Hello all, I'm getting ready to submit a paper for DAFx-25 and would love some guidance. Since this is my first peer-reviewed paper, and I am submitting it as an independent researcher unaffiliated with a university, I was wondering if anyone is willing to give it a brief review before I submit. I'm predominantly interested in making sure it reads like a legitimate and novel work worth publishing (rather than looking for help with editing, etc).
Please let me know if this is something you are interested in helping me with. The paper is due for submission on Mar 30th. Thank you, Coriander Pines Title: Real-Time Virtual Analog Modelling of Diode-Based VCAs Abstract: > Some early analog voltage-controlled amplifiers/attenuators (VCAs) > utilized semiconductor diodes as a variable-gain element. Diode- > based VCAs exhibit a unique sound quality, with distortion de- > pendent both on signal level and gain control. In this work, we > examine the behavior of a simplified circuit for a diode-based VCA > and propose a nonlinear, explicit, stateless digital model. This > approach avoids traditional iterative techniques, which can be com- > putationally intensive. The resulting digital model retains the sonic > characteristics of the analog model and is suitable for real-time > simulation. We present an analysis of the gain characteristics and > harmonic distortion produced by this model, as well as practical > guidance for implementation. We apply this approach to a set of > alternative analog topologies and introduce a family of digital VCA > models based on fixed nonlinearities with variable operating points.
