https://audio.dev/ -- @audiodevcon​
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How to Write Scalable, Deterministic Audio Engines - Janus Lynggaard Thorborg - ADCx Copenhagen 2026
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Does it sound familiar to have the UI responsiveness drop as audio load increases, or have audio stuttering under intensive UI operations?
That an audio track sounds different every time it’s rendered?
And that you end up with a system that seems very hard to test without instabilities or generous timeouts and tolerance?

In this talk we’ll take a brief look at the technology, approaches and architecture you can employ to improve the lives of your own engineering department and build better software for your users!

We’ll identify common pitfalls like atomic variables (!), performance mitigation strategies that may end up hurting and why it could make sense to take a page from graphics architecture in terms of how you may want to structure your interprocess communication. A suggested approach will be evaluated for benefits and tradeoffs.
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Janus Lynggaard Thorborg

Janus Thorborg is a musician, sound designer and audio programmer developing open source audio plugins primarily catering to engineering analysis and experimental R&D.

As a long-tenured staff engineer at Unity, he oversees R&D and architecture of the audio engine in authoring- and realtime contexts.
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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Bence Kovacs
Martin Swanholm
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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