Profiling Neural Audio Plugins - Dharanipathi Rathna Kumar - ADCx India 2025

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Profiling Neural Audio Plugins - Dharanipathi Rathna Kumar - ADCx India 2025
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Profiling is an indispensable tool in developing high-performance, real-time audio plugins. In this talk, we will delve into profiling, with a focus on neural audio plugins. We will explore key profiling techniques, including time profilers, system tracers, performance counters, and the distinctions between sampling and instrumentation. Using Xcode’s Instruments as our primary tool, we’ll walk through an example code to demonstrate how profiling can identify bottlenecks and guide optimization efforts. We’ll also briefly examine the performance of current neural network inference engines used in audio plugins.
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Slides: data.audio.dev/talks/ADCxIndia/2025/profiling-neur…
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Dharanipathi Rathna Kumar

PhD researcher working on real-time neural audio.
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Special thanks to the ADCx India Team:

Sophie Carus
Derek Heimlich
Andrew Kirk
Bobby Lombardi
Tom Poole
Ralph Richbourg
Jim Roper
Jonathan Roper
Prashant Mishra

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