> Back in the olden days, many people would fiddle around with the innards of their studio kit to change how it operated and sounded. Things aren’t quite so simple in today’s digital studio. The complexity and exacting nature of digital audio hardware does not lend itself to a bit of casual circuitbending, and the source program code that underlies commercial audio software is locked down tighter than a hipster’s jeans. One solution for those wishing to tinker in the digital audio world is to take a computer science degree, and then use that knowledge to start developing their own processors and instruments. This is an extraordinarily longwinded way of getting into a bit of DIY plugin making, though, so thankfully there are other options – at least three as it goes – that require a lot less mucking about!