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 framewo…
Another vote for the Audio Programmer Discord - this is such an amazing community of audio nerds, you'll find your comfort zone pretty fast, I bet.
The Awesome Live Coding list on Github would be a great place to start: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/REA...
Hehe totally, even though it's a bit overwhelming ... I've been active in live coding scene for years now (and my little language is on that list), yet I still don't know all of these ...
But I guess there's something for every language and skill level there ...
It's not ready for random contributions just yet I believe (needs a lot of refactoring, plus the hardware isn't finalized yet) but we're open for suggestions!
Not a project itself, but anyone can receive The Generative Review[0] where I do exactly this: collect twice a month open source projects that welcome new contributors through simple initial tasks, every installment is themed around a language or topic, and one of the next months' topics is audio programming and AI audio and music, it is sent by email, so soon enough you could have audio OSS repos to check and contribute to (the linked installment was themed around vim, the next will be emacs plus AI and will have the first batch of open source tasks for anyone to help).
Like vintage computers? https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU
Sound Blaster emulator running on modern PCI/AC97 sound cards. Involves sound, deep knowledge of x86 CPUs (VM86/virtual and protected modes, memory protection, supervisors, privilege levels, trapping IO/IRQa, x86 CPU quirks), DOS and plenty of testing using 20 year old games.
JUCE: http://juce.com/ Tracktion: http://tracktion.com/ Both very powerful audio frameworks - JUCE does plugins and audio drivers and low-level DSP, oh my - and Tracktion does all the stuff a DAW needs, on top of JUCE. There are tons of ways to contribute, from building open source samples, to testing, or even adding functionality. Both dev teams are open to good quality PR's being submitted and both frameworks have…
JUCE is a dual-license commercial product though: Apart from a small ISC-licensed core, it's GPL or commercial. While I totally respect the decision of the JUCE developers to want to make a living out of their project and to adopt a licensing scheme that is in line with that goal, It would be a disqualifying criterion for me if, like OP, I was looking for an open-source project to dedicate a non-small amount of my own time for unpaid voluntary work. I might send them a patch if I need a fix to a problem that I can quickly solve ad-hoc and that I don't want to wait for them to fix, but I wouldn't want to pour significant amounts of my own time into unpaid voluntary work that they get paid for.