Neural Engine - Phase 2 Implementation

This directory contains the neural audio generation pipeline for NAW.

🏗️ Architecture

The neural engine implements a two-stage hybrid pipeline:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  STAGE 1: Semantic Planner (Autoregressive Transformer)     │
│  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  │
│  Input:  Text Prompt + BPM + Control Signals                │
│  Output: Coarse Musical Skeleton (Structure, Rhythm, Pitch) │
│  Speed:  Fast (~2 seconds for 32 bars)                      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                            ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  STAGE 2: Acoustic Renderer (Flow Matching / Diffusion)     │
│  ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  │
│  Input:  Semantic Skeleton + Text Prompt                    │
│  Output: High-Fidelity Audio with Realistic Timbre          │
│  Speed:  Slower (~10 seconds for 32 bars)                   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

📁 Structure

neural-engine/
├── index.ts                         # Main exports
├── codec/
│   └── DACCodec.ts                 # DAC audio codec
├── planner/
│   └── SemanticPlanner.ts          # Autoregressive planner
├── renderer/
│   └── AcousticRenderer.ts         # Flow matching renderer
├── vocoder/
│   └── Vocoder.ts                  # Audio reconstruction (Vocos/DisCoder/HiFiGAN)
├── control/
│   └── ControlNet.ts               # Fine-grained control adapters
├── conditioning/
│   └── CLAP.ts                     # Audio-text conditioning
└── inpainting/
    └── SpectrogramInpainter.ts     # Surgical audio editing

🚀 Usage

import {
  DACCodec,
  SemanticPlanner,
  AcousticRenderer,
  Vocoder,
  VocoderType,
  generateMusic,
} from './neural-engine';

// Simple generation (recommended)
const stems = await generateMusic({
  text: "Uplifting house track",
  bpm: 128,
  bars: 32,
  quality: 'balanced', // 'fast' | 'balanced' | 'high'
});

// Advanced usage with components
const codec = new DACCodec();
const planner = new SemanticPlanner();
const renderer = new AcousticRenderer();
const vocoder = new Vocoder({ type: VocoderType.VOCOS });

await codec.initialize();
await planner.initialize();
await renderer.initialize();
await vocoder.initialize();

// Stage 1: Generate semantic skeleton
const skeleton = await planner.generate({
  text: "Energetic drum pattern",
  bpm: 140,
  bars: 16,
});

// Stage 2: Render acoustic details
const latents = await renderer.render({
  text: "Analog warm synth",
  semanticTokens: skeleton.tokens,
});

// Stage 3: Decode to audio with vocoder
const result = await vocoder.decode(latents[0]);
console.log(`Decoded ${result.audio.length} samples at ${result.rtf}x realtime`);

📋 Implementation Status

Phase 2.1: Neural Audio Codec (April 2025)

DAC encoder implementation (stub)
DAC decoder implementation (stub)
RVQ quantization (stub)
Latent space visualization (stub)
EnCodec compatibility layer
Working test suite

Phase 2.2: Semantic Planner (May 2025)

Transformer-XL architecture (stub)
Multi-stream prediction (stub)
Training data pipeline
ONNX export and INT8 quantization
Alternative: Mamba-based planner
Working test suite

Phase 2.3: Acoustic Renderer (June 2025)

Flow Matching architecture (stub)
DiT backbone implementation (stub)
CLAP text conditioning (stub)
Classifier-free guidance (stub)
Vocoder integration (Vocos/DisCoder/HiFiGAN) - Architecture complete
TensorRT optimization
Working test suite

Phase 2.4: Full Pipeline Integration (Complete)

Vocoder module (Vocos/DisCoder/HiFiGAN)
generateMusic() end-to-end pipeline
Multi-vocoder support with quality presets
Stem mixing and normalization
Real-time factor reporting
Complete test coverage

Phase 3: Advanced Features (Architecture Complete)

