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I live nearby and drive past it nearly every day. It’s been fascinating watching its construction. They’ve done a very good job not impacting traffic and only closed down the highw…

Those offerings exist as well. See East West Composer Cloud ( https://www.soundsonline.com/composercloud ) and Musio ( https://musio.com/ ) (full disclaimer: I did some work on the…

WASAPI has been available since Windows Vista. It isn’t its own set of drivers but rather a unifying layer for the WDM driver and the preceding mishmash of Windows audio APIs (MME,…

Orchestration also means something different these days for most film, TV and game composers compared to the traditional definition. Traditionally, orchestration would be taking a …

Absolutely! My email is in my bio. Reach out and we can find a time to chat via whatever medium is comfortable.

If you have specialized in a sub-discipline, it can be an entry point without prior game dev experience or shipped titles. For me, my background in and love of audio and music prog…

There are a few different models at play: surround sound like 5.1, 7.1, ambisonics and the 7.1.4 Atmos static bed; and object-based where mono point source sounds are attached to a…

Nothing public I’m aware of, unfortunately. I wish they talked about it publicly in more technical detail.

That chip is responsible for much more than HRTFs too. It can handle a huge amount of 3D audio-related DSP effects and decoding which are all way more compute intensive than the HR…

Very true for PCs but it’s starting to shift with both consoles and receivers with Atmos decoders. For example, the PS5 has a custom audio DSP chip with 3D sound capabilities for r…

To add onto this very good explanation from Paul, in practice, audio processing graphs always rapidly decay into serial processing after starting out massively parallel. Most of th…

With good reason, too. A good portion of the Native Instrument software packages won't install because the installers themselves rely on 32-bit helpers. A savvy technical user can …

As a former MOTU engineer who worked on the software side of the new interfaces, the built-in web server was really about cross-device and multi-user access, not avoiding CoreAudio…

Both. Students are required to take humanities classes as well as declare a concentration. Many often choose to minor or major in humanities alongside a science or engineering degr…

MOTU — ONSITE, INTERN or FULLTIME — Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square) MOTU crafts industry-standard, award-winning audio technologies. We are known for our high-quality audio interfac…

Ah, good point! My code is pretty flawed... it's using new to allocate an SDL_Window! All of this is just aesthetics at a certain point and what you prefer. For me, I'd get bored w…

True but that means you need a wrapper function for each type you want to create or you need to use the more general function, defeating the purpose. It also obscures the type of t…

If you were creating a C++ wrapper, you still might prefer to use this same technique. Make the unique_ptr-wrapped resource a member of the wrapper instead of the raw resource. Tha…

The other downside to their approach is that you have to pass the function into the constructor every time you construct an object. A similar alternative would be to template the d…

I have a girlfriend of eight years but no children to speak of yet. She's finishing up grad school but eventually should have a decent salary. That said, I definitely sympathize an…

I actually just went through a lot of this. Despite loving my day job as a software engineer, it was so creatively exhausting and draining that by the end of the day, all I wanted …