number format used . the horn model utilized a sequence of offset - exponential segments followed by a more conventional filter for the final “ tail ” in the measured response . compared with previous practical approaches to modeling these musical acoustic elements computationally , the present invention offers compelling advantages . 1 n . amir , g . rosenhouse , and u . shimony , “ discrete model for tubular acoustic systems with varying cross section — the direct and inverse problems . part 1 : theory ,” acta acustica , vol . 81 , pp . 450 - 462 , 1995 . 2 r . d . ayers , l . j . eliason , and d . mahgerefteh , “ the conical bore in musical acoustics ,” american journal of physics , vol . 53 , pp . 528 - 537 , june 1985 . 3 a . h . benade and e . v . jansson , “ on plane and spherical waves in horns with nonuniform flare . i . theory of radiation , resonance frequencies , and mode conversion ,” acustica , vol . 31 , no . 2 , pp . 80 - 98 , 1974 . 4 p . r . cook , “ synthesis toolkit in c ++, version 1 . 0 ,” in siggraph proceedings , assoc . comp . mach ., may 1996 . 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( a compendium containing four related papers and presentation overheads on digital waveguide reverberation , synthesis , and filtering . ccrma technical reports can be ordered by calling ( 415 ) 723 - 4971 or by sending an email request to info @ ccrma . stanford . edu .) 12 j . o . smith , “ waveguide simulation of non - cylindrical acoustic tubes ,” in proc . 1991 int . computer music conf ., montreal , pp . 304 - 307 , computer music association , 1991 . 13 j . o . smith , “ physical modeling using digital waveguides ,” computer music j ., vol . 16 , pp . 74 - 91 , winter 1992 . special issue : physical modeling of musical instruments , part i . available online at http :// www - ccrma . stanford . edu /˜ jos /. 14 j . o . smith , “ physical modeling synthesis update ,” computer music j ., vol . 20 , pp . 44 - 56 , summer 1996 . available online at http :// www - ccrma . stanford . edu /˜ jos /. 15 j . o . smith and g . scavone , “ the one - filter keefe clarinet tonehole ,” in proc . ieee workshop on appl . signal processing to audio and acoustics , new paltz , n . y ., ( new york ), ieee press , october 1997 . 16 v . välimäki , discrete - time modeling of acoustic tubes using fractional delay filters . phd thesis , report no . 37 , helsinki university of technology , faculty of elec . eng ., lab . of acoustic and audio signal processing , espoo , finland , december 1995 . 17 v . välimäki and m . karjalainen , “ digital waveguide modeling of wind instrument bores constructed of truncated cones ,” in proc . 1994 int . computer music conf ., århus , pp . 423 - 430 , computer music association , 1994 . 18 m . van walstijn and v . välimäki , “ digital waveguide modeling of flared acoustical tubes ,” in proc . 1997 int . computer music conf ., greece , ( thessaloniki , greece ), pp . 196 - 199 , computer music association , 1997 . 19 m . van walstijn and j . o . smith iii , “ use of truncated infinite impulse response { tiir } filters in implementing efficient digital waveguide models of flared horns and piecewise conical bores with unstable one - pole filter elements ,” in proc ., int . symp . musical acoustics ( isma - 98 ), ( leavenworth , wash . ), pp . 309 - 314 , acoustical society of america , jun . 28 , 1998 . 20 a . wang and j . o . smith , “ on fast fir filters implemented as tail - canceling iir filters ,” ieee trans . signal processing , vol . 45 , pp . 1415 - 1427 , june 1997 . u . s . pat . no . 5 , 212 , 334 issued may 18 , 1993 to julius o . smith , iii . u . s . pat . no . 5 , 448 , 010 issued sep . 5 , 1995 to julius o . smith , iii . these programming examples use modified modules from the synthesis tool kit ( stk ) by perry cook . program source for these modified utilities are given in appendix d . source for the unmodified utilities may be obtained from http :// www - ccrma . stanford . edu /. the heart of each c ++ module is its “ tick ” method in which the basic unction of the module is carried out . the most basic tiir filter appears first below ( tiir1 . h and tiir1 . cpp ). it is based on a stable one - pole filter without resets . next , the unstable case ( generally requiring periodic resets ) is given in * for the unstable case ( increasing exponential or constant ), use tiir1r instead . * tiir1r . h - truncated iir ( tiir ) one - pole digital filter with reset * for the stable case ( decreasing exponential ), tiir1 can be used “\ tsetting reset interval to delay length + 1 = % d \ n ”, length + 1 ); it is normally set to 1 , but setting it to 0 gives a nice check short anechoic = 0 ; /* set 0 for audible impulse response */ expl = new tiir1r ( delay1 , delay1 * 4 , pole1 ) ; /* 2nd arg = reset interval */ first we list the main program , followed by two cases of conical cap simulation , first without /* tcone9p . cpp - c ++ source file , for use with perry cook &# 39 ; s stk c ++ library . */ long delay1 = 39 ; // about 300mm at 44 . 1khz sampling rate ( c = 335 m / s ) long delay2 = 92 ; // = 700mm / ( 1000 * 335 ( mm / s ) / 44100 ( samp / s ) ) my_float boreloss = 1 . 0 ; // 1 . 0 means don &# 39 ; t introduce bore loss short anechoic = 0 ; // set to 1 for cap impulse - response test short dcblock = 0 ; // set to 1 to install dc blocker else cylout = - boreloss * delayline1 -& gt ; tick ( cylin ); // open end , p waves * ( time in samples to propagate from apex of cone to other end ). onezero -& gt ; setgain ( 2 . 0 * pgain ); // 2 . 0 necessary to get h ( z ) = 1 + 1 / z * and delay line , switching them every now and then with a fresh instance . * parameters are the reset interval in samples and the acoustic length * in samples ( time in samples to propagate from apex of cone to other end ). these software utilities are modified versions of the ones contained in the void setgain ( my_float avalue ); /* peak gain at dc : default = 1 . 0 */ sgain = gain * ( 1 . 0 − polecoeff ); /* normalize gain to 1 . 0 max */ my float onezero :: tick ( my_float sample ) /* perform filter operation */ register my_float temp ; /* look it up in your favorite dsp text /* 1997 / 98 / jos - added energy , current *, contents *, and delay methods */ /* 1997 / 98 / jos - added energy , current *, contents *, and delay methods */ /* “ now ” is always where inpoint points which is not yet written . */ /* outpoint points to “ now - delay ”. thus , valid values for n are 1 to delay . */