Distortion and Amplifier Feedback

This section discusses adding distortion and amplifier feedback to the basic EKS algorithm, as introduced in [502]. The resulting synthesis model is capable of convincing synthesis of ``howling'' overdriven electric guitars.^D.9

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Subsections

• Cubic Nonlinear Distortion
  • Faust Implementation
  
  
• Amplifier Feedback

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.