Single sideband modulation

Figure 8.31: Using an all-pass filter network to make a frequency shifter.

As described in section 8.4.3, a pair of all-pass filters can be constructed to give roughly $\pi /2$ phase difference for positive frequencies and $-\pi/2$ for negative ones. The design of these pairs is beyond the scope of this discussion (see, for instance, [Reg93]), but Pd does provide an abstraction, hilbert~, to do this. Patch H09.ssb.modulation.pd, shown in Figure 8.31, demonstrates how to use the hilbert~ abstraction to do signal sideband modulation.

The two outputs of hilbert~, considered as the real and imaginary parts of a complex-valued signal, are multiplied by a complex sinusoid (at right in the figure), and the real part is output. The components of the resulting signal are those of the input plus the (positive or negative) frequency of the number box.