Welcome to Products of Music, a podcast sharing Inside stories and expert insights on product innovation in music technology.
In this episode:
Host Adam Wakeling speaks with Francisco Cresp, co-founder and CPO at Neural DSP, about his founder journey, how the company approaches product development and inside stories from one of the leading names in digital modeling for guitar and other instruments.
Chapters:
00:00 Preview
01:15 Intro
02:36 Francisco's founder story
09:00 Working with Doug Castro
11:00 Neural DSP's product development
16:03 Chase Bliss sponsor section
16:47 User feedback mechanisms
19:05 John Mayer X development
23:02 Plugin compatibility challenges
26:10 How Neural DSP prioritises
27:42 Why a vocal plugin?
31:30 Quad Cortex for vocals
33:10 Analog versus digital debate
34:48 Tom Morello JCM800 differences
37:40 Love of analog synths
38:52 Synth in the Quad Cortex
39:08 Neural DSP as a target
40:36 Latest research projects
41:21 Gen AI in the Quad Cortex?
42:50 Challenges of capturing fuzz
46:06 Noise floors in capture tech
47:33 Quick-fire questions
51:30 FX captures?
53:52 When PCOM for Petrucci?
55:22 Interface gain at 0?
58:24 Software for Nano Cortex?
59:04 Outro
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