Threading through every previous post in this series is one phrase: “taken from my open source project”. Time to give the open source work its own chapter — because for about a decade, most of what I wrote ended up public, first on SourceForge, later on GitHub.
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Web apps, the Pascal way
At some point the browser became too capable to ignore. My path to the web was an unusual one though: instead of leaving Pascal behind, I compiled it — via Smart Mobile Studio and DWScript — straight into JavaScript. The results are on the Web-Apps page.
Continue reading “Web apps, the Pascal way”Small tools and perfect players
Between the big projects there was always a drawer full of small ones — nifty tools written as examples for my open source project, and mini-games written for a very specific kind of fun: not playing the game, but writing a player that never loses.
Continue reading “Small tools and perfect players”Measure everything
If plugins were the fun side of DSP, measurement was the honest side. You can convince yourself a filter sounds good; you cannot argue with its magnitude response. Over the years I built a small arsenal of measurement tools and published a collection of measurements made with them.
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Here is a confession right away: I have never actually used SynthEdit to make music. But I was fascinated by how it worked — a modular environment where third-party modules (SEMs) plug into a visual synthesis graph. So I did what I always do with fascinating architectures: I took it apart and built for it. The results live under SE modules and SE Tools.
Continue reading “SynthEdit modules and tools”Applications: tools around the plugins
After the plugins came the programs around them. This second look back is about the standalone applications I wrote in the Delphi years — most of them tools I needed myself, published in case they were useful to someone else.
Continue reading “Applications: tools around the plugins”The VST plugin years
Everything on this site ultimately traces back to one obsession: audio. So it feels right to start this little retrospective series where my public work started — with VST plugins, written in Object Pascal, one filter and one waveshaper at a time.
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