In this session, we will discuss how SDKs will play an important part in the future of Pro Tools to enable the integration of partner technologies and workflow solutions.
Conference Year: 2024
Responsible AI for Offline Plugins
In the era of rapid generative AI advancements, how do audio plugin developers harness the power of deep learning, while safeguarding against misuses and ensuring regulatory compliance? Existing audio watermarking algorithms are designed to run on the cloud, and when deployed offline, are trivial to bypass when faced against experienced hackers. In this talk, I introduce an innovative algorithm developed for Vocoflex, our AI powered voice transformation plugin. Instead of first generating the voice and then adding the watermark in a post-processing step, our approach involves an end-to-end trained neural network that generates voices with inaudible watermarks already embedded. Furthermore, the neural network resists tampering by 'self-destructing' to contaminate outputs upon malicious perturbation of the network weights. We will share our methodology and provide guidelines for designing similar, but not identical watermarking schemes that tightly couple program logic with watermarks, resilient to both audio manipulations and reverse engineering attempts.
Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
Lunch
Lunch
Morning Break
Morning Break
Workshop: Build your first Plug-in with JUCE
Writing an audio plug-in can be a daunting task: there are a multitude of plug-in formats and DAWs, all with slightly different requirements.
This workshop will guide you through the process of creating your first audio plug-in using the JUCE framework.
This workshop will cover:
- An introduction to JUCE
- Configuring a plug-in project
- Adding parameters to your plug-in and accessing them safely
- Creating a basic GUI
- Debugging and testing your plug-in
During the workshop, attendees will create a simple audio plug-in under the guidance of the JUCE developers.
Workshop Requirements:
Attendees must be able to compile the projects supplied in the most recent JUCE SDK using the corresponding IDE for their computer: Visual Studio 2022 for Windows, Xcode for macOS, and a Makefile for Linux. This may require installing Visual Studio 2022, Xcode or all of the Linux dependencies. There will not be time to do this within the workshop itself.
You can clone JUCE using git from here https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE, or download the latest version of JUCE here https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/releases/latest.
Windows: Open JUCE\extras\AudioPluginHost\Builds\VisualStudio2022\AudioPluginHost.sln and build in Visual Studio 2022.
macOS: Open JUCE/extras/AudioPluginHost/Builds/MacOSX/AudioPluginHost.xcodeproj and build in Xcode.
Linux: Run make in JUCE/extras/AudioPluginHost/Builds/LinuxMakefile.
Download the workshop materials here: https://data.audio.dev/workshops/2024/build-first-plugin-with-juce/materials.zip