The Audio Programmer

Our new book "The Complete Beginner's Guide to Audio Plug-in Development" is here! "How do I create my own audio plug-in?" Anyone who has ever asked that question knows that the answers are complex. Audio programming is an amazing intersection of code, math, and creativity, and one of the most challenging parts is just getting started... ...until now! This is a new collaboration with @mhollemans that's designed specifically for people who are getting started - no coding experience necessary! Our favorite part about this book is that it TRULY takes you from the beginning and shows you not only how to get started, but also provides a foundational understanding of how plug-ins work. This is an ideal book for... • Sound designers • Music producers • Developers from other areas in software • Audio developers seeking a better understanding of how things work Here are just a few of the subjects we cover: • Downloading your first IDE (both Windows & Mac) • Getting started with the JUCE Framework • Starting C++ from the very beginning • Introduction to digital signal processing • Creating your first audio plug-in • Creating a custom look and feel • Debugging techniques • How to release your plug-in ...and much more! Find out more here: youtu.be/QUFgy8aZcpQ Get the book here:

@rafabertholdo I see great promise!

@audioprogrammer Really excited to see iPlug3 coming to life. I built Studio Camera on top of iPlug2, and watching the framework evolve like this is awesome. Huge respect to everyone pushing it forward. The future of iPlug looks very bright.

API London — this Thursday 🎛️ The lineup: → Chris Nash: klang, live C++ for audio → Silas Gyger: Audiotool Nexus SDK → Geraint Luff: WCLAP, plugins anywhere → Oli Larkin: iPlug3 for the agentic era Almost at capacity. Grab a spot or join the livestream: theaudioprogrammer.com/events/api-lon…

Playing around with some unreleased ideas for simple camera automation, using the new shaders for a CRT-style effect. Going for nostalgia of some sort. #anukari #synth #sounddesign #vst #electronicmusic #audioreactive #generativevisuals

ADC Japan 2026 Tickets Available Now チケット発売中 Audio Developer Conference #Tokyo June 1-3 Join the developers shaping the future of #audio at ADC #Japan. Three days of talks, workshops, and collaboration. audio.dev/adc-japan-26/ #music #developer #programmer #technology

CLÄPP II - is out! Gives you the perfect clap sound for your track. No more browsing for the right sound, just craft it by ear. Modelled human clap engine that never repeats + new machine mode that models classic drum machine circuitry. get it at TermiteAudio.com

Insta-favorite. Punch in an equation, then hear it rendered in a surprisingly powerful synth engine. Plus more on how a real TI-82 or later can be a synthesizer: cdm.link/making-music-o…

Ready to learn some practical DSP? If so, we invite you to join us for tomorrow's The Audio Programmer Meetup! We will be joined by Musik Hack Co-Founder Sam Fischmann. Sam has had great success with well known plugins such as Master Plan and Fuel. We will be talking about useful DSP. Including... ✅ Filter basics, frequency and phase, not just frequency! ✅ Filters, when to use (IIR/FIR/linear/minimum phase/biquad forms/svf) ✅ Filter shapes, when to use (bessel, butterworth, chebychev 1+2 , elliptical/cauer/Linkwitz Riley/clamping) ✅ Filter implications for null tests and parallel processing ✅ Oversampling + aliasing ✅ Desmos for testing and comparing saturation techniques ✅ Saturation myths: Harmonic and inharmonic distortion ✅ Basic compressor/limiter design This will be a great conversation for anyone who is seeking to gain an overall understanding of how DSP algorithms work, and how to use them. Tune in here: youtube.com/live/XOadlMMGL…

🔗 More about Audiotool: New platform: new.audiotool.com Developer hub: developer.audiotool.com Dev Discord: discord.com/invite/X4cDXgy…

On March 12th in London, we're exploring what's next for audio programming! I'd like to introduce you to @audiotool - our latest guest at API. Imagine you could take the key ingredients of a DAW (tracks, timelines, MIDI, synthesis, effects) and use them as building blocks to collaboratively create entirely new audio apps... This is what Audiotool makes possible. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're a fully featured DAW that runs entirely in the browser. They've just opened it up with an open source API called NEXUS that lets developers pull from the DAW's core components and build custom tools with them. Compositional tools, AI powered mixing assistants, creative multiplayer sessions and more - the building blocks are already there, so you're not starting from scratch. There are no licensing fees, and your tools can run alongside other developers' tools in the same session. Join us in London on Mar 12th at pointblank Music School to learn more about NEXUS and meet the Audiotool team! Sign up: theaudioprogrammer.com/events/api-lon… Grab the NEXUS SDK and start building here: github.com/audiotool/nexus See you in London!

A look behind the curtain... I make a ridiculous number of app designs. A few become real apps. At this point, it might be a problem. #UIDesign #AppDesign

Last Call for Speakers: ADC Japan 2026 講演提案最終募集 Audio Developer Conference #Tokyo June 1-3 Share your ideas, research, tools, or creative breakthroughs with the global #audio #community. 👉 audio.dev/adc-japan-26/ #music #developer #programmer #technology #japan

@tymmesalab Thank you! 🙏

Very insightful and soulful video, squire. Really enjoyed your approach and attitude, inspiring stuff. So much in fact, it has reminded me, I had prior rambled I will be in contact with you soon enough. Seems like the perfect prompt to do so. Email coming your way at some point in the coming hours!

I've been helping people to learn how to build audio plugins for the past 9 years. Recently, I watched AI do what would take me an entire day in 5 minutes. I'm a little late to vibe coding, and I'll tell you why - I LOVE coding. The thought process. The problem solving. The craft of it. But I've seen winds change before. And as an industry, we have to face that this is happening. Here's the thing though. I don't think developers are finished. Not even close! In fact, I actually think developers will become MORE important. The way I see it, this is like DAWs coming to bedroom producers. Did it kill professional engineers? No. It caused a creative explosion. But the role shifted. Producers needed mixing and mastering engineers more than ever to take their ideas to a professional level. That's what's happening with code. AI will let more people create. Developers become the ones who make it market ready. But for this to happen, developers will need to embrace the tools or risk getting left behind. Scary? A little. Exciting? Absolutely. Here was my first experiment. How are you feeling about these tools? Are you embracing them, or rejecting them? Let me know! youtu.be/qeCYi0pwi3I

Call for Speakers: ADC Japan 2026 The Audio Developer Conference is coming to #Tokyo Share your ideas, research, tools, or creative breakthroughs with the global #audio #community. 👉 Submit your talk: audio.dev/adc-japan-26/ #music #developer #programmer #technology #japan

Our latest project is a special one for us, and an important step forward for The Audio Programmer team. Grammy-winning producer Greg Wells came to us to capture the sound of his unique 1176 compressor - a unit he pulled from a church balcony in 1995 and used on records for Adele, Katy Perry, Twenty One Pilots, and The Greatest Showman. This wasn't just a work-for-hire plugin build. Greg trusted us to shape the entire picture - the brand, the marketing production, the website, and the story behind it all. That level of trust changed the project. The 1176 is one of the most emulated pieces of hardware in the plugin world. Everyone's done one. So how do you make something that actually matters? To us, it always starts with listening. It's less about what we can do, and more about getting to the heart of what our client is seeing and experiencing, and working tirelessly until we can meet their vision. I'm especially proud of our team on this one, and thankful to Greg for his trust. To us, it's not about shipping another product into a noisy market. It's about doing work that connects and stands the test of time. Read our case study: theaudioprogrammer.com/case-studies/c…

🇬🇧 Audio software is moving fast, and we’re excited to bring the conversation to London. API London returns on March 12th at pointblank Music School. This event is focused on the tools and frameworks shaping what comes next. 🎙 Confirmed speakers: Oliver Larkin (Ableton) - on iPlug3, the open-source framework changing how developers build cross-platform audio plugins Geraint Luff (SignalSmith) - on CLAP on the Web, bringing plugin architecture to the browser Whether you’re building your first plugin or shipping your tenth, this is where the audio dev community comes together to learn, connect, and look ahead. 🗓 March 12th, 2026 📍 Pointblank Music School, London ⏰ 6:00 PM — 10:30 PM GMT (doors open 5:30) 💻 Can’t make it? We’ll be livestreaming on YouTube More speakers to be announced soon. 👉 Register now - space is limited: theaudioprogrammer.com/events/api-lon…

Everyone at NAMM 2026 was talking about AI. ...but almost nobody was shipping it. That disconnect stuck with me more than anything else from the show floor this year. Every panel, every discussion...AI. But the actual products? Largely conventional. And then, weeks later, Native Instruments goes insolvent. These aren't unrelated observations. Our industry is in a moment where the speculations have outpaced the reality, and the business models that got us here aren't guaranteed to get us to what's next. But here's why I'm still optimistic: ✅ Rust has been coming up in conversations lately...possibly because its compiler strictness is a better match for AI-generated code? ✅ Developers like Oliver Larkin are proving that AI agents with experienced hands equals immense value ✅ The questions people are asking have shifted from "what can we build?" to "what should we build?" That last one matters most. Full breakdown here: youtube.com/watch?v=6dA1zM… What's your read on where things are heading?

Japan, anyone? 🙂

Hey #musictech #gameaudio, now is the time to submit an entry for ADCx India and present your work at a global platform. audio.dev/adcx-india-26