ControlNet adapters for fine-grained control
CLAP audio-text conditioning
Spectrogram inpainting
Style adapters (LoRA-based)
Working test suite

🧪 Testing

Run Tests

npm test                  # Basic tests (53 tests)
npm run test:integration  # Integration tests (25 tests)

The test suite validates:

Component initialization
Configuration management
Encoding/decoding pipeline
Semantic planning
Acoustic rendering
Vocoder decoding and mixing
ControlNet, CLAP, and Inpainting
End-to-end pipeline with generateMusic()

Run Demo

npm run demo

The demo shows:

Full three-stage pipeline in action
Semantic Planning → Acoustic Rendering → Vocoding
Progress reporting
Stem generation with vocoder
Full pipeline using generateMusic()
Real-time factor measurements

All tests currently pass with stub implementations. Real neural models will be integrated progressively.

🔬 Research References

📚 API Reference

Core Components

DACCodec

Compresses and decompresses audio to/from latent space using Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ).

class DACCodec {
  constructor(config?: Partial<DACConfig>)
  
  // Initialize the codec (loads model weights)
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Encode audio to latent tokens
  async encode(audio: Float32Array): Promise<DACLatent>
  
  // Decode latent tokens back to audio
  async decode(latent: DACLatent): Promise<Float32Array>
  
  // Extract semantic tokens (first 2 codebooks)
  extractSemanticTokens(latent: DACLatent): number[][]
  
  // Extract acoustic tokens (remaining codebooks)
  extractAcousticTokens(latent: DACLatent): number[][]
}

Configuration Options:

interface DACConfig {
  sampleRate: number;        // Audio sample rate (default: 44100 Hz)
  latentRate: number;        // Latent representation rate (default: 24000 Hz)
  numCodebooks: number;      // Number of RVQ codebooks (default: 16)
  codebookSize: number;      // Size of each codebook (default: 1024)
  semanticCodebooks: number; // Semantic codebooks count (default: 2)
}

SemanticPlanner

Generates coarse musical structure using an autoregressive transformer.

class SemanticPlanner {
  constructor(config?: Partial<SemanticPlannerConfig>)
  
  // Initialize the planner (loads model weights)
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Generate semantic skeleton from prompt
  async generate(
    prompt: SemanticPrompt,
    onProgress?: (progress: number) => void
  ): Promise<SemanticSkeleton>
  
  // Set temperature for randomness control
  setTemperature(temperature: number): void
}

Configuration Options:

interface SemanticPlannerConfig {
  modelSize: 'small' | 'medium' | 'large';
  contextWindow: number;        // Token context length (default: 2048)
  temperature: number;          // Sampling temperature (default: 0.8)
  topK: number;                // Top-K sampling (default: 50)
  topP: number;                // Nucleus sampling (default: 0.95)
  useKVCache: boolean;         // Enable KV-cache for speed (default: true)
}

AcousticRenderer

Renders high-fidelity audio from semantic tokens using flow matching.

class AcousticRenderer {
  constructor(config?: Partial<AcousticRendererConfig>)
  
  // Initialize the renderer (loads model weights)
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Render audio from semantic tokens
  async render(
    prompt: RenderPrompt,
    onProgress?: (progress: RenderProgress) => void
  ): Promise<DACLatent[]>
  
  // Set guidance scale for text conditioning
  setGuidanceScale(scale: number): void
  
  // Set quality preset
  setQualityPreset(preset: 'fast' | 'balanced' | 'high'): void
}

Configuration Options:

interface AcousticRendererConfig {
  qualityPreset: 'fast' | 'balanced' | 'high';
  numSteps: number;            // Diffusion steps (default: 20)
  guidanceScale: number;       // CFG guidance strength (default: 3.0)
  modelSize: 'base' | 'large'; // Model size
  useVocoder: boolean;         // Use integrated vocoder (default: true)
  vocoderType: VocoderType;    // Vocoder backend
}

Vocoder

Converts latent representations to audio waveforms.

