Re: [music-dsp] Are natural sounds of minimum phase?

2013-12-10 Thread Ross Bencina
On 11/12/2013 4:29 PM, Sol Friedman wrote: minimum phase would be a likely candidate Is minimum-phase a well defined property of non-linear time-varying systems? Ross. -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book revi

[music-dsp] Are natural sounds of minimum phase?

2013-12-10 Thread Sol Friedman
Specifically, can the set of all sounds that occur in nature (e.g. birds chirping, rustling leaves, another person speaking etc.) be characterized by a certain phase profile? If so, minimum phase would be a likely candidate, given its short group delay; less likely is linear phase, as we don't