White-box Audio VST Effect Programming
Abstract
Learning to program an audio production VST plugin is a time consuming process, usually obtained through inefficient trial and error and only mastered after extensive user experience. We propose a white-box, iterative system that provides step-by-step instructions for applying audio effects to change a user's audio signal towards a desired sound. We apply our system to Xfer Records Serum: currently one of the most popular and complex VST synthesizers used by the audio production community. Our results indicate that our system is consistently able to provide useful feedback for a variety of different audio effects and synthesizer presets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.03170,
title = {White-box Audio VST Effect Programming},
author = {Christopher Mitcheltree and Hideki Koike},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03170},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
The latest version of the system is to appear at EvoMUSART 2021 as a full paper. Audio samples of the latest system can be listened to at https://bit.ly/serum_rnn