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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

📝New blog post – BlueNote's Real-time Phase Vocoder A deep dive into the DSP behind the "freezing" effect in BlueNote Implementing the algo took me about a week of banging my head against the wall. Hope others find it interesting / helpful

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BlueNote's Real-time Phase Vocoder

I recently launched an app called BlueNote. It’s essentially a fancy audio player that helps you learn music by ear. The most obvious way to learn music by ear is to slow down the audio to make it...

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Finally figured how to do a real-time phase vocoder

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Daniel Kuntz

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ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch.

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Daniel Kuntz

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Been working on something cool - the future of learning piano with AR! 🎹✨ Coming to the App Store soon 👀

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I fucked up

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@pseudolad Me and who

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

A problem has be to your computer

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Daniel Kuntz

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Starting a “deep tech” startup where we just make stuff like this

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Synekura Audio

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Rafael Sommerhalder, 'Untitled', 2021

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Well would you look at that, I finally made something with #arkit ! 🤗 View over 130 chords on your piano in ✨AR✨ Available now:

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Daniel Kuntz

11 months

Made a CD in SwiftUI with Swift.Shader

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Daniel Kuntz

2 months

Stat maps update for @anydistanceclub is live! Plot all your workouts on one map, filtered by time period, city, and workout type All Apple Health data – pulls from every workout app on your phone Free (for now)

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Daniel Kuntz

10 months

Recreated the iOS 17 AirDrop animation with Metal and Swift.Shader🛜 Code:

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Daniel Kuntz

14 days

I love SF / tech culture but it’s possibly the most sexless scene on the face of the earth. Yes I am aware of poly and play parties

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Daniel Kuntz

8 months

Moving to SF is probably the best decision I’ve ever made

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Daniel Kuntz

7 months

Finally figured how to do a real-time phase vocoder

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Daniel Kuntz

8 months

Not an AI pendant in sight. Just living in the moment, absolutely beautiful, wish we could go back

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Super stoked to announce that I will be interning with @Apple this summer on the Special Projects Group team! 🎉🍎

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Daniel Kuntz

3 months

@mayfer How do we know if any given book is going to be about solar eclipses or cellular automata? We can’t, according to a phenomenon I coined in 1971 called the Principle of Narrative Irreducibility

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

Allow me to have a brief Nikita Bier moment, need to get this off my chest: You absolutely do not need more than 1-2 people to build 99.9% of all iOS app MVPs in the year of our lord 2023 Anyone who says otherwise is bad at eng / design / business or all of the above

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

@THEK0UNT bro i walk with 57% swing

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

I love my life in SF. I love traversing the hills and writing code and having autistic conversations and witnessing the rise and fall of meme ideologies

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

“AI coding tools make you a bad engineer” No they actually help you learn faster by dramatically shortening the trial and error feedback loop

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Daniel Kuntz

27 days

Sold my gpt wrapper startup call that RAG to riches

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

Thankful I live here

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Daniel Kuntz

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Quick procedural star animation with SwiftUI's Canvas

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Daniel Kuntz

9 months

Seems like I chose the right name for the new app

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Daniel Kuntz

2 months

New in @anydistanceclub today – track distance and time for all your running shoes Stats are updated automatically, even if you track with a different app 62 color options modeled after popular running shoes

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

This app is out now. It's called BlueNote and it's a fancy audio player that helps you learn songs by ear. The project was collecting dust on my HD for the past 2 years so I decided to finish it. It's free! Enjoy :)

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Daniel Kuntz

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Finally figured how to do a real-time phase vocoder

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

simple real-time time domain pitch shifter - a visual explanation

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Got bored and made this metronome / sequencer hybrid thing. Any percussionists seeing this? Thoughts?

