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Impulse Response Upmixing Using Particle Systems

Authors: Fonseca, Nuno

AES Convention 137 · Paper 9100 · October 2014

Abstract

With the increase of the computational power of DSP’s and CPU’s, impulse responses (IR) and the convolution process are becoming a very popular approach to recreate some audio effects like reverb. But although many IR repositories exist, most IR recordings consider only mono or stereo. This paper presents an approach for impulse response upmixing using particle systems. Using a reverse engineering process, a particle system is created, capable of reproducing the original impulse response. By re-rendering the obtained particle system with virtual microphones, an upmixing result can be obtained. Depending on the type of virtual microphone, several different output formats can be supported, ranging from stereo to surround, and including binaural support, Ambisonics, or even custom speaker scenarios (VBAP).

Details

Published in
AES Convention 137
AES Convention
137
Paper number
9100
Publication date
October 6, 2014
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
ESTG/CIIC, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper