The Robots Won't Replace You (But They Drop Better Beats)
Traditional synthesis is math. SinOsc.ar(440). Neural synthesis is magic. BlackBox.predict(Techno).
We are connecting SuperCollider (the grandfather of audio code) with PyTorch (the brain of the new god). Why? Because I got tired of turning knobs. I wanted a synthesizer that listens.
Timbre Transfer
Imagine taking the sound of a Cello and forcing it through the math of a Chainsaw. That is Timbre Transfer. We use a Neural Network to map the spectral features of one sound onto another. It sounds like a nightmare. It sounds beautiful.
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