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Martin Finke

Personal blog · martin-finke.de/blogprogramming

Martin Finke's personal blog at martin-finke.de covers programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Making Audio Plugins (2013)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Martin Finke's audio plugin posts on digital oscillator design, aliasing and the Nyquist limit, and a post on building a music sequencer from CSV spreadsheets.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Making Audio Plugins (2013)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30
  2. Making Audio Plugins (2015)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-15
  3. /blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-polyblep-oscillator/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. cageface · 2021-01-01Recommends
    Aliasing occurs when you try to sample frequences above half your sampling rate. This is the famous Nyquist theorem. This might help you understand why this can happen in naively implemented digital oscillators: http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-p...

    Comment linking /blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-polyblep-oscillator/

    on “The Design of the Roland Juno Syntheziser's Oscillators”
  2. Submitted Making Audio Plugins (2013) as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerically-controlled_oscilla... The more advanced version without aliasing: http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-p...

    Comment linking /blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-polyblep-oscillator/

    on “Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer”
  4. Submitted Making Audio Plugins (2015) as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/tags/making_audio_plugins.ht...

    Comment linking /blog/tags/making_audio_plugins.html

    on “Making a Simple Music Sequencer Using CSV Spreadsheets”
  6. Submitted Ever wondered how to make a VST plugin? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Making Audio Plugins Tutorial as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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