2DEQ: an intuitive audio equalizer

Authors:
Andrew T. Sabin;Bryan Pardo
Affiliations:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA;Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The complexity of music production tools can be a significant bottleneck in the creative process. Here we describe the development of a simple, intuitive audio equalizer with the idea that our approach could also be applied to other types of music production tools. First, users generate a large set of equalization curves representative of the most common types of modifications. Next, we represent the entire set of curves in 2-dimensional space and determine the spatial location of common auditory adjectives. Finally we create an interface, called 2DEQ, where the user can drag a single dot to control equalization in this adjective-labeled space.