ADC 2025 Schedule

Monday 10th November

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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: TBD

In-Person & Online

13:30 - 17:00Bristol 3

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In-Person & Online

13:30 - 17:00Empire

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In-Person Only

13:30 - 17:00SS Great Britain

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In-Person Only

13:30 - 17:00Conservatory

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 Unity

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 from Exponential Audio

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 for the New Nintendo 3DS

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-Theory

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, and Immersive Media

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

TBD

In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2

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, and Real-World Projects

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 Improvements

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

TBD

In-Person & Online

12:20 - 12:50Bristol 2

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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 & Modelling a Fictional Acoustic Instrument

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 Software

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Bristol 1 Andreas Wagner

2.5 Years Later

A C++ Framework for Audio ML Research Prototyping

In-Person & Online

15:00 - 15:50Bristol 3 Maxime Coutant

Crowded Market Launch Playbook

Refining Audio Plugin Success Through Pre‑Launch Metrics

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

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In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 2

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In-Person & Online

16:20 - 16:50Bristol 1

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In-Person & Online

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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