Cheers Julius,


At least I understood the 'attach' primitive now ;) Thanks.



This does not show any meter here...
process(x,y) = x,y <: (_,_), attach(x, (Lk2 : vbargraph("LUFS",-90,0)))
: _,_,!;

But this does for some reason (although the output is 3-channel then):
process(x,y) = x,y <: (_,_), attach(x, (Lk2 : vbargraph("LUFS",-90,0)))
: _,_,_;

What does the '!' do?



I still don't quite get the gating topic. In my understanding, the meter
should hold the current value if the input signal drops below a
threshold. In your version, the meter drops to -infinity when very low
volume content is played.

Which part of your code does the gating?

Many thanks,
Klaus



On 05.07.21 18:06, Julius Smith wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> Yes, I agree the filters are close enough.  I bet that the shelf is
> exactly correct if we determined the exact transition frequency, and
> that the Butterworth highpass is close enough to the Bessel-or-whatever
> that is inexplicably not specified as a filter type, leaving it
> sample-rate dependent.  I would bet large odds that the differences
> cannot be reliably detected in listening tests.
> 
> Yes, I just looked again, and there are "gating blocks" defined, each Tg
> = 0.4 sec long, so that only ungated blocks are averaged to form a
> longer term level-estimate.  What I wrote gives a "sliding gating
> block", which can be lowpass filtered further, and/or gated, etc.  
> Instead of a gate, I would simply replace 0 by ma.EPSILON so that the
> log always works (good for avoiding denormals as well).
> 
> I believe stereo is supposed to be handled like this:
> 
> Lk2 = _,0,_,0,0 : Lk5;
> process(x,y) = Lk2(x,y);
> 
> or
> 
> Lk2 = Lk(0),Lk(2) :> 10 * log10 : -(0.691);
> 
> but since the center channel is processed identically to left and right,
> your solution also works.
> 
> Bypassing is normal Faust, e.g.,
> 
> process(x,y) = x,y <: (_,_), attach(x, (Lk2 : vbargraph("LUFS",-90,0)))
> : _,_,!;
> 
> Cheers,
> Julius
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 1:56 AM Klaus Scheuermann <kla...@posteo.de
> <mailto:kla...@posteo.de>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     > I can never resist these things!   Faust makes it too enjoyable :-)
> 
>     Glad you can't ;)
> 
>     I understood you approximate the filters with standard faust filters.
>     That is probably close enough for me :)
> 
>     I also get the part with the sliding window envelope. If I wanted to
>     make the meter follow slowlier, I would just widen the window with Tg.
> 
>     The 'gating' part I don't understand for lack of mathematical knowledge,
>     but I suppose it is meant differently. When the input signal falls below
>     the gate threshold, the meter should stay at the current value, not drop
>     to -infinity, right? This is so 'silent' parts are not taken into
>     account.
> 
>     If I wanted to make a stereo version it would be something like
>     this, right?
> 
>     Lk2 = par(i,2, Lk(i)) :> 10 * log10 : -(0.691);
>     process = _,_ : Lk2 : vbargraph("LUFS",-90,0);
> 
>     Probably very easy, but how do I attach this to a stereo signal (passing
>     through the stereo signal)?
> 
>     Thanks again!
>     Klaus
> 
> 
> 
>     >
>     > I made a pass, but there is a small scaling error.  I think it can be
>     > fixed by reducing boostFreqHz until the sine_test is nailed.
>     > The highpass is close (and not a source of the scale error), but I'm
>     > using Butterworth instead of whatever they used.
>     > I glossed over the discussion of "gating" in the spec, and may have
>     > missed something important there, but
>     > I simply tried to make a sliding rectangular window, instead of 75%
>     > overlap, etc.
>     >
>     > If useful, let me know and I'll propose it for analyzers.lib!
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Julius
>     >
>     > import("stdfaust.lib");
>     >
>     > // Highpass:
>     > // At 48 kHz, this is the right highpass filter (maybe a Bessel or
>     > Thiran filter?):
>     > A48kHz = ( /* 1.0, */ -1.99004745483398, 0.99007225036621); 
>     > B48kHz = (1.0, -2.0, 1.0); 
