Bitcrush effect applies a lowpass filter even if sample-rate reduction is disabled
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Description
Bug Summary
Using a bitcrush effect on a signal will result in a lowpass filter at Nyquist frequency, even if the sample-rate reduction is disabled.
Enabling the sample-rate reduction will further filter the signal.
Steps to reproduce
From default project, create two Mixer channels.
Route the first to the second.
Send the TripleOscillator to the first, and set it up so that it only produces white noise.
Add a Bitcrusher effect on the second mixer channel, leave the default values but uncheck the sample-rate reduction led, to disable it. Disabling the quantization reduction doesn't have any effect.
Expected behavior
Signal should be untouched, the two spectrums should be the same.
Actual behavior
A lowpass filter at nyquist frequency is applied to the signal with the bitcrush effect
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Affected LMMS versions
1.3.0 alpha 1.33+g4f74151f0
1.2.2
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in the default project with two Mixer channels, white noise from TripleOscillator, and Bitcrusher sample-rate reduction disabled. Inspect the Bitcrusher effect implementation and compare the input and output spectrums; done means disabling sample-rate reduction leaves the signal untouched while enabling it retains its filtering behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100