Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES), 2026
Alistair Carson, Alec Wright and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, A. Wright, S. Bilbao, “Gradient-based optimisation of modulation effects”, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES), vol. 74, pp. 533–543, 2026.
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IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 2025
Alistair Carson, Vesa Välimäki, Alec Wright and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, V. Välimäki, A. Wright, S. Bilbao, “Resampling filter design for multirate neural audio effect processing,” IEEE Trans. Audio Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp.2163–2174, 2025.
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Proceedings of the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), 2025
Alistair Carson, Alec Wright and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, A. Wright, and S. Bilbao, “Anti-aliasing of neural distortion effects via model fine-tuning,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Digital Audio Effects (DAFx25), Ancona, Italy, Sep. 2025.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
Alec Wright, Alistair Carson and Lauri Juvela
Recommended citation: A. Wright, A. Carson, and L. Juvela, “Open-amp: Synthetic data framework for audio effect foundation models,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025.
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
Alistair Carson, Alec Wright and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, A. Wright, and S. Bilbao, “Interpolation filter design for sample rate independent audio effect RNNs,” in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Hyderabad, India, Apr. 2025.
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Proceedings of the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), 2024
Alistair Carson, Alec Wright, Jatin Chowdhury, Vesa Välimäki and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, A. Wright, J. Chowdhury, V. Välimäki, S. Bilbao “Sample rate independent recurrent neural networks for audio effects processing” Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24), Guildford, UK, Sept 2024.
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Proceedings of the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), 2024
Chin-Yun Yu, Christopher Mitcheltree, Alistair Carson, Stefan Bilbao, Joshua D. Reiss and György Fazekas
Recommended citation: C.-Y. Yu, C. Mitcheltree, A. Carson, S. Bilbao, J. D. Reiss, G. Fazekas, "Differentiable all-pole filters for time-varying audio systems", Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24), Guildford, UK, Sept 2024.
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Proceedings of the Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), 2023
Alistair Carson, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King and Stefan Bilbao
Recommended citation: A. Carson, C. Valentini-Botinhao, S. King and S. Bilbao “Differentiable grey-box modelling of phaser effects using frame-based spectral processing”; Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx23), Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 2023.
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MSc Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2020
Alistair Carson
Recommended citation: A. Carson, “Aliasing Reduction in Virtual Analogue Modelling”, MSc Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2020
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