ADC 2025 Schedule

ADC 2025 Schedule

Monday 10th November

All times are in UTC

Breakfast Snacks

In-Person Only
08:00 - 08:30Bristol 2

Online Open House

Online Only
Gather Town
08:00 - 08:30Gather Town

Welcome Address

In-Person & Online
08:30 - 08:45Bristol 2

Instrument Your Code So it Can Sing

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:20Bristol 2 Adam Shield

Workshop: Dynamic Cast: Web UIs for Music Apps

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 12:30Bristol 3 Anna Wszeborowska, Harriet Drury, Emma Fitzmaurice & Pauline Nemchak

Workshop: TBD

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 12:30Empire

Workshop: TBD

In-Person Only
09:00 - 12:30SS Great Britain

Workshop: TBD

In-Person Only
09:00 - 12:30Conservatory

Creative Coding: Geometry and OpenGL with Audio

In-Person & Online
09:20 - 09:40Bristol 2 Jake Morgan

Tabla to Drumset: Translating Rhythmic Language through Machine L …

In-Person & Online
09:40 - 10:00Bristol 2 Shreya Gupta

Why You Can’t Get Hired and What You’re Going To Do About It

The Hard Reset for Audio Freelancing
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:20Bristol 2 Edward Ray

PhilTorch: Accelerating Automatic Differentiation of Digital Filt …

In-Person & Online
10:20 - 10:40Bristol 2 Chin-Yun Yu

Morning Break

10:40 - 11:10

Peeking Inside Audio Units: A Practical Reverse Engineering Journ …

In-Person & Online
11:10 - 11:30Bristol 2 Josip Cavar

Converting Source Separation Models to ONNX for Real Time Usage i …

In-Person & Online
11:30 - 11:50Bristol 2 Anmol Mishra

Should Audio Plugins Have “Everything Everywhere All at Once” …

Exploring Modularity, Reusability, and Instrument Identity in Audio Software
In-Person & Online
11:50 - 12:10Bristol 2 Gonçalo Nuno Botelho Amaral Rolão Bernardo

Music Design and Systems: Achieving Inaudibly Complex Systems in …

In-Person & Online
12:10 - 12:30Bristol 2 Liam Peacock

ADC Mentorship Meetup!

In-Person Only
12:30 - 13:30Executive Lounge

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30

Why Do People Actually Buy Music Software, Anyway?

In-Person & Online
13:30 - 13:50Bristol 2 James Russell

Workshop: DSP in Practice

From Block Diagram to Working Plugin
In-Person & Online
13:30 - 17:00Bristol 3 Jan Wilczek & Linus Corneliusson

Workshop: Build Your First Plugin With JUCE

Create a Working Plugin From Scratch!
In-Person Only
13:30 - 17:00EmpireTom Poole, Attila Szarvas, Reuben Thomas, Anthony Nicholls & Oli James - JUCE

Workshop: TBD

In-Person Only
13:30 - 17:00SS Great Britain

Interactive Panel: Accessibility in Audio Tech

In-Person & Online
13:30 - 17:00Conservatory Jay Pocknell, Tim Burgess, Tim Yates, Samuel John Prouse, David Shervill & Liza Bec

Database Synchronisation for Audio Plugins, Part Two

Here's One I Made Earlier
In-Person & Online
13:50 - 14:10Bristol 2 Adam Wilson

Driving Chaos: Virtual Analog Modelling of a Chaotic Circuit with …

In-Person & Online
14:10 - 14:30Bristol 2 Francisco Bernardo

Bridging Audio Analysis and Interaction

An Open Toolkit for Real-Time Descriptors
In-Person & Online
14:30 - 14:50Bristol 2 Valerio Orlandini

