Although semiconductor technologies have displaced vacuum-tube devices in nearly all
fields of electronics, vacuum tubes are still widely used in professional guitar amplifiers. A …

Digital sound synthesis has long been approached using standard digital filtering
techniques. Newer synthesis strategies, however, make use of physical descriptions of …

This article investigates the use of deep neural networks for black-box modelling of audio
distortion circuits, such as guitar amplifiers and distortion pedals. Both a feedforward …

Virtual analog modeling of audio effects consists of emulating the sound of an audio
processor reference device. This digital simulation is normally done by designing …

We present a data-driven approach to automate audio signal processing by incorporating
stateful third-party, audio effects as layers within a deep neural network. We then train a …

This paper presents a procedural approach to derive nonlinear filters from schematics of
audio circuits for the purpose of digitally emulating analog musical effects circuits in real …

Researchers studying the emotional impact of music have not traditionally been concerned
with the principled relationship between form and function in evolved animal signals. The …

This paper studies deep neural networks for modeling of audio distortion circuits. The
selected approach is blackbox modeling, which estimates model parameters based on the …

Audio Effects: Theory, Implementation and Application explores digital audio effects relevant
to audio signal processing and music informatics. It supplies fundamental background …

In the context of music production, distortion effects are mainly used for aesthetic reasons
and are usually applied to electric musical instruments. Most existing methods for nonlinear …