Isn't that like the Ursa Major Stargate 323 Reverb? Greybox audio released code for this about a year ago: https://github.com/greyboxaudio/SG-323
Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
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Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#82How can you say it's a 100% faithful recreation if you've never programmed DSP before?
Standard AI response. Similar to " production-ready", "according to industry standards" or "common practices" to justify and action or indicating it is done, without even compiling or running code, let alone understand the output. An AI can't hear, and even worse, relate this. Ask it to create a diode ladder filter, and it will boost it created a "physically correct analog representation" while output ting clean and pure signals...
Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#83How can you say it's a 100% faithful recreation if you've never programmed DSP before?
I had the hardware for both units and use them extensively so 100% familiar with how they sound. And I'm not doing it based off of my ears. I know the algorithm, have the exact coefficients, and there was no guesswork except for the potentiometer curves and parts of the room algorithm that I'm still working out, which is a completely separate component of the reverb. But when I put it up for sale, I'll make sure to g…
Sell it?
Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#84awesome, in 2025 I made a few apps for my small business that I have spent hours trawling the web looking for, and I have little coding skills. Sometimes it feels like I'm living in a different world, reading the scepticism on here about AI. I'm sure there enterprise cases where it doesn't make sense, but for the your everyday business owner it's amazing what can be done. maybe it's a failure of imagination but I can…
With all due respect you are living in a different world. Not in a bad way, it’s just you haven’t experienced what maintenance on a large complicated code base is like.
The worst part of the new wave of vibe coders is their confidence.
Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#85We are all glorified QA testers with software architect title now. Sure we set the structure of what we want but everything else the AI does and most of our time is now spent testing and complaining to the AI.
Pretty soon AI will do the QA portion as well. It will generate any piece of software, even games for a cool $200/month from a vendor of choice: Microsoft (OpenAI) or Google
Companies will stop paying for SaaS or complex ERP software, they will just generate their own that only the AI knows how to maintain, run, and add features.
It's ironic that software developers are the most enthusiastic about automating their jobs out of existence. No union, no laws that interfere with free market forces.
Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the hardware for both units and use them extensively so 100% familiar with how they sound. And I'm not doing it based off of my ears. I know the algorithm, have the exact coefficients, and there was no guesswork except for the potentiometer curves and parts of the room algorithm that I'm still working out, which is a completely separate component of the reverb. But when I put it up for sale, I'll make sure to g…
Sell it?
Wat?
Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you sell it, or would you have to do some renaming in order to get around trademark/etc ? Consider reaching out to Audiority - I know they have some virtual recreations of Space Station hardware. https://www.audiority.com/shop/space-station-um282
Luckily the trademark is public domain!
Are the ROMs, though? (Not trying to be combative; I've had to deal with this a lot when developing emulation-based plugins.)
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#88I was hoping that the video was a walkthrough of your process - do you think you might share that at some point? > I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for better or worse! Yes, I agree. I think the role of software developer is going to evolve into much more of an administrative, managerial role, dealing…
As someone who works at a place where we do a lot of code analysis and also research AI's effect on code quality, if you do not even so much as look at your code anymore, I do not believe you are creating maintainable, quality software. Maybe you don't need to, or care to, but it's definitely not what's sustainable in long-term product companies. AI is a force multiplier - it makes bad worse, it _can_ make good bette…
6 months ago I agreed with your statement
but AI being solely a force multiplier is not accurate, it is a intelligence multiplier. There are significantly better ways now to apply skills and taste with less worry about technical debt. AI coding agents have gotten to the point that it virtually removes ALL effort barrierrs even paying off technical debt.
While it is still important to pay attention to the direction your code is being generated, the old fears and caution we attributed to previous iteration of AI codegen is largely being eroded and this trend will continue to the point where our "specialty" will no longer matter.
I'm already seeing small businesses that laid off their teams and the business owner is generating code themselves. The ability to defend the thinning moat of not only software but virtually all white collar jobs is getting tougher.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a hobby I suppose. There's a very real chance there won't be enough paid work available for that
Exactly! There isn't enough woodworking jobs for thousands of thousands of workers. Of course you have people handcrafting things and people demanding handcrafted things. Programming will be the same. Way way way less developers.
This doesn’t seem right to me. Carpentry still seems like a pretty solid line of work with a lot of jobs. I know at least one guy who moved from EE work to contracting because he could make a lot more money that way.
Given, a lot of it is framing houses and remodeling. And there are fewer jobs in hardwood furniture these days. But a lot of that is because US furniture manufacturing was moved to China 20 years ago, not because of power tools.
If anything, the advent of power tools in the 40s/50s made single family homes more affordable and increased construction demand.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
We will remain to be programmers but at a higher abstraction where code is just the glue to our means and imagination.
As a hobby I suppose. There's a very real chance there won't be enough paid work available for that
You’re ignoring Jevons paradox. Everyone, both people and companies, will be making exponentially more software with these tools. Software that both needs to get created, debugged and updated to realize the intention of it. That’s what our time will be spent on as programmers.