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Kurt James Werner discusses his work on Wave Digital Filters and his transition from academia to industry in audio DSP.

Kurt James Werner, PhD, is a senior research scientist at Soundtoys and one of my favorite researchers in audio DSP (virtual analog modeling in particular). While you may not have read his papers, it’s very likely that you used one of the plugins he worked on: Neoverb Vinyl RX Guitar Rig (Hammond vibrato/chorus) Ozone Neutron Trash If you start peeking into the research of modeling analog audio effects in plugins, you stumble across his name right away. I consider him not only brilliant, but also insanely productive. Definitely a role model for me! In the research world, he’s mostly known for his work on Wave Digital Filters (WDFs) . It’s a technique for creating a mathematical model of an analog circuit that once done is easy to implement (provided you use a WDF library). WDFs are great for modeling analog audio effects to put them inside plugins. But as a true researcher, Kurt is involved many other audio subfields that we discuss in the podcast! Did I mention that he’s a graduate from Stanford’s CCRMA? In this episode, you’ll learn about Kurt’s transition from academia to industry, his work on products at iZotope, Native Instruments, and Soundtoys, and the realities of being a…

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Host: Jan Wilczek

Guest: Kurt James Werner

Topics covered

• Wave Digital Filters
• audio DSP
• analog modeling
• audio plugins
• research in audio
• transition from academia to industry

Keywords

• Wave Digital Filters
• audio DSP
• analog modeling
• Soundtoys
• iZotope
• Native Instruments
• audio plugins
• research scientist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Soundtoys, Native Instruments, iZotope

Books & works: Neoverb, Vinyl RX, Guitar Rig, Ozone, Neutron, Trash

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