Research
Publications and patents that I have authored of the years. Mainly during my PhD studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Topics: Intelligent Audio Production, Physical Modelling Synthesis and Music Information Retrieval
Academic Publications
Mourgela, A., Quinton, E., Bissas, S., Reiss, J. D., & Ronan, D. (2024, October). Exploring trends in audio mixes and masters: Insights from a dataset analysis (Convention Paper No. 10186). Audio Engineering Society. Presented at the 157th AES Convention, New York, NY, USA. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03373
Ronan, D. (2019). Intelligent subgrouping of multitrack audio (Doctoral dissertation). Queen Mary University of London.
Ronan, D., Ma, Z., Mc Namara, P., Gunes, H., & Reiss, J. D. (2018). Automatic minimisation of masking in multitrack audio using subgroups. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09905
Ronan, D., Reiss, J. D., & Gunes, H. (2018). An empirical approach to the relationship between emotion and music production quality. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11154
Ronan, D., Ma, Z., Mc Namara, P., Gunes, H., & Reiss, J. D. (2018). Automatic minimisation of masking in multitrack audio using subgroups. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09905
Moffat, D., Ronan, D., Reiss, J. D., & others. (2017, September). Unsupervised taxonomy of sound effects. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17) (pp. 428–435). Edinburgh, UK. https://dafx17.eca.ed.ac.uk/papers/DAFx17_paper_26.pdf
Ronan, D., Gunes, H., & Reiss, J. D. (2017, May). Analysis of the subgrouping practices of professional mix engineers. In Proceedings of the 142nd Audio Engineering Society Convention. New York, NY: Audio Engineering Society. https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18792
Moffat, D., Ronan, D., & Reiss, J. D. (2015). An evaluation of audio feature extraction toolboxes. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15), Trondheim, Norway. https://www.dafx.de/paper-archive/2015/DAFx-15_submission_43_v2.pdf
Ronan, D., Moffat, D., Gunes, H., & Reiss, J. D. (2015, November 30–December 3). Automatic subgrouping of multitrack audio. Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15), Trondheim, Norway.
https://dafx.de/paper-archive/2015/DAFx-15_submission_19_v2.pdf
Ronan, D., De Man, B., Gunes, H., & Reiss, J. D. (2015, October). The impact of subgrouping practices on the perception of multitrack music mixes. In Proceedings of the 139th Audio Engineering Society Convention. New York, NY: Audio Engineering Society. https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=17966
Ronan, D. (2010). The physical modelling of a sitar (Master’s thesis). University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
http://issta.ie/wp-content/uploads/The-Physical-Modelling-of-a-Sitar.pdf
Patents
Ronan, D., & Reiss, J. D. (2021). Audio processing (UK Patent Application No. GB2625729A). UK Intellectual Property Office. https://patents.google.com/patent/GB2625729A
Mahdavi, S. H., Ronan, D. M., & Khavad, A. S. (2022). Method, computer program and system for combining audio signals (European Patent No. EP3759706B1). European Patent Office. https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3759706B1