Nonlinear systems identification is used to synthesize black-box models of nonlinear audio effects and as such is a widespread topic of interest within the audio industry. As a variety of implementation algorithms provide a myriad of approaches, questions arise whether there are major functional differences between methods and implementations. This paper presents a novel method for the black-box measurement of distortion characteristic curves and an analysis of the popular “lookup table” implementation of nonlinear effects. Pros and cons of the techniques are examined from a signal processing perspective and the basic limitations and efficiencies of the approaches are discussed.
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