#23 — The wavetable engine was doing expensive math every single sample.

April 28, 2026

Three heavy calculations, per sample, per voice. This is not fast. We profiled it, measured it, and found a better path. Beautiful math is still math, and sometimes it needs to be practical.

#25 — It started as a sampler. It became something harder to explain.

May 2, 2026

#24 — The codebase documents its own known bugs. Out in the open.

May 1, 2026

#22 — We’re building toward something bigger.

April 23, 2026

#21 — The granular engine has per-parameter randomization, spectral smearing, formant shifting, and grain morphing.

April 12, 2026

#20 — The plugin connects JavaScript to C++ through an event system, with a buffer in the middle.

April 2, 2026

#19 — MPE support is not a checkbox.

March 30, 2026

#18 — Debug builds and Release builds serve the UI from completely different places.

March 25, 2026

#17 — The standalone app window lives in a file that is over a thousand lines long.

March 12, 2026

#16 — We audited the entire codebase and found 28 issues.

March 2, 2026

#15— The undo/redo system came almost for free.

February 25, 2026

#14 — Mono note priority had a bug that was only audible if you held the same note twice on a mono instrument while changing the priority mode mid-performance.

February 19, 2026

#13 — There are no automated tests.

February 13, 2026

#12 — We have a settings file that lives in a system folder most users will never open.

February 12, 2026

#11 — Voice stealing has four modes. One of them is “don’t steal any voices.”

February 5, 2026

#10 — The plugin can kill its own voices when things get too loud.

January 27, 2026

#9 — We spent weeks researching a technique before realizing we’d already built it.

January 22, 2026

#8 — Disk streaming had a race condition that only appeared when editing loop points.

January 13, 2026

#7 — We have a pointer in the code that we describe as “anxious.”

January 7, 2026

#6 — The granular engine once caused an audible glitch the first time you enabled a specific feature.

December 18, 2025

#5 — We wrote settings that didn’t do anything.

December 6, 2025

#4 — At one point the plugin used 750 MB of RAM before you loaded a single sample.

November 27, 2025

#3 — We once shipped a build system that silently produced a broken plugin.

November 19, 2025

#2 — The first version of the codebase had one file that did everything.

November 12, 2025

#1 — We built a sampler. Inside a web browser. Inside a plugin. Inside a DAW.

November 2, 2025