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Convention Paper

The Switched Convolution Reverberator

Authors: Lee, Keun-Sup; Abel, Jonathan S.; Välimäki, Vesa; Berners, David P.

AES Convention 127 · Paper 7927 · October 2009

Abstract

An artificial reverberator having low memory and small computational cost, appropriate for mobile devices, is presented. The reverberator consists of an equalized comb filter driving a convolution with a short noise sequence. The reverberator equalization and decay rate are controlled by low-order IIR filters, and the echo density is that of the noise sequence. While this structure is efficient and readily generates high echo densities, if a fixed noise sequence is used, the reverberator has an unwanted periodicity at the comb filter delay length. To overcome this difficulty, the noise sequence is regularly updated or "switched". Several structures for updating the noise sequence, including a leaky integrator sensitive to the signal crest factor, and a multi-band architecture, are described.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 127
AES Convention
127
Paper number
7927
Publication date
October 6, 2009
Session subject
Digital Audio Effects
Affiliation
Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Universal Audio, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper