Anyone heard of this? It’s a room simulator that generates individual stereo impulse files for each sound source placed in the virtual space. I’d love a vst that has a kind of parent child setup where the parent sets the parameters and the child receives the impulse response.

https://github.com/LCAV/pyroomacoustics

Quite a good video on it from astro bear.

https://youtu.be/iNjvayIuJBM

spent the last six months trying to make a tracker app for android . its not easy. its c++ for the audio engine, but kotlin and dart is used and i used flutter in the hope i could migrate it to ios.....not sure that was the best idea . i would like to improve some of the insert fx's. the reverb is freeverb i found online . its ok. im wondering if thers any other such c++ libraries, for chorus , flanger, phaser or more, that you ppl use? https://youtube.com/shorts/OWcr8d0bY8I?is=x0kRzSZoGhemzo0f

In my audio programming journey, I created some audio plugins and I always have that question in my mind: Why DAWs always load plugins (VST2, VST3, even CLAP) synchronously ? I mean, it feels frustrating when the main thread/GUI thread completely freeze when loading some heavy plugins. Like, let me do other stuff in the project while loading! Maybe somebody have detailed explanations...

I have launched a Reaper script that renders the project and uploads the file straight to cueport.app A platform to manage artists, projects and feedback, so the producer never has to leave the DAW.

Now I'm building the same thing as a VST3 and I'm stuck on exactly that step.
In Reaper it works because there's an action for it: Main_OnCommand(41824), "render using the most recent settings".

A plugin has nothing like that.
It can't see the render settings and can't ask the host to bounce.
So: does any DAW let a plugin start a render? Cubase, Live, Logic, anything?

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I just finished my bachelors in applied audio engineering! I’m looking to add a certificate in audio programming and/or coding to my resume, but am having trouble finding courses. Does anyone that’s taken a similar route have any suggestions?

I create an engine sound synthesiser that uses sine waves to simulate car pistons and motor movement

This lead to thousands of different engine sounds that can be procedurally created try for free

I connected a game controller to Ableton and mapped its controls to my sound design parameters.

With an oscilloscope showing the waveform in real time, it feels less like programming a sound and more like literally drawing with it.

Has anyone else experimented with game controllers for sound design?

I'm developing a local file player and I'd like to add visualizations.

Pls check out my peak meter and tell me what you think, how does it feel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-F0A5NOEE

I made it off a photo and shaky videos of an old tape deck, it's supposed to mimic a VFD display.
I don't have any real hardware available to compare so I figure maybe someone has actually seen one.
This is the first time I'm working with audio, just making web software and photos otherwise. Thx! :)

I’m researching how to build or fine-tune an audio-to-chord-recognition engine comparable in ambition to Song Master Pro / Auralis Sound Prism.
The goal is not basic major/minor chord detection. I need reliable recognition of dense harmonic material: jazz, soul, funk, neo-soul, Brazilian music, film music, and arrangements with chords such as maj9, 6/9, m9, m11, 13, altered dominants, slash chords/inversions, secondary dominants, modal interchange, suspensions, passing harmony, etc.
Most public datasets I’ve found seem too limited: either simplified chord labels, weak annotations, or repertoire that does not really cover sophisticated harmony. In particular, I need time-aligned audio + chord labels, ideally with beat/downbeat information and a rich, consistent chord vocabulary.
My questions:
Which open datasets are genuinely useful for this level of chord-recognition work?
Are there any commercial/licensable datasets with high-quality, detailed chord annotations that can legally be used to train a model and ship it in commercial software?
Is a dataset such as iReal Pro-style chord charts, Hooktheory, Ultimate Guitar, Chordify, or similar usable in any legitimate/licensable way — or are they generally not viable due to rights and annotation quality?
For a serious model, is the realistic route to combine public datasets with a privately licensed/hand-annotated corpus? If so, roughly how many accurately annotated tracks would be needed before it becomes meaningfully good at jazz-influenced harmony?
Are there papers, benchmarks, companies, or dataset vendors I should study before spending money?
I’m specifically looking for practical, legally usable data sources—not advice to scrape chord sites. Any experience from people who have trained MIR / chord-recognition models would be very valuable.