Tag: DAW

Using JavaScript to Render a DAW User Interface at 60 FPS – Arthur Carabott – ADC 2024

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Using JavaScript to Render a DAW User Interface at 60 FPS - Arthur Carabott - ADC 2024
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No one likes unresponsive user interfaces, least of all musicians. WebViews are an increasingly common choice for building UIs because of their increased developer productivity, ability to meet the demands of graphic designers, and enormous ecosystem of UI libraries. But when done wrong, they can easily become slow and resource hungry, which is bad for both users and developers.

This talk covers patterns and best practices for creating user interfaces using both the DOM and 2D Canvas API (which is more suitable for custom interactions and graphically demanding tasks). These techniques will be discussed via a real-world case study: a DAW user interface (zoomable waveforms and all) at 60 FPS.

Aimed at all developers new to the web, demonstrations use vanilla TypeScript (no frameworks!) to teach the techniques from first principles, and to have a type system that will make C++ developers feel at home.
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Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2024/high-performance-webview-user-interfaces/slides.pdf
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Arthur Carabott

Arthur Carabott is a Senior Software Engineer at Output where he was the founding member of their DAW project Creator, and designed features for the plugin Arcade. Prior to Output he worked on an interactive musical building for the 2012 Olympics with Mark Ronson, a synchronised "orchestra" of 100 iPads for the Apple Store, a spatial audio iOS app with composer Anna Meredith, and musical robots for will.i.am.

He is passionate about interaction, interfaces, and user experience, which lead to an interest in performance and optimization (of GUIs in particular); and is influenced by the work of Bret Victor, Alan Kay, Jef Raskin, and Douglas Engelbart.
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Special thanks to the ADC24 Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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How to Build a Simple, Modern & Collaborative DAW for Producers of All Levels – Anurag Choudhary

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How to Build a Simple, Modern & Collaborative DAW for Producers of All Levels - Anurag Choudhary - ADCxGather 2024
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We’ll talk about the technological and behavioural shifts occurring in the space of music production, and how the next generation of DAWs should adapt to those. Specifically, we’ll talk about how we can drive simplicity, adopt modern standards, and build for collaboration from the ground up.

The talk will go through the following topics:

- Driving Simplicity: Balancing control and convenience, and a case against skeuomorphism. We’ll also look at how complex workflows can be made more intuitive through manageable and delightful interactions.
- Adopting Modern Standards: We’ll look at three arcs here: AI-native, CLAP plugins, and DAWProject. Each of them are modernising workflows across the user flow, from inspiration to finishing, to interoperability between DAWs. We also discuss what creativity and productivity represent for a producer, what ‘real’ means, and how new technologies should think about ethics and integrity.
- Building for Collaboration: We’ll look at what ‘collaboration’ means for music production, why DAWs have been unable to achieve success in them, and relevant examples from adjacent industries.
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Anurag Choudhary

Anurag is the founder of an early-stage startup, Riffle - a canva for music production. A CS grad from Illinois and an MBA from Chicago Booth, Anurag comes with a diverse set of experiences, from building a no-code platform at Microsoft to being a product lead at Traba building worker experiences.

Having been a semi-pro producer and musician for more than a decade, Anurag has deep empathy for producers of all levels, and is applying first principles thinking with Riffle in imagining a world where producing music is simpler, more modern, and more collaborative.
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ADC is an annual event celebrating all audio development technologies, from music applications and game audio to audio processing and embedded systems. ADC’s mission is to help attendees acquire and develop new audio development skills, and build a network that will support their audio developer career.
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADCxGather Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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Why You Shouldn’t Write a DAW – David Rowland – ADC23

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Why you shouldn’t write a DAW - David Rowland - ADC 2023

There are surprisingly few DAWs in the music making world, especially when compared to the number of audio plugins on the market. Why is this? Could it be that all the DAWs in existence are perfect and there’s no need for another one? Perhaps there’s another reason…

In this talk we dive behind the UI/UX to take a deeper look at the technology that underpins DAWs. We’ll take a tour of some of the problems they solve, often transparently to the user, and some of the technical concepts they have to navigate in order to keep music makers in the groove.

