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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2019
Izotope, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
James McClellan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gordon Wichern, Roslindale, MA (US);
Hannah Robertson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Aaron Wishnick, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Alexey Lukin, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew Hines, Brookline, MA (US);
Nicholas LaPenn, Somerville, MA (US);
iZotope, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention are directed to enabling a user to easily identify the frequency range(s) at which sound masking occurs, and addressing the masking, if desired. In this respect, the extent to which a first stem is masked by one or more second stems in a frequency range may depend not only on the absolute value of the energy of the second stem(s) in the frequency range, but also on the relative energy of the first stem with respect to the second stem(s) in the frequency range. Accordingly, some embodiments are directed to modeling sound masking as a function of the energy of the stem being masked and of the relative energy of the masked stem with respect to the masking stem(s) in the frequency range, such as by modeling sound masking as loudness loss, a value indicative of the reduction in loudness of a stem of interest caused by the presence of one or more other stems in a frequency range.