Successful Audio Plugin Freelancing with Jatin Chowdhury (ChowDSP) | WolfTalk #024

WolfTalk: Podcast About Audio Programming (People, Careers, Learning)

Jatin Chowdhury is quite well known in the audio programming community for his numerous contributions:

• various open- and closed-source audio plugins,
• a few published research papers on Virtual Analog modeling,
• a few audio-related talks, especially at the Audio Developer Conference,
• insightful Medium articles on creating audio software in general,
• significant open-source contributions including the CLAP plugin standard and Surge Synthesizer.

The list could go on on and on but you get the point: he’s both incredibly productive and highly successful while being very generous to the community with his knowledge.

That’s why it was amazing to have him on the podcast!

Jatin currently leads his own audio plugin company ChowDSP which provides consulting and contracting as well.

During the podcast we discuss his story (which is a kind of “from hero to superhero” tale, if you ask me…), what he learnt along the way, all his current strategies, and most importantly: how you can become someone like a Jatin, a successful audio plugin developer and freelancer.

I was incredibly inspired during the recording of this episode and revisiting it brought up those feelings again.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ Listening to this podcast episode will leave you highly motivated to do more audio programming. Listen at your own risk.

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Episode contents

From this podcast episode, you will learn:

• how Jatin developed his interest in all things music,
• how he got accepted to CCRMA at Stanford and then to Tesla,
• how he started freelancing as an audio programmer,
• how he finds clients,
• what’s his developer setup,
• which tools he’s using,
• resources he recommends for learning audio programming and DSP,
• personal daily routine for optimal productivity.

This episode was recorded on June 14, 2024.