ADC 2024 Schedule

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Monday 11th November

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Breakfast Snacks

08:00 - 08:30

Online Open House

08:00 - 09:00

Welcome Address

08:30 - 08:45

Unpacking the Role of Audio Programmers in the Games Industry

Demystifying the Responsibilities, Skills, and Career Path of Audio Programmers in Games Industry

09:00 - 09:20View SlidesHarleen Singh

JS Engines for Audio Developers

So many engines, so little time

09:20 - 09:40View SlidesAndy Brown

Workshop: Practical Machine Learning

Embed a generative AI model in your app and train your own interactions with it

09:30 - 12:30View SlidesAnna Wszeborowska, Harriet Drury, Sohyun Im, Julia Läger & Pauline Nemchak - Dynamic Cast

Workshop: Designing and Developing an AVB/Milan-Compliant Audio N …

09:30 - 12:30Fabian Braun - JOYNED

Workshop: Exploring Percussion Synthesis and Rhythm Generation in …

09:30 - 12:30Daniel Jones

Workshop: DSP In Practice

From Block Diagram to Working Plugin

09:30 - 12:30Jan Wilczek - WolfSound

Challenges in Real-Time Physical Modelling for Sound Synthesis

09:40 - 10:00View SlidesSilvin Willemsen

Performance Implications of Frequency Domain Crossfading for Time …

10:00 - 10:20View Slidesiustin sandu

High Performance WebView User Interfaces

Getting the most out of the 2D Canvas and DOM

10:20 - 10:40View SlidesArthur Carabott

Morning Break

10:40 - 11:10

JUCE and Direct2D

11:10 - 11:30View SlidesMatt Gonzalez

Building a plugin assembly line

The Road to Rapid Plugin Development

11:30 - 11:50View SlidesBence Kovács & Linus Corneliusson

Sample Rate Conversion

Bridging the Gap in Multi-Device Audio Environments

11:50 - 12:10View SlidesChristian Gilli & Michele Mirabella

Snapshot Testing for Audio DSP

A picture’s worth a 1000 tests

12:10 - 12:30View SlidesJosip Cavar

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00

ADC Mentorship Meetup!

13:00 - 14:00Derek Heimlich

The Curious Case of Subnormals in Audio Code

13:30 - 13:50View SlidesAttila Haraszti

The Discrete Fourier Transform

Bridging the Gap

13:50 - 14:10View SlidesNial Redha

Workshop: GPU-Powered Neural Audio

High-Performance Inference for Real-Time Sound Processing

14:00 - 17:00View SlidesAlexander Talashov & Alexander Prokopchuk - GPU Audio

Workshop: Inclusive Design within Audio Products

What, Why, How?

14:00 - 17:00View SlidesJay Pocknell, Tim Yates, Elizabeth J Birch, Andre Louis, Adi Dickens, Haim Kairy & Tim Burgess

Workshop: Klang: Live and Expressive C++ for Audio

What if C++ had built-in audio semantics? What if you could develop C++ plugins, live in the DAW?

14:00 - 17:00Chris Nash - Nash Audio & University of the West of England

Workshop: Build your first Plug-in with JUCE

Create a working plug-in from scratch

14:00 - 17:00Tom Poole, Attila Szarvas, Oli James, Reuben Thomas & Anthony Nicholls - JUCE

Frontend Development Strategies For WebUI

14:10 - 14:30View SlidesTravis Skare

How to Price an Audio Plugin

Factors to consider when deriving that one elusive value

14:30 - 14:50View SlidesJames Russell

Squeeze JUCE and Bottle It Into Embedded Devices and More

14:50 - 15:10View SlidesStefano Zambon

Afternoon Break

15:10 - 15:40

Beyond ValueTrees

(Confessions of a ValueTree Skeptic)

