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sweeptone

Exponential swept sine

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Syntax

excitation = sweeptone()
excitation = sweeptone(swDur)
excitation = sweeptone(swDur,silDur)
excitation = sweeptone(swDur,silDur,fs)
excitation = sweeptone(___,Name=Value)

Description

excitation = sweeptone() returns an excitation signal generated using the exponential swept sine (ESS) technique. By default, the signal has a 6-second duration, followed by 4 seconds of silence, for a sample rate of 44100 Hz.

excitation = sweeptone(swDur) specifies the duration of the exponential swept sine signal.

excitation = sweeptone(swDur,silDur) specifies the duration of the silence following the exponential swept sine signal.

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excitation = sweeptone(swDur,silDur,fs) specifies the sample rate of the sweep tone as fs Hz.

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excitation = sweeptone(___,Name=Value) specifies options using one or more name-value arguments, in addition to the input arguments in the previous syntaxes.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Create a sweep tone excitation signal by using the sweeptone function.

excitation = sweeptone(2,1,44100);

plot(excitation)
title('Excitation')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Excitation contains an object of type line.

Pass the excitation signal through an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter and add noise to model a real-world recording (system response).

[B,A] = butter(10,[.1 .7]);
rec = filter(B,A,excitation);
nrec = rec + 0.12*randn(size(rec));

plot(nrec)
title('System Response')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title System Response contains an object of type line.

Pass the excitation signal and the system response to the impzest function to estimate the impulse response. Truncate the estimate to 100 points. Use impz to determine the true impulse response of the system. Plot the true impulse response and the estimated impulse response for comparison.

irEstimate = impzest(excitation,nrec);
irEstimate = irEstimate(1:101);

irTrue = impz(B,A,101);
plot(0:100,irEstimate, ...
     0:100,irTrue,'ro')

legend('True impulse response','Estimated impulse response')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 2 objects of type line. These objects represent True impulse response, Estimated impulse response.

Open Live Script

Generate an exponential swept sine (ESS) signal with a 3-second sweep that goes from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, and ends with a 2-second silence. Specify the sample rate as 48 kHz.

fs = 48e3;
excitation = sweeptone(3,2,fs,'SweepFrequencyRange',[20 20e3]);

Visualize the excitation in time and time-frequency.

t = (0:numel(excitation)-1)/fs;
plot(t,excitation)
xlabel('Time (s)')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains an object of type line.

spectrogram(excitation,512,0,1024,fs,'yaxis')

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains an object of type image.

Input Arguments

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Duration of exponential swept sine signal in seconds, specified as a scalar in the range [0.5,60].

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Duration of silence after exponential swept sine, specified as a positive scalar.

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Sample rate in Hz, specified as a positive scalar.

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Before R2021a, use commas to separate each name and value, and enclose Name in quotes.

Example: 'ExcitationLevel',-5

Level of the excitation signal to generate in dB, specified as a scalar in the range [-42,0].

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Range of sweep frequency in Hz, specified as a two-element row vector. The sweep frequency range can be specified low to high or high to low. That is, [10 22000] and [22000 10] are both valid inputs. The largest value of the sweep frequency range must be less than or equal to fs/2.

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | int64 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | uint64

Output Arguments

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Excitation signal generated using the ESS technique, returned as a column vector. The length of the column vector is approximately (swDur+silDur)*fs samples.

Data Types: double

References

[1] Farina, Angelo. "Advancements in Impulse Response Measurements by Sine Sweeps." Presented at the Audio Engineering Society 122nd Convention, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
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Version History

Introduced in R2018b

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