[chuck-users] real-time convolution in Chuck

[Daniel Chapiro]

Hi - I have a performance problem, and I wonder if anyone has already solved this. I want to do a time-domain convolution of a real time signal (generated with a MIDI controller) and an IR of a cello body (a short .wav file). 

TIME DOMAIN:

I tried first doing it brute-force, in the time domain:
	(1) I pre-loaded the IR wav file (with SndBuf) into an array (truncated to N elements), and normalized the values (divided by the sum of the abs values)
	(2) using .last() I kept grabbing each music sample (and keeping the last N values in a circular buffer)
	(3) for each new music input value, I convolved the last N with the IR, and then stuffed the output into the dac (using an Impulse UGen)

Surprisingly, it worked. Not surprisingly it ran out of steam with N > 50… ;-)
Has anybody coded this as a Chugin, and made it work with reasonable-size IRs?

FREQUENCY DOMAIN:

Would this go much faster if instead of the above, I pre-computed the DFT of the IR, and then went in block fashion doing FFTs of the music, multiplying by the IR spectrum, doing the iFFT, and overlap-summation to get the time domain signal? 
Has anybody coded this in Chuck or as a Chugin?

SC:

Or is this the kind of application for which I should go with SuperCollider instead, to get the required real-time performance?

Thanks,
Daniel