Real-time black-box modelling with recurrent neural networks

A Wright, EP Damskägg, V Välimäki - International Conference on …, 2019 - research.aalto.fi
This paper proposes to use a recurrent neural network for blackbox modelling of nonlinear
audio systems, such as tube amplifiers and distortion pedals. As a recurrent unit structure …

Real-time guitar amplifier emulation with deep learning

A Wright, EP Damskägg, L Juvela, V Välimäki - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This article investigates the use of deep neural networks for black-box modelling of audio
distortion circuits, such as guitar amplifiers and distortion pedals. Both a feedforward …

Deep learning for tube amplifier emulation

EP Damskägg, L Juvela, E Thuillier… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Real-time modeling of audio distortion circuits with deep learning

EP Damskägg, L Juvela, V Välimäki - Sound and music computing …, 2019 - research.aalto.fi
This paper studies deep neural networks for modeling of audio distortion circuits. The
selected approach is blackbox modeling, which estimates model parameters based on the …

Hyper recurrent neural network: Condition mechanisms for black-box audio effect modeling

YT Yeh, WY Hsiao, YH Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04829, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have demonstrated impressive results for virtual analog
modeling of audio effects. These networks process time-domain audio signals using a series …

Perceptual loss function for neural modeling of audio systems

A Wright, V Välimäki - ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates alternate pre-emphasis filters used as part of the loss function during
neural network training for nonlinear audio processing. In our previous work, the error-to …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient neural networks for real-time analog audio effect modeling

CJ Steinmetz, JD Reiss - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06200, 2021 - researchgate.net
Deep learning approaches have demonstrated success in the task of modeling analog
audio effects such as distortion and overdrive. Nevertheless, challenges remain in modeling …

Reverse engineering memoryless distortion effects with differentiable waveshapers

JT Colonel, M Comunità, J Reiss - Audio Engineering Society Convention …, 2022 - aes.org
We present a lightweight method of reverse engineering distortion effects using Wiener-
Hammerstein models implemented in a differentiable framework. The Wiener-Hammerstein …

Adversarial guitar amplifier modelling with unpaired data

A Wright, V Välimäki, L Juvela - ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose an audio effects processing framework that learns to emulate a target electric
guitar tone from a recording. We train a deep neural network using an adversarial approach …

Neural modeling of phaser and flanging effects

A Wright, V Valimaki - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2021 - research.ed.ac.uk
This article further explores a previously proposed gray-box neural network approach to
modeling LFO (low-frequency oscillator) modulated time-varying audio effects. The network …