Interesting...my STM32F4DISCOVERY just arrive Friday...intending to make a 
wavetable oscillator on it, fist thing...

Are you writing the wavetable to a buffer, then pulling from that at the sample 
rate? if so, what size?



On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Julian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to get an oscillator running on the STM32F4 discovery board.
> I'm sending my audio with 44100Hz via I2S to the onboard codec.
> However I'm experiencing strange problems.
> 
> my code ist quite straight forward:
> 
> phase += phaseInc(440); // calculate the phase increment for 440 hz and add 
> it to phase
> if(phase >= TABLESIZE) phase -= TABLESIZE;
> return phase/TABLESIZE;
> 
> this should give me a non bw limited saw from 0 to 1.f
> (I also tried it with an actual wavetable in use. a sine is played fine. but 
> as soon as overtones are added i get the fluttering)
> 
> My problem is that i get periodic amplitude modulations on the overtones 
> about 2-3 times a second.
> the root frequency amplitude is fixed, but the higher the overtone frequency, 
> the more it's amplitude drops every now and then.
> this screenshot illustrates the waveform. the upper waveform has some ringing 
> on the discontinuity and the lower has not.
> http://i.imgur.com/JyuEr.png (this image is taken from an inverted saw 
> wavetable. but the flutter is the same, no matter if i use a bandlimited WT 
> or output the phase counter directly)
> the waveform oscillates between the upper and the lower image.
> 
> the amplitude flutter from the overtones is also frequency dependent.
> at 439 and 441 Hz its not really audible.
> 
> so my tought is that is has to do with the wrap of the phase counter. but i 
> can't get my head around whats wrong.
> any ideas where this change in overtone amplitude could come from?
> 
> cheers,
> julian
> 
> 
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