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one. - Confucius via @naval

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Daniel Kuntz

11 months

Hooked up to accelerometer

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Daniel Kuntz

11 months

Trying out a rain distortion effect in @anydistanceclub with Swift.Shader

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Daniel Kuntz

7 months

Me and @based_coded made the local news

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Daniel Kuntz

2 months

Made a quick #WWDC24 metal shader

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Daniel Kuntz

1 month

. @supabase edge functions are unbelievable. Built and deployed an entire backend with auth, phone number OTP, invites in like 4 hours total

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Daniel Kuntz

3 months

Made a new feature for @anydistanceclub this weekend that plots all your workouts on one map with automatic city clustering

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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

Inshallah going to finish a blog post about how this DSP works on my 11hr plane ride tomorrow

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Daniel Kuntz

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Finally figured how to do a real-time phase vocoder

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Daniel Kuntz

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@getjonwithit This is a rehearsed line packaged for an audience, probably not representative of what talking to him IRL actually feels like

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Super excited to officially launch my first game, BEET! 🎉🎵 It's like Simon Says, but with a drum machine. Featuring 240 beats custom designed by real producers. 🔥🔥 Download here ➡️

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Daniel Kuntz

11 months

Code:

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SwiftUI + Swift.Shader CD

SwiftUI + Swift.Shader CD. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Off the Chain with @APompliano is the highest value podcast I have ever listened to.

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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

@deepfates Ignoring gum health entirely, you should still floss because not flossing is probably why your breath smells bad

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

🚨 N e w A p p A l e r t 🚨 Just released Impulse, a metronome app designed for people who are obsessed with rhythm! 🥁 Download here ->

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Daniel Kuntz

3 years

the worst part about developing music software is that you can't listen to music while coding. instead you have to listen to your software and pray it doesn't blow out your eardrums.

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

folding triangles

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@dankuntz

Daniel Kuntz

9 months

Who wants to try my AI music creation app

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

New app I developed in collaboration with @AudioKitPro !

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AudioKit Pro

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NEW APP: Audiokit L7 Live Looper 🚀

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@dankuntz

Daniel Kuntz

4 years

today I released AudioTune, a new pitch correction app and AUv3 plugin! i’m so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with @AudioKitPro on this release. hope it brings you a little joy in these tumultuous times 🙂

AudioTune | AudioKit Pro

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

I've been writing some of my own DSP recently. Managed to create a halfway decent harmonizer effect! (sound on)

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Daniel Kuntz

2 months

@nearcyan What the hell is that logo lmao

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

The music software industry is HOT 🔥 Don’t believe me? 🤔 Even Tesla is making their own DAW. It’s called Trax 🎹 @elonmusk if you could cut down the latency and give us some quantization on those pads, I’ll delete Logic right now 😤

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

🌶️ 𝙎 𝙕 𝙀 𝘾 𝙃 𝙐 𝘼 𝙉 𝙎 𝘼 𝙏 𝙐 𝙍 𝘼 𝙏 𝙊 𝙍 🌶️ 🔥 𝘼 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 𝙋𝙇𝙐𝙂𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙊 𝘼𝘿𝘿 𝙎𝙊𝙈𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙎𝘼𝙄𝘾𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙊 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎 🔥 𝘿𝙊𝙒𝙉𝙇𝙊𝘼𝘿: 🔁𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 🏷𝙏𝘼𝙂 𝘼 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝘿𝙐𝘾𝙀𝙍

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Wow, Apple wants to feature BEET before it's even been approved by app review! 🎊😮 At least take me out to dinner first @AppStore 😉

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

cooking up something new

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Daniel Kuntz

25 days

Everyone should keep a rabbit r1 on them at all times. It’s just so orange. You’ve never seen an object this orange before. It looks great with an all black outfit. It’s a courtship display. Like a peacock

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Daniel Kuntz

2 months

@growing_daniel A once useful app hijacked by MBAs

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@dankuntz

Daniel Kuntz

4 years

AudioKit L7 launch day stats: #️⃣1️⃣ iPad music app #️⃣2️⃣ iPhone music app #️⃣4️⃣ iPad paid app #️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ iPhone paid app THANK YOU 🙏🙌 Updates coming soon 👀

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Pleased to announce my newest venture – Coda Labs! 🎹🎉 Coda is building apps for the future of music creation and learning. And we're hiring! 📣 If you are a... Social Media Expert 👩‍💻 iOS Engineer 📱 Designer 👨‍🎨 Hit me up! My DM's are open 📩

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

working on MIDI input for my upcoming iOS pitch correction AUv3 plugin

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

#1 in iPad music! 🎉

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

the mac version of audiotune will not have ilok or serial numbers or any kind of activation because that shit is tedious as hell and literally everyone hates it and i don’t care if you pirate

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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

@deepfates I can smell it from here brother 🤢

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Let it be known that I am officially protesting flat icon design.

