This is a topic close to my heart as I've always been very into music production and programming, and have dabbled with a few things over the years, but have only started working professionally with audio software in the last few years. What is your background, and which parts of audio programming would you like to focus on? e.g. are you interested in writing your own low-level DSP code, or more interested in hooking…
> JUCE I would add to that VCV Rack [1] is another great starting point. Very low barrier to entry, see developer manual [2], hundreds open source modules to learn from. [3] [1] https://vcvrack.com [2] https://vcvrack.com/manual/PluginDevelopmentTutorial [3] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=vcv&s=&type=Repositories
Nice, I hadn’t looked into building VCV Rack modules but it’s a super fun piece of software - there’s also an iOS port called MiRack, personally I love making music on the iPad so I use that more.
Not answering your question, but if you're interested in audio programming you might find Pure Data interesting, it's sort of visual audio programming. It might seem like a toy but it's actually incredibly powerful: https://puredata.info
Second for puredata. It's pretty different from other options but very powerful. It's also quite visual and uses the same kind of design concepts involved in setting up a traditional modular synth.
This is a topic close to my heart as I've always been very into music production and programming, and have dabbled with a few things over the years, but have only started working professionally with audio software in the last few years. What is your background, and which parts of audio programming would you like to focus on? e.g. are you interested in writing your own low-level DSP code, or more interested in hooking…
Thank you so much for your detailed comment! I am mostly interested in writing professional audio code, so I am learning C++ at the moment. Also, do you think Rust is a good alternative to C++ for writing high performance code? I am thinking of learning Rust too, but I am not sure whether Rust audio programming is popular or not.
Depending on what kind of audio programming you intend to do, it should be possible to use Rust or other alternative programming languages. Your mileage may vary, depending on the dependencies of what you intend to build. If you want to interface with your operating system's low-level audio libraries you should be able to do that from any language that can interface with C. I was able to use Ada together with ALSA on Linux in this way. In this case the code responsible for generating the sound was in Ada, and the code for interfacing with the audio hardware (via ALSA) was in C. If you intend to write audio code for bare metal, you should be able to use any programming language your target hardware's toolchain supports. I've heard of people using alternative languages to write VSTs. I'm not an expert in this area, however theoretically you should be able to do something similar to the above as long as you have a good way to interface with C/C++ code.
This is a topic close to my heart as I've always been very into music production and programming, and have dabbled with a few things over the years, but have only started working professionally with audio software in the last few years. What is your background, and which parts of audio programming would you like to focus on? e.g. are you interested in writing your own low-level DSP code, or more interested in hooking…
> If you want to write professional audio code, you can't really avoid working with C++ - it's the industry standard approach.
This is a topic close to my heart as I've always been very into music production and programming, and have dabbled with a few things over the years, but have only started working professionally with audio software in the last few years. What is your background, and which parts of audio programming would you like to focus on? e.g. are you interested in writing your own low-level DSP code, or more interested in hooking…
> If you want to write professional audio code, you can't really avoid working with C++ - it's the industry standard approach. No, you can do with C just fine.
True, although most of the frameworks for building plugins etc. are in C++ as far as I know, so using C might be making life hard for yourself if that’s your goal.