AFxResearch
February 6, 2025 · View on GitHub
AFxResearch
scientific literature about audio effects
Marco Comunità, Joshua D. Reiss
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Citation
If you find this work useful, please consider citing us:
@inproceedings{comunita19afxresearch,
title={AFxResearch: a repository and website of audio effects research},
author={Comunita, Marco and Reiss, Joshua D},
booktitle={DMRN+ 19: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2024}
}
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Project
This repo is used to manage a database of scientific literature hosted at:
https://mcomunita.github.io/afx-research
please note the link will redirect you to a Notion :tm: web page
I chose to use Notion :tm: since it allows to visualize a dynamic table with filtering, ordering, tagging options. It's also easy to update when new literature comes out.
The papers are on topics like:
- audio effects modelling
- audio effects classification and parameters estimation
- audio effects removal
- audio effects circuits emulation
- differentiable and non-differentiable methods
- white-, gray- and black-box approaches to audio effects modelling
- approaches based on: neural networks, differentiable digital signal processing, waveshaping, wave digital filters, dynamic convolution, Wiener-Hammerstein models, Volterra series, State-spaces...
- literature reviews
Contributions
We invite anyone to contribute to this collection by submitting a new issue for each publication you would like to include.
Here is an example of table entry:

To signal a publication, simply open a new issue (there is a template for it) including as much info as possible about it:
[*] = required
- [*] Title: title of the publication
- [*] Author(s): author(s) of the publication
- [*] URL: URL to the publication
- [*] Date: in the YYYY-MM format
- [*] Main Task: classification, estimation, modeling, processing, removal, style transfer, review
- Paradigm(s): what paradigm(s) is the publication using (i.e., Black-, Gray-, White-box)
- [*] Device(s) Type(s): what type of effects the publication is about (e.g., reverb, delay)
- Device(s)s: what specific devices/circuits have been modelled (e.g., Ibanez Tube Screamer or Vacuum Tube Stage)
- Parametric/Controllable: Y/N - whether the publication includes some sort of controllability
- [*] Neural/Differentiable: Y/N - whether or not a differentiable approach was used
- Method: which method(s) or combination of methods is the publication based on (e.g., Neural Network, Wiener-Hammerstein or State-space)
- Webpage: URL of the page associated with the publication
- Code: URL of the repo associated with the publication
- Dataset: URL of the data associated with the publication
- [*] Abstract
Here's an example of the info associated to each publication:
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