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Chris Nash

Director / Founder

nash.audio

About Me

Chris Nash is a software developer, composer, educator and researcher in things that go beep in the night. Following a PhD on music software design at Cambridge, he has worked on technology and music projects across academia and industry, including for the BBC, Steinberg/Yamaha, and multiple start-ups, and independently develops and maintains several software projects, specialising in computer music and making music programming more accessible, including Manhattan (a hybrid DAW/programming language), Klang (a C++ dialect for audio), rapIDE (a plug-in based C++ IDE) and reViSiT (an award-winning plug-in based sound tracker).

He is currently Senior Lecturer in Software Development for Audio, Sound, and Music at UWE Bristol, and recently founded nash.audio, a non-profit organisation supporting creativity and learning in music technology. Working with London-based Point Blank Music School, Dr Nash is the architect of the forthcoming MuSE (Music Systems Engineering) course, developed in collaboration with industry to be the world's first professional audio developer degree programme.

Sessions

  • Workshop: Klang: Live and Expressive C++ for Audio

    What if C++ had built-in audio semantics? What if you could develop C++ plugins, live in the DAW?
    14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Monday 11th November 2024 | SS Great Britain
    Beginner
    Intermediate
    Advanced

    A practical introduction to Klang, a C++ dialect (language extension) for audio, and rapIDE (rapid audio prototyping IDE), a complete C++ development environment in a DAW plugin, supporting live code editing, recompiling, and debugging. Developed to improve the liveness and usability of professional DSP practices, both tools facilitate the expressive design of new interfaces, sounds, and audio processes, while lowering the threshold to C++ for newcomers and learners, without compromising its expressive ceiling or performance. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop will feature discussions, live demonstrations, structured practical exercises, and assisted open exploration of the Klang language and rapIDE development platform, […]