- Author
- Qihui Yang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley and Zachary Novack, UC San Diego
- Published
- 17 July 2025
- Kind
- arXiv preprint presenting a dataset-generation tool with one experiment
- Original
- arxiv.org/html/2507.10534
- Subject
- Audio models and analysis
- Themes
- Art through code
What it is
The authors are researchers at UC San Diego. The paper presents WildFX, which generates mixing projects with commercial plugins, sidechains and splitters. The aim is to connect neural audio effect research to professional tools.
What it says
- The paper says WildFX runs REAPER in Docker, with Wine and yabridge for Windows plugins.
- The paper says projects are acyclic graphs of effect chains defined in YAML and JSON.
- The paper says a layer-by-layer scheme, based on topological sorting, renders many projects in parallel.
- The paper says two datasets of 5,000 training projects each were built from Slakh2100.
- The paper reports 3.5 and 5 seconds average processing with an ALSA server.
- The paper says its results trail the original work. It blames real plugins and a training set about 100 times smaller.
- The paper reports edge error rates of 0.070 to 0.094. Node error rates run from 0.568 to 0.690.
What evidence it gives
The paper gives a pipeline design, open code and one experiment. The experiment trains an existing graph-estimation method on two generated datasets. Results appear in one table of four settings, with no comparison to other pipelines. No listening or user test appears.
Interests and limits
The authors are academics presenting their own tool. Only five plugins are used, and one estimation method is tested. The authors say the results trail the earlier work. They still call them competitive and state of the art, with no comparison table. Headless REAPER offers no error reporting, so steps were checked manually. The paper claims to be the first such pipeline, to the authors' knowledge.
Connections
These links are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.
- Logic Pro MCP Server for Claude, Cursor, and AI Agents. This Logic Pro server returns confirmed, uncertain or failed, never a bare success. WildFX reports that headless REAPER gives no error reporting, so steps were checked manually. Both meet one problem: DAWs expect someone watching the screen. An agent needs a third answer besides yes and no.