{"id":2248,"date":"2024-10-15T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sketch2react.io\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:29:28","slug":"ive-made-my-first-audio-plugin-and-its-pretty-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketch2react.io\/blog\/ive-made-my-first-audio-plugin-and-its-pretty-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve made my first audio plugin and it\u2019s pretty wonderful."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Was it easy. No! Was it fun? Well, generally it was. How did I do it? Well, let me tell you first this, it\u2019s not for the faint-hearted or folks who give up easily.<\/p>\r\n

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Well, just go to my website<\/a> and buy it, I also have a free time-limited demo. You\u2019re still here? Well, here\u2019s my story:<\/p>\r\n

First, a little background<\/h2>\r\n

I\u2019ve been making music for almost three decades. Yes, I\u2019m old, over 50, actually. That is practically a dinosaur. When I was a little kid, I thought technical things were not for me, that I didn\u2019t have the head for it. Boy was I wrong. Well, also if things like ChatGPT wouldn\u2019t exist, I would never ever have made an effect’s plugin.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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What the hell is an audio plugin?<\/h2>\r\n

Well, you know, plenty of people make music with computers. Computers have these cool things called digital audio workstations, but mostly people just call them daw\u2019s. Software like Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Pro Tools are bombarded with capable plugins for all kinds of jolly things.<\/p>\r\n

Why an effect’s plugin?<\/h2>\r\n

I wanted to start small and very focused, usually a great approach when doing something that you know zero about. For inspiration, I turned to my old trusted hardware sampler, the Roland SP404SX. It\u2019s a great beat making device but one thing that has always set it apart from say Akai MPC\u2019s are the onboard, incredible live effects. My absolute favorite one is the Vinyl Sim<\/em> effect, and I have used it on far too many tracks in the past.<\/p>\r\n

So I set out to simulate it.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Let’s get some JUCE<\/h2>\r\n

I don\u2019t remember how I stumbled upon JUCE<\/a>, but probably just googling, or maybe I asked ChatGPT? Really can\u2019t remember and it\u2019s totally irrelevant. JUCE is a cross-platform for building audio thingies. Or as they very proudly tell it: \u201dThe World\u2019s Favorite Audio Development Platform\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

The coding language is C++, at first, I was like wuuuuuuuuut?!!. Then I remembered, ChatGPT is mighty, isn’t concerned about my anxiety, so letsa go!<\/p>\r\n

What is happening?<\/h2>\r\n

Let\u2019s just say I had a rocky start. I was used to building iOS and Mac apps, something that Xcode is outstanding at. What I\u2019m not used to is cross-platform development with Xcode.<\/p>\r\n

There are ways too many lessons learned the hard way, but I really don\u2019t have the time to list them all here, I\u2019m just going to give you my biggest lessons learned.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\"Projucer<\/p>\r\n

Projucer is where you manage your JUCE project. It\u2019s invaluable.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Biggest lessons learned<\/h2>\r\n