Where's Christoph?

[David Healey]

@Christoph-Hart Oh exciting, is that with your usual company? Yes a meeting sounds good.

[griffinboy]

@Christoph-Hart
Didn't know you did work in Japan!
Most of my music work is for the Japanese entertainment industry!

[griffinboy]

@David-Healey @Christoph-Hart

Agreed, I missed out on the last few meetups, it would be great to have another!

[Felix W]

@Christoph-Hart
I'm looking forward to HISE5 surprising me.

[JC]

@Christoph-Hart Nice! Based off the last few months in here, AI continues to be a hot topic and the HISE/Moonbase fix is eagerly awaited by a fair few people. I look forward to being part of the meetup if that's alright?

[Chazrox]

Miss you guys. ha. Would love to see a meetup and discuss the future!

[dannytaurus]

Whatever happens with HISE now might be too little, too late.

[resonant]

@dannytaurus said in Where's Christoph?:

Whatever happens with HISE now might be too little, too late.

Why?

[dannytaurus]

@resonant HISE's pitch is 'build plugins without writing C++'. LLMs do that part easily now.

The things that will allow human-made plugins to stand out from casual vibe-coded competitors are a curated aesthetic, quality UI design, high profile collaborations, good customer support and relationships, future updates, etc. HISE helps with none of that.

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in Where's Christoph?:

HISE's pitch is 'build plugins without writing C++

I make sample libraries rather than plugins. For me HISE is an alternative to Kontakt, not an alternative to C++. If I use an LLM I'd just be asking it to recreate a worse version of HISE. Instead I use it to enhance HISE to make it better meet my requirements.

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey Sample libraries are indeed notably absent from the current deluge of vibe-coded plugins.

It's another current differentiator - our willingness and ability to accurately sample acoustic instruments or vintage/esoteric hardware.

But I think that'll go away quite soon too. The moat is shrinking every day.