Shiva Sankar Kannan

Senior Software Engineer

Dolby Labs

About Me

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 spatial audio content creation tools. Worked in film before as a developer in animation and vfx houses.

Sessions

  • The Space Between Presets

    Exploration of the software synth presets space
    10:30 - 10:50 UTC | Monday 9th November 2026 | Bristol 2
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    In-Person & Online

    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.