Signal Processing Design for Audio Effects

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This presentation describes open-source software and guides we have assembled into a digital audio effects development kit, and our efforts using these resources in our annual FX Hackathon event held at WPI. Audio processes and their uses in musical contexts is a challenging subject area. We have addressed this difficulty by creating an effect development kit including a software-based tool to facilitate rapid effect prototyping and guides for assembling hardware around a microcontroller housed in a guitar pedal stompbox-sized enclosure. With these resources, students need only focus on understanding the specific audio process they wish to implement into an effect and then use these resources to realize the effect in a standalone device.
 
What is the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab (EGIL) @ WPI?
Through the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab, WPI students and faculty work together in a variety of interdisciplinary and open-ended projects to develop new innovations related to the electric guitar, including the modification to instruments and components, stompboxes and other effects processors, amplifiers and speaker components, and related inventions and adaptations. We routinely reverse-engineer, 3D model ,3D scan, program and adapt existing parts and tools, and then create tool-pathing operations, fabricate parts, and perform real-world and software-based simulations.

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V.J.

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V.J. Manzo is Associate Professor of Music Technology and Cognition at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He is a composer and guitarist with research interests in theory and composition, artificial intelligence, interactive music systems, and music cognition. V.J. is author of several books published by Oxford University Press including Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, Foundations of Music Technology, and co-author of Interactive Composition and Environmental Sound Artists. He has created numerous software projects including the Modal Object Library, a collection of programming objects to control harmony in algorithmic and electro-acoustic compositions, and EAMIR, an open-source project and non-profit charity organization that supports composition, performance, education, and research through accessible technology-based musical instruments. At WPI, he is the founding director and PI of the RATLab, a research collective at WPI focusing on the convergence of music and technology through two of his labs: the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab (EGIL), and the Interactive Music Systems Lab (IMSLab), and a co-director of the Media Arts Group Innovation Center (MAGIC).

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Address:Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01609

Matt

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Matthew Halper is Professor of Music at Kean University (Union, NJ).  He has received performances in leading venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and live on Chicago Radio and Public Television. He received a Whitaker Reading Prize from the American Composers Orchestra. His String Quartet was awarded the Walsum Prize and premiered by principals of the National Symphony Orchestra. Recordings include his Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble (TROY821) which the American Record Guide lauded as “ambitious, ... lyrically dramatic, majestic and broadly American in flavor.” He has lectured on contemporary music, music technology and has had his works performed at conferences of the CMS, College Band Directors National Association, the Society of Composers, the National Flute Association, and at various institutions including the Juilliard School.

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Address:Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, New Jersey, United States, 07083


Ryan

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Ryan McKenna holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The technical basis of his expertise is further refined though building a diverse set of organizations and products. Ryan currently works with Veo Robotics, developing a 3D vision-based safety sensor system for industrial robotics, and as an Affiliate Research Associate in the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab at WPI. Ryan’s professional and creative development is motivated by a concentration on the communicative and productive potential of audio as both a transient and recorded medium. As an experienced musician, technician, and production designer in the touring music industry, he has delivered memorable experiences to concertgoers and listeners through performance, audio-visual displays, and the creation of emotive tools for musicians and technicians alike. Concurrent work in audio engineering and sound design for music and video yields experience in creating attention-grabbing content, tailored to cut through a cacophony of media.

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Address:Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01609