On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 at 13:14 Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I just had to look this up. If you're in GRC, you have "rationale
> resampler" and "rational resampler base"; they do basically the same, but
> if you use the one without "base", and don't specify the taps, GNU Radio
> just automatically designs a filter that avoids all aliasing and imaging,
> which is done with a python wrapper around the C++
> rational_resampler_base_xxx's make function[1]. That's pretty handy in most
> use cases, but not too much if you want your own filter for some reason.
>
> If you're using the "base" variant, you *must* specify the taps yourself,
> because you directly invoke the C++ block's maker. If you go ahead and just
> use "[1.0]" as taps, you get the aliased results from my pictures.
>
> So if you happen to *want *to specify the taps, because you can integrate
> the functionality of a downstream filter into the resampler to save CPU
> cycles, it doesn't make a difference which block you use.
>

Ah, I see.  Many thanks for taking the time to explain this.  Where did you
look to find out that 'rational resampler' block does an automatic filter
design for you?

Regards,
Tom
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