It's also an open opportunity for ppl to show their true colours to us

But go on, try to shoot us down. I don't want a job in the tech industry anyway

I have some really basic understanding of DFT and complex numbers tho.. like really basic

As for DSP, maybe I know more than I realize. Not having a Math background holds me back a lot. I feel like learning that language/how to read equations, could help me a lot otherwise I'm dependent on alternative descriptions/being shown things thru code, possibly things lost in translation

Anyway, I don't think this will block me from achieving my goal with Val to refactor the codebase so that someone else can look at. Keeping the same tightly coupled event system with my MIDI out bolted on with single mixer going thru the single audio callback that I can't quite expand beyond yet

I don't know anyone else silly enough to attempt this without audio programming and DSP background. I don't feel like I would belong in those spaces yet until I go back to basics.

That's why I'm heavily reluctant to show video outside some trusted spaces bc I don't want you to get the wrong idea. What Estelle put out isn't even half the picture. But even if u saw that I already feel like I'm overpromising something u won't be able to see until like a year

And this is entirely separate from how heavily featured and architectured VST2, VST3, AU are. For that I could manage and probably don't need a DSP course for but the real time stuff is critical

What use will it be to put in filters, EQs, compressors that I don't understand the code? There's only so much I can learn from example especially since the abstraction at the maths DSP level, and then there's how you implement that in code, decades of history ppl figuring best practice of that

No one is going to use anything no matter how good or life changing the UI is or how good its MIDI is or whatever if it can't do the one thing it needs to do well reliably. ANd I'll only get so far just trying to incorporate open source code I have a limit to understanding.

Maybe I could get away with this like 20 years ago but I think people would expect a lot more competence from me, especially if its going to be an open source project that I'd like to get help with

And I need to find people who actually know this stuff I can throw my dumbass questions to. Yeah I should probably find a course, or go back to school but I can't afford it. But there's only so far I can get by getting away with my severe lack of knowledge, especially

I'm trying not to be distracted by the hundreds of off-shoots that distract me into rabbit holes away from the important things at hand, trying to act less on reactive emotion and turn that into education and action

I appreciate you taking it and speaking for us. I feel i have a lot of work to do to. And I'm already doing work. I won't call it prep work, bc it's just the continuous act of necessary work. And it adds to "practice" as you say

It took every bone and muscle not to say something in that chat, but I am with you 1000%

Being dual citizen also makes freelance just not financially viable anymore in the long run. At least not with what little we're making rn

After this client project we have nothing lined up, we will have no work. None of us feel particularly willing to go back to tech. Some of us want to go back to school to study in other fields. The free time might be cut short by a need to get a full time job somewhere /

There's a lot of challenging things about working with C++, the build system and all. And I've only targeted macOS today. I'm sure more hair is about to be pulled out. But I know it's a puzzle we can solve. I need to slow right down and make sure we solve it correctly

We went with C++ primarily for compatibilty with most low level libraries we are interested in, things like VST and AU especially. We went with Qt for closest to native integration especially bc they have stuff like accessibility and internationalization