Time Varying Reverberators

In real rooms, thermal convention currents cause the propagation path delays to vary over time [58]. Therefore, for greater physical accuracy, the delay lines within a digital reverberator should vary over time. From a more practical perspective, time variation helps to break up and obscure unwanted repetition in the late reverberation impulse response [439,102].

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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.