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Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by Blackthorn »

baq wrote: post #40
Blackthorn wrote: post #24

How can you say it's a 100% faithful recreation if you've never programmed DSP before?

Maybe the OP has the hardware and can compare the sound both subjectively and objectively? Does it have to be 100% exact copy to be called the same? (Individual electronic components are never the same btw)

The OP didn't clarify. But if there's a claim of 100% faithful recreation, I'd expect something to back it up, like time- and frequency-domain comparisons of input and output with different test signals. Or at least something. But there isn't anything.

The video claims: "It utilizes the actual DSP characteristics of the original to bring that specific sound back to life." The author admits they have never programmed DSP. So how are they verifying this claim?

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by steveBK123 »

glimshe wrote: post #33
Blackthorn wrote: post #24

How can you say it's a 100% faithful recreation if you've never programmed DSP before?

Perhaps a subjective evaluation based on how it sounds.

It’s bold to call it 100% faithful without some rigorous test harness though, isn’t it?

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by HPsquared »

hatefulheart wrote: post #25
dubeye wrote: post #22

awesome, 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.

I think there will be a transition period.

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by jvanderbot »

On your "Scares the shit out of me" comment.

Use AI like a CNC machinist uses a mill. You're still in the loop, but break it into manageable "passes" with testing touchpoints. These touchpoints allow you to understand what's going on. Nothing wrong with letting AI oneshot something, but it's more fun and less ennui to jump in and look around and exercise some control here and there. And, on larger systems, this is basically required. (for now, perhaps).

This is how I do it now: https://jodavaho.io/posts/ai-useage-2025.html

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by le-mark »

utopiah wrote: post #38
Blackthorn wrote: post #24

How can you say it's a 100% faithful recreation if you've never programmed DSP before?

Indeed, same questions few days ago when somebody shared a "generated" NES emulator. We have to make this answered when sharing otherwise we can't compare.

At some point the llm ingested a few open source NES emulators and many articles on their architecture. So i question the llm creativity involved with these types examples. Probably also for dsps.

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by steveBK123 »

le-mark wrote: post #47
utopiah wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, same questions few days ago when somebody shared a "generated" NES emulator. We have to make this answered when sharing otherwise we can't compare.

At some point the llm ingested a few open source NES emulators and many articles on their architecture. So i question the llm creativity involved with these types examples. Probably also for dsps.

Right, the amount of hallucinated response data I see at work using any of these leading models is pretty staggering. So anytime I see one of these “AI created a 100% faithful ___” type posts that does not have detailed testing information, I laugh. Without that, this is v0 and only about 5% of the effort.

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Post by cyberge99 »

hatefulheart wrote: post #32
kaffekaka wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different worlds yes, but they both exist.

Sure, where one is ignorant of the other. That’s not a pro.

A pro is someone who makes money doing their profession.
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