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  1. arduino-audio-tools

    Audio Tools (a powerful Audio library for Arduino, PlatformIO, IDF)

    On my personal laptop (Mac), I used AU Lab to apply effects to the music I listened to, and discovered that I like the ambience provided by adding a little reverb.

    I'm interested in doing the same at work, but the office PCs run Windows and I'm somewhat limited in what I can install.

    The Arduino Audio Tools library seemed like it would work, but it only applies effects on one channel.

    https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/wiki/Audi...

    I discovered the Wishing Well stereo reverb pedal, and am wondering whether building one will allow me to apply the effect to music from an iPod, rather than a guitar.

    https://scientificguitarist.wixsite.com/home/wishing-well

    If anybody would like to group-buy the Wishing Well, please let me know - if I order PCBs and parts, I'll have spares.

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  3. mobbler

    Analog music creation and realtime visual performance

    I created mobbler[0] using that, and I also wrote a small tutorial on how some of the effects can be achieved using simple modules (it might seem too complex at first glance, but you can just look at the pictures)[1].

    [0]: https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler

    [1]: https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler/wiki/Tutorials

  4. dattorro-vst-rs

    Dattorro reverb VST plugin written in Rust with egui and glicol_synth

    I implemented a Dattorro reverb (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dattorro/EffectDesignPart1.pdf) before.

    https://github.com/chaosprint/dattorro-vst-rs

    It's based on Glicol source code here:

    https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/blob/main/rs/synth/src/...

    You can play with it here:

    https://glicol.org/demo#handmadedattorroreverb

  5. glicol

    Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

    I implemented a Dattorro reverb (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dattorro/EffectDesignPart1.pdf) before.

    https://github.com/chaosprint/dattorro-vst-rs

    It's based on Glicol source code here:

    https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/blob/main/rs/synth/src/...

    You can play with it here:

    https://glicol.org/demo#handmadedattorroreverb

  6. jsfx

    Collection of JSFX effects (by geraintluff)

    Brillant article! Thanks!

    Are you also "Geraint"? (The home page https://signalsmith-audio.co.uk/ says "we" but the Geraint page https://geraintluff.github.io/jsfx/ says "I"...?)

    Geraint's plugins are a great collection of excellent (and free) effects for Reaper, with a superb GUI (which isn't easy to do in Reaper/JSFX). So thanks also for this! ;-)

  7. cp3-dsp-rs

    DSP library in Rust

  8. obs-studio

    OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording (by phkahler)

    Care to offer feedback on my 8-band EQ implementation for OBS?

    https://github.com/phkahler/obs-studio/tree/eq8

    It got rejected but only because they don't want the feature. My implementation does seem different to most which I think use band-pass filters instead.

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