class Vocoder {
  constructor(config?: Partial<VocoderConfig>)
  
  // Initialize the vocoder (loads model weights)
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Decode latent to audio
  async decode(latent: DACLatent): Promise<VocoderResult>
  
  // Decode and mix multiple stems
  async decodeMix(
    latents: DACLatent[],
    volumes?: number[]
  ): Promise<VocoderResult>
}

Vocoder Types:

VocoderType.VOCOS: Fast preview (25x realtime)
VocoderType.DISCODER: High-quality final render
VocoderType.HIFIGAN: Alternative for compatibility

Advanced Features

ControlNet

Fine-grained control over generation using control signals.

class ControlNet {
  constructor(config?: Partial<ControlNetConfig>)
  
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Extract control signal from audio
  async extractControlSignal(
    audio: Float32Array,
    type: ControlType
  ): Promise<ControlSignal>
  
  // Apply control to latent
  async applyControl(
    latent: number[][],
    signal: ControlSignal,
    strength?: number
  ): Promise<number[][]>
  
  // Load style adapter (LoRA)
  async loadStyleAdapter(name: string): Promise<StyleAdapter>
}

Control Types:

ControlType.MELODY: Melodic contour control
ControlType.RHYTHM: Rhythmic pattern control
ControlType.DYNAMICS: Loudness envelope control
ControlType.TIMBRE: Spectral characteristics
ControlType.HARMONY: Harmonic progression

CLAP

Audio-text contrastive conditioning for reference-based generation.

class CLAP {
  constructor(config?: Partial<CLAPConfig>)
  
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Encode audio to embedding
  async encodeAudio(audio: Float32Array): Promise<AudioEmbedding>
  
  // Encode text to embedding
  async encodeText(text: string): Promise<TextEmbedding>
  
  // Compute similarity between audio and text
  computeSimilarity(
    audioEmbed: AudioEmbedding,
    textEmbed: TextEmbedding
  ): number
  
  // Blend audio and text embeddings
  blendEmbeddings(
    audioEmbed: AudioEmbedding,
    textEmbed: TextEmbedding,
    audioWeight: number
  ): Float32Array
}

SpectrogramInpainter

Surgical audio editing through inpainting.

class SpectrogramInpainter {
  constructor(config?: Partial<InpaintingConfig>)
  
  async initialize(): Promise<void>
  
  // Inpaint masked region
  async inpaint(
    audio: Float32Array,
    mask: InpaintingMask
  ): Promise<InpaintingResult>
  
  // Extend audio (outpainting)
  async outpaint(
    audio: Float32Array,
    extendSeconds: number,
    seamlessLoop?: boolean
  ): Promise<Float32Array>
  
  // Detect loop points
  async detectLoopPoints(
    audio: Float32Array
  ): Promise<Array<{ start: number; end: number; confidence: number }>>
}

💡 Advanced Usage Patterns

Multi-Stem Generation with Different Styles

import { generateMusic, loadStyleAdapter } from './neural-engine';

// Generate 4 stems with different style adapters per stem
const stems = await generateMusic({
  text: "Electronic music",
  bpm: 128,
  bars: 32,
  quality: 'balanced',
  stemStyles: {
    DRUMS: await loadStyleAdapter('techno'),
    BASS: await loadStyleAdapter('techno'),
    VOCALS: await loadStyleAdapter('jazz'),
    OTHER: await loadStyleAdapter('orchestral')
  }
});

Reference-Based Generation with CLAP

import { CLAP, generateMusic } from './neural-engine';

const clap = new CLAP();
await clap.initialize();

// Load reference audio
const referenceAudio = await loadAudioFile('reference.wav');
const audioEmbed = await clap.encodeAudio(referenceAudio);

// Generate with audio reference
const stems = await generateMusic({
  text: "Similar vibe but faster tempo",
  bpm: 140,
  bars: 32,
  audioReference: audioEmbed,
  audioReferenceWeight: 0.6 // 60% audio, 40% text
});

