AI RESEARCH
Exploring How Audio Effects Alter Emotion with Foundation Models
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2509.15151v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Audio effects (FX) such as reverberation, distortion, modulation, and dynamic range processing play a pivotal role in shaping emotional responses during music listening. While prior studies have examined links between low-level audio features and affective perception, the systematic impact of audio FX on emotion remains underexplored. This work investigates how foundation models - large-scale neural architectures pretrained on multimodal data - can be leveraged to analyze these effects.