The startup offers a digital sound processing platform that leverages standard graphics processing units to enhance audio production capabilities. Its toolset includes essential audio production tools and specialized effects, enabling musicians and audio engineers to increase their creative output while saving time on production tasks.
Funding
$7.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Modern audio production relies heavily on CPUs, which can become a bottleneck when using numerous plugins or complex virtual instruments, leading to performance issues like latency and limited processing power. This restricts the creative potential of musicians and audio engineers, especially in demanding real-time applications.
Solution
GPU Audio offers a digital signal processing (DSP) platform that leverages the parallel processing capabilities of standard GPUs to accelerate audio production workflows. By offloading audio processing tasks from the CPU to the GPU, the platform significantly reduces latency and increases available processing power. This enables users to run more plugins, use more complex virtual instruments, and perform real-time audio manipulation with greater ease. The GPU Audio SDK allows developers to create next-generation audio plugins and instruments that harness the power of GPUs, opening up new possibilities for audio processing, including live AI processing, machine learning, and embedded hardware applications.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes musicians, music producers, audio engineers, and audio software developers seeking to enhance their audio production capabilities and create next-generation audio processing tools.
Features
- Patented technology for real-time audio DSP on GPUs with 1ms latency, regardless of channel count or effects
- VST3 and AU compatibility for seamless integration with existing digital audio workstations (DAWs)
- GPU Audio SDK for developers to create GPU-accelerated audio plugins and virtual instruments
- Support for NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple M-Silicon GPUs on Windows and macOS
- Enables high-performance audio models using specialized GPU neural building blocks
- Facilitates remote computing, wireless, and cloud-based audio processing
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