Surgical Editing with Inpainting

import { SpectrogramInpainter } from './neural-engine';

const inpainter = new SpectrogramInpainter();
await inpainter.initialize();

// Load audio
const audio = await loadAudioFile('track.wav');

// Define mask for region to regenerate (e.g., remove snare)
const mask: InpaintingMask = {
  startTime: 2.0,      // Start at 2 seconds
  endTime: 2.5,        // End at 2.5 seconds
  freqMin: 200,        // 200 Hz
  freqMax: 8000,       // 8000 Hz (snare frequency range)
};

// Inpaint the masked region
const result = await inpainter.inpaint(audio, mask);
console.log(`Inpainted ${result.inpaintedSamples} samples`);

Custom Control with ControlNet

import { ControlNet, ControlType, AcousticRenderer } from './neural-engine';

const controlNet = new ControlNet();
await controlNet.initialize();

const renderer = new AcousticRenderer();
await renderer.initialize();

// Extract melody from reference
const referenceMelody = await loadAudioFile('melody_reference.wav');
const melodySignal = await controlNet.extractControlSignal(
  referenceMelody,
  ControlType.MELODY
);

// Generate with melody control
const latents = await renderer.render({
  text: "Synthwave track",
  controlSignals: [melodySignal],
  controlStrength: 0.8
});

Progressive Generation with Progress Tracking

import { SemanticPlanner, AcousticRenderer, Vocoder } from './neural-engine';

const planner = new SemanticPlanner();
const renderer = new AcousticRenderer();
const vocoder = new Vocoder();

await Promise.all([
  planner.initialize(),
  renderer.initialize(),
  vocoder.initialize()
]);

// Stage 1: Semantic planning with progress
console.log('Stage 1: Semantic Planning...');
const skeleton = await planner.generate(
  { text: "Epic orchestral", bpm: 90, bars: 64 },
  (progress) => console.log(`Planning: ${Math.round(progress * 100)}%`)
);

// Stage 2: Acoustic rendering with progress
console.log('Stage 2: Acoustic Rendering...');
const latents = await renderer.render(
  { text: "Epic orchestral", semanticTokens: skeleton.tokens },
  (progress) => console.log(`Rendering: ${Math.round(progress.percentage)}%`)
);

// Stage 3: Vocoding
console.log('Stage 3: Vocoding...');
const audioResults = await Promise.all(
  latents.map(latent => vocoder.decode(latent))
);

console.log(`Generated ${audioResults.length} stems`);
audioResults.forEach((result, i) => {
  console.log(`Stem ${i}: ${result.rtf}x realtime`);
});

Loop Generation with Outpainting

import { SpectrogramInpainter } from './neural-engine';

const inpainter = new SpectrogramInpainter();
await inpainter.initialize();

// Load 8-bar loop
const loop = await loadAudioFile('8bar_loop.wav');

// Extend to 32 bars with seamless looping
const extended = await inpainter.outpaint(
  loop,
  24, // Extend by 24 bars (3x the original)
  true // Seamless loop
);

console.log(`Extended from 8 to 32 bars`);

🎯 Performance Considerations

Memory Usage

DAC Codec: ~500MB VRAM (encoder + decoder)
Semantic Planner: ~1.5GB VRAM (500M params)
Acoustic Renderer: ~4GB VRAM (1B params)
Total: ~6GB VRAM minimum for full pipeline

Latency Targets

Component	Target Latency	Achieved (RTX 3090)
DAC Encode	10ms	TBD
Semantic Plan (1 bar)	30ms	TBD
Acoustic Render (1 bar)	50ms	TBD
Vocoding	10ms	TBD
Total (1 bar)	100ms	TBD

Optimization Tips

Use KV-Cache: Enable in SemanticPlanner for 3-5x speedup
Batch Processing: Generate multiple stems in parallel
Quality Presets: Use 'fast' preset for iteration, 'high' for final render
GPU Selection: RTX 3090 or better recommended for real-time
Quantization: INT8 quantization provides 4x memory reduction with minimal quality loss

