It has been a while since my last update. My daughter arrived on Norway's national day, the 17th of May. It's so incredibly nice and I am the proudest dad ever! It does take the focus away from other things though :-)
Just before she arrived, I bought a book from 1980, musical applications of microprocessors. It may sound outdated but in fact is a treasure - it explains lots about sound theory, filters, DAC and ADC etc.
Today I am reading about generating waveforms digitally. Since the book is from 1980, the available computers were incredibly slow, worse than many of today's microcontrollers. This is a plus, since it means it explains a lot of neat tricks to make things run faster.
For example, it shows how to generate a sine wave using a small lookup table and doing linear interpolation between the points (p. 388). If certain criteria are met, the task only requires two subtractions, an addition and one multiplication.
In the OMM, I intend to do linear to exponential conversion using a lookup table. With 16bit values this would require 128kB for a full table. This can be reduced dramatically if I accept a little inaccuracy and use the same interpolation. As long as the result is not used for controlling the frequency of a vco, it should not be much of a problem
Saving space would also allow me to implement for example both 50dB and 70dB curves etc.
