Neural Audio Plugin Competition

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Thanks to everyone who has made the Neural Audio Plug-in Competition a success!

After a month of tutorials, panels and discussions on the latest trends of AI in audio plug-ins, the Neural Audio Plug-in Competition has now concluded. We've received 19 fantastic submissions for the competition listed below. We hope you enjoy them!

Please join our Audio Programmer Discord Community to stay up to date with new discussion and tutorials in this exciting space.

Winners

  • 1st Place

    1st Place

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    • $2000 - courtesy of TikTok
    • JUCE indie or Max & RNBO license for each member (up to 4)
    • NAMM Ticket and Presenting opportunity (GPU Audio)

    Scyclone

    Fares SchulzChristian ScheerAmirpasha Mobini TehraniValentin Ackva

    While our plugin and trained models ensured data safety and compliance with copyright legislations to a maximum level, there is always the concern of culturally appropriating the source musicians especially with the Djemble dataset that originates from an African background and utilised in a centro-European context.

  • 2nd Place

    2nd Place

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    • $1000 - courtesy of TAP & Qosmo
    • JUCE indie or Max & RNBO license for each member (up to 4)

    Neural Resonator

    Rodrigo DiazLewis WolstanholmeAdan Benito

    Physical simulations are used to train the model, and we are confident that it will not have any adverse impact on users nor raise any copyright or legal concerns.

  • 3rd Place

    3rd Place

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    • $500 - courtesy of GPU Audio

    HARD

    Yiming Wu

    The neural network was trained using the music audio database maintained by AlphaTheta. Care has been taken to ensure that the training data is not biased toward any particular musical genre. Since the neural network model is intended to reconstruct the musical elements of the input audio, the risk of copyright violation due to the plug-in is very low.

Participants

Judges

  • Ale Koretzky

    Ale Koretzky

    Splice

  • David Trevelyan

    David Trevelyan

    TikTok

  • Joshua Reiss

    Joshua Reiss

    Queen Mary University of London

  • Dan Stein

    Dan Stein

    (aka DJ Fresh)

Live Streams

  • Livestream #1 | February 24th @ 17:00 UK

  • Livestream #2 | March 3rd @ 17:00 UK

  • Livestream #3 | March 10th @ 17:00 UK

  • Livestream #4 | March 17th @ 17:00 UK

  • Livestream #5 | March 24th @ 17:00 UK

  • Livestream #6 | March 31st @ 17:00 UK

Supported by

  • Tiktok
  • Qosmo
  • TAP
  • Juce
  • Cycling 74
  • GPU Audio
  • Matlab

Organizing Team

  • Christian Steinmetz

    Christian Steinmetz

    Queen Mary University of London

  • Joshua Hodge

    Joshua Hodge

    The Audio Programmer

  • Andrew Fyfe

    Andrew Fyfe

    Qosmo

Have a question?

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