Finally, we look at what alternatives there might be if you want to build a product that looks a bit like a DAW and why not building from scratch might save you a lot of time and money.

Link to Slides:
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David Rowland

Dave Rowland is the CTO at Audio Squadron (owning brands such as Tracktion and Prism Sound), working primarily on the digital audio workstation, Waveform and the engine it runs on. Other projects over the years have included audio plugins and iOS audio applications utilising JUCE. In academia, David has taught on several modules at the University of the West of England on programming for audio. David has a passion for modern C++ standards and their use to improve code safety and brevity, has spoken at the Meeting C++ and Cpp On Sea conferences and is a regular speaker at the Audio Developer Conference and related monthly meetup. Past presentations: https://github.com/drowaudio/presentations/
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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The Architecture of Digital Audio Workstations (& Other Time-Based Media Software) – Ilias Bergström

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The Architecture of Digital Audio Workstations (and Other Time-Based Media Software) - Ilias Bergström - ADC23

The ADC community has produced a wonderful wealth of material on audio software development!

But there is a relative dearth on the big picture of how all these coding techniques, practices, strategies, and design patterns, can interrelate, giving rise to the complex beast that is a modern Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

While there are some open-source DAWs to study, there is little material on their architecture, apart from the source code itself - with the main exception being the (GUI-less) Tracktion engine of course.

Although implicit / emergent architecture may be sufficient for small to medium size codebases, a large codebase such as a DAW demands deliberate attention to design.

We present the low-level design patterns for the DAW engine and presentation layers, the UI/UX design patterns these interrelate to, and the architectural design patterns for the complete system. Crucially, the main emphasis of our talk is not the details of the above, but how they all together define a modern DAW.

We then present the challenges faced in defining such an architecture to satisfy the specific Attributes of a DAW - e.g. a non-destructively alterable model, and the real-time constraints that necessitate lock-free communication between threads. We discuss the compromises needed to satisfy such conflicting needs, and some future challenges presented, as the software category evolves into the future, e.g. with MIDI 2.0 around the corner.

While we concentrate on DAWs, much of this discussion also generalises to the broader category of Time-Based Media software.

The presentation is grounded in two DAW-like applications we have developed: one is a desktop application with a GUI, and the other is a "headless" embedded DAW, with a separately executed GUI application. They are both very different, each lacking central features that the other has. But together, and even more so through their differences, they serve as great illustrations of the concepts we present.

This subject area is vast, and a review of every topic and technique is impossible in the scope of a single talk. We give a good introductory overview, hopefully laying a foundation for further learning and knowledge dissemination in the community.

Link to Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/2023/the-architecture-of-daws/slides.pdf
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Ilias Bergström

Senior Software Engineer, ElkComputer Scientist, Researcher, Interaction Designer, Musician, with a love for all music but specially live performance. I've worked on developing several applications for live music, audiovisual performance, and use by experts, mainly using C++. I get very excited whenever anybody mentions "control data" in my vicinity!
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Streamed & Edited by Digital Medium Ltd: https://online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC23 Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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Wilsonic: Microtonal Scale Design in the DAW – Marcus Hobbs – ADCx SF

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Wilsonic: Microtonal Scale Design in the DAW - Marcus Hobbs - ADCx SF

Wilsonic MTS-ESP is an interactive musical scale design tool which tunes up all of the software synthesizers in your DAW in real-time, and every tuning parameter is automatable. We will explore the most novel of Erv Wilson's scale system designs and show you how to explore and personalize your own scales to create your signature sound and emotional palettes.

Slides: https://data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxSF/2023/wilsonic-microtonal-scale-design-in-the-daw/slides.pdf
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Marcus Hobbs

Microtonal electronica creator and audio plug-in developer. Pioneering microtonality by implementing Erv Wilson's scale designs and tuning systems. Creator of Wilsonic and Synth One. Microtonal education and software evangelist.

Edited by Digital Medium Ltd - online.digital-medium.co.uk
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Organized and produced by JUCE: https://juce.com/
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Special thanks to the ADC Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper

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