Sine wave problems

Audio Plugins
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Hi everyone!

I feel rather stupid asking this, but:
I’m trying to implement a very simple sine oscillator (not caring about performance or aliasing yet), and I’m stumbling on a problem:

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As you can see, it isn’t a continous sine wave.
My guess it has something to do with the buffer ‘resetting’, and my sine wave starting again from naught.

My code (in processBlock):

void GirafficSynthAudioProcessor::processBlock (AudioSampleBuffer& buffer, MidiBuffer& midiMessages)
{
const int totalNumInputChannels = getTotalNumInputChannels();
const int totalNumOutputChannels = getTotalNumOutputChannels();

for (int i = totalNumInputChannels; i < totalNumOutputChannels; ++i)
    buffer.clear (i, 0, buffer.getNumSamples());

//float* samplesL = buffer.getWritePointer(0);
//float* samplesR = buffer.getWritePointer(1);

float samplerate = getSampleRate();

const int numSamples = buffer.getNumSamples();

for (int i = 0; i < numSamples; ++i) {
    buffer.setSample(0, i, sinf((2 * float_Pi / samplerate) * frequency * i));
    buffer.setSample(1, i, sinf((2 * float_Pi / samplerate) * frequency * i));
}

}

Does anyone have some input on this? I’ve googled a ton already without much succes.

2

Your loop iterating over samples is just dependent on i, so when the next buffer starts, your sine wave starts from zero as you realized.
You need a counter that survives over the boundaries of the processBlock call. Either you have a second counter as member variable or more performant, add numSamples at the end.
In the constructor you set offset = 0, in sinf you replace i by i+offset, and after the loop call offset += numSamples.
Good luck

3

Thanks!
Really helpful answer.

4

You may want to check out the JUCE tutorial on how to build a sine wave synth. It provides a minimal reference implementation of what you are doing:

https://www.juce.com/doc/tutorial_sine_synth