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TRANSPOSEDTONE - Transposed tone test stimuli

Program code:

function outsig = transposedtone(siglen,fc,fm,fs,varargin)
%TRANSPOSEDTONE  Transposed tone test stimuli
%   Usage:  ts = transposedtone(fc,fm,dur,fs);
%
%   Input parameters:
%     siglen  : Length of signal
%     fc      : Vector of carrier frequencies (Hz)
%     fm      : Vector of modulation frequencies (Hz)
%     fs      : Sampling frequency (Hz)
% 
%   Output parameters:
%     outsig  : transposed tone (column vector)
%
%   TRANSPOSEDTONE(siglen,fc,fm,dur,fs) generates a transposed tone test
%   stimuli as defined in Kolrausch et. al (1997).
%
%   By default, the output is normalized to have an RMS value of 1, but this
%   can be changed by passing any of the flags from the normalize function.
% 
%   Some example parameters as used in a study by Santurette:
%   
%     siglen = 44100;
%     fc     = 5000;
%     fm     = 435;
%     fs     = 44100;
%     outsig = transposedtone(fc,fm,dur,fs);
%
%   References:
%     A. Kohlrausch, R. Fassel, M. Heijden, R. Kortekaas, S. Par, A. Oxenham,
%     and D. Puschel. Detection of tones in low-noise noise: Further evidence
%     for the role of envelope fluctuations. Acta Acustica united with
%     Acoustica, 83(4):659-669, 1997.
%     
%     A. Oxenham, J. Bernstein, and H. Penagos. Correct tonotopic
%     representation is necessary for complex pitch perception. Proceedings
%     of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(5):1421-1425, 2004.
%     
%
%   Url: http://amtoolbox.sourceforge.net/data/amt-test/htdocs/amt-0.9.8/doc/signals/transposedtone.php

% Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Piotr Majdak and Peter L. Søndergaard.
% This file is part of AMToolbox version 0.9.8
%
% This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
% the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
% (at your option) any later version.
%
% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
% GNU General Public License for more details.
%
% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
% along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

% Author: Sébastien Santurette  2009

if nargin<4
  error('Too few input parameters.');
end;

definput.import={'normalize'};
definput.importdefaults={'rms'};
[flags,keyvals]=ltfatarghelper({},definput,varargin);


% time vector
t = (0:siglen-1)/fs;

% number of tones
n = length(fc);
                       
outsig = zeros(siglen,1);
for ii = 1:n
  % carrier tone
  carrier = cos(2*pi*fc(ii)*t);        

  % "modulator"   
  hrsine = sin(2*pi*fm(ii)*t);         

  % half-wave rectify the modulator
  hrsine = max(0,hrsine);             
  
  % Compute coefficients for low-pass filtering
  fcuth = .2*fc(ii)/(fs/2);
  [b,a] = butter(4,fcuth,'low');

  % Low-pass filter the modulator
  hrsine = filter(b,a,hrsine);

  % Add the carrier*modulator to the transposed tone
  outsig = outsig+(carrier.*hrsine)';
end;

outsig=normalize(outsig,flags.norm);