Announcing Audio Developers Conference 2024
The 10th Audio Developer Conference (ADC) returns in 2024 both in-person and online in a new city, Bristol, UK.
The in-person and online hybrid conference will take place 11-13 November 2024.
Talks at ADC range from audio research, to professional practices, to standards in audio development, as well talks about application areas and career development. Experimental projects are welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited, to:
- Digital Signal Processing
- Audio synthesis and analysis
- Music technology, DAWs, audio plug-ins
- Game audio
- 3D and VR/AR audio
- Creative coding
- Other applications of audio programming (e.g. telecommunications, multimedia, medicine, biology)
- Design and evaluation of audio software and hardware systems
- Programming languages used for audio development (e.g. C++, Rust, Python)
- Software development tools, techniques, and processes
- Performance, optimisation, and parallelisation
- Audio development on mobile platforms
- Embedded, Linux, and bare metal audio programming
- Low-latency and real-time programming
- Best practices in audio programming
- Testing and QA
- Educational approaches and tools for audio and DSP programming
- Planning and navigating a career as an audio developer
- Other relevant topics likely to be of interest to the ADC audience
The MIDI Association and ADC
The MIDI Association is a community sponsor of Audio Developers Conference and several MIDI Association companies are paid sponsors of the event.
ADC is run by PACE Anti-Piracy Inc., an industry leader in the development of robust protection products, and flexible licensing management solutions. PACE acquired JUCE a few years ago.
JUCE is the most widely used framework for audio application and plug-in development. It is an open source C++ codebase that can be used to create standalone software on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, as well as VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, AAX and LV2 plug-ins.
Several MIDI Association companies are sponsors of Audio Developers Conference including Gold Sponsors Juce and Focusrite, Silver sponsor Avid, and Bronze sponsor Steinberg.
Franz Detro from Native Instruments will be doing a talk introducing ni-midi2, a modern C++ library implementing MIDI2 UMP 1.1 and MIDI CI 1.2 and also the open source software available on MIDI2.dev.
Franz is on The MIDI Association Technical Standards Board and an active participant in the MIDI 2.0 Working Group, the DAW working group which is working on open source software for how plugin formats including Apple Audio Units, Avid Audio Extension, Bitwig CLever Audio Plug-in, and Steinberg VST3.
He will be available at ADC to answer questions about MIDI 2.0 and The MIDI Association. The Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (Tom Poole from JUCE is on the IASIG steering committee) will hold an online meeting during ADC.
The MIDI Association will have both in person and on line representation at ADC and ADCx Gather.
The ADCx Gather one-day online event is free and open to everyone in the audio developer community (registration required). ADCx Gather is hosted in Gather.Town, a browser-based virtual online platform that allows attendees to interact and collaborate in real-time.
ADCx Gather takes place on the 1st of November starting at Noon UTC.
Registration for this event has not yet started. Sign-up for the ADC newsletter and be the first to know when ADCx Gather attendee registrations begin.
Tickets for ADC
There are different tickets available for ADC with in person tickets for corporate, individual, academic and also the same categories for online participation.