blank_staturation with a window around saturation signal

[JulesLebert]

The preprocessing function that removes saturation just remove the samples where the signal reaches the threshold. This changes allow to also remove the signal around these saturations points (useful to remove parts of a recording where the cable was disconnected for example).

The problem with the modified clip function in pure python is that it is very slow. I have tried a vectorised approach that uses a convolve function from scipy.signal but it only improves performances marginally. Therefore, I have included a numba implementation of the function that increases the speed by ~10 times on my machine and that will only run if numba is installed.

[h-mayorquin]

Thanks for your contribution.

My thinking in order of descending importance:

1. I think that the ClipRecording segment should not be modified. Right now, it is very straightforward and does its own thing very well. If we really want to have something like this we can just create another RecordingSegment. In brief, I feel the price of complexity is worse than the price of a small duplication. Finally, this should have some tests.
2. Are you sure that you need the loop for the numpy implementation? I think that you can calculate where the indexes of np.were change by more than one (np.diff) an just expand to the left and right accordingly. This will avoid the inner loop which is the most costly part of your function. Am I missing something?
3. I think that numba in general will play bad with our way of parallelizing with the ChunkRecordingExecutor. The former because I am not sure if it will require recompling per core which is usually a higher cost than the operation it implements. Have you tested this?

[alejoe91]

@JulesLebert is this still being worked on?