The Space Between Presets
Although we have so many ways to look for presets today, most of us still end up scrolling through an endless list. Could a software synth's presets instead be a visual map you explore by description and play like an instrument? In this talk, we will navigate preset space using text/audio as input, morphing between them in real time to chase a sound — with live demos on real synths, and look at where it works, where it breaks, and why a "map" of sound, built upon a pretrained audio-language model (CLAP), makes it possible.
Shiva Sankar Kannan
A Software Developer interested in audio, XR and creative tool development. Have 5 years of experience in the audio industry, working for Dolby Labs on their content creation tools. Worked in film before as a developer in animation and vfx houses.