Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

gus_massa · 2026-01-04T01:41:03 1767490863

Did you recreate the UI only or also the internal circuits? Does it produce a similar distorsion?

BenjaminHas · 2026-01-03T15:46:21 1767455181

This is really impressive! I love how you combined AI assistance with schematics, patents, and ROMs to recreate it.

johnwheeler · 2026-01-03T16:46:19 1767458779

Thank you so much. Yeah it's really cool. I also bought myself a copy of Max MSP and I'm recreating it visually so I can tweak all the parameters and really understand what's going on because the AI did all of the theory for me but I have all the numbers. When you tweak the numbers it makes it sound totally different. So yeah I'm excited. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to build electronic music gear. I'm not saying AI is not going to be able to do that one day but I just can't do web programming anymore. I don't know. I've been doing it too long and I just don't like it anymore.

chunkmonke99 · 2026-01-03T20:47:49 1767473269

Wait you used Claude Code to recreate patents and schematics? Are the schematics for this easily available somewhere? Was Claude just able to one-shot this?

RiverStone · 2026-01-03T04:28:34 1767414514

Nicely done!!

johnwheeler · 2026-01-03T04:30:56 1767414656

Thank you!

ndgold · 2026-01-03T03:19:27 1767410367

Instant ROI