Science

Rotary speaker modelling

11 Feb 2017

While working on Rotary, I had to the time to perform extensive analysis of real rotary speakers. The usual ones like the Horn and Drum frequency and polar responses, the Doppler effect and some more unusual ones. Here’s some findings that I found interresting.

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Irreversibility, Conservation or Dissipation?

26 Nov 2016

Loxodrome

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Numerical schemes generated by Bezier splines

05 Jul 2016

I consider ordinary differential equations of the form

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FDN Delayline modulation

15 Nov 2011

I am testing the delay modulation algorithm for a new reverb I am working on. It is not meant initially to faithfully reproduce natural room reverberation (but I don’t mind if it does). Rather the delay length modulation is meant to be heard as a blend between chorus / reverberation / ensemble / unison and the initial design goal is to make it sound good on synthetic sounds first.

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Piano body deconvolution

15 Mar 2011

This is a simple experiment with blind piano body deconvolution using log-spectrum averaging of the whole sound FFT (>37s) for all sounds in a piano database.

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The Hadamard Matrix in Faust

17 Dec 2010

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Blind demixing using Non-negative Matrix Factorization

16 Dec 2010

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