Combined Derivative/Antiderivative Antialiasing
Nonlinear systems play an important role in musical signal processing, but their digital implementation suffers from the occurrence of aliasing distortion. Consequently, various aliasing reduction methods have been proposed in the literature. In this work, a novel approach is examined that uses samples of a signal’s derivative in addition to the signal’s samples themselves. This allows some aliasing reduction, but is usually insufficient on its own. However, it can elegantly and fruitfully be combined with antiderivative antialiasing to obtain an effective method. Unfortunately, it still compares unfavorably to oversampled antiderivative antialiasing. It may therefore be regarded as a negative result, but it may hopefully still form a basis for further developments.