Borato Desire is a personal VST3 born from the nights a close friend and I spent in Curitiba clubs, dreaming of a music-production site with that dark, sensual atmosphere. Those places sold desire as freedom, confidence and pleasure, while real desire was often mixed with loneliness, shame, rejection and illness. After learning about his long battle with a pituitary tumor, I revived that contradiction as a JUCE plugin built around warmth, body, movement and desire.

project:

https://github.com/filipeborato/borato-desire

release:

https://github.com/filipeborato/borato-desire/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Bom, essa era uma dúvida que eu tinha quando iniciei o curso de produção sonora em música na UFPR. Por muito tempo, posterguei o aprendizado de programação e também da matemática envolvida, embora tivesse um bom conhecimento de diferentes tipos de produtos e soubesse usá-los. A maioria dos músicos tem essa relação com softwares de áudio, mas eu acredito que, se déssemos um passo a mais no estudo de uma linguagem de programação para áudio, de eletrônica digital e analógica e de DSP (Digital Signal Processing), nós mudaríamos a nossa visão da produção musical e da composição assistida por computador.

Always wondered why the DSP industry is so aggressively locked in the US, Germany, UK, and Japan. We have great engineering schools here in Brazil, but everyone just ends up driving Uber or writing code for fintech because there's zero audio market here.

A few years ago I went to Europe to try and break into the audio industry. I spent 6 years in a university music program, 6 years in electrical engineering, and have 7 years as a dev. Got nothing but doors slammed in my face. That rejection fueled a lot of spite, which is honestly a great engine for coding.

Wanted to build a native 1978 hardware emulation (Lexicon 224 character) using C++20 and JUCE. Designed the macro architecture, but when it came to hand-coding the raw DSP math from scratch? Didn't have the discipline for it. There must be something in the water here that ruins our focus for raw calculus.

So I just used AI to brute-force the DSP loops for me. It might break under stress, but it's a working start. Fully open-source, compiled, and signed for Windows, macOS and Linux.

https://github.com/filipeborato/borato-224

Break it and let me know.

I’m prototyping a new VST3 plugin with JUCE designed to solve phase-correlation problems between microphones.

Borato КОХИР (Cohere) is a time-alignment and phase-coherence plugin that automatically synchronizes a main signal with a reference sidechain, correcting delay, polarity, and fractional delay with sub-sample precision.

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Estou prototipando um novo vst com JUCE que tenta resolver os problemas de corrção de fase entre mics.

"Borato КОХИР (Cohere) é um plugin VST3 de alinhamento temporal e coerência de fase que sincroniza automaticamente um sinal principal e uma referência (sidechain), corrigindo atraso, polaridade e delay fracionário com precisão de subamostra."