Ray-Traced Audio from Your GPU

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The idea of using your GPU for Audio has been extensively covered by GPU Audio, who recently released their SDK. In this video we take a look at an audio process which can be optimized for GPU processing - ray-traced audio. In a similar way to how ray traced lighting works in video games, the same methodology is used here to demonstrate how ray-tracing can be applied to audio.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

0:20 Tricking Your Brain

0:50 The Problem

1:40 Raytracing

2:40 Echo

4:17 Weather

5:07 Permeation

5:46 Deaf Visualisation

6:48 Requirements

7:15 Optimisation

7:37 Code

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About the author [midierror]: midierror is co-founder of Potato Audio, he makes nifty Max For Live devices, award-winning Sample Packs and hosts the 'midierror meets...' interview series speaking with all kinds of people working in sound & music.

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