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Differentiable Signal Processing With Black-Box Audio Effects
Marco A. Martínez Ramírez, Oliver Wang, Paris Smaragdis, Nicholas J. Bryan
We present a data-driven approach to automate audio signal processing by incorporating stateful third-party, audio effects as layers within a deep neural network. We then train a deep encoder to analyze input audio and control effect parameters to perform the desired signal manipulation, requiring only input-target paired audio data as supervision. To train our network with non-differentiable black-box effects layers, we use a fast, parallel stochastic gradient approximation scheme within a standard auto differentiation graph, yielding efficient end-to-end backpropagation. We demonstrate the power of our approach with three separate automatic audio production applications: tube amplifier emulation, automatic removal of breaths and pops from voice recordings, and automatic music mastering. We validate our results with a subjective listening test, showing our approach not only can enable new automatic audio effects tasks, but can yield results comparable to a specialized, state-of-the-art commercial solution for music mastering.
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