I see.  I don't feel quite so stupid for having not found it myself, now!

On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 at 13:37 Marcus Müller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> added the block, opened the block properties, had a look at the id; I knew
> that these kind of blocks live within gr-filter, so
>
> cd gr-filter
> vim grc/*rational*.grc ##that's where the block definitions for GRC reside
>
> found out that the non-base variant used rational_resampler_$(type), but I
> had a look into filter, and only found rational_resampler_base_*; so I
> guessed it was a python file.
> Went into python/filter, and opened rational_resampler.py, based on it
> being the only python file that was possibly relevant here.
>
> You know, that's really unintuitive, and I think we'll need some helpers
> or better documentation that makes finding such things easier.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
>
> On 10.08.2015 14:31, Tom Cook wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 at 13:14 Marcus Müller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I just had to look this up. If you're in GRC, you have "rationale
>> resampler" and "rational resampler base"; they do basically the same, but
>> if you use the one without "base", and don't specify the taps, GNU Radio
>> just automatically designs a filter that avoids all aliasing and imaging,
>> which is done with a python wrapper around the C++
>> rational_resampler_base_xxx's make function[1]. That's pretty handy in most
>> use cases, but not too much if you want your own filter for some reason.
>>
>> If you're using the "base" variant, you *must* specify the taps
>> yourself, because you directly invoke the C++ block's maker. If you go
>> ahead and just use "[1.0]" as taps, you get the aliased results from my
>> pictures.
>>
>> So if you happen to *want *to specify the taps, because you can
>> integrate the functionality of a downstream filter into the resampler to
>> save CPU cycles, it doesn't make a difference which block you use.
>>
>
> Ah, I see.  Many thanks for taking the time to explain this.  Where did
> you look to find out that 'rational resampler' block does an automatic
> filter design for you?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
>
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