The ACIDS research group is dedicated to crafting neural audio synthesis tools for musical production and performance. Over the past years, the group has developed a range of technologies for timbre transfer, controllable instrument generation, network compression, analysis, and model bending.

This presentation introduces the underlying principles and motivations behind these developments, bridging technical, musical, and scientific perspectives. It explores the new tools and creative possibilities opened up by neural audio synthesis, while presenting recent updates to existing systems and highlighting the latest research and artistic collaborations that have led to new approaches.