Adaptive digital audio effects (A-DAFx): a new class of sound transformations

Vincent Verfaille (1) , Udo Zölzer (2) , Daniel Arfib (1)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]
2 Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Armed Forces Hamburg

After covering the basics of sound perception and giving an overview of commonly used audio effects (using a perceptual categorization), we propose a new concept called adaptive digital audio effects (A-DAFx). This consists of combining a sound transformation with an adaptive control. To create A-DAFx, low-level and perceptual features are extracted from the input signal, in order to derive the control values according to specific mapping functions. We detail the implementation of various new adaptive effects and give examples of their musical use.

Mots clés: music; information retrieval; feature extraction; adaptive control; signal processing; psychoacoustic models

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Vincent Verfaille, Udo Zölzer, Daniel Arfib. Adaptive digital audio effects (A-DAFx): a new class of sound transformations. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2006, 14 (5), pp.1817-1831. ⟨10.1109/TSA.2005.858531⟩. ⟨hal-00095922⟩