15:40 - 16:00View SlidesBrett g Porter

How To Recreate/Restore a Full Game Boy Advance Soundtrack in Hig …

16:00 - 16:20View SlidesVincent Dortel

“Engine-Swap” on Two Spatial Audio Plugins Will Be Ea …

Lessons Learned

16:20 - 16:40View SlidesDomenico Stefani

Rock-Solid Releases

Beginner-Friendly Introduction to CI/CD for Audio Developers

16:40 - 17:00View SlidesFernando Garcia de la Cruz

Break

17:00 - 18:00

ADC Social Mixer

18:00 - 23:00

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Tuesday 12th November

Breakfast Snacks

08:30 - 09:00

Javascript, WebViews and C++

“If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them”

09:00 - 09:50Julian Storer - Cmajor Software

Amplifying Efficiency

Business Infrastructure for Audio Startups

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesAlexandra Arutian & Samuel Fischmann - Musik Hack

Reinventing the Plugin Editor

Immediate Mode GUIs for Audio Plugins

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesGustav Andersson - Elk Audio

Building Audio Apps with Rust

An Overview of Tools and Techniques

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesStephan Eckes - ai-coustics

A Critique of Audio Plug-In Formats

VST, AU, AAX, JUCE and Beyond

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesFabian Renn-Giles

Learning While Building

MVPs, Prototypes, and the Importance of Physical Gesture

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesRoth Michaels - Native Instruments

Our Ultra-Processed Interfaces

What Music Technology Can Learn From Doritos

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesAstrid Bin - Bela.io

Engineering Success for Audio Software in a Crowded Market

What Can McDonald's Teach Us About Selling Audio Plugins

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesRandy Young - Relab

Gather Town Poster Session

10:50 - 11:20

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

Can Audio Programming be Safe?

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesDave Rowland - Tracktion

Bug-Free JUCE UI

Structure Your GUI Code For Stability, Testability & Clean Architecture

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesJan Wilczek - WolfSound

How To Read Scientific DSP Publications and Turn Them Into Code

Making Sense of Academic Papers and Patents for People Who Are Not Academics or Patent Lawyers

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesMatthijs Hollemans

Get Real, From Plugins to Hardware

Intro to Software Development of Audio Devices

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesWojtek Jakobczyk - Polyend

Responsible AI for Offline Plugins

Tamper-Resistant Neural Audio Watermarking

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesKanru Hua - Dreamtonics

Expanding SDKs and APIs in Pro Tools

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesDave Tyler - Avid

Roland’s Holistic Approach to AI for Music Creation

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesPaul McCabe, Ichiro Yazawa & Kazuyoshi Sasamori - Roland

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00

Gather Town Booth Tour

13:00 - 13:30

Celebrating Diversity Working Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Gather Town Poster Session

13:00 - 14:00

Gather Town Booth Tour

13:30 - 14:00

Auditory and Cognitive Neuroscience and the State of Audio Techno …

A Multi-Disciplinary Panel Discussion

14:00 - 14:50Rebekah Wilson, Susan Rogers, Micha Heilbron & Ryszard Auksztulewicz

Introducing ni-midi2

A Modern C++ Library Implementing MIDI2 UMP 1.1 and MIDI CI 1.2

14:00 - 14:50View SlidesFranz Detro - Native Instruments

Docker for the Audio Developer

14:00 - 14:50View SlidesOlivier Petit - L-Acoustics

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Deep Dive: Unsupervised Audio Processing with Differentiable Digital Signal Processing (DDSP)

14:00 - 14:50Pradeep Rengaswamy - Sony

Emulating the TX81Z

Techniques for Reverse Engineering Hardware Synths

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesCesare Ferrari - Cmajor Software

Elliptic BLEP

High-Quality Zero-Latency Anti-Aliasing

15:00 - 15:50Geraint Luff - Signalsmith Audio

Crunching the Same Numbers on Different Architectures

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesMarco Del Fiasco - Elk Audio

Knee-Deep Learning

Practical Steps to Get Started with Audio ML

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesMartin Swanholm - Hindenburg Systems

Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IASIG) Meetup

15:50 - 16:20Jon Pascone

Gather Town Poster Session

15:50 - 16:20

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20

Accelerated Audio Computing

Unlocking the Future of Real-Time Sound Processing

16:20 - 16:50View SlidesAlexander Talashov - GPU Audio

Inter-Plugin Communication

Breaking out of the Channel Strip

16:20 - 16:50View SlidesPeter Sciri - Sonible

Practical Lessons Learned from Building Audio Applications using …

16:20 - 16:50View SlidesChangHun Sung - Supertone

Keynote: Foundation Models Don’t Understand Me

Lessons From AI Lutherie for Live Performances

17:00 - 18:00View SlidesManaswi Mishra

Online Social Mixer

18:00 - 18:30

Evening Meal & Networking

18:00 - 19:30

Online Open Mic Night

18:45 - 20:00

The ADC Quiz

19:30 - 21:00Andrew Scheps

Networking

20:00 - 22:00

Networking

21:00 - 22:00

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Wednesday 13th November

Breakfast Snacks

08:30 - 09:00

Inheriting Mantis from Chris Huggett

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesBen Supper - Supperware

Branch-Free Oscillators for Fun and Profit

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesAngus Hewlett - independent consultant

Debugging Audio Content With Visuals

A Debugger Extension and Some Other Helpful Tools

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesMaxime Coutant

A Spatial Audio Primer

09:00 - 09:50View SlidesEmma Fitzmaurice - Focusrite

Wait-Free Thread Synchronisation With the SeqLock

10:00 - 10:50Timur Doumler

Digital Audio Workstation Architecture

Evaluation and Evolution

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesIlias Bergström

Crafting Better Generative Music in Games with Deep Learning

10:00 - 10:50View SlidesKyle Worrall

[Unit] Testing like a Lazy Pro

10:00 - 10:50Marcel Roth & Dino Pollano - Spitfire Audio

Gather Town Poster Session

10:50 - 11:20

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

LLVM’s Real-Time Safety Revolution

RealtimeSanitizer and Performance Constraints Attributes

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesDavid Trevelyan & Chris Apple

Synchronised Data for Audio Plugins

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesAdam Wilson - Node Audio

Perceptual Convolution

Fast & High-Fidelity Combined

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesTobias Hienzsch

An Introductory Guide to Virtual Analog Modelling

The Intersection of Analog and Digital Audio Processing

11:20 - 12:10View SlidesSohyun Im - Queen Mary University of London

How Long Will It Take…to Clean a Kitchen?

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesSimon Holt & Ross Chisholm - Focusrite

Real-Time FFT Convolution

History and Review

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesSelim Sheta - L-Acoustics

Going Deeper with CLAP

12:20 - 12:50View SlidesAlexandre Bique & Urs Heckmann - U-HE

JUCE Drop-in

12:20 - 12:50Tom Poole, Attila Szarvas, Reuben Thomas, Anthony Nicholls & Oli James - JUCE

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00

Gather Town Booth Tour

13:00 - 13:30

Gather Town Poster Session

13:00 - 14:00

Gather Town Booth Tour

13:30 - 14:00

The Future of Immersive Music

14:00 - 14:50Ruth Farrar, Andrew Scheps, Hans-Martin Buff, Adrian Utley & Theo Kozlowski

In Praise of Loudness

14:00 - 14:50View SlidesSamuel Fischmann - Musik Hack

Real-Time Inference of Neural Networks

A Practical Approach for DSP Engineers – Part II

14:00 - 14:50View SlidesFares Schulz & Valentin Ackva - TU Berlin

Symphony of a Thousand

GPU Synthesis With Massively Parallel Oscillators

14:00 - 14:50View SlidesCecill Etheredge - Koala DSP

Atmospheric Plugin Design

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesSyl Morrison - SLM Audio

Pipewire: The How, What and Why of Audio on (Embedded) Linux

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesDaniel Strübig - Bang & Olufsen

An Efficient, Open-Source C++ Loop Classifier and Tempo Estimator

The Algorithm Behind Audacity’s Brand New Tempo Detection Feature

15:00 - 15:50View SlidesMatthieu Hodgkinson - Muse Group