Antialiasing oscillators in subtractive synthesis

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 116-125

  Välimäki, Vesa ^a   Huovilainen, Antti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LOW PASS FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANTIALIASING OSCILLATORS; CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGNAL; SUBTRACTIVE SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 85032750832     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2007.323276     Document Type: Review

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