ADC26 Schedule

Workshop Registration Is Now Open!

Monday 9th November

All times are in GMT/UTC

Registration

In-Person Only

07:30 - 09:30A

Online Open House

Online Only

Gather Town

08:00 - 09:30Gather Town

Welcome Address

In-Person & Online

09:30 - 09:45Bristol 2

Geometry-Aware DSP for Vinyl Mastering

Working Backwards from Physical Constraints

In-Person & Online

09:50 - 10:10Bristol 2 Andreas Wagner

From Algorithm to Silicon

Audio Development with AudioReachTM on Qualcomm Hardware

14 OF 40 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person Only

10:00 - 13:00EmpirePatrick Lai, & Mark Adams

DSP In Practice

From Block Diagram to Working Plugin

22 OF 36 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

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10:00 - 13:00SS Great BritainJan Wilczek, & Linus Corneliusson

From Trained Model to Real-Time Implementation

A Practical Guide to Neural Network Inference and Common Pitfalls

50 OF 50 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 13:00Conservatory Fares Schulz, Valentin Ackva, & Lina Campanella

Build your First Plugin with JUCE

Create a Working Plugin From Scratch!

7 OF 24 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person Only

10:00 - 13:00Concorde SuiteTom Poole, Attila Szarvas, Reuben Thomas, & Anthony Nicholls

Using WebGPU and Dawn for Native Cross-Platform 3D Graphics in a …

In-Person & Online

10:10 - 10:30Bristol 2 Erik Jourgensen

The Space Between Presets

Exploration of the software synth presets space

In-Person & Online

10:30 - 10:50Bristol 2 Shiva Sankar Kannan

When (not) to Patent Audio Software

Should you patent your audio products and algorithms?

In-Person & Online

10:50 - 11:10Bristol 2 Simon Hestermann

Morning Break

11:10 - 11:40

Wavelets: Stop Letting Fourier Smear Your Transients

Building Practical, Good-Sounding Audio Effects in the Wavelet Domain

In-Person & Online

11:40 - 12:00Bristol 2 D'Angelo Villarico Fitzpatrick

Microphones Could Save Your Life!

Medical Acoustics, Unexpected Audio Applications, And Why You Should Stay Curious

In-Person & Online

12:00 - 12:20Bristol 2 Christopher Relyea

Modular Spectral Audio Processing on FPGAs with C/C++

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:40Bristol 2 Aman Jagwani, & Victor Lazzarini

Audio’s Problems Aren’t Unique

And That's Good News

In-Person & Online

12:40 - 13:00Bristol 2 Tim Bencker

ADC Mentorship Meetup!

In-Person Only

13:00 - 14:00Executive Lounge

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

What Would You Do With an Additive Synthesis Supercomputer?

Complex Audio Rendering from a Distributed Systems Perspective

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:20Bristol 2 Alan Broady

Interactive Panel: Accessible Audio Technology

18 OF 40 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person Only

14:00 - 17:00EmpireJay Pocknell, Tim Yates, Joni Turunen, John Kelly, Tim Adnitt, & Paul McCabe

Build Your Own Shazam

Audio Fingerprinting from First Principles

36 OF 36 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person Only

14:00 - 17:00SS Great BritainEmma Fitzmaurice, Julia Läger, Sohyun Im, Simeon Joseph, & Denise Azucena - Dynamic Cast

The Audio Interface ‘Escape Room’

Debugging an Audio Product, One Clue at a Time

39 OF 50 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 17:00Conservatory Ross Chisholm, & Alex Middleton-Dalby - Focusrite

Accessible Artful Plugin Design with Phausto and JUCE

Or, how to make audio plugins without touching C++

8 OF 24 IN-PERSON SPACES FILLED

In-Person Only

14:00 - 17:00Concorde SuiteDomenico Cipriani

Generating Video Game Sound Effects on the Fly

In-Person & Online

14:20 - 14:40Bristol 2 Tsz Chai Alan Liu

The No-Knob Interface

Precise, 39-Dimensional Control in Real Time With a Single XY Input

In-Person & Online

14:40 - 15:00Bristol 2 Matthew Creighton

The Ship of Theseus Paradox

When Audio Features Become Wooden Planks

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:20Bristol 2 Gonçalo Bernardo

