1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for multi-stage audio signal analysis, the method comprising: performing a first-stage processing operation on an audio signal, the first stage processing operation including a windowed signal analysis to calculate from the audio signal statistical descriptor features that are stored in a raw feature vector; performing a second stage statistical processing operation on the raw feature vector to derive a reduced feature vector; performing a third stage processing operation on the reduced feature vector to derive at least one sound object label that refers to the original audio signal; and mapping the at least one sound object label into a stream of control events sent to a sound-object-driven, multimedia-aware software application, wherein the sound-object-driven multimedia-aware software application is responsive to the stream of control events to configure processing for the audio signal, and wherein any of the processing operations of the first through third stages are configurable.
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for multi-stage audio signal analysis, the method comprising: performing a first-stage processing operation on an audio signal, the first stage processing operation including a windowed signal analysis to calculate from the audio signal statistical descriptor features that are stored in a raw feature vector; performing a second stage statistical processing operation on the raw feature vector to derive a reduced feature vector; performing a third stage processing operation on the reduced feature vector to derive at least one sound object label that refers to the original audio signal; and mapping the at least one sound object label into a stream of control events sent to a sound-object-driven, multimedia-aware software application, wherein the sound-object-driven multimedia-aware software application is responsive to the stream of control events to configure processing for the audio signal, and wherein any of the processing operations of the first through third stages are configurable. 14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the sound-object-driven, multimedia-aware software application adjusts in real-time an internal signal processing parameter of a mixing console in response to the at least one sound object label.