Further Extensions

Schroeder's original structures for artificial reverberation were comb filters and allpass filters made from two comb filters. Since then, they have been upgraded to include specific early reflections and per-sample air-absorption filtering (Moorer, Schroeder), precisely specified frequency dependent reverberation time (Jot), and a nearly independent factorization of ``coloration'' and ``duration'' aspects (Jot). The evolution from comb filters to feedback delay networks (Gerzon, Stautner, Puckette, Jot) can be seen as a means for obtaining greater richness of feedback, so that the diffuseness of the impulse response is greater than what is possible with parallel and/or series comb filters. In fact, an FDN can be seen as a richly cross-coupled bank of feedback comb filters whenever the diagonal of the feedback matrix is nonzero. The question now becomes what aspects of artificial reverberation have not yet been fully addressed?

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Subsections

• Spatialization of Reverberant Reflections
• Distribution of Mode Frequencies
• Reverberation Time vs. Frequency
• Digital Waveguide Reverberators
• The Digital Waveguide Mesh for Reverberation
• Time Varying Reverberators

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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.