DSP Testbench is designed to help developers using the JUCE framework to analyse their DSP by providing a test harness for code inheriting from juce::dsp::ProcessorBase. The harness provides signal sources, routing, analysis and monitoring functions.
Besides the usual window sizing buttons, the title bar hosts the following controls:
- CPU meter
- Snapshot
- Performance benchmarks
- Audio device settings
- About (you already know what this does :) )
Most of the application settings are automatically saved and restored each time you restart the app.
Two individual signal source modules generate synthesised signals, play back audio files, or pass through from an audio interface. The synthesis tab provides periodic waveforms with sweepable frequencies, as well as impulse & step functions and noise generators. Each source can be muted, inverted or gain trimmed, and the periodic waveforms can be synchronised between the two source modules.
The triangle, square and saw oscillators are implemented with a PolyBLEP implementation to reduce aliasing, however it will still be visible in the analyser at higher frequencies.
Note that white and pink noise show up as a circle on the phase scope because we generate different samples on each channel. The other oscillators generate the same samples on each channel.
Each of the two processor modules are used to host and control your DSP code. Either or both signal sources can be routed to each processor; and the output can be inverted, or muted.
One use case is to verify that code optimisations do not alter the output. You can achieve this by hosting different versions of your DSP code in either module, routing the same audio to both, and inverting the output of one processor to ensure perfect cancellation.
The analyser provides the following:
- FFT scope with logarithmic frequency scale (0 to -80dB amplitude scale)
- Oscilloscope
- Phase scope
- Level meter with VU (narrow) and peak (wide) meters for each channel
- Clip indicators (click to popup clip stats window with reset button)
- Pause button to freeze the display (audio is not paused)
- Expand button
- Advanced settings for scopes
The oscilloscope can be zoomed using the mouse wheel (hold shift to zoom amplitude instead of time) and you can pan by clicking and dragging. Double click anywhere on the oscilloscope to reset scale
The monitoring section has a gain control and mute button to control the output level of the application. An optional output limiter is also provided to prevent digital overs (this is applied after the processors so does not affect their behaviour).
The snapshot functionality allows you to pass 4096 samples through the processor then pause the analysis and audio so you can forensically examine the resulting output. Normal operation can be resumed by toggling the snapshot button again. When a snapshot is triggered, the audio device is stopped and restarted and all modules are reset so that the same 4096 samples will be generated and processed every single time. The only exception to this is if the wave file player has its' right hand button disabled, in which case playback will be from the current position.
The benchmark functionality starts your processor(s) on another thread and pumps audio through, gathering statistics on how much time has been spent running your routines. A single block of audio is repeated from source A (using live audio input will not work).
To make use of DSP Testbench, you need to include your own code, wrap it appropriately and build the project.
- Navigate to the
Source\Processingfolder and take a look atProcessorExamples.h/.cpp- This shows how to inherit from ProcessorHarness and shows examples of how to override the necessary pure virtual functions
- Create a local branch of the repository before proceeding
- Copy (or create) your own code into the project folder
- Make sure you add these files to the Projucer project also
- Either extend
ProcessorExamples.h/cppor create your own wrapper class and include it inMainComponent.cpp
- Instantiate your processor harness in the
MainContentComponentconstructor- If optimising code, then use two separate wrappers and instantiate them separately
- Build, run and test!
ASIO Interface Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
This software makes use of certain code libraries, those portions of code are copyright as per below:
- JUCE 6 - copyright © 2020 Raw Material Software
- Application code - copyright © 2021 Oblique Audio
- Fast maths approximations - copyright © 2011 Paul Mineiro
- rand31pmc white noise generator - copyright © 2005 Robin Whittle
- Pink noise filter - Paul Kellett
- PolyBLEP/BLAMP - adapted from Tebjan Halm (vvvv.org)
- MGA JS Limiter - copyright © 2008 Michael Gruhn
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