Linear and Exponential Chirp Functions
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- Subject: [mg110634] Linear and Exponential Chirp Functions
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
Group: A while back I needed an exponential chirp function and was only able to track down a linear version by Will Robertson. Hopefully someone will find these useful. linearChirp::usage = "linearChirp[f0_, f1_, t_, T_] generates a linear chirp signal with initial frequency f0 and ending frequency f1 at time T seconds; t represents the time index variable." expChirp::usage = "expChirp[f0_, f1_, t_, T_] generates an exponential chirp signal with initial frequency f0 and ending frequency f1 at time T seconds; t represents the time index variable." Attributes[linearChirp] = {NumericFunction} linearChirp[f0_, f1_, t_, T_] :=Sin[2*Pi*t*(f0 + ((f1 - f0)/T*t)/2)] Attributes[expChirp] = {NumericFunction} expChirp[f0_, f1_, t_, T_] :=Sin[(2*f0*(-1 + (f1/f0)^(t/T))*Pi*T)/ Log[f1/f0]] ------------------------------------ Example Uses ------------------------------------------ (*Just gives you the function; plug a value in for t to get the function value*) linearChirp[10, 30, t, 1] (*Compare plots... change the 10 to a 1 to see more of a difference*) Plot[linearChirp[10, 30, t, 1], {t, 0, 1}] Plot[expChirp[10, 30, t, 1], {t, 0, 1}] (*Create a 40 second expChirp with starting frequency 20Hz, ending frequency 400Hz. Evaluate[] forces the function to evaluate first--- speeds things up. Note that SampleDepth and SampleRate are overkill for this example; my goal was to avoid digital shenanigans later.*) Play[Evaluate@expChirp[20, 400, t, 40], {t, 0, 40}, SampleDepth -> 24, SampleRate -> 44100]] -RG