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Tim Bencker

Founder

Oudio

About Me

Tim Bencker builds audio software and the infrastructure around it. He contributes to Scyclone, an open-source neural audio plugin and runs Oudio, which handles licensing and checkout so plugin developers can focus on the plugin itself. Before that, he spent five years at Sensape as a technical artist and project lead on interactive applications for clients such as Warner Bros. and Toyota.

Sessions

  • Audio’s Problems Aren’t Unique

    And That's Good News
    12:40 - 13:00 UTC | Monday 9th November 2026 | Bristol 2
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced

    Creating and maintaining great audio software is hard - but many of the challenges aren’t unique to audio. Increasing complexity, shifting requirements, and unresolved design decisions are patterns that appear across games, web applications, and automation systems too. Other fields have developed practical approaches to managing them, and audio has a lot to gain from paying attention. Drawing on experience across development, design, and production - as a developer, technical artist, and project manager - this talk examines how proven approaches from game development, software engineering, design, and automation can be applied to audio product design, development, and tooling. The […]