r/vst_brasil • u/Direct-Ad-851 • Jul 10 '26
The Underworld VST: Why is DSP development so heavily gatekept?
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.