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[1] — Projects

Other Work

Exploring innovative approaches to audio processing and creative tools, at the intersection of music and technology.

Bespoke Samples

Creating plugins and sample packs for music producers

I designed and developed a suite of plugins and sample packs for experimental electronic music producers.

Three Bespoke Samples plugin interfaces — Granola, Swell, and Liquidize
Swell, Granola, and Liquidize.
Six covers from the Floral sample pack series — Glitches, Melodies vols. 1 and 2, and Pads — each a tree canopy photograph under a different colour wash.
Floral botanica sample pack series.

VSTs are digital audio plugins, small pieces of software that add new sounds or effects to audio production within a digital audio workstation (DAW). My work spanned the entire VST development process from concept to implementation to marketing. User interfaces were designed in Figma, digital signal processing implemented in C++ and Max RNBO, and final plugins developed in HISE.

Swell is my flagship VST plugin, featuring over 1000 custom swell sound effects mapped into 3 sampler engines and controlled by a barycentric XY pad for unlimited mixing possibilities. Finally, Swell includes an FX rack complete with a spectral gating algorithm, a staple of the experimental sound design scene.

Liquidize is a unique self-modulating vocoder algorithm. Granola is a granular delay effect.

The Floral botanica sample pack series are my five sample packs. Featuring a wide array of melodies, effects, drums, and pads, Floral contains over 1400 custom samples. Every sound was designed from real-world recordings and digital synthesizers, processed to create unique textures.

NMFD Research

Optimal template length for NMFD drum stem separation.

My paper attempts to improve Non-negative Matrix Factor Deconvolution (NMFD), an algorithm for musical stem separation which can take an musical audio mixture and separate it into constituent instrument tracks.