API London 2025
Join us for an evening focused around building the future of music and audio apps, plugins, and creative tools.
Date: 31 Jul 2025
Times: 6:00pm - 10:30pm BST / 1:00pm - 5:30pm EST
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About This Event
Join us in person in London, or connect with us globally via our YouTube livestream
YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON.
DOORS OPEN AT 6PM, AND TALKS WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 6:20PM.
We welcome you to our community, whether you are a software developer, student, artist, or just generally interested in finding out more about audio technology.
Our Code of Conduct
Inclusion is at the core of our meetups, and we follow the Berlin Code of Conduct. For more information, please read more here.
Sponsors
Speakers
Dr. Chris Nash
Dr Chris Nash is a developer, educator, and researcher, specialising in the design of new tools and techniques for audio and music programming, with extensive artistic and technical in both industry (Steinberg, Yamaha, BBC) and academia (Cambridge, TCD, UWE Bristol, pointblank). In 2022, he founded nash.audio, a non-profit organisation supporting projects like the Manhattan procedural music engine/editor, Klang audio processing language (C++ extension), and rapIDE (aka Klang Studio), a VST/AU plugin-based C++ audio IDE.
Reuben Thomas
Reuben has worked as lead engineer on the JUCE team since 2023, having joined the team as a full-time maintainer in early 2020. His contributions include an implementation of MIDI 2.0 Capability Inquiry, LV2 hosting and client support, and CMake build system integration for JUCE projects
Christopher Mitcheltree
Christopher Mitcheltree is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London researching deep learning for time-varying audio systems and spectrotemporal modulations. He is also a founding member of Neutone: an open-source neural audio plugin, SDK, and community that helps bridge the gap between audio researchers and practitioners.
Panelists
Declan McGlynn
Chief Creative Officer, Voice Swap
Declan McGlynn is a multidisciplinary music technology specialist. Over the last 18 years he’s worked with global brand and publications like Google, DJ Mag, Splice, Resident Advisor, Universal Music Group, Rolling Stone, TIDAL, Splice, Native Instruments and many more. He’s now the Chief Creative Officer of AI voice cloning company Voice-Swap.
Mo Volans
General Manager, Plugin Alliance & Brainworx
Mo’s background spans product strategy, music production, and pro audio - he’s currently focused on running two leading brands in audio plugin development.
Sarah Yule
Managing Director, Orange Amplifiers
Sarah is currently ManagingDirector of OrangeAmplifiers, with a careerspanning over 20 years insenior commercial,marketing, and product roleswithin the music and audioindustries.She has an Exec MBA fromWarwick Business Schooland a Ba(hons) in SoundTechnology from LIPA.
Elliot Greenhill
VP of Product, Spitfire Audio
Elliot Greenhill is VP of Product at Spitfire Audio, where he leads the creation of cutting-edge music software and virtual instruments used by composers and producers worldwide. With a background in both music and technology, his career spans roles at ROLI, Endlesss, and Focusrite, blending creative vision with user-centred product strategy.
Agenda
6:00
pm
Doors open and Arrival
6:30
pm
Intro and Sponsor Thank You
6:35
pm
Talk: A RADical Approach
An interactive tour of real-time audio and music programming tools, including Manhattan and Klang, in the contexts of learning (notably on MuSE), audio software development (DSP prototyping, C++, synthesis, effects), and procedural audio/music for game design (Unity, Unreal) - featuring digital models of Jimi Hendrix, destructible orchestras, and the whole of Britain.
Speaker: Dr. Chris Nash - Meet him
Host: Joshua Hodge - Meet him
7:00
pm
Short Break
7:05
pm
Talk: MIDI 2.0 in JUCE
New MIDI 2.0 features, such as querying device metadata, and sending and receiving high-resolution messages, are now available in JUCE. We'll give an overview of how these features work, and show how you can use the new JUCE APIs to extend the functionality of your software. For more details, see our announcement at forum.juce.com/t/midi-2-0-preview-branch/66453.
Speaker: Reuben Thomas - Meet him
Host: Rhiannon Bankston-Thomas - Meet her
7:30
pm
Short Break
7:35
pm
Talk: Neural Audio with Neutone SDK
Neural audio processing has unlocked novel methods of sound transformation and synthesis, yet integrating deep learning models into digital audio workstations remains challenging due to real-time inference constraints and the complexities of plugin development.
In this talk, Christopher will provide an overview of neural approaches for audio effect emulation and timbre transfer, as well as introduce the Neutone SDK and its free accompanying plugins that streamline the deployment of PyTorch-based neural audio models for both real-time and offline applications. I'll also briefly discuss some of the challenges involved in building neural audio plugins and provide examples of their use in performances and creative applications.
Speaker: Christopher Mitcheltree - Meet Him
Host: Joshua Hodge - Meet him
8:00
pm
Pizza!
8:20
pm
Panel: What’s Next for Music Tech?
Emerging technologies are not only reshaping how creators work, but also redefining what it means to be a creator. This panel will explore the latest trends in creator tools - from AI-assisted music production to next-gen plugins and DAWs, and try to unpack what it all means for the future of music-making.
Panelists
/ Declan McGlynn (Chief Creative Officer, Voice Swap) - Meet Him
/ Mo Volans (General Manager, Plugin Alliance & Brainworx) - Meet Him
/ Sarah Yule (Managing Director, Orange Amplifiers) - Meet Her
/ Elliot Greenhill (VP of Product, Spitfire Audio) - Meet Him
Host: Joshua Hodge - Meet him
9:15
pm
Closing Remarks
9:20
pm
Networking Hour
Hosts
Joshua Hodge
CEO, The Audio Programmer
Josh is the chief strategist behind The Audio Programmer. Since launching in 2017, he transformed TAP from a YouTube channel into a thriving ecosystem, driving innovation through education, networking, and collaboration. Alongside the community, Josh has expanded TAP into a audio software development agency and boutique recruitment firm, creating meaningful partnerships with music tech companies and creators across the world.
Rhiannon Bankston-Thomas
COO, The Audio Programmer
With 20+ years in music tech, Rhiannon co-founded FXpansion, shaping it into a globally recognized brand before its successful acquisition. She later led commercial operations at ROLI, driving business strategy and partnerships. Now, as Head of Commercial Operations at The Audio Programmer, she oversees client relationships, development projects, and growth strategy, helping audio tech companies scale and innovate.
Audio Programmer Interface London 2025 (API)
Join us for an evening of discussion around building the future of music and audio apps, plugins, and creative tools.
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