Real-Time Audio in Python: Introducing the asmu Package

In-Person & Online
14:50 - 15:10Bristol 2 Felix Huber

Afternoon Break

15:10 - 15:40

PSD to DAW: Building a Pixel-Perfect UI Pipeline

In-Person & Online
15:40 - 16:00Bristol 2 Bence Kovács

A History of FLAC

The Free Lossless Audio Codec
In-Person & Online
16:00 - 16:20Bristol 2 Josh Coalson

A Sine By Any Other Language

In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:40Bristol 2 David Su

Mind the Spike: Benchmarking for Worst-Case Execution Time in Rea …

In-Person & Online
16:40 - 17:00Bristol 2 Christian Luther

Break

17:00 - 18:00

Evening Meal & Networking

In-Person Only
17:00 - 18:30Empire Lobby - Front Lobby

The ADC Quiz

In-Person Only
18:30 - 21:00Bristol Suite

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Tuesday 11th November

Breakfast Snacks

In-Person Only
08:30 - 08:50Bristol 2

The Real Waveform Matters

The Samples Are Not Always What They Seem
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Jamie Angus-Whiteoak

Implementing Wave Terrain Synthesis

Carving Paths into Sonic Landscapes
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Steven Barile

Real-Time, Low Latency and High Temporal Resolution Spectrograms

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Alexandre R.J. Francois

Channel Agnosticism in MetaSounds

Simplifying Audio Formats for Reusable Graph Topologies
In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Conservatory Aaron McLeran

Efficient Task Scheduling in a Multithreaded Audio Engine

Algorithms and Analysis for Parallel Graph Execution
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Rachel Susser

The Practices of Audio Programming

In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Ilias Bergström

Engineering Practices Break Music Interaction

(but Can Also Fix It)
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Franco Caspe

Chaos, Logic, and Physics: Lessons from Building a 3D Spatial DAW …

In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Noah Feasey-Kemp

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only
Gather Town
10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

Lock-free Queues in the Multiverse of Madness

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Dave Rowland

Creating from Legacy Code: A Case Study of Porting Legacy Code fr …

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Harriet Drury

How To Successfully Develop Software Products

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Olivier Petit & Alistair Barker

Hacking Handhelds for Creative Audio: Building Music Applications …

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Leonardo Foletto

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In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2

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In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1

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In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3

TBD

In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Conservatory

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00

Celebrating Diversity Working Lunch

In-Person Only
12:50 - 14:00Executive Lounge

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

Beyond the DAW: Designing a Procedural Sequencer Powered by Music …

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Romy Dugue & Cecill Etheredge

Plot Twist: How Splines Quietly Run Your Signal Chain

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 1 Rachel Locke

Overview of Granular Synthesis

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 3 Avrosh Kumar

Level Up! Procedural Game Music and Audio

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Conservatory Chris Nash

Finding OSCar: The Secrets of a Classic British Synth

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 2 Ben Supper

Continuous QA Testing for Plugins Using AI and Python

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Ryan Wardell

Cross-Platform Music Software with Rust

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Ian Hobson

Emotion in the Signal: EEG-Driven Adaptive Music for Games, VR, a …

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Conservatory Marta Rossi

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only
Gather Town
15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Poster Room

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20

Scripting Architecture for a DAW-like Plugin

In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2 Kanru Hua - Dreamtonics

How To Distribute Your Plugins

Using MuseHub as the Engine To Get Your Audio Tools in the Hands of Millions
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1 Khaled Said - MuseHub

The Official JUCE Audio Plugin Development Course is Here

And it’s free...
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 3 Jan Wilczek

TBD

In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Conservatory

ADC 2015 to 2035

Looking Back at 10 Years of Audio Dev, and Peering Forward at the Next 10
In-Person & Online
17:00 - 18:00AJulian Storer

