A noise controlling method, comprising: generating one reference signal representing a primary noise; generating one secondary noise in response to a control signal, for cancelling the primary noise; generating one error signal representing a superposition of the primary noise and the secondary noise at a position; wherein the method further comprises: generating at least one additional reference signal, and/or at least one additional secondary noise, and/or at least one additional error signal; and generating the control signal(s) for generating the secondary noise(s), by executing an adaptive subband filtering algorithm based on the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s); wherein the step of generating the control signal(s) comprises: decomposing the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s) into subband reference signal(s) and subband error signal(s), respectively, for each subband of a plurality of subbands; updating a subset of one or more subband adaptive filters for at least one subband of the plurality of subbands, based on a subset of the subband reference signal(s) of the at least one subband and a subset of the subband error signal(s) of the at least one subband, wherein at least one of said three subsets is a proper subset; updating at least one fullband adaptive filter based on said updated subband adaptive filter(s); generating the control signal(s) by filtering the reference signal(s) by the updated at least one fullband adaptive filter. generating one reference signal representing a primary noise; generating one secondary noise in response to a control signal, for cancelling the primary noise; generating one error signal representing a superposition of the primary noise and the secondary noise at a position; wherein the method further comprises: generating at least one additional reference signal, and/or at least one additional secondary noise, and/or at least one additional error signal; and generating the control signal(s) for generating the secondary noise(s), by executing an adaptive subband filtering algorithm based on the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s); wherein the step of generating the control signal(s) comprises: decomposing the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s) into subband reference signal(s) and subband error signal(s), respectively, for each subband of a plurality of subbands; updating a subset of one or more subband adaptive filters for at least one subband of the plurality of subbands, based on a subset of the subband reference signal(s) of the at least one subband and a subset of the subband error signal(s) of the at least one subband, wherein at least one of said three subsets is a proper subset; updating at least one fullband adaptive filter based on said updated subband adaptive filter(s); generating the control signal(s) by filtering the reference signal(s) by the updated at least one fullband adaptive filter. generating at least one additional reference signal, and/or at least one additional secondary noise, and/or at least one additional error signal; and generating the control signal(s) for generating the secondary noise(s), by executing an adaptive subband filtering algorithm based on the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s); wherein the step of generating the control signal(s) comprises: decomposing the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s) into subband reference signal(s) and subband error signal(s), respectively, for each subband of a plurality of subbands; updating a subset of one or more subband adaptive filters for at least one subband of the plurality of subbands, based on a subset of the subband reference signal(s) of the at least one subband and a subset of the subband error signal(s) of the at least one subband, wherein at least one of said three subsets is a proper subset; updating at least one fullband adaptive filter based on said updated subband adaptive filter(s); generating the control signal(s) by filtering the reference signal(s) by the updated at least one fullband adaptive filter. decomposing the reference signal(s) and the error signal(s) into subband reference signal(s) and subband error signal(s), respectively, for each subband of a plurality of subbands; updating a subset of one or more subband adaptive filters for at least one subband of the plurality of subbands, based on a subset of the subband reference signal(s) of the at least one subband and a subset of the subband error signal(s) of the at least one subband, wherein at least one of said three subsets is a proper subset; updating at least one fullband adaptive filter based on said updated subband adaptive filter(s); generating the control signal(s) by filtering the reference signal(s) by the updated at least one fullband adaptive filter.