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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:07:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Henning Thielemann <[email protected]>
To: Haskell Media <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [haskell-art] Is The Amplitude Scaling Formula in Dodge/Jerse
    Correct?


On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Haskell Media wrote:

f0 is the fundamental. Dodge defines f0 to be the fundamental when he was talking about distortion
techniques a few pages before this...

That's very strange because the coefficient 1/2 for the direct current partial is very common since it matches our intuition of amplitude of sine waves and direct current. The complex Fourier series is simpler in this respect because the coefficients are all equally weighted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series#Fourier.27s_formula_for_2.CF.80-periodic_functions_using_sines_and_cosines


My guess is that the scaling factor they used in the book was specifically for Chebyshev polynomials.

Still not clear on why it scales up to 2.... Would be nice to have a general scaling formula for additive synthesis (if the "Dodge" amplitude scaling isn't the general formula already).

Btw. for computing the power of the signal you do not need the harmonics at all. You can simply compute the L2 norm of the signal thanks to Parseval's identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parseval's_identity

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