Volterra series and state transformation for real-time simulations of audio circuits including saturations: Application to the moog ladder filter

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 747-759

  Hélie, Thomas ^a  

^a IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

Analog audio circuit; Nonlinear systems; Saturation; Simulation; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

ANALOG AUDIO CIRCUIT; AUDIO CIRCUITS; COST SIMULATIONS; DIGITAL SIMULATION; FEED-BACK LOOP; INPUT SIGNAL; LADDER FILTERS; LINEAR FILTERS; LOW ORDER; NONLINEAR STATIC FUNCTION; PARAMETERIZED; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; SINGLE STAGE; STATE TRANSFORMATION; TRUNCATED VERSIONS; TWO DELAYS; VOLTERRA SERIES; VOLTERRA SERIES EXPANSION; WEAKLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951184227     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2035211     Document Type: Article

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