Need some help with this Code

[Father]

Hi
I was analyzing some parts of a compressor. I need some help understanding it so maybe i could do it in C++.
Maybe someone can answer these questions for me.
a) Whats the goal with the 'Level' module (inside Transfer)? Whats happening in stage 0 and 2?
b) Can't we do all the 'Transfer' module all in green? After all the output is a float array.
c) And if you have experience maybe some helpers with the actual codes.
Thanks.

[TheOm]

a) Whats the goal with the 'Level' module (inside Transfer)? Whats happening in stage 0 and 2?

It's just a linear ramp from some start level (-96dB) that reaches a target level (0dB) after 2048 samples.
stage 0 initializes the accumulator variable "count" with the start level.
stage 2 just adds the precalculated value "add" to the accumulator each sample

b) Can't we do all the 'Transfer' module all in green? After all the output is a float array.

Yes it could be done in green or ruby.

[Father]

Hey TheOm
Correct me if i'm wrong, stage 2 (Count = Count+add) is being called for each sample, so its a loop like this:

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count = init;
for (int i=0; i<Sample_Rate; i++)
output_array[i] = count+add;

At the end the 'Analyser' prime takes 2048 samples from that. So we need to use a interpolate function to resample it to a new array with a size of 2048.
My confusion is about the stream code. How many times does 'Count = Count+add' is being executed? Sample Rate right?
If we want to do the loop for 2048 times, do we need to change the 'add' value too?

[TheOm]

That's not quite correct. The sample rate is not involved at all actually.

First stage 0 is executed exactly once.
Then stage 2 is executed 2048 times (or however much you specified on the Analyzer prim).

This would be the analogous C code:

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float count = init;
for(int i = 0; i < 2048; i++) {
    output[i] = count;
    count += add;
}


[Father]

That's not quite correct. The sample rate is not involved at all actually.
First stage 0 is executed exactly once.
Then stage 2 is executed 2048 times (or however much you specified on the Analyzer prim).

Oh i get it now. Thanks!
Now about the read out module.

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I don't have the original dsp code for the part that produces the IndexA, IndexB and Modulus. from assembly code i gather this:

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streamin base; streamout indexA; streamout indexB; streamout modulus;
intindex = whatever happens to(base-0.5);
indexA = intindex;
indexB= indexA+1;
modulus = base-intindex;

that 'whatever happens' i didn't get was this part:

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movaps smIntVarTemp,xmm0;
fld smIntVarTemp[0];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[0];
fld smIntVarTemp[1];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[1];
fld smIntVarTemp[2];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[2];
fld smIntVarTemp[3];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[3];
movaps xmm0,smIntVarTemp;

What happens here?
There are some crossing channels and stuff like that i don't understand exactly. Some seem unnecessary..

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[TheOm]

That readout module is a simple linear interpolation table lookup module.

that 'whatever happens' i didn't get was this part:

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movaps smIntVarTemp,xmm0;
fld smIntVarTemp[0];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[0];
fld smIntVarTemp[1];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[1];
fld smIntVarTemp[2];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[2];
fld smIntVarTemp[3];
frndint;
fstp smIntVarTemp[3];
movaps xmm0,smIntVarTemp;


What happens here?

This is the old (pre SSE2) way of flooring an sse register. It floors the 4 floats seperately on the x87 float stack.
This is inefficient. Today you would just do

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cvtps2dq xmm0, xmm0
cvtdq2ps xmm0, xmm0


The code looks like it comes completely unaltered from the output of a DSPCode Module.

The unpack-pack business should better be done with shufps instructions.
It's done to get the value in the table at IndexA into the lower 2 floats and the value at IndexB(which is just IndexA + 1) into the upper two floats.
Then the linear interpolation between the values is done in the X-fade module.

[Father]

Ok let me see if i got it right, if that means just rounding to int basically we have to this in read out:

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IndexA = RoundToInt[(Base*2048+1)-0.5];
IndexB = IndexA+1;
Modulu = Base - IndexA;
Readout = ArrayFromTransfer[Index a] * (1-Modulu) + ArrayFromTransfer[Index b] * Modulu

I'm guessing 'wave read' prim does something like index=max(input_index, array_size) so we also need a max(base,1) at the beginning.

[TheOm]

Yes that's almost correct. Just a small mistake.

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temp = (Base*2048+1)
IndexA = RoundToInt[temp-0.5];
IndexB = IndexA+1;
Modulu = temp - IndexA;
Readout = ArrayFromTransfer[IndexA] * (1-Modulu) + ArrayFromTransfer[IndexB] * Modulu


I'm guessing 'wave read' prim does something like index=max(input_index, array_size) so we also need a max(base,1) at the beginning.

I think you mean index=min(input_index, array_size - 1) and min(base, 1.0).
However, even if you clamp base to be less or equal to 1.0 the highest index that the code tries to access would still be 2048 + 1 + 1 (=2050).
I'm not sure what the point of the "+ 1" in "Base*2048+1" is to be honest.

[Father]

Yes that's almost correct. Just a small mistake.

You are right. I make those kind of mistakes all the time.
I finished rewriting the codes and its kind of working. There are few bugs crashing it, which i have to find.
After that I'll check if the outputs from both plug-ins are close enough.
Thanks so much for the help TheOm, appreciate it.