Building a Plugin Assembly Line - The Road to Rapid Plugin Development - Bence Kovács & Linus Corneliusson - ADC 2024
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Having an efficient plugin production pipeline is crucial for delivering high-quality releases while lowering the cost and time to market.
What are the required tools and strategies needed to streamline the production of a series of plugins?
We'll present our rapid development framework, sharing our journey towards building a more efficient production workflow.
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Bence is a software developer specializing in audio and game development, with a focus on creating efficient and scalable solutions. Over the years, he has contributed to a diverse range of projects, including audio plugins, games, and VR experiences. Bence is particularly interested in optimizing both runtime performance and development workflows. His work often involves designing modular architectures that enhance code reusability and facilitate rapid development of complex audio software.
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Linus Corneliusson
With a background in heavy metal production, mixing and editing at Fascination Street Studios, I have recently transitioned to plugin and instrument development at Bogren Digital.
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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.
Annual ADC Conference - https://audio.dev/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/audiodevcon
Intro to Software Development of Audio Devices - From Plugins to Hardware - Wojtek Jakobczyk - ADC 2024
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Many audio software developers are working on PC or Mobile only, building plugins, DAWs, various applications. There is the whole world of developing physical audio products - synthesizers, grooveboxes, effect pedals or eurorack modules, that is unknown to them. Working with these may seem very different, strange and scary. The notion of "embedded software" may have bad reputation. Nowadays, the truth about developing on hardware is far more nuanced, if not very different.
The purpose of the talk is to show why developing software for hardware can be fun and satisfying and that it's not that much different to working on a PC or mobile.
A review of typical architectures of such products will be presented - starting from hardware itself, but focusing on software aspects - operating systems, programming languages in use and aspects that may be different to PC architecture - such as differences in (or lack of) threading or handling of interrupts.
Last but not least - some tips on how to get started in the field - review of recommend prototyping hardware platforms, interesting software platforms and open source projects.
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I'm passionate about making electronic music instruments that have physicality and give a feeling of something real and alive.
In the same time, I've been interested in making software since forever :).
Luckily, I can join the two passions working at Polyend, where we make synthesizers and grooveboxes.
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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.
Annual ADC Conference - https://audio.dev/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/audiodevcon
https://twitter.com/audiodevcon
https://facebook.com/audiodevcon
https://instagram.com/audiodevcon
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodevcon/
https://mastodon.social/@audiodevcon
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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 ADC24 Team:
Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra
Scalable, Efficient Processing and Analysis of Large Audio Datasets - Pawel Cyrta - ADC 2024
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The exponential growth of audio data necessitates robust and scalable solutions for processing and analysis. This presentation introduces a novel approach to handle a colossal audio dataset (e.g 40 or more TB) using various methods and Ray framework for distributed computing.
When you have terabytes or petabytes of data, it is difficult to use python to process it and finish it before the asterisk. Distributed computations are now easy to perform thanks to the ray.io framework. I will show you how to use distributed methods in practice based on my experience in analyzing and training ML audio, speech and language models. With a wide range of applications, we always face the elementary problem of data preparation, and the dynamically created Ray cluster with calculation and optimization pipelines speeds them up many times. It will show you the basics of the environment, how to navigate and prepare production-ready applications. In this talk, we provide practical tips on how to manage data to build a scalable/robust/reliable software system.We will delve into specific use cases, including the feature extraction like Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and spectrogram analysis, showcasing how Ray’s flexibility and scalability can transform conventional audio processing workflows.
The presentation will conclude with a discussion on aggregating results and deriving meaningful insights from large-scale audio data, providing attendees with actionable strategies to manage and analyze vast audio datasets effectively.
Join Paweł as he shares invaluable insights and practical tips to master massive audio data distributed parallel processing.
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Paweł Cyrta
Paweł Cyrta is a Applied Research Scientist and ML Engineer with over 20 years of expertise in audio technology and machine learning.
His innovative work spans the realms of speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, and generative audio AI.
Currently, Paweł consults on emerging audio technology projects, delivering bespoke on-premise state-of-the-art ML solutions for complex speech and audio tasks, bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical business solutions.
His diverse career spans multiple industries, including work with prominent organizations such as NowThisMedia, Rev.ai and Roche, where he implemented cutting-edge audio ML solutions.
At Samsung, he played a key role in developing speech recognition and synthesis for S-Voice in 24 European languages, a technology now available in Samsung TVs.
Paweł's academic background combines Computer Science and Electroacoustics from the Warsaw University of Technology with Computational Engineering from HPC center, at the University of Warsaw.
He completed research intership at IRCAM in Paris focused on integrating natural emotions into speech and singing synthesis, bridging the gap between technology and expressive audio content.
He also shares his expertise as a lecturer in Deep Learning postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology,
previously teaching "Interactive Systems" and "Interactive Sound II" at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
As a composer and researcher in music technology, Paweł brings a unique perspective to audio ML, specializing in generative music, interactive systems, and algorithmic composition.
His multifaceted approach combines technical prowess with creative insight, driving innovation in sound analysis and processing, as technical curator and artist at many digital art festivals in Poland.
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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.
Annual ADC Conference - https://audio.dev/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/audiodevcon
https://twitter.com/audiodevcon
https://facebook.com/audiodevcon
https://instagram.com/audiodevcon
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodevcon/
https://mastodon.social/@audiodevcon
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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
