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An Open Dialog Between Mix Engineers and Audio Software Developers – Andrew Scheps – ADC23

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Exploring new opportunities in audio software development: an open dialog between mix engineers and audio software developers - Andrew Scheps - ADC 2023

Andrew Scheps has been working in record production for 35 years and has used all available technologies along the way (except wire recorders and wax cylinders). The advent of real time digital audio processing has obviously completely changed the industry in the last 30 years, but with the explosion of immersive formats and more complicated productions the wish list is ever changing. There has been a simultaneous explosion in tools that can be used to develop the solutions creators want and need. This will be an open discussion between audio developers and the end users who use their tools every day. The goal is to not only cover what professionals wish existed, but also what developers are excited about making.

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Andrew Scheps

Andrew Scheps has worked with some of the biggest bands in the world: Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Audioslave, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Linkin Park, Hozier, Kaleo and U2. He’s worked with legends such as Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond and Iggy Pop, as well as indie artists such as Low Roar, My Brightest Diamond, Motorpsycho, Manu Chao, Tinariwen, Cass McCombs and Blood Red Shoes.

Andrew has been awarded Grammys for his work with Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ziggy Marley, and his work has garnered over 20 nominations in categories such as Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance. In addition, Andrew was named International Engineer of the Year Award by the UK’s Music Producers Guild.
Though starting out as a musician, Andrew found that what he enjoyed most was working behind the scenes. He toured with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, but he found his home in the studio, working for producers such as Rob Cavallo, Don Was and Rick Rubin. He has also produced Favez, Gogol Bordello, The Duke Spirit, Motorpsycho, Marti Pellow, and Low Roar among others.

In 2011 Andrew started Tonequake Records, a boutique indie label with acts including Low Roar, Favez, Fellow Robot, Act Rights, and Jeff Babko.
After 25 years in Los Angeles, Andrew relocated to the UK in July 2015 where he set up his own mix room which is now equipped for Dolby Atmos Music and Sony 360.

He also develops custom software for controlling Pro Tools to make his life easier.
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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

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Democratization of Audio Dev: How it Started, Where it’s Going – Aurelius Prochazka – ADCx SF

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Democratization of Audio Dev: How it Started, Where it's Going - Aurelius Prochazka

In 2018, I gave a keynote at the ADC Conference in London. In that keynote, I discussed how audio developers can benefit from opening development to all, and how to escape the errors of past and design for the future. What did I get wrong? Did I get anything right? In this talk I'll give an overview of where we are now and update where things might be going.

Slides & Resources: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/democratization-of-audio-dev/slides.pdf


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Aurelius Prochazka

I'm Aurelius Prochazka, I am the founder of AudioKit, an open-source audio generation, processing, and analysis framework for the Apple ecosystem. I am a partner in AudioKitPro LLC, a company started to use the AudioKit framework to develop audio applications. Currently, AudioKit has delivered more synthesizer apps on iOS ever, including the most #1 charted music apps ever and the perennial global favorite, the free AudioKit Synth One.

In 2018 I traveled to London to give one of the keynotes for ADC in London. I have a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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Processing Audio Post Production Deliverables at Scale with Microservice Architecture – Ryan Frias – ADCx SF

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Processing Audio Post Production Deliverables at Scale with Microservice Architecture - Ryan Frias - ADCx SF

With the explosion of streaming services that operate on a global footprint, the audio mastering pipeline has ballooned to include as many as 765 unique language audio packages created from original, each of which needs to be quality checked, encoded and packaged for delivery. The process can take weeks and involves creative and technical teams working to make derivative versions which must preserve the original creative intent as much as possible. The "Coda" Automated Media Ecosystem is a new extensible software platform from Skywalker Sound that automates the creation of soundtrack versions and cuts the deliverable process down from weeks to faster-than real-time. The system has already been used on premium Disney+ releases such as The Mandalorian and Moon Knight.

