KVR Audio

timnoric · Post by **timnoric** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:09 am

We've been working hard on a product called 'Atlas' which uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse your sample library, classify sounds and turn it into a map based on it's sonic characteristics. Similar sounds are grouped together, you can find the right sample by clicking around and following the 'sound' trail until you find what you want.

e.g. Big DNB snares are in one corner and snappy trap snares in the other.

Samples can be dragged out or triggered via MIDI. There are a bunch more features that we'll show soon.

We're just looking to get the idea out early, get some thoughts and hopefully interest!

We also just booked our flights to NAMM so if you're going, lets meet up!

more info at http://www.algonaut.tech

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:34 am

Pretty cool! Looking forward to it.

yellowmix · Post by **yellowmix** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:24 am

Sounds really interesting. Can't wait to see it in practice.

Spencer Maddox · Post by **Spencer Maddox** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:55 am

Not going to Lie this is Really Neat. Absolutely love that UI too, very clean and easy on the eyes.

evilantal · Post by **evilantal** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:55 am

Sounds awesome.
Curious what AI techniques you'll be using for this..

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:26 am

Why didn't I come with this idea earlier?

...I'm too lazy to implement it, anyway

Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:29 am

Hmm what can it do ? from video it doesnt show me anything useful that i find in Studio One 3 and FL Studio (where you have names and same sample playback)

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:01 am

I hope it will also analyze kontakt libraries!

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:11 am

Is this based on concatenative synthesis from Ircam?
As you show it in Live, is it a Max4Live device or will it be a plug-in?

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:25 am

I'm all for AI as long as it's intelligent enough to write songs for me.

lobanov · Post by **lobanov** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:54 am

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:58 am

timnoric · Post by **timnoric** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:55 pm

evilantal wrote:Sounds awesome.
Curious what AI techniques you'll be using for this..

Cheers for the interest!

We're using a tailor made deep neural network and multiple clustering techniques. A lot of the real magic is in the feature extraction.

We already have it working great, now we're just working on product features!

timnoric · Post by **timnoric** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:01 pm

Tj Shredder wrote:Is this based on concatenative synthesis from Ircam?
As you show it in Live, is it a Max4Live device or will it be a plug-in?

No we started from a blank state. We're not synthesising new samples, we using AI to better arrange the samples you already have.

And Atlas is a universal plugin, so any DAW. AU/VST and standalone app.

raintalk · Post by **raintalk** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:22 pm

I'd like to see an artificial talent tool that will pick better samples that what I initially pick. It should listen to other tracks and recommend sample changes based on what is playing together.

I'll pick something that sounds good by itself, then add in another track like bass. At some pint later something doesn't sound right. Two bass sounds interfere . It'd be great if the first beat went back and picked a better sound based on some weighting factor and what other tracks are playing. Maybe even mid song.

We're working on something that will change the way you use your sample library.