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Ask HN: What audio/sound-related OSS projects can I contribute to?

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Ask HN: What audio/sound-related OSS projects can I contribute to?

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Post by dedoem »

Hey! I wanted to research the possibilities of participating in open-source projects, preferably related to audio or sound processing. Do you have any projects to recommend? Preferably ones that are either technically interesting, solve a useful problem or have lively community and are in active development.

I'm not specifying anything more (language, etc.), so that I can get as wide of a selection, as possible and so that this post is useful for others more.

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Post by txbrown »

Hey, why not join the Audio Programmer Discord where you can find many of the leading projects and much more? https://discord.gg/YbYGjtzz

I'd say from there you can pretty much reach out to the maintainers and go from it.

Another project that would benefit of more help is AudioKit. https://discord.gg/y6fKdWR7

I'd say most modern audio based apps on iOS / macOS are likely using it, although JUCE is the leading framework for audio dev.

The rust community also seems to be booming around DSP.

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Post by ofalkaed »

MuseScore and Qtractor would probably be good, Ardour takes all the attention away for linux/OSS DAWs and the MuseScore and Qtractor communities suffered from it but are still very active and great projects. LMMS is fun and could use the help more than most of the other big projects.

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Post by CasperH2O »

I work on an open source application for which we're looking for someone who knows how to analyze computer game audio which can then be converted to game pad controller haptic/vibration feedback. Basically to get rumble support for "old" games that did not natively have this.

Project: Handheld Companion (https://github.com/Valkirie/HandheldCompanion)

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Post by mihaitodor »

I heard of https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust a while back, probably via HN. It looks interesting and actively maintained, but I didn’t get a chance to play with it. There are many other libraries listed on GitHub awesome lists such as this one: https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-music-production#libraries
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