Architecture and Affordances of PLAUD: Performative Latents and Unsupervised DDSP

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arXiv:2608.13724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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 c