maybe im missing something but why not use pareq with steep resonance and negative gain? On Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, vallste@libero.it wrote: > Dear List, > I'd like to remove some frequencies zones (a band reject filter) from a signal with very precise frequency bands (high rolloff?). My Idea is somehow the following (Butterworth filters just for reference): > > ainputSignal;Incoming signal > ainputSignalB1 butlp ainputSignal, kfreq1 ;Band1 > ainputSignalB2 butbp ainputSignal, kfreq2, kband2 ;Band2 > ainputSignalB3 butbp ainputSignal, kfreq3, kband3 ;Band3 > ainputSignalB4 buthp ainputSignal, kfreq4 ;Band4 > > then the single bands are processed (or not) indipendently; If I modify only one band I can remove (from the input signal) only the band I want modify and sum the band once processed while keeping the rest of the signal intact. For example if I process only Band2: > > aoutputSignal = ainputSignal - ainputSignalB2 + ainputSignalB2Pocessed > > > > ainputSignalB1 butbp ainputSignal, kfreq1, kband1 > > > > Does this make sense or there are some phase modifications (in the filtered signals) to take in account? > Then, which filters (or combination of, or pvs tricks, or...) to use (instead of the Butterworth written above) to have a very steep rolloff but being able to run the thing in realtime (on an average machine, not a supercomputer nor a pentim 2)? > > Ciao > > Stefano >