with Nick Thompson

In this talk we’ll dive straight into the fundamentals of digital audio and digital signal processing in a musical context. We’ll establish an introductory understanding of the numbers and the math underlying digital audio and use that to take an intuitive look at a simple musical filter. At that point we’ll switch gears into a hands-on workshop to apply our new knowledge to building a native audio plugin for Unity, start to finish. The workshop portion of this talk will assume a small familiarity with general software programming and the Git version control tool, if you plan to follow along on your own machine.

During the workshop portion, if you want to follow along and build your own plugin, you’ll want to have a few things installed ahead of time:

1. Unity

2. XCode (OS X) or Visual Studio (Windows) for building native C/C++ projects

3. JUCE, and the Projucer. We’ll be using a soon-to-be released feature of the Projucer, thus you’ll need to install JUCE from the `develop` branch of their source repository: https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/tree/develop

Steps to install JUCE (with Git from the command line):

git clone git@github.com:WeAreROLI/JUCE.git

git checkout develop

Now you can open the appropriate project file for the Projucer project (from the root of the directory):

MacOSX - extras/Projucer/Builds/MacOSX/Projucer.xcodeproj

Windows - extras/Projucer/Builds/VisualStudio2017/Projucer.sln

Once open in your respective IDE, you can build the project and run the Projucer from there.