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Analog audio effects and synthesizers often owe their distinct sound to circuit nonlinearities. Faithfully modeling such significant aspect of the original sound in virtual analog software can prove challenging. The current work proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Eero-Pekka Damskägg , Lauri Juvela , Etienne Thuillier , Vesa Välimäki

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 modeling are often either simplified or optimized to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-10 Marco A. Martínez Ramirez , Joshua D. Reiss

Despite noise suppression being a mature area in signal processing, it remains highly dependent on fine tuning of estimator algorithms and parameters. In this paper, we demonstrate a hybrid DSP/deep learning approach to noise suppression. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jean-Marc Valin

This paper introduces Open-Amp, a synthetic data framework for generating large-scale and diverse audio effects data. Audio effects are relevant to many musical audio processing and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks, such as modelling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Alec Wright , Alistair Carson , Lauri Juvela

This work demonstrates "slimmable Neural Amp Models", whose size and computational cost can be changed without additional training and with negligible computational overhead, enabling musicians to easily trade off between the accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Steven Atkinson

Controllable neural audio synthesis of sound effects is a challenging task due to the potential scarcity and spectro-temporal variance of the data. Differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) synthesisers have been successfully employed…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Adrián Barahona-Ríos , Tom Collins

Recent work in the field of symbolic music generation has shown value in using a tokenization based on the GuitarPro format, a symbolic representation supporting guitar expressive attributes, as an input and output representation. We extend…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jackson Loth , Pedro Sarmento , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Mathieu Barthet

An ideal music synthesizer should be both interactive and expressive, generating high-fidelity audio in realtime for arbitrary combinations of instruments and notes. Recent neural synthesizers have exhibited a tradeoff between…

Recent years have seen increasing interest in applying deep learning methods to the modeling of guitar amplifiers or effect pedals. Existing methods are mainly based on the supervised approach, requiring temporally-aligned data pairs of…

Modeling real-world sound is a fundamental problem in the creative use of machine learning and many other fields, including human speech processing and bioacoustics. Transformer-based generative models and some prior work (e.g., DDSP) are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Masato Hagiwara , Maddie Cusimano , Jen-Yu Liu

Deep neural networks have shown promise for music audio signal processing applications, often surpassing prior approaches, particularly as end-to-end models in the waveform domain. Yet results to date have tended to be constrained by low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 William Mitchell , Scott H. Hawley

Plate and spring reverberators are electromechanical systems first used and researched as means to substitute real room reverberation. Nowadays they are often used in music production for aesthetic reasons due to their particular sonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Marco A. Martínez Ramírez , Emmanouil Benetos , Joshua D. Reiss

Audio effects are extensively used at every stage of audio and music content creation. The majority of differentiable audio effects modeling approaches fall into the black-box or gray-box paradigms; and most models have been proposed and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Marco Comunità , Christian J. Steinmetz , Joshua D. Reiss

Machine learning approaches to modelling analog audio effects have seen intensive investigation in recent years, particularly in the context of non-linear time-invariant effects such as guitar amplifiers. For modulation effects such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Alistair Carson , Cassia Valentini-Botinhao , Simon King , Stefan Bilbao

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 deep encoder to analyze input audio and control effect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Marco A. Martínez Ramírez , Oliver Wang , Paris Smaragdis , Nicholas J. Bryan

Timbre is a primary mode of expression in diverse musical contexts. However, prevalent audio-driven synthesis methods predominantly rely on pitch and loudness envelopes, effectively flattening timbral expression from the input. Our approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jordie Shier , Charalampos Saitis , Andrew Robertson , Andrew McPherson

In the age of music streaming platforms, the task of automatically tagging music audio has garnered significant attention, driving researchers to devise methods aimed at enhancing performance metrics on standard datasets. Most recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Vassilis Lyberatos , Spyridon Kantarelis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

Pitch estimation is an essential step of many speech processing algorithms, including speech coding, synthesis, and enhancement. Recently, pitch estimators based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have have been outperforming well-established…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Krishna Subramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Jan Buethe , Paris Smaragdis , Mike Goodwin

Hearing aids are expected to improve speech intelligibility for listeners with hearing impairment. An appropriate amplification fitting tuned for the listener's hearing disability is critical for good performance. The developments of most…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zehai Tu , Ning Ma , Jon Barker

Neural vocoders model the raw audio waveform and synthesize high-quality audio, but even the highly efficient ones, like MB-MelGAN and LPCNet, fail to run real-time on a low-end device like a smartglass. A pure digital signal processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prabhav Agrawal , Thilo Koehler , Zhiping Xiu , Prashant Serai , Qing He