Recommended Hardware

Use Case	Minimum	Recommended	Optimal
Preview	GTX 1660 (6GB)	RTX 3060 (12GB)	RTX 3090 (24GB)
Production	RTX 3060 (12GB)	RTX 3090 (24GB)	RTX 4090 (24GB)
Real-time	RTX 3090 (24GB)	RTX 4090 (24GB)	A100 (40GB)

🐛 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Issue: "Model not found" error on initialization

// Solution: Ensure model weights are downloaded
await downloadModels(); // Utility to download pre-trained weights

Issue: Out of memory during rendering

// Solution: Use lower quality preset or smaller batch size
const renderer = new AcousticRenderer({
  qualityPreset: 'fast',  // Reduces VRAM usage
  modelSize: 'base'       // Use smaller model
});

Issue: Slow generation on CPU

// Solution: Enable GPU acceleration
const vocoder = new Vocoder({
  useGPU: true,
  type: VocoderType.VOCOS // Fastest vocoder
});

Issue: Clicks/pops in generated audio

// Solution: Use seamless loop mode or adjust fade settings
const inpainter = new SpectrogramInpainter({
  blendingMethod: 'smooth',
  fadeLength: 0.1 // 100ms fade
});

Debug Mode

Enable verbose logging to diagnose issues:

import { setDebugMode } from './neural-engine';

setDebugMode(true); // Enables detailed logging

// Now all operations will log detailed information
const stems = await generateMusic({ text: "Test", bpm: 120, bars: 8 });

🛠️ Development

Currently, this directory contains stub implementations with the correct interfaces and architecture. Actual neural models will be integrated in Phase 2.

To add new features:

Follow the existing interface patterns
Add comprehensive JSDoc comments
Update this README
Add TODO comments for future implementation
Write tests before implementing real models
Document performance characteristics

Contributing to Neural Engine

See CONTRIBUTING.md for general guidelines. For neural-engine specific:

Model Integration: Follow the stub→implementation→optimization pattern
Testing: Add both unit tests and integration tests
Documentation: Update API reference and usage examples
Benchmarking: Include performance measurements on standard hardware

📞 Support

Documentation

ROADMAP.md - Development timeline
ARCHITECTURE.md - Technical details
CONTRIBUTING.md - Contribution guide
COMMERCIAL_LICENSE.md - Licensing information

Community

Issues: GitHub Issues
Discussions: GitHub Discussions

Research Papers

For understanding the underlying algorithms and architectures, see the Research References section above and ARCHITECTURE.md.

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Neural Engine - Phase 2 Implementation

🏗️ Architecture

📁 Structure

🚀 Usage

📋 Implementation Status

Phase 2.1: Neural Audio Codec (April 2025)

Phase 2.2: Semantic Planner (May 2025)

Phase 2.3: Acoustic Renderer (June 2025)

Phase 2.4: Full Pipeline Integration (Complete)

Phase 3: Advanced Features (Architecture Complete)

🧪 Testing

Run Tests

Run Demo

🔬 Research References

Neural Audio Codecs

Semantic Planning

Acoustic Rendering

📚 API Reference

Core Components

DACCodec

SemanticPlanner

AcousticRenderer

Vocoder

Advanced Features

ControlNet

CLAP

SpectrogramInpainter

💡 Advanced Usage Patterns

Multi-Stem Generation with Different Styles

Reference-Based Generation with CLAP

Surgical Editing with Inpainting

Custom Control with ControlNet

Progressive Generation with Progress Tracking

Loop Generation with Outpainting

🎯 Performance Considerations

Memory Usage

Latency Targets

Optimization Tips

Recommended Hardware

🐛 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Debug Mode

🛠️ Development

Contributing to Neural Engine

📞 Support

Documentation

Community

Research Papers