Distortion Analysis Toolkit - a Software Tool for Easy Analysis of Nonlinear Audio Systems
Loading...
Access rights
openAccess
publishedVersion
URL
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
This publication is imported from Aalto University research portal.
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
Other link related to publication (opens in new window)
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
Other link related to publication (opens in new window)
Authors
Date
2010
Major/Subject
Mcode
Degree programme
Language
en
Pages
Series
Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Volume 2010, pp. 1-13
Abstract
Several audio effects devices deliberately add nonlinear distortion to the processed signal in order to create a desired sound. When creating virtual analog models of nonlinearly distorting devices, it would be very useful to carefully analyze the type of distortion, so that the model could be made as realistic as possible. While traditional system analysis tools such as the frequency response give detailed information on the operation of linear and time-invariant systems, they are less useful for analyzing nonlinear devices. Furthermore, although there do exist separate algorithms for nonlinear distortion analysis, there is currently no unified, easy-to-use tool for rapid analysis of distorting audio systems. This paper offers a remedy by introducing a new software tool for easy analysis of distorting effects. A comparison between a well-known guitar tube amplifier and two commercial software simulations is presented as a case study. This freely available software is written in Matlab language, but the analysis tool can also run as a standalone program, so the user does not need to have Matlab installed in order to perform the analysis.Description
Keywords
Article ID 617325. doi: 10.1155/2010/617325. Special Issue on Digital Audio Effects
Other note
Citation
Pakarinen, J 2010, ' Distortion Analysis Toolkit - a Software Tool for Easy Analysis of Nonlinear Audio Systems ', Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, 617325, pp. 1-13 . https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/617325