sOURnd: audio engines modelled on real gear for Claude to build from
A bassist whose own plugins have nearly 50,000 downloads built a catalogue of audio engines, each modelled from scratch and tested on real gear, so plugins Claude builds don't all sound the same.
Credits
- Reddit poster jameshgordy Source ↗
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The full story
The maker has played bass for 24 years and released a line of plugins based on their own rig, with nearly 50,000 downloads. They noticed that plugins made by coding agents all sound the same, because each uses the same stock module for every effect. So they built sOURnd, a catalogue of audio engines that Claude can read through llms.txt, a JSON catalogue and an MCP server.
Nearly all of it was built in Claude Code over about eight months. Claude wrote each engine from the maker's measurements and reference recordings, and built a test bench that compares an engine with the real thing and fails it if it drifts. Every engine was checked against the maker's own gear. They say Claude often guessed DSP constants, which showed them how unprepared models are for this work.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Over the last two years, I've noticed vibe-coded audio plugins all sound the same since they're usinReddit poster: jameshgordyPosted
The maker's post in r/ClaudeAI about sOURnd and how it was built.
- The project: plugins.boxofrules.com
Linked in the post.