Automated physical modeling of nonlinear audio circuits for real-time audio effectspart I: Theoretical development

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 728-737

  Yeh, David T ^a   Abel, Jonathan S ^a   Smith, Julius O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier modeling; Circuit simulation; Digital audio effects; Guitar distortion; K method; Nonlinear filters; Physical modeling synthesis; Virtual analog

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT CONFIGURATIONS; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS; DIGITAL AUDIO EFFECTS; GUITAR DISTORTION; MUSICAL ACOUSTICS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT; NONLINEAR DISCRETE-TIME; NONLINEAR FILTER; PHYSICAL MODELING; REAL TIME; REAL TIME MODELING; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; STATE SPACE FORMULATION; STATE-SPACE; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; TWO-PART SERIES;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

MODELS;

EID: 77951194527     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2033978     Document Type: Article

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