Architecture and Affordances of PLAUD: Performative Latents and Unsupervised DDSP
PLAUD (Performative Latents and Unsupervised DDSP) is a neural synthesizer and Max for Live instrument for live electronic music, built on NoiseBandNet and trained on small personal sound corpora. We present its architecture, combining a variational DDSP synthesis model, latent smoothing, multi-scale spectral and adversarial losses, and an optional transformer prior, alongside a set of bending operations that intervene directly in the synthesis chain: component limiting, waveshaping, and prior feedback. The Max for Live interface exposes control generation, trajectory sampling, and modulation as primary modes of interaction. Throughout, we thread an affordance analysis arguing that the sy...
| Authors | Błażej Kotowski, Frederic Font |
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| Primary category | cs.SD |
| Published | 13 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 August 2026 |
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