Spaces Outside the DAW

Developing a collaborative music board to Play and Plan

In-Person & Online

15:20 - 15:40Bristol 2 Antony Nasce, & Chris Thomaidis

Afternoon Break

15:40 - 16:10

Echoes From the Cosmos

Building a Reverb from Star Data

In-Person & Online

16:10 - 16:30Bristol 2 Adrian Lam

An intro to Zephyr RTOS for embedded audio

Hardware Agnostic CMajor Patch Player

In-Person & Online

16:30 - 16:50Bristol 2 Tom Waldron

Don’t Break the Session

Modernizing a Plugin Back-Catalogue Without Wrecking Saved Projects

In-Person & Online

16:50 - 17:10Bristol 2 Bence Kovács

Stories From a Decade as a JUCE Freelancer

Inside the Journey From Student to Full-Time Freelancer

In-Person & Online

17:10 - 17:30Bristol 2 Jelle

Networking

In-Person Only

17:30 - 18:00Empire Lobby - Front Lobby

ADC Social Mixer

In-Person Only

18:00 - 21:45Zerodegrees Bristol

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Tuesday 10th November

Breakfast Snacks

In-Person Only

08:00 - 08:50Bristol 2

pluginval: How I Accidentally Built an Industry Standard(ish) Too …

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Dave Rowland

How To Shake “I Suck at Math” Mentality

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Leslie Gaston-Bird, & Rebekah Wilson

NES All the Way Down

Emulating Audio Processing Units on Vintage Consoles

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Daniel Strübig

Granular Synthesis II

. . . . . how time passes . . . . .

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Conservatory Avrosh Kumar

Model-Based Testing for Audio Devices

How We Test on Hardware Early

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Max Bailey, & Ray Brien

While My PC Gently Beeps

Designing and Implementing an Audio Programming Language

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Corné Driesprong

Dynamic Range Compression

A Story of Useful DSP From Simple Building Blocks, Intuition and a Bit of Imagination

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Ruben Svensson

Low Latency, High Temporal and Frequency Resolution Spectral Anal …

All About That Phase

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Alexandre R.J. Francois

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only

Gather Town

10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

It’s Time To Be Real

Live Workflows for Human Creativity in Games

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Aaron McLeran, & Chris Nash

The Early Electronic Orchestra

The Analogue Circuits Behind Polyphonic Electronic Keyboards Before Digital and MIDI Came Along

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Jamie Angus-Whiteoak

std::future Is Not the Future

C++20 Coroutines for Audio Developers

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Konrad Glas

DSP-Based Audio Codec with ALSA

A Practical Example

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Mateusz Zuń

AudioReach: Design for the Modern SoC

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2 Patrick Lai, & Mark Adams - Qualcomm

Provenance Is Coming #1: Why It Matters

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1 Chris Horton, Jeremy Uzan, & Paul McCabe - UMG // Roland

Interface and Render Scheduler Design for Neural Audio Synthesize …

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3 Kanru Hua - Dreamtonics

JUCE Drop-in

In-Person Only

12:20 - 12:50ConservatoryTom Poole, Reuben Thomas, Attila Szarvas, & Anthony Nicholls - JUCE

Pervasive Media Studio Drop-In Session

Online Only

Gather Town

12:50 - 14:00Gather Town Watershed Space

Celebrating Diversity Working Lunch

In-Person Only

12:50 - 14:00Executive Lounge

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only

Gather Town

12:50 - 14:00Gather Town Poster Room

Gather Town Booth Tour

Online Only

Gather Town

13:00 - 13:30Gather Town Expo Hall

Gather Town Booth Tour

Online Only

Gather Town

13:30 - 14:00Gather Town Expo Hall

SIMD for Audio Developers

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Timur Doumler

When Immersive Audio Renderers Meet Real Production

Limitations, Gotchas, and Workarounds

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:50Bristol 1 Alan Silva

What is Timbre?

