u/Shivom-Vora

Been building something with a friend that analyzes an audio clip and estimates the actual synth parameters (cutoff, resonance, envelope, wavetable position) needed to recreate that sound, then gives you something to load and keep tweaking yourself. Not generative, no prompts, it's just trying to reverse engineer what's already there.

Curious if this solves a real problem for people here or if manually dialing in a sound by ear is something you'd rather not skip.

Hey, been working on a project that tries to recreate synth sounds from audio as editable presets.

The reason we started on it is because matching a sound by ear inside something like Serum can take forever, and that came up a lot when we were talking to producers. A lot of people described the same thing: too much trial and error, too much time spent rebuilding sounds instead of actually making music.

Right now we’ve got an early prototype for Serum 2 that predicts a small set of parameters from audio, and we’re using that as the starting point for a more capable deep learning model.

Still early, but I wanted to ask people here:

• Is this actually a real problem for you?
• If a tool gave you a decent preset starting point, would that be useful?
• Would you care more about speed, editability, or near-perfect matching?

If anyone’s interested, there’s a waitlist here too:
https://www.vora-audio.com/

But mostly I’d just love some honest reactions from people who actually do sound design.