New Quality Assurance Co-Op!

Posted on August 19, 2013 by RAadmin

At Redwood Audio we value the quality and craftsmanship of all things made. If, like us, you enjoy exercising a critical eye for detail on projects large and small, have work you would like to see peer-reviewed or are interested in contributing behind the scenes as new ideas are fledged into the world – we hope you will consider joining our new Quality Assurance Co-Op!

Our goal is to bring together a formal community of experienced inventors, developers and testers for private collaborative reviews of each other’s projects at various stages in the development cycle. The details of the program will evolve as the team is assembled and various interests assessed. We hope to eventually include many experienced engineers, developers, test engineers, critical listeners, musicians, user-interface and experience experts, luthiers as well and technical writers. All those jobs your company would fill if you had begun making your millions… As we grow in numbers, it should prove very interesting for everyone involved! Be sure to stay tuned for further developments.

JUCE for VST Plugins Tutorial!

Posted on June 28, 2013 by RAadmin

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Our JUCE tutorial for developing VST plug-ins just went up a few months ago and has already received some great attention and feedback from our readers. If you have not had a chance to read it, you can find the original here... There have also been some updates to the JUCE framework itself in that time and your continued interest has encouraged us work on an updated version.

For now, we have noted the major changes to workflow in the tutorial’s header – but we will be updating the content of the pages shortly. If you have any additional ideas you would like to share with our readers, please let us know and we will be happy to give full credit for all contributions. In the mean time, we are glad to see we have made a difference for many of you. Happy Coding!

Redwood Audio Backs Vo-96!

Posted on April 26, 2013 by RAadmin

Redwood Audio is pleased to announce our support of the Vo-96 Kickstarter campaign! We hope this support helps bring the Vo-96 to life and into our shop for future builds. The technology – being described as “Acoustic Synthesis” – represents, in our view, a huge step forward in active string control. The device allows independent control of odd/even harmonics, sustain length (including muting) and adds the concepts of auto modulation, tremelo and arpeggios. In a sense, it brings the many concepts of wave synthesis direct to the sting vibrations of your guitar.

If you have been following the technology, its proof-of-concept debut was as the Moog Lev-96 which had some good buzz in the media (and got our attention). It is now being productized by the inventor Paul Vo as the Vo-96. You can find out more at his site or the kickstarter page including the growing number of youtube videos. If you want to join the backers, there are still two weeks left to back with rewards including 1st run units. Be sure to check back with Redwood Audio to see how we get on with our kit as well as the upcoming builds.