Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Coding (well, “patching”) an artificial neural network in Pure Data Vanilla to create some generative ambient filter pings.
From zero to neural network in about ten minutes!
In audio terms, an artificial neuron is just a nonlinear mixer, and, to create a network of these neurons, all we need to do is run them into each other. So, in this video, I do just that: we make our neuron, duplicate it out until we have 20 of them, and then send some LFOs through that neural network. In the end, we use the output to trigger filter “pings” of five different notes.
There’s not really any kind of true artificial intelligence (or “deep learning”) in this neural network, because the output of the network, while it is fed back, doesn’t go back an affect the weights of the inputs in the individual neurons. That said, if we wanted machine learning, we would have to have some kind of desired goal (e.g. playing a Beethoven symphony or a major scale). Here, we just let the neural network provide us with some outputs for some Pure Data generative ambient pings. Add some delay, and you’re all set.
There's no talking on this one, just building the patch, and listening to it go.
Creating an artificial neuron in Pd: youtu.be/PdJG5SFmVaw
Pinging Filters in Pd: youtu.be/ND-RkepwWQk
Pure Data introductory tutorials here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
More no-talking Pure Data jams and patch-from-scratch videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3
0:00 Demo
0:12 Building an artificial neuron
2:00 Networking our neurons
3:47 Feeding LFOs into the network
4:20 Checking the output of the network
5:00 Pinging filters with [threshold~]
8:55 Adding some feedback
10:18 Commenting our code
12:47 Playing with the network
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Coding (well, “patching”) an artificial neural network in Pure Data Vanilla to create some generative ambient filter pings.
From zero to neural network in about ten minutes!
In audio terms, an artificial neuron is just a nonlinear mixer, and, to create a network of these neurons, all we need to do is run them into each other. So, in this video, I do just that: we make our neuron, duplicate it out until we have 20 of them, and then send some LFOs through that neural network. In the end, we use the output to trigger filter “pings” of five different notes.
There’s not really any kind of true artificial intelligence (or “deep learning”) in this neural network, because the output of the network, while it is fed back, doesn’t go back an affect the weights of the inputs in the individual neurons. That said, if we wanted machine learning, we would have to have some kind of desired goal (e.g. playing a Beethoven symphony or a major scale). Here, we just let the neural network provide us with some outputs for some Pure Data generative ambient pings. Add some delay, and you’re all set.
There's no talking on this one, just building the patch, and listening to it go.
Creating an artificial neuron in Pd: youtu.be/PdJG5SFmVaw
Pinging Filters in Pd: youtu.be/ND-RkepwWQk
Pure Data introductory tutorials here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6FB_mmJ77C6fdV8G6L4zDut
More no-talking Pure Data jams and patch-from-scratch videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7w4cOVVxL6ESr9SuBYJARJkETfp12Dp3
0:00 Demo
0:12 Building an artificial neuron
2:00 Networking our neurons
3:47 Feeding LFOs into the network
4:20 Checking the output of the network
5:00 Pinging filters with [threshold~]
8:55 Adding some feedback
10:18 Commenting our code
12:47 Playing with the network
Subscribe: youtube.com/user/SimonHutc/?sub_confirmation=1
Official Website - simonhutchinson.com
bandcamp: simonhutchinson.bandcamp.com
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/simonhutchinson
Sign up for my mailing list: eepurl.com/hVs7bT
#puredata #pd #neuralnetworks #SoundSynthesis #SoundDesign #ExperimentalMusic