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

this app doesn't exist. it's a podcast player with built-in transcription. it transcribes any podcast locally on your device, and lets you search all your downloaded podcasts' transcriptions. hypothetically, if this app were to exist, would you be interested?

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@dankuntz

Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Working on something groovy...✨🕺 Want to beta test? Sign up here ⬇️ Are you a producer who wants to make content for this? Drop me a line ⬇️ daniel at

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Daniel Kuntz

2 years

recent side project – an app to help me transcribe piano solos. i screen record something i like, drop it in the app, and transcribe on pencil / paper. favorite features (so far): - looping - EQ - speed control - pitch shift (cent granularity) - pinch to zoom video

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

i’m dropping a new free plugin this friday. it’s going to be very sick. i mentioned free, right? if you’re feeling kind, help me spread the word by commenting and tagging a producer you know ♥️

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

What’s that I see? Oh look, L7 is AUv3! 🎹 Coming soon...

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

@virakri Love it when people actually implement stuff like this instead of just making it in After Effects and posting it on dribbble.

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Remember that cool AR piano demo I tweeted? You can download it right now on the App Store! Chroma is now officially available for iPhone 🎉

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

producers! 🎧 i know you want a pitch correction plugin but don’t want to pay $100 for it. i’m giving away 10 free copies of my upcoming pitch correction VST, AudioTune ✨ just retweet and follow me to enter!

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

I posted a link to Impulse on Reddit and got this comment. It’s a unique kind of feeling when your creations help people in this way 🙂

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

dealing with app review is literally the highlight of my entire life

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Daniel Kuntz

3 years

not to sound kanye pilled but this is amazing an elegant & fun way to introduce anyone to DJing (which requires just as much skill as playing any other instrument) and there’s cool DSP inside - AI source separation, transient / beat detection, real-time resampling, etc

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Daniel Kuntz

2 years

great day

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Daniel Kuntz

3 years

🥳

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Daniel Kuntz

4 months

I've never let my shareholders down

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

Just released version 1.3 of AudioKit L7, which adds AUv3 support! Get it here:

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Daniel Kuntz

3 months

Consider ignoring this completely for the sole reason that it led to this awful design decision

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@SpotifyEng

Spotify Engineering

3 months

"Modern product development is all about taking calculated risks..." 🧮 Our latest blog post dives into @Spotify 's decision-making engine and shows how the results of multiple metrics in an A/B test are combined into a single product decision.

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

working on a pretty bitchin plugin right now. thinking about giving it away for free

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

considering making a Melodyne-style pitch correction app using the code from AudioTune. what features would you like to see?

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Daniel Kuntz

4 months

You may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like

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Daniel Kuntz

2 years

so excited about the next @anydistanceclub update 🌟

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Hey! I helped make that!

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Georgia Tech

5 years

With over 300,000 views, this free-throw-shooting machine that filled a warehouse and was built by Georgia Tech students for the Harlem Globetrotters is our most-watched video of 2018.

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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

Making apps can be fun

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

Getting IBDesignables to work

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Daniel Kuntz

14 days

@inerati I agree let’s make money

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

@anammostarac Now this is e/acc

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Daniel Kuntz

6 years

Thank you @AppStore ! 🎖

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Daniel Kuntz

2 years

Gradient animation in SwiftUI for @anydistanceclub

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

the LOGICal next step for AudioTune. soon it will LIVE on your desktop. . . ! 😤

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Daniel Kuntz

5 years

. @Apple who did this

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Daniel Kuntz

3 years

found some ancient UI in the Apple Music app on Catalina

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

@stroughtonsmith finishing up AudioTune - a real time pitch correction app. it's AUv3, meaning you can use it as an effects plugin inside another app, similar to how you would use a VST in Logic or Ableton. but on iOS!

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

working on MIDI input for my upcoming iOS pitch correction AUv3 plugin

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Daniel Kuntz

5 months

I want to get rich so I can open bar / restaurant concepts in SF that are so insane they could never be profitable

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Daniel Kuntz

9 months

Recording UI in SongAI

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

New L7 update with lots of fixes and improvements! Download here:

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Daniel Kuntz

6 months

Nobody: Emmett Shear: I can fix her

@eshear

Emmett Shear

6 months

I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m glad to have been a part of the solution.

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Daniel Kuntz

4 years

if credit card companies can make the money they're making from 3% transaction fees, @Apple doesn't have to take 10x as much from developers.

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