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:50Bristol 3 Roth Michaels

Procedural Audio Pipelines

Principles, Promises, Problems, and Practices

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:50Conservatory Chris Nash, & Aaron McLeran

From Graph to Groove

A constexpr Optimizing Compiler for DSP Graphs

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Bristol 2 Gerald Golka

You Need A Design System

Make your interface look as good as it sounds

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Astrid Bin

Signal-Driven Approach to Testing Audio DSP

From signal analysis to release confidence

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Daniel Leonov

Functional Reactive Programming for Audio Software

What a real-time concurrent FRP engine can do for us

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Conservatory Eloi Marín Gratacós

Audio Builders Foundry Meetup

Online Only

Gather Town

15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Waterfront Space

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only

Gather Town

15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Poster Room

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20

A New Spin on Immersive Audio

In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2 Michael Zbyszynski - L-Acoustics

What If a Spatial Filter Had Depth?

In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1 Keith McElveen - Wave Sciences

Interface and Render Scheduler Design for Neural Audio Synthesize …

In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 3 Kanru Hua - Dreamtonics

TBD

In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Conservatory

Reality – A Fuzzy & Buzzy Mess (at Times)

Resilient, Intersubjective Validation During Adaptive Frequency/Temporal Recalibration

In-Person & Online

17:00 - 18:00AKyle Keane

Online Social Mixer

Online Only

Gather Town

18:00 - 19:00Conservatory

Evening Meal & The ADC Quiz

In-Person Only

18:00 - 21:00Bristol Suite

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Wednesday 11th November

Breakfast Snacks

In-Person Only

08:30 - 09:00Bristol 2

Goodbye Audio Crafting.. Hello Audio Clanking

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Julian Storer

Machine Learning Was the Easy Part

Engineering Lessons from Building an Adaptive Audio System

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Peggy Sylopp

One Log Line per Sample

A Visual Debugger for Bit-Perfect Audio

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Vincent Dortel

Between Analog and Digital

From the Juno DCO to Samples and Back Again

In-Person & Online

09:00 - 09:50Conservatory Timo Alho

Audio ML on Bare Metal

GEMM, Memory Layout, and Real-Time Dataflow on Embedded ARM

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Andrea Martelloni, & João Felipe Santos

Real-Time Raytraced Acoustics

Impulse Response Synthesis and Time-Varying Convolution

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Anton Lundberg

Jamming With a Giant Squid

Real-Time Music from Simulated Neurons

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Mark Claydon

Clanker Me Not

Neural Network Bending in the DAW

In-Person & Online

10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Leonardo Foletto

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only

Gather Town

10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

Structured Concurrency for Audio Developers

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Rachel Susser

Fixing the One in Two Billion Audio Glitch

Practical Lessons From Troubleshooting Real Time Professional Audio Systems

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Olivier Petit, & Alistair Barker

One Audio Pipeline, Many Processors

Unifying DSP and AI on Embedded Linux

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Vishnu Singh

while (!heaven) {hell(“audio startups”);}

A Survival Guide for Independent Developers

In-Person & Online

11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Noah Feasey-Kemp

Show Your Working

Useful Before it's Finished

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2 Andy Normington - Focusrite

Provenance Is Coming #2: How It Works

How can provenance be built into the tools musicians already use?

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1 Paul McCabe, Chris Horton, & Jeremy Uzan - Roland // UMG

Beyond Licensing

Protecting the IP Behind Your Audio Software

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3 Brett g Porter - PACE Anti-Piracy

What If Hardware Could Change Shape?

Exploring the Future of Physical Controls for Music Technology

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Conservatory Daire O'Neill - Arturia

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only

Gather Town

12:50 - 14:00Gather Town Poster Room

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00

Gather Town Booth Tour

Online Only

Gather Town

13:00 - 13:30Gather Town Expo Hall

Gather Town Booth Tour

Online Only

Gather Town

13:30 - 14:00Gather Town Expo Hall

The Myriad Types of IIR Filters

Alternatives to the biquad

In-Person & Online

14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Samuel Fischmann