Vadim's book "The Art of VA Filter Design" is here as a (free-to-distribute)
PDF,

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/pdf/VAFilterDesign_1.1.1.pdf

It's an excellent resource (to put it mildly).

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Dario Sanfilippo <sanfilippo.da...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thanks for the links, Steven!
>
> Vadim, what is the title of your book? We may have it here at uni.
>
> Hi, Robert. I'm working on some time-domain feature-extraction algorithms
> based on adaptive mechanisms. A couple of years ago, I implemented a
> spectral tendency estimator where the cutoff of a crossover (1p1z filters)
> is piloted by the RMS imbalance of the two spectra coming out of the same
> crossover. Essentially, a negative feedback loop for the imbalance pushes
> the cutoff towards the predominant spectrum until there's a "dynamical
> equilibrium" point which is the estimated tendency.
>
> A recent extension to that algorithm was to add a lowpass filter within
> the loop, at the top of the chain, as shown in this diagram:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1dtk0ri64acssc/lowest%20partial.jpg?dl=0.
> (Some parts necessary to avoid the algorithm from entering attractors have
> been omitted.)
>
> If the same spectral imbalance also pilots the cutoff of the lowpass
> filter, we have a nested positive (the lowpass strengthens the imbalance
> which pushes the cutoff towards the same direction) and negative (the
> crossover's dynamical equilibrium point) feedback loop. So it is a
> recursive function which removes partials from top to bottom until there is
> nothing left to remove except the lowest partial in the spectrum.
>
> The order and type of the lowpass (I've tried 1p1z ones, cascading up to
> four of them), I believe, is what determines the SNR in the system, so what
> the minimum amplitude of the bottom partial should be to be considered
> signal or not. Large transition bands in the lowpass will affect the result
> as the top partials which are not fully attenuated will affect the
> equilibrium point. Since elliptic filters have narrow transition bands at
> low orders, I thought that they could have given more accurate results,
> although the ripples in the passing band would also affect the SNR of the
> system.
>
> Perhaps using Butterworth filters could be best as the flat passing band
> could make it easier to model a "threshold/sensitivity" parameter. With
> that regard, I should also have a look at fractional order filters. (I've
> quickly tried by linearly interpolating between filters of different orders
> but I doubt that that's the precise way to go.)
>
> Of course, an FFT algorithm would perhaps be easier to model, though this
> time-domain one should be CPU-less-expensive, not limited to the bin
> resolution, and would provide a continuous estimation not limited to the
> FFT period.
>
> I've tested the algorithm and it seems to have a convincing behaviour for
> most test signals, though it is not too accurate in some specific cases.
>
> Any comment on how to possibly improve that is welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Dario
>
>
> Dario Sanfilippo - Research, Teaching and Performance
> Reid School of Music, Edinburgh University
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>
> On 3 February 2018 at 08:01, robert bristow-johnson <
> r...@audioimagination.com> wrote:
>
>> i'm sorta curious as to what a musical application is for elliptical
>> filters that cannot be better done with butterworth or, perhaps, type 2
>> tchebyshev filters?  the latter two are a bit easier to derive closed-form
>> solutions for the coefficients.
>>
>> whatever.  (but i am curious.)
>>
>> --
>>
>> r b-j                  r...@audioimagination.com
>>
>> "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>> Subject: Re: [music-dsp] Elliptic filters coefficients
>> From: "Dario Sanfilippo" <sanfilippo.da...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, February 2, 2018 6:37 am
>> To: music-dsp@music.columbia.edu
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> --------------
>>
>>
>> > Thanks, Vadim.
>> >
>> > I don't have a math background so it might take me longer than I wished
>> to
>> > obtain the coefficients that way, but it's probably time to learn it.
>> With
>> > that regard, would you have a particularly good online resource that
>> you'd
>> > suggest for pole-zero analysis and filter design?
>> >
>> > Thanks to you too, Shannon.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Dario
>> >
>> > On 1 February 2018 at 11:16, Vadim Zavalishin <
>> > vadim.zavalis...@native-instruments.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hmm, the Wikipedia article on elliptic filters has a formula to
>> calculate
>> >> the poles and further references the Wikipedia article on elliptic
>> rational
>> >> functions which effectively contains the formula for the zeros.
>> Obtaining
>> >> the coefficients from poles and zeros should be straightforward.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Vadim
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 01-Feb-18 12:00, Dario Sanfilippo wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hello, everybody.
>> >>>
>> >>> I was wondering if you could please help me with elliptic filters. I
>> had
>> >>> a look online and I couldn't find the equations to calculate the
>> >>> coefficients.
>> >>>
>> >>> Has any of you worked on that?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Dario
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>
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