Online Social Mixer

Online Only
Gather Town
18:00 - 18:30Conservatory

ADC Social Mixer

In-Person Only
18:00 - 21:00Zerodegrees Bristol

Online Open Mic Night

Online Only
Gather Town
18:30 - 20:00Gather Town Track A Auditorium

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Wednesday 12th November

Breakfast Snacks

In-Person Only
08:30 - 09:00Bristol 2

Demystifying std::memory_order

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 2 Timur Doumler

Perfect Oscillators in Less Than One Clock Cycle

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 1 Angus Hewlett

Building Inclusive Audio Tools: Accessibility with ARIA, WCAG, an …

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Bristol 3 Samuel John Prouse & David Shervill

Analog Filters for Realtime Audio

In-Person & Online
09:00 - 09:50Conservatory George Gkountouras

Enumerate and Extract Audio Buffers When Debugging C++ Applicatio …

In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 2 Henning Meyer

Modernizing Legacy Audio Plugin Codebases

Lessons from FL Studio’s Plugin Suite
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 1 Tomas Medek

How I Learned to Love the Docs

Documentation As Design Process for Music Tech Products
In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Bristol 3 Astrid Bin

Understanding JUCE Drawing: Rules for Measurable Performance Impr …

In-Person & Online
10:00 - 10:50Conservatory Anthony Nicholls

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only
Gather Town
10:50 - 11:20Gather Town Poster Room

Morning Break

10:50 - 11:20

Building an Optimized DSP Framework in Modern C++

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 2 Scott Carver

A Performance Odyssey: Transforming UI Rendering in Cubase and Nu …

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 1 Erich Krey

Modern Feedback Delay Networks for Realistic and Creative Reverbe …

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Bristol 3 Gloria Dal Santo

It’s Just a Phase: Exploring Synthesis With the Phase Vocoder

In-Person & Online
11:20 - 12:10Conservatory Cameron Thomas

Bugs I’ve Seen in the Wild

From Confusion to Amazement
In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2 Olivier Petit - L-Acoustics

TBD

In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 1

Commercialising Audio Plugins

In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Bristol 3 Tobias Lønnerød Madsen - Moonbase

TBD

In-Person & Online
12:20 - 12:50Conservatory

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

Testing Testing 1, 2, 3

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 2 Cesare Ferrari

Doodads & Doohickeys: A Guide to Theory-Crafting & Modell …

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 1 Syl Morrison

Distorted Reality: Myths about Harmonics and Distortion

In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Bristol 3 Samuel Fischmann

Developing your own DSP framework

Would You, Could You, Should You?
In-Person & Online
14:00 - 14:50Conservatory Miguel Jimenez-Carvajal

Safe and Sound: Using C++ Audio Libraries from Rust

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 2 James Hallowell

The Shape of Sound: Building and Bending Vinyl Grooves in Softwar …

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Andreas Wagner

2.5 Years Later: A C++ Framework for Audio ML Research Prototypin …

Let's break it down
In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Maxime Coutant

Crowded Market Launch Playbook: Refining Audio Plugin Success Thr …

In-Person & Online
15:00 - 15:50Conservatory Randy Young

Gather Town Poster Session

Online Only
Gather Town
15:50 - 16:20Gather Town Poster Room

Afternoon Break

15:50 - 16:20

The Rise of Accelerated Audio Computing

New Modules and Markets with GPU Audio
In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2 Chris Duckers - GPU Audio

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16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1

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16:20 - 16:50Bristol 3

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In-Person & Online
16:20 - 16:50Conservatory

Keynote: TBD

In-Person & Online
17:00 - 18:00A

Closing Address

In-Person & Online
18:00 - 18:15Bristol 2

Evening Meal & Networking

In-Person Only
18:15 - 19:00Empire Lobby - Front Lobby

ADC25 Online Wrap-Up Party

Online Only
Gather Town
18:15 - 19:30Gather Town

Open Mic Night

In-Person Only
19:00 - 21:00Bristol Suite

Networking

Online Only
Gather Town
19:30 - 21:00Gather Town

Networking

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21:00 - 22:00Empire Lobby - Front Lobby

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