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Implementing Terrain Synthesis - Steven Barile - ADC 2025
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Wave Terrain Synthesis (WTS) is a fascinating and underexplored approach to sound generation. Join me in the curious topic; we’ll explore and demonstrate the core principles of WTS — how the oscillator’s terrain-path interaction shapes timbre and the math concepts behind generating clean, anti-aliased single-cycle waveforms. We’ll also uncover how the path–terrain relationship can produce familiar effects like oscillator sync and phase distortion.

With a large number of controllable parameters, WTS is an inherently terrain,expressive synthesis technique. We'll demonstrate how real-time control, LFOs, envelopes, and image-based terrain imports drive expressive and evolving sounds — starting with basic waveform shaping and progressing to rich, multi-layered textures.
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Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2025/implementing-wave-terrain-synthesis.pptx
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Steven Barile

Steve Barile – Cofounder & CTO, Conductive Labs
He is a multidisciplinary engineer with a background in circuit design, embedded programming, UX, and industrial design. He holds a BSEE in analog electronics and spent 25 years at Intel. He leads the development team on innovative music hardware: NDLR, MRCC, MRCC 880, and Terrain Synth.
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Special thanks to the ADC25 Team:

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Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
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Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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