APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL USING CASCADED FILTERBANKS

摘要

An apparatus for processing an input audio signal (2300) relies on a cascade of filterbanks, the cascade comprising a synthesis filterbank (2304) for synthesizing an audio intermediate signal (2306) from the input audio signal (2300), the input audio signal being represented by a plurality of first subband signals (2303) generated by an analysis filterbank (2302), wherein a number of filterbank channels of the synthesis filterbank (2304) is smaller than a number of channels of the analysis filterbank (2302). The apparatus furthermore comprises a further analysis filterbank (2307) for generating a plurality of second subband signals (2308) from the audio intermediate signal (2306), wherein the further analysis filterbank has a number of channels being different from the number of channels of the synthesis filterbank (2304), so that a sampling rate of a subband signal of the plurality of second subband signals (2308) is different from a sampling rate of a first subband signal of the plurality of first subband signals (2303).