Multichannel audio decorrelation with energy preservation
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.. admonition:: Tutorial goal

   Reduce channel correlation while keeping total signal energy roughly unchanged.

.. note::

   New to the terminology? See the :doc:`lattice DSP concept map <../../algorithms/concept_map>` and the :doc:`causality/data-use guide <../../theory/causality_and_data_use>` for how online, offline, block, and MIMO examples should be read.

Context
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Decorrelators are useful for spatial audio and multichannel processing demos.  The goal here
is not perceptual tuning; it is to show that matrix all-pass/lattice transforms can change
correlation structure without changing total power much.

Key idea and equations
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Let :math:`x[n]\in\mathbb{R}^c` be the input block and :math:`y[n]` the
decorrelated output.  The sample covariance matrices are

.. math::

   R_x = \mathbb{E}\{x[n]x[n]^T\},
   \qquad
   R_y = \mathbb{E}\{y[n]y[n]^T\}.

Decorrelation aims to reduce off-diagonal covariance terms, for example

.. math::

   r_{off}(R)=
   \frac{\sum_{i\ne j}|R_{ij}|}{\sum_i |R_{ii}|}.

The transform is chosen to be approximately all-pass/unitary, so total energy
should remain nearly unchanged:

.. math::

   \frac{\sum_n\lVert y[n]\rVert_2^2}
        {\sum_n\lVert x[n]\rVert_2^2}
   \approx 1.

The correlation heatmaps show the before/after coupling, while the energy
ratio checks that decorrelation did not simply attenuate the signal.

Causality and data use
----------------------

This decorrelator uses the causal ``OnlineMatrixLatticeAllPass`` runtime.  Each output frame depends only on the current input frame and previous lattice states.  The reported finite-block energy ratio can differ slightly from one because short prefixes omit the decaying all-pass tail.

What this example verifies
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This verifies a causal forward decorrelator.  The online all-pass runtime
should reduce off-diagonal covariance/correlation while preserving total
energy after the filter tail is included.  It is a DSP diagnostic, not a
perceptual audio product claim.

How to read the result
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Use the before/after correlation matrices and summary bar plot to see the decorrelation effect; the energy ratio should remain close to one.

Run command
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.. code-block:: bash

   python examples/multichannel_audio_decorrelator.py

Source code
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.. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/multichannel_audio_decorrelator.py
   :language: python
   :linenos: