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As a researcher and developer in the audio field, it's disheartening that the only things to get crossover attention is stuff from google with some buzzwords at

As a researcher and developer in the audio field, it's disheartening that the only things to get crossover attention is stuff from google with some buzzwords attached. There is so much amazing stuff being done, but it's hard to summarize for the mainstream audience I guess. Meanwhile, this thing sounds horrible (sorry), and as I understand it, it's more like a fancy lookup table than anything resembling AI. (I think they needed to precompute parts of the model to make it run in realtime). Looking at the source code, there's nothing particularly impressive in there. But the part about open source hardware is a nice touch though.

snissn 9y ago
Could you share some projects that you like?
- aidos 9y ago
  According to @svantana's profile he makes this cool looking bit of work, amongst other things: https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/ https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/ Would also be interested in hearing more about recommended projects though. I'm building my first synth at the moment so I'm pretty keen on the topic right now.
- svantana 9y ago
  Well, in the same spirit as NSynth, but miles ahead, we have: https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth - morph all types of sounds, laid out on a 2d canvas (made by me) https://soniccharge.com/synplant https://soniccharge.com/synplant - treating synth parameters as genomes, allows for combination and mutation of sounds These are commercial projects, but there is also a lot of interesting academic stuff going on, from IRCAM, CCRMA and MTG among others. Unfortunately there's not a strong tradition of open source in audio, although that is starting to change.
solipsism 9y ago
If it's a neural network it's AI. The shitty neutral network I made in undergrad may not rise to your standards of "particularly impressive" but what does that have to do with it being AI?

snissn 9y ago

Could you share some projects that you like?

aidos 9y ago
According to @svantana's profile he makes this cool looking bit of work, amongst other things: https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/ https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth/ Would also be interested in hearing more about recommended projects though. I'm building my first synth at the moment so I'm pretty keen on the topic right now.
svantana 9y ago
Well, in the same spirit as NSynth, but miles ahead, we have: https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth https://heartofnoise.com/products/galaxynth - morph all types of sounds, laid out on a 2d canvas (made by me) https://soniccharge.com/synplant https://soniccharge.com/synplant - treating synth parameters as genomes, allows for combination and mutation of sounds These are commercial projects, but there is also a lot of interesting academic stuff going on, from IRCAM, CCRMA and MTG among others. Unfortunately there's not a strong tradition of open source in audio, although that is starting to change.

solipsism 9y ago

If it's a neural network it's AI. The shitty neutral network I made in undergrad may not rise to your standards of "particularly impressive" but what does that have to do with it being AI?