Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min · 13 segments
Future Audio Workshop founder Gavin Burke joins The Audio Programmer to talk about what it takes to sell audio plugins in 2026. Gavin has been building plugins since 2005: modeling the Jupiter-8 and…
Joshua HodgeHost
And it's fascinating to me how, Really, the past 10 years as I've been in the industry, I've been full of conferences and talks about optimizing code and ways to set up your interface and all of these things.
were we kind of just playing a weird game with ourselves all along? I mean, I don't know, because I would like to think that there's part of it that's the craft and we want to be the best at our craft, right? Yeah, no, no, that's
You know, it doesn't devalue anything and it doesn't devalue kind of like that great skill of being able to sit down and concentrate on something very niche and detailed and fixing it.
That's like something that... you know, humans have been doing for a time of memoriam and we don't want to lose that.
I'm just saying that like, maybe it just moves out into a different area of what it means to be a developer, or, you know, maybe it's like, we still have to start thinking more in terms of sort of structuring the code, structuring projects or products, you know, it's like, it's kind of like a bit of a mindset shift, but like, you know, do you know what happens on the chip on your computer right now? Possibly not.
You know what I mean? Maybe if I was an engineer 25 years ago, I possibly would.
And I'm sure when I was going to university, I was learning about transistors and how to build an op amp.
And I think those skill sets will always be useful, like the ability to, you know... yeah, complete a task, concentrate on something.
And it's just about like, how do you, how do you maneuver through this period of flux as a developer and yeah, protect yourself and make sure that you're changing and that you're not getting stuck or yeah, trying to fight it because we have no, we have absolutely no way to fight it, at least on an individual level.
And it's fascinating to me how, Really, the past 10 years as I've been in the industry, I've been full of conferences and talks about optimizing code and ways to set up your interface and all of these things.
were we kind of just playing a weird game with ourselves all along? I mean, I don't know, because I would like to think that there's part of it that's the craft and we want to be the best at our craft, right? Yeah, no, no, that's
You know, it doesn't devalue anything and it doesn't devalue kind of like that great skill of being able to sit down and concentrate on something very niche and detailed and fixing it.
That's like something that... you know, humans have been doing for a time of memoriam and we don't want to lose that.
I'm just saying that like, maybe it just moves out into a different area of what it means to be a developer, or, you know, maybe it's like, we still have to start thinking more in terms of sort of structuring the code, structuring projects or products, you know, it's like, it's kind of like a bit of a mindset shift, but like, you know, do you know what happens on the chip on your computer right now? Possibly not.
You know what I mean? Maybe if I was an engineer 25 years ago, I possibly would.
And I'm sure when I was going to university, I was learning about transistors and how to build an op amp.
And I think those skill sets will always be useful, like the ability to, you know... yeah, complete a task, concentrate on something.
And it's just about like, how do you, how do you maneuver through this period of flux as a developer and yeah, protect yourself and make sure that you're changing and that you're not getting stuck or yeah, trying to fight it because we have no, we have absolutely no way to fight it, at least on an individual level.
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