db Audioware Give Guest Lecture to Music Technology Students
Dave Brown and Brian Duncan from db Audioware with Music Technology Lecturer, Michael Uwins (right)
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:37:00 GMT
Music Technology students from the School of Computing and Engineering were invited to two guest lectures by Dave Brown and Brian Duncan from db Audioware, a media technology company based in Scotland. Established in 1997 db Audioware produced the world’s first free VST (Virtual Studio Technology) plugin and their software is used daily around the world by thousands of musicians, sound engineers, lighting professionals, broadcasters and educators.
Organised by Music Technology Lecturer, Michael Uwins (right), the talks took place on Thursday 17th December, 2015 and gave students an insight into both the business and technical side of the plug-in industry
The first lecture, titled “The adventure of running your own audio business” covered product development, marketing, distribution, finance and secrets of setting up a successful audio hardware / software company - and keeping it running for 18 years.
The second lecture titled “Audio plug-in design and coding” focused on the technical side of programming audio plug-ins.
Brian Duncan of db Audioware said of his visit to the university:
"We greatly enjoyed our visit to Huddersfield to talk to the Music Technology students and staff. This was our first time at the University and we were impressed with what we found. It was particularly good to see the interest in the more technical Audio Systems aspect of the course, as this is very often overshadowed by the Production side of Music Technology.
For us, the high point of a busy afternoon was undoubtedly the Audio Plug-ins lecture that Dave had been asked to deliver. Despite being timetabled to run after 6pm on the second last day of term, it was not only well attended, but the audience was really enthusiastic. In fact, I think Dave was still fielding questions up to half an hour after it finished!
It turns out that the programming environment used in the course at Huddersfield is very similar to what we use to develop software products at DB Audioware. It’s very encouraging to see students gaining experience with these real-world tools at an early stage. Hopefully, we may have been able to provide some extra insight into how that basic knowledge translates into a commercial setting.”
