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

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Post by _o1yi »

Hi Hacker News,

This is definitely out of my comfort zone.

I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online.

So please watch the video and tell me what you think

https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA

The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me.

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!

Thanks!

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

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Post by _o1yi »

BenjaminHas wrote: post #5
tomhow wrote: post #14

[under-the-rug stub] [see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]

This is really impressive! I love how you combined AI assistance with schematics, patents, and ROMs to recreate it.

Thank you so much. Yeah it's really cool. I also bought myself a copy of Max MSP and I'm recreating it visually so I can tweak all the parameters and really understand what's going on because the AI did all of the theory for me but I have all the numbers. When you tweak the numbers it makes it sound totally different. So yeah I'm excited. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to build electronic music gear. I'm not saying AI is not going to be able to do that one day but I just can't do web programming anymore. I don't know. I've been doing it too long and I just don't like it anymore.

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

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Post by chunkmonke99 »

_o1yi wrote: post #6
BenjaminHas wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really impressive! I love how you combined AI assistance with schematics, patents, and ROMs to recreate it.

Thank you so much. Yeah it's really cool. I also bought myself a copy of Max MSP and I'm recreating it visually so I can tweak all the parameters and really understand what's going on because the AI did all of the theory for me but I have all the numbers. When you tweak the numbers it makes it sound totally different. So yeah I'm excited. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to build electronic music gear.…

Wait you used Claude Code to recreate patents and schematics? Are the schematics for this easily available somewhere? Was Claude just able to one-shot this?
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