The concept behind this great. That is why I signed up. Unfortunately I find this course to be deeply flawed.

The first hurdle was me being on Windows vs Mac. Getting set up took a bit of time to figure out. Once I did figure out this translation, things were ok.

The course is directed at a beginner coder, and so all steps should crystal clear and executed without errors. Once we hit module 3 this whole course falls apart. Even following the instructor line by line yields a broken plugin. There is an written explanation of a fix provided however, it doesn't make any sense to a beginner and it was impossible to tell where to put the "fix code". I was very lucky that somebody with the same issue posted a fix in the forum and I was able to continue.

Another major issue I have is that mid way through the 3rd module, the instructor flat out says that this method is not the best way to code a plug in. What?? How about we just learn the best way?

By the 4th module things continue to fall apart. Again following the coding step get me errors I cannot possibly diagnose. Adding the code: float lfoOut = sin(2*M_PI * mLFOPhase); gives an error asking to define M_PI. Also, float lfoOutMapped = jmap(lfoOut, -1, 1, 0.005f, 0.03f); this line gives an error asking to define jmap. As a beginner literally following step by step, all of this works perfectly for the instructor but gives unsolvable errors for me.

I am so frustrated at this point that I haven't even finished the course yet and just filled this review out. It's unlikely I will walk away from this with a working plugin or the skill set to create one.

Also, just an FYI, I have been involved with software and been using javascript and bit of python etc for the last 7 years with my day job at an animation studio so I'm not a complete blank when it comes to this stuff. This is feels like a first draft of something that needs a few more passes and many fixes before selling to the public.

This was the perfect class for me to find, after a few years of searching for good plugin tutorials. I have a degree in EE with DSP knowledge and programming experience in Matlab, Python, and some C. But I've never actually built any realtime processing applications before and was eager to learn.

The course material is well produced and at this time of writing only about 2 years old. Finding something newer was important, because a lot of the other plugin tutorials seem outdated and if you can't match your versions closely with the tutorial, sooo much changes and it's hard to keep up.

The presentation of the material is good, didn't have too much trouble following around with the code. Obviously had to rewatch several times most cases. There were a few times where I experienced bugs from directly following the video and had to correct myself, but these are good learning experiences.

In the end I came out of the course feeling like I understood a lot more about plugin development and that I can take this and begin to explore on my own. Very interested in trying the advanced class for this eventually, but need to dig a bit deeper first. My C++ knowledge wasn't great going into this, and it also served well as coding practice.

The time commitment for me was at least 10 hours a week during lessons 2 and 3.

The content is helpful, but doesn't extend much on the tutorials available from JUCE. I was hoping it might spend a little more time on setup, best practices, and go more in depth on some of the discussed contents. I felt like most of the time was spent watching the instructor code, which is.. disorienting when you are learning. I would have rathered if they'd spent more time working at an high level, talking about the concepts before jumping into the code.

While competency with C++ was recommended, it wasn't totally necessary at this level, but it could have been fully understandable for someone with basic programming familiarity, if they'd just talked thru some of the basic concepts of why pointers are being used, what a constructor is.. etc.

It would have been great if they'd zoomed in on the code, since it was nearly impossible to see when not maximized, but it can't be viewed at full screen if you want to code along. It would have also been helpful if they'd shared ways to visualize or output logs, to get a better view of what's happening inside the code.

And finally. Edit the videos. Please, and create a test project that auto loads. Use something like JUCE's audio plugin tester, which loads super fast and can auto-load a state, ready to test. It left like 45% of the time, was watching Live startup.

I would rate this 3.5 stars given the option. This was a good tutorial that I learned a good amount from. It's nearly impossible to find resources like this for JUCE, so really it's one of the only options if you're trying to take an online class in this subject. I felt the tutorial was a little rough around the edges at times, and it didn't really leave me feeling that confident in my JUCE skills. It did have some good information on more complex topics like circular buffers and delay lines, but in an intro to plugin development course it would have been nice to have just been given a super firm grasp on the basics of JUCE. Perhaps covering more about the built-in classes and functionality of the framework would have been preferable over covering more advanced theory.
All in all, it was a decent course.

Wow one hundred characters, guys, most of the stuff which I had to submit to get the certificate (which I did not get btw) was completely unrelated to audio programming, recording a video and commenting and participating in the forums. This is not ok. I lost interest after doing the first coursework.

Also, I hope you know that already, but this course is completely outdated!!

So pleas, just give me this certificate I payed for to link it to my LinkedIn, then I can maybe recommend this course. But as it is, for a paying "student" which gets fed outdated information, this is unacceptable!!!

Please just give me that damn certificate, I had enough from output courses... Same with the advanced course mates...

Sorry for the support who has to deal with people like me who are completely unsatisfied because you messed up a good learning oppurtunity. Not at least because Jake isn't even at output or works with Kadenze anymore. So, nothing more to say.

Sorry again to the Kadenze Support Team