[pohl]

That's very exciting. Some day a a mere mortal might be able to play a facsimile of a dozen slightly-different hand-made Dumbles.

One thing that this approach (and profiling) might not be able to do is what Ben Adrian's sound design team in Line 6 did, where they've come up with some delightful "amps" in the Helix that don't have real-world equivalents. For example, my favorite, the Ventoux, which he describes like this:

"The idea was to create a “coveted boutique amp” that had a different origin story. Most coveted boutique amps come from modified black panel fenders or modified marshall circuits. I wanted to do the same thing, but base it on the early 70s Orange circuits and the mid-wattage Fender Tweed circuits."

I'm not sure how one would to that with a NN approach.

Edit: now I'm wondering if one could make a large model trained by all the amplifiers, and have it dream up amps that don't exist.

[wintermutestwin]

>Some day a a mere mortal might be able to play a facsimile of a dozen slightly-different hand-made Dumbles.

Fractal's AxeFx has been able to do that for a long time. It has a couple different Dumbles and you can tweak the modeled circuitry in a myriad of ways because it is not a profiler, but rather it models the audio impact of each component that makes up the amp.