By automating soundtrack mastering processing from the highest original source mix format (often the Dolby Atmos mix), the automatically derived versions can be created with the same fidelity and attention to detail as the original language, improving the experience for all consumers in international markets. As the process is automated without the possibility of human error, the need to QC each pass is reduced, resulting in better results for consumers and considerable time and cost savings for content owners.

The creation of this complex media pipeline ecosystem involved the integration of multiple programming languages, frameworks, environments and hardware systems for the full stack--from low-level digital signal processing, to high level scaffolds, such as a global service mesh.

Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/audio-in-midi-out/slides.pdf
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Ryan Frias

Ryan is a software engineer from Skywalker Sound. He has worked in the post production sound industry for over 15 years, focusing on both the creative and technical bits.

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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Using Faust in JUCE Projects – Julius Smith – ADCx SF

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Using Faust in JUCE Projects - Julius Smith - ADCx SF

Faust (Functional AUdio STream) is a domain-specific functional programming language for sound synthesis and audio processing (https://faustdoc.grame.fr). Faust development is routinely an order of magnitude faster to write and debug than C++, and the run-time performance is usually within a factor of two. Development is further facilitated by the large Faust Libraries collection of signal-processing functions (https://faustlibraries.grame.fr). Since Faust compiles to C++, it is natural to integrate C++ header files generated by the Faust compiler into a JUCE project or the like. A limitation encountered is that Faust's powerful pattern-matching facility requires its "macro arguments" to be bound at compile time, i.e., not signals or controller parameters. An example is the filter order in Faust's filter-design functions. When these arguments need to change at run time, it can make more sense to translate Faust to C++, so that the recursive pattern-matching in Faust is replaced by recursive C++ functions. Experience using ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 for this purpose and others will be summarized.

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Julius Smith

Professor Emeritus of Music and by courtesy Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, based at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Activities include teaching courses in signal processing and music technology, graduate student advising, and research in signal processing applied to music and audio. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/

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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

#audiodevcon #audiodev #midi

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DDSP-VST: Neural Synthesis for All – Nikhil Bhanu & @wilzh40 – ADCx SF

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DDSP-VST: Neural Synthesis for All - Nikhil Bhanu & Wilson Zhao - ADCx SF

We present DDSP-VST, a cross-platform audio plugin for real-time neural audio synthesis built using TensorFlow Lite and JUCE. DDSP is the underlying ML research behind this project that lets you combine the interpretable structure of classical DSP elements such as filters, oscillators, reverberation etc. with the expressivity of deep learning. This technology enables us to transform a given audio signal into any musical instrument by extracting the pitch and loudness and using those features for synthesis. In this talk we will discuss the technical and UX challenges of building an audio plugin powered by machine learning and making it accessible to musicians and artists.

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Nikhil Bhanu

Audio software generalist with a passion for real-time systems, signal processing, musical interfaces and machine learning.

Wilson Zhao

Electronic music enthusiast + event organizer. Passionate about combining multimodal generative AI + creativity.

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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Test Strategies for Multi-Threaded Code – Ryan Avery – ADCx SF

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Test Strategies for Multi-Threaded Code - Ryan Avery - ADCx SF

Multi-threaded code can be complicated. Realtime multi-threaded code even more so. And testing that code? Too often we give up faster than we can say “integration test”. But by switching around your thinking and adopting a few key strategies, you can start to tame the complexity and gain back a little bit of confidence in your critical code.

Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/test-strategies-for-multi-threaded-code/slides.pdf
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Ryan Avery

Ryan is an audio software engineer who has worked in the industry for over 15 years. He is passionate about software quality and best practices in real-time audio software development. At Avid Technologies, he developed the Pro Limiter and Pro Multiband Dynamics plugins for Pro Tools. At Dolby Laboratories, Ryan helped develop a suite of plugins for producers to create spatial music in Atmos.

Ryan currently works at Apple, and is an active music producer under the alias of Chance's End, where he brings violin to the front of electronic production.

