Disclosed is a communication modulator with sample rate conversion. The modulator comprises a symbol mapping module configured to map an input bitstream to a symbol sequence; a pre-distortion module configured to multiply the symbol sequence by a discrete frequency response to produce a pre-distorted symbol sequence; a modulation module configured to modulate the pre-distorted symbol sequence to a time-domain baseband sample sequence; a sample rate conversion module configured to convert the sample rate of the baseband sample sequence to a different sample rate to produce a sample-rate-converted baseband sample sequence; and an up-conversion module configured to up-convert the sample-rate-converted baseband sample sequence to an intermediate frequency signal. The discrete frequency response by which the pre-distortion module multiplies the symbol sequence is configured to compensate for passband droop introduced to the sample-rate-converted baseband sample sequence by the sample rate conversion module.