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Aliasing Reduction in Virtual Analogue Modelling
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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Differentiable grey-box modelling of phaser effects using frame-based spectral processing
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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Differentiable all-pole filters for time-varying audio systems
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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Sample rate independent recurrent neural networks for audio effects processing
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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Interpolation filter design for sample rate independent audio effect RNNs
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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Open-amp: Synthetic data framework for audio effect foundation models
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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Resampling filter design for multirate neural audio effect processing
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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Anti-aliasing of neural distortion effects via model fine-tuning
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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Gradient-based optimisation of modulation effects
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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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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