The annual International Conference on Digital Audio Effects or DAFx Conference is a meeting of enthusiasts working in research areas on audio signal processing, acoustics, and music related disciplines, who come together to present and discuss their findings. The conference evolved from an EU-COST-G6 project “Digital Audio Effects” in 1998.
The acronym DAFx stands for Digital Audio Effects and is also the name of a book [1] which was written by people in the community around the conference
A list of past and upcoming conferences together with an archive of all proceedings can be found at the website. [2]
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