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+ > Introducing AIDA-X
+ On 2023-04-25 by falkTX
+
+ Hello everyone, I would like to introduce a new audio plugin - + AIDA-X. +
+
+
+
+ AIDA-X
+ is an Amp Model Player, it loads models of AI trained music gear which you can then play in real-time.
+ Its main intended use is to provide high fidelity simulations of amplifiers.
+ However, it is also possible to run entire signal chains consisting of any combination of amp, cab, dist, drive, fuzz, boost and eq.
+ See https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X
+ for more details on the project, including documentation and downloads.
+
+ Behind the scenes AIDA-X uses
+ RTNeural,
+ which does the heavy lifting for model processing.
+ Similar to
+ master_me,
+ I did the desktop plugin related code so it obviously uses
+ DPF
+ for the cross-platform and plugin format support details.
+
+ This new plugin comes out of an effort from me, AIDA-DSP and MOD Audio.
+ Initially AIDA-DSP folks did the work to get RTNeural working as its own embed-focused LV2 plugin,
+ together with figuring out the AI training details.
+ The initial idea was to have an LV2/MOD-specific plugin that would serve as "generic model loader", this is the aidadsp-lv2 project.
+ As part of my work for MOD Audio, I helped to get this LV2 plugin in a bit better shape and integrated on the platform.
+ You can see a nice, extensive discussion with Jatin (RTNeural's main author) regarding how to best approach a "load it all" with it
+ here.
+
+ With all pieces in place the LV2 embed plugin was/is working quite well inside MOD units and other low-spec devices, but LV2 is not yet a widely supported format...
+ We did not want to have it as a niche plugin, the technology around it is getting a lot of attention lately because of how damn cool it is.
+ I took the initiative to make a desktop plugin for AIDA-DSP, based on DPF as usual, and then we built on top of that.
+
+ If you are interesting on capturing/training your own models, MOD Audio has created a dedicated
+ Modeling Guide page.
+ There's a dedicated space for sharing and discussing all things related to Amp Models in the MOD Forum's Neural Modelling section.
+
+ There are pre-compiled binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows which can downloaded at
+
+ https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X/releases.
+ You can also find it in the KXStudio repositories as aida-x package.
+
+ And you can also try it live online at mod.audio/aida-x-online, + though this last option uses pre-recorded audio loops instead of real audio input. +
++ Enjoy and have fun! +
+ +
> Carla 2.5.4 released
On 2023-03-13 by falkTX
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