White-box Audio VST Effect Programming
Christopher Mitcheltree, Hideki Koike
TL;DR
This paper introduces a white-box, iterative system that guides users step-by-step in programming audio effects in VST plugins, aiming to simplify the learning process for complex audio synthesis tools.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel white-box system that provides iterative, step-by-step instructions for programming audio effects in VST plugins, demonstrated on Xfer Records Serum.
Findings
System provides useful feedback across various effects
Effective in guiding users to achieve desired sounds
Applicable to complex synthesizers like Serum
Abstract
Learning to program an audio production VST plugin is a time consuming process, usually obtained through inefficient trial and error and only mastered after extensive user experience. We propose a white-box, iterative system that provides step-by-step instructions for applying audio effects to change a user's audio signal towards a desired sound. We apply our system to Xfer Records Serum: currently one of the most popular and complex VST synthesizers used by the audio production community. Our results indicate that our system is consistently able to provide useful feedback for a variety of different audio effects and synthesizer presets.
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Taxonomy
TopicsMusic and Audio Processing · Blind Source Separation Techniques · Music Technology and Sound Studies