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

#audiodevcon #audiodev #softwaretesting

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Using & Implementing Differential Reference Counting in Realtime Audio Code – Palmer Hogen – ADCx SF

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Using & Implementing Differential Reference Counting in Realtime Audio Code - Palmer Hogen - ADCx SF

Safely sharing dynamic memory across threads – especially when some of those threads have strict time deadlines – is a tricky problem space; unfortunately this scenario appears in realtime audio code. Some threads may still be accessing old data, so algorithms need to carefully avoid deleting anything still in-use.

Many deferred-reclamation strategies have emerged to address this risk, but these techniques have a general tradeoff between ease-of-use and throughput; ideally we would like both!

This talk presents a variant of traditional reference counting, which offers improved throughput at the expense of a more limited API.

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Palmer Hogen

Musician & Programmer; Software Engineer @ Roblox

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Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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TX/RX Part 1: Workbenching Neural Audio Solutions – Kieran Coulter – ADCx SF

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TX/RX Part 1: Workbenching Neural Audio Solutions - Kieran Coulter - ADCx SF

Deploying neural audio solutions to hardware requires a robust design/deploy build system, and usually requires minimizing compute and reducing algorithm latencies to realtime. In Part 1 of this 2-part talk series, we will examine various shortcuts for workbenching (open source) neural audio DSP solutions on the host system.

Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/workbenching-neural-audio-solutions/slides.pdf
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Kieran Coulter

Audio software developer with specializations in 3D Audio and Neural Voice Processing

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) Profile for MIDI 2 – Gregory Pat Scandalis – ADCx SF

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MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) Profile for MIDI 2 - Gregory Pat Scandalis - ADCx SF

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is a MIDI Association standard, which allows for per-note expressive control based on the MIDI 1.0 protocol. The MIDI Association is currently developing a MIDI 2 profile for MPE, which is expected to be completed in 2023.

Initially, MPE was supported by innovative controllers such as the Haken Continuum, the LinnStrument, and the Roli Seaboard. Nowadays, it is supported in numerous music creation tools, including controllers, synthesizers, and DAWs. The aim of this presentation is to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of the current MPE 1 standard, as well as an overview of the work being done on the MPE 2 profile for MIDI 2, including the differences between MPE 1 and MPE 2.

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Gregory Pat Scandalis

Gregory Pat Scandalis, CTO and acting CEO moForte Inc has worked for a number of Silicon Valley High Tech Companies. He has held lead engineering positions at National Semiconductor, Teradyne, Apple, and Sun. He has spent the past 29 years working in Digital Media. He was an Audio DSP researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He co-founded and was the VP of engineering for Staccato Systems, a successful spinout of Stanford/CCRMA that was sold to Analog Devices in 2001. He has held VP positions at TuneTo.com (Rhapsody), and Jarrah Systems and he ran Liquid Digital Media which developed and operated all online digital music e-commerce properties for Walmart. He holds a BSc in Physics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a visiting scholar at CCRMA, Stanford, and is currently the chairman of the MPE sub-committee within the MIDI Association.

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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

#audiodevcon #audiodev #midi

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Fun with Functions: Designing Fast Math Approximations with Python – Ryan Robinson – ADCx SF

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Fun with Functions: Designing Fast Math Approximations with Python - Ryan Robinson - ADCx SF

Standard library math functions generally prioritize accuracy over speed. In audio, however, we are often willing to trade some of that accuracy if we can get the computation done faster. In this workshop, we will go over the theory behind common methods of approximating special math functions and learn how to use popular Python packages to generate our own approximations. We will also compare our results to well-known open source examples.

This talk is intended to be an accessible introduction to the topic for curious people with a limited knowledge of calculus. It should also be a practical refresher for those that are more advanced. Topics discussed include: Taylor polynomials, Padé approximants, minimax approximations.

Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/fun-with-functions/slides.pdf
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Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson is an independent iOS developer based in southern Oregon. Ryan’s apps are frequently among the top paid music apps in the United States. With a background in math education, Ryan likes to have fun with the more mathy parts of audio development. When not working on apps, he enjoys spending time with his wife and taking his newborn son for walks around the neighborhood.

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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

#audiodevcon #audiodev #pythonprogramming

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