DAFx-2020 - Vienna (virtual)

In artificial reverb algorithms, gains are commonly varied over time to break up temporal patterns, improving quality. We propose a family of novel Schroeder-style allpass filters that are energypreserving under arbitrary, continuous changes of their gains over time. All of them are canonic in delays, and some are also canonic in multiplies. This yields several structures that are novel even in the time-invariant case. Special cases for cascading and nesting these structures with a reduced number of multipliers are shown as well. The proposed structures should be useful in artificial reverb applications and other time-varying audio effects based on allpass filters, especially where allpass filters are embedded in feedback loops and stability may be an issue.

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