live play with physical devices is always going to be my focus. but since the effects in chaon effects are all digital, you might be asking, blaine, why not release them as plugins so i can make weird in my daw?
without much introduction
now you can [1].
i’m now working on a prototype to run mu as a plugin.
for testing the dsp code without hardware, I previously built a platform to run effects standalone on linux. this a small jump to running as a plugin within a daw.
but wait, you said this was just a hobby
things change, and honestly, I’m exploring options to get out of the corporate private equity mill. this is for that [2].
also branching out into eurorack
my previously mentioned friend, james, is a hardware wonk. he brings platform experience for eurorack designs, which is also a direction I’d love to see chaon go. more to come with that in the coming days.
love you [3].
[1] well, not yet. this is still a prototype, and honestly, there’s still a lot to work out to run these on multiple platforms. from what I’ve found so far, a plugin maker can buy into platforms that do the harder work of tracking and patching for changes in daw software providers, but the license agreements are honestly fucking bullshit. juce is great for hobbyists but if you plan on making any honest income, you’re very tightly bound by their agreement. in the case of chaon, they would charge for any income the company makes, regardless of the products using juce or not. so that’s a hard pass. nice to get rolling quickly, but at the expense of sawing off a foot.
[2] well, i can’t just get into farming, which is what you hear over and over from other software developers who are burnt out with the constant squeeze and grind happening in the industry. i still love building things and don’t want to stop doing that.
[3] or as james says, “the jam comes first, man.”