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Diversity in Music Technology: Diversity Initiatives and Insights From Music Information Retrieval - Blair Kaneshiro - ADC23
Like many STEM fields, music technology faces challenges attracting and retaining diverse community members. Since 2011, the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and Women in Music Information Retrieval (WiMIR) communities have sought to address this issue through a series of initiatives – ranging from financial support to attend ISMIR conferences to workshop events and mentorship – that were launched to promote opportunities for women in the field. In this talk I will discuss the initiatives: Their motivation and formation, complementary aims, success factors, and evolution toward supporting a broader range of underrepresented groups. I will conclude with a set of insights that may inform the design of diversity initiatives in other music technology communities.
Link to Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2023/diversity-in-music-technology/slides.pdf
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Blair Kaneshiro
Director of Research & Development, Stanford University
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Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
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Join Us For ADC24 - Bristol - 11-13 November 2024
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ORCA Livecoding Soundscape for Theatre - Padmanabhan J - ADCx India 2024
ORCA, an esoteric language developed by Hundred Rabbits, provides a dynamic live coding environment for users to spontaneously create generative music. This programming tool operates within the realm of a base-36 system, accompanied by 8 distinct special character functions, making it accessible and adaptable for coders and musicians alike. The design and underlying philosophy behind ORCA open new horizons in exploring programming languages as a compelling alternative to traditional musical notation and composition. In this presentation, we delve into the intriguing world of ORCA, its principles, and its potential to reshape how we conceive and create music.
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Special thanks to the ADC24 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Prashant Mishra
Collaborative Songwriting and Production With Symbolic Generative AI - Sadie Allen & Anirudh Mani - ADC23
Generative AI has experienced remarkable advancements in various domains, including audio and music. However, despite these breakthroughs, we have yet to reach a stage where musicians can seamlessly incorporate generative AI into their creative processes. In this talk, we will delve into the techniques, proposals, and ongoing work that can facilitate collaborative songwriting and production with machine learning.
During the session, we will explore several key topics:
• Overview of existing tools and models - we will discuss the motivations behind symbolic generation versus raw audio for music production applications. Furthermore, we will highlight the contrasting approaches and techniques that aim to augment the creative process rather than replace it entirely.
• Utilization of AI-generated MIDI as a songwriting tool - this will involve examining different ML architectures for conditional MIDI generation, as well as employing reinforcement learning (RL) to generate MIDI sequences.
• Examples showcasing how speakers and other musicians currently utilize AI-generated MIDI as part of their songwriting/production process.
Attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge techniques and research, paving the way for a future where generative AI becomes an integral part of the creative process for musicians.
Link to Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qYW-SbgmodMZ_wiMKKvH8pXmrDCZQpY/view?usp=sharing
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Sadie Allen
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Anirudh Mani
I build creative AI tools for artists.I am the co-founder of Lemonaide Music. https://www.lemonaide.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirudh-mani-1796934b/ https://twitter.com/anirudh3
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Vars, Values and ValueTrees: State Management in JUCE - Jelle Bakker - ADC 2023
Managing various types of state, including global settings, presets, UI state, and application state, is crucial for building robust software. But, it comes with a challenge. State must be synchronized throughout the app. State must be stored and restored. And state is everywhere. There seems to be a lot of debate about what the best way is to solve these problems. The concept of centering your app around a model, a single point of truth, has long been recognized as a powerful pattern, often referred to in the context of MVC (Model-View-Controller). Adopting this approach will make extending and maintaining your software simpler. In JUCE you will find many classes designed for dealing with state, such as the AudioProcessorValueTreeState, ApplicationProperties, Value and Vars. This talk will serve as a guide and overview for how to manage data in JUCE applications.
Link to Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2023/vars-values-and-value-trees/slides.pdf
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Jelle Bakker
Jelle Bakker is a JUCE developer, building audio-plugins and desktop applications. Jelle has worked as a contract software engineer for different companies across the globe. He specializes in software design and architecture. Besides that, Jelle is a father, coffee lover, and music performer, playing piano, electric guitar and cello.
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Join Us For ADC24 - Bristol - 11-13 November 2024
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Using Convolution for Archeo-Acoustic Conservation - Akash Sharma - ADCx India 2024
Every space has its unique acoustic properties because of the combination of its dimensions, architectural design and use of construction materials. Time over centuries has enriched and created an invigorating experience of space which now is part of our heritage; all our sensory realms have fused into this memorable image of space. We can use computation to determine this unique acoustic property.
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Special thanks to the ADC24 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Prashant Mishra
How to Write Bug-Free, Real-Time Audio C++ Code? - Jan Wilczek - ADC 2023
How many times have we compiled our audio plugin or app and launched it only to find out that "something is glitching"?
How can we be sure that we submit a correctly implemented audio feature in a pull request?
And how can we detect existing problems and precisely locate them in our codebase?
I've been pursuing the answers to these questions from my day 1 in the audio industry and in this talk I am going to share with you my personal favorites. This is not just from my experience; I've actively asked community members for their strategies at every opportunity I got. This is a collected wisdom of more than just a single developer.
In the talk, I will:
1. Outline why shipping bug-free code is vital for your business and your own sanity
2. show you simple yet profound strategies for ensuring software correctness based on digital signal processing (DSP), including:
1. taking advantage of phase cancellation properties
2. leveraging the power of the FFT for frequency-manipulation algorithms,
3. underused DSP tools like total harmonic distortion (THD), Farina sweep, and pole-zero plot,
4. discovering the power of reference audio renders.
