Remote EQ
shippedA VST3 audio plugin that runs its own web server, so a sound engineer can walk into the crowd with a tablet and tune the room from there.
Live sound has an old problem: the mixing desk is at the back of the room, but the room sounds different everywhere else. Remote EQ solves it by putting a 61-band graphic equaliser inside the plugin and exposing it over the local network. Open a browser on any device, and you are holding the desk.
The interesting part is the split. Audio runs on a real-time thread that must never block; the network runs on its own threads, so a dropped tablet connection can't interrupt the show. The two talk through lock-free atomics. The web interface is plain JavaScript compiled into the binary itself, so the plugin ships as a single file with nothing to install.
- 61-band graphic EQ at 1/6 octave, zero added latency
- Embedded HTTP + WebSocket server, hand-rolled handshake
- Room measurement with a calibration mic, pink noise and live spectrum
- Automatic feedback detection with parked notch filters
- Second version splits into two plugins that sync over shared memory