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Kurt James Werner

CCRMA Role: 
Doctoral Student
Years Attended: 
09/2011 - 12/2016
Preferred Email (public): 
kwerner@ccrma.stanford.edu
URL: 
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kwerner
Current Employer: 
Lecturer in Audio @ Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) @ Queen's University Belfast
About Me: 

I'm Dr. Kurt James Werner, a Lecturer in Audio @ the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) @ Queen's University Belfast. I'm active as a researcher and writer, composer of electro-acoustic/acousmatic (&c.) music, author of digital signal processing code & compositional algorithms, & circuit-bender. My research focuses on theoretical aspects of wave digital filters and other virtual analog topics, computer modeling of circuit-bent instruments, & the history of music technology.

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). As part of my doctorate I wrote a dissertation called “Virtual Analog Modeling of Audio Circuitry Using Wave Digital Filters” & a number of other papers & articles. Please find a list of my research published while at Stanford (pre-2017) below.

For current information, please visit my website http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kwerner/ or feel free to contact me via e-mail at k.werner@qub.ac.uk or kwerner@ccrma.stanford.edu.

Research: 
Virtual Analog Modeling of Audio Circuitry Using Wave Digital Filters
Modeling the Hammond Organ Vibrato/Chorus with Wave Digital Filters
Resolving Grouped Nonlinearities in Wave Digital Filters using Iterative Techniques
The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study
RTWDF—A modular wave digital filter library with support for arbitrary topologies and multiple nonlinearities
Wave Digital Filter Modeling of Circuits with Operational Amplifiers
Modal Processor Effects Inspired by Hammond Tonewheel Organs
Modeling Nonlinear Wave Digital Elements using the Lambert Function
Sinusoidal Parameter Estimation Using Quadratic Interpolation Around Power-Scaled Magnitude Spectrum Peaks
Wave Digital Filter Adaptors for Arbitrary Topologies and Multiport Linear Elements
Wave Digital Filter Adaptors for Arbitrary Topologies and Multiport Linear Elements
Resolving Wave Digital Filters with Multiple/Multiport Nonlinearities
Design Principles for Lumped Model Discretisation Using Möbius Transforms
Distortion and Pitch Processing Using a Modal Reverberator Architecture
Digitizing the Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah Pedal
An Improved and Generalized Diode Clipper Model for Wave Digital Filters
A General and Explicit Formulation for Wave Digital Filters with Multiple/Multiport Nonlinearities and Complicated Topologies
The XQIFFT: Increasing the Accuracy of Quadratic Interpolation of Spectral Peaks via Exponential Magnitude Spectrum Weighting
Modeling a Class of Multi-Port NonLinearities in Wave Digital Structures
An Energetic Interpretation of Nonlinear Wave Digital Filter Lookup Table Error
Multi-Port NonLinearities in Wave Digital Structures
More Cowbell: a Physically-Informed, Circuit-Bendable, Digital Model of the TR-808 Cowbell
The TR-808 Cymbal: a Physically-Informed, Circuit-Bendable, Digital Model
A Physically-Informed, Circuit-Bendable, Digital Model of the Roland TR-808 Bass Drum Circuit
Bit Bending: an Introduction
Grain Proc: a Real-Time Granular Synthesis Interface for Live Performance
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