3. explain how to safely reuse stable and tested DSP code of other developers,
4. interoperate C++ and Python for accessing powerful numerical libraries and testing complicated scenarios
5. correctly implement even the most advanced DSP algorithms and optimizations,
6. show real-world examples where these principles helped solve hidden audio bugs, including
1. pitch tracking,
2. pitch shifting, and
3. the flanger effect.
With this knowledge you'll be able to:
1. approach developing new features with greater confidence,
2. enjoy more inner peace during development, review, and deployment,
3.write correct audio code every time!
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Jan Wilczek
Jan Wilczek graduated with honors from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, having completed a master’s program Advanced Signal Processing and Communications Engineering. He is an Audio Developer of Music Maker JAM at Loudly GmbH in Berlin; an app to make loop-based music that runs on Android, iOS, and Windows.Additionally, he has created TheWolfSound.com to help students and software engineers learn audio programming for getting game audio, audio plugin, or mobile audio developer jobs. He is the author of DSP Pro: an online course on the basics of digital audio signal processing for aspiring audio programmers. He helps others through online courses, one-on-one coaching and publishing tutorials and explainer videos about various aspects of audio programming. Parallel to the educational services, he is a consultant in the field of audio programming. He is also a researcher in the area of Virtual Analog modeling using deep learning; his latest work was presented at the Digital Audio FX 2022 conference in Vienna. His professional goal is to lower the entry barrier for everyone interested in writing audio software. He pursues it by publishing high-quality articles, videos, and podcasts or giving talks.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Join Us For ADC24 - Bristol - 11-13 November 2024
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Virtual Acoustics: Recreating Natural Phenomena in the Digital Domain - Aidan Baker - ADC 2023
Audio in the VR / AR domain may become a dominant section of this industry in the coming years. While methods for processing spatial audio already exist (and formal standards have been created and utilized) another factor of immersive audio remains (mostly) untouched: Virtual acoustic systems that mimic the virtual spaces.
This talk will go over various techniques for handling room acoustics in both real-time and offline settings, and going over both their benefits, as well as their drawbacks. Additionally, we will look over how to go about approximating room acoustics without breaking the proverbial (cpu) bank.
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Aidan Baker
I am an audio developer who is fascinated by sound's physical phenomena. Presently I run a company called Lese which develops audio plugins + acoustic simulation software.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Join Us For ADC24 - Bristol - 11-13 November 2024
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Motion and Music Modeling in Hindustani Classical Music - Tejaswinee Kelkar - ADCx India 2024
My talk will summarize of computational generative approaches in North Indian classical music (NICM). NICM presents a unique problem where non-quantization of notes, and the predominant characteristic use of pitch contours to express sonic differentiation means that quantized modeling of, for example, sheet based music goes only so far in being able to shape generative Hindustani music. I will present these approaches of notation based, and character based RNNs for generating Hindustani improvisation.
Generative musical AI in NICM is not really described as a task. However, pre-trained generative music models are modeled after common practise period based western music, and are definitely unsuitable to generate anything in this vocabulary. Sample based generative AI for NICM has, as of this abstract not been a field with separate exploration. Musical AI in NICM is mostly explored form the point of view of modeling raga and raga recognition tasks.
In my previous work, I have addressed how phrase generation models and contour models are perceptually important for tasks such as this. I will present an overview of the state of knowledge in the intersection of these fields and the SOTA of generative techniques in NICM.
Link to Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxIndia/2024/rnns-and-hindustani-music.pdf
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Special thanks to the ADC24 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Prashant Mishra
Aliasing and Oversampling for DSP Engineers - Sam Fischmann - ADC 2023
Aliasing distortion and oversampling have become especially popular discussion topics in the wake of widely-available consumer analysis tools such as Plugin Doctor. In response, audio software users have been more vocal about aliasing, in many cases asking audio developers to provide oversampling.
As it turns out, not all oversampling is the same, we face several trade-offs when implementing it, and we don’t always need it. This talk aims to help you understand aliasing distortion, how oversampling addresses it, and some potential downsides of overuse. It also provides guidelines to help you decide when oversampling is necessary, what kind of oversampling to use, and mentions some open-source libraries that give you flexibility to make the right decision for your software.
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Sam Fischmann
Sam is a seasoned developer and composer, with experience spanning Web, embedded, and desktop systems. He founded Musik Hack with Stan Greene to release products that are easy to use without sacrificing quality or creative control. In the process, he learned that not only does he love making audio software, he loves teaching it! You can find him talking with White Sea Studios, Bobby Owsinski, Help me Devvon, or pretty much anybody that wants to have an interesting and engaging conversation.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Recent Updates to MIDI 2.0 and the newest MIDI 2.0 APIs in the Apple, Google, Linux and Microsoft operating systems - Florian Bömers - ADC23
Members of the MIDI Association will provide a high-level overview of the latest updates to MIDI 2.0 specifications and the brand new MIDI 2.0 APIs in the Apple, Google, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems.
There will be an overview of specifications being worked on, including the Piano, MPE, Orchestral Articulation, and Camera Control Profiles, and the Network Transport specifications all of which are nearing completion.
We will briefly explain the MIDI Association MIDI 2.0 logo licensing program.
Most importantly, we will explain how developers can get access to the MIDI 2.0 tools and open-source code that the MIDI Association and our members are making available to both MIDI Association members and the larger MIDI development community.
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Florian Bömers
Florian Bömers has been using MIDI since the mid-80s and started programming audio and MIDI applications already in his childhood. Now he manages his company Bome Software, which creates standard software and hardware solutions for MIDI networking and MIDI translation. In the MIDI Association, Florian chairs the MIDI 2.0 Transport Working Group and is a member of the Technical Standards Board.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