>     > highpass48kHz = fi.iir(B48kHz,A48kHz);
>     > highpass = fi.highpass(2, 40); // Butterworth highpass: roll-off is a
>     > little too sharp
>     >
>     > // High Shelf:
>     > boostDB = 4;
>     > boostFreqHz = 1430; // a little too high - they should give us this!
>     > highshelf = fi.high_shelf(boostDB, boostFreqHz); // Looks very close,
>     > but 1 kHz gain has to be nailed
>     >
>     > kfilter = highshelf : highpass;
>     >
>     > // Power sum:
>     > Tg = 0.4; // spec calls for 75% overlap of successive rectangular
>     > windows - we're overlapping MUCH more (sliding window)
>     > zi = an.ms_envelope_rect(Tg); // mean square: average power =
>     energy/Tg
>     > = integral of squared signal / Tg
>     >
>     > // Gain vector Gv = (GL,GR,GC,GLs,GRs):
>     > N = 5;
>     > Gv = (1, 1, 1, 1.41, 1.41); // left GL(-30deg), right GR (30), center
>     > GC(0), left surround GLs(-110), right surr. GRs(110)
>     > G(i) = *(ba.take(i+1,Gv));
>     > Lk(i) = kfilter : zi : G(i); // one channel, before summing and before
>     > taking dB and offsetting
>     > LkDB(i) = Lk(i) : 10 * log10 : -(0.691); // Use this for a mono
>     input signal
>     >
>     > // Five-channel surround input:
>     > Lk5 = par(i,5,Lk(i)) :> 10 * log10 : -(0.691);
>     >
>     > // sine_test = os.oscrs(1000); // should give –3.01 LKFS, with
>     > GL=GR=GC=1 (0dB) and GLs=GRs=1.41 (~1.5 dB)
>     > sine_test = os.osc(1000);
>     >            
>     > process = sine_test : LkDB(0); // should read -3.01 LKFS - high-shelf
>     > gain at 1 kHz is critical
>     > // process = 0,sine_test,0,0,0 : Lk5; // should read -3.01 LKFS for
>     > left, center, and right
>     > // Highpass test: process = 1-1' <: highpass, highpass48kHz; // fft in
>     > Octave
>     > // High shelf test: process = 1-1' : highshelf; // fft in Octave
>     >
>     > On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 1:08 AM Klaus Scheuermann <kla...@posteo.de
>     <mailto:kla...@posteo.de>
>     > <mailto:kla...@posteo.de <mailto:kla...@posteo.de>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hello everyone :)
>     >
>     >     Would someone be up for helping me implement an LUFS loudness
>     analyser
>     >     in faust?
>     >
>     >     Or has someone done it already?
>     >
>     >     LUFS (aka LKFS) is becoming more and more the standard for
>     loudness
>     >     measurement in the audio industry. Youtube, Spotify and broadcast
>     >     stations use the concept to normalize loudness. A very
>     positive side
>     >     effect is, that loudness-wars are basically over.
>     >
>     >     I looked into it, but my programming skills clearly don't match
>     >     the level for implementing this.
>     >
>     >     Here is some resource about the topic:
>     >
>     >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKFS
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKFS>
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKFS
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKFS>>
>     >
>     >     Specifications (in Annex 1):
>     >   
>      
> https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-3-201208-S!!PDF-E.pdf
>     
> <https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-3-201208-S!!PDF-E.pdf>
>     >   
>      
> <https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-3-201208-S!!PDF-E.pdf
>     
> <https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bs/R-REC-BS.1770-3-201208-S!!PDF-E.pdf>>
>     >
>     >     An implementation by 'klangfreund' in JUCE / C:
>     >     https://github.com/klangfreund/LUFSMeter
>     <https://github.com/klangfreund/LUFSMeter>
>     >     <https://github.com/klangfreund/LUFSMeter
>     <https://github.com/klangfreund/LUFSMeter>>
>     >
>     >     There is also a free LUFS Meter in JS / Reaper by Geraint Luff.
>     >     (The code can be seen in reaper, but I don't know if I should
>     paste it
>     >     here.)
>     >
>     >     Please let me know if you are up for it!
>     >
>     >     Take care,
>     >     Klaus
>     >
>     >
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