One of the difficulties arising in a theoretical performance evaluation of communication systems in which several carriers of various types are transmitted through a cammon nonlinear amplifier, is related to the problem of calculating, with good precision and within reasonable computer time, the power spectrum of the intermodulation noise generated at the output of the nonlinear device. The analysis becomes more complex when the carriers have time- varyng envelopes, since in such situations, besides the difficulty involved in determining the power and spectrum shape of the output signals and intermodulation products, an extra system impairment should be taken into account. Namely, the performance degradation due to modulation transfer from all the other carriers into the desired carrier. With focus on digital systems, it is shoun that, by using certain algorithms and approximations, theoretical performance analysis is feasible. Based on the results presented, a computer program was developed to evaluate performance in fairly general situations.