RustAudioExploration

This project is a try to get into digital sound synthesis, learn Rust and frontend web development using Angular.

In my real life, I'm actually a musician and I have always enjoyed electronic music and digital sound synthesis quite a lot - from a user perspective. I knew that at some point, I want to get into the fundamentals of digital sound synthesis - and even sound synthesis in general but I had no idea of how and when. At the sime, I've wanted to learn Rust but never came up with a project idea.

Fortunately, after watching this excellent video by Sebastian Lauge (I highly recommend watching all of his videos if you're into coding!) it became quite obvious to me how I can achieve all of my goals at the same time. I will build my own synthesizer using Rust from scratch. I am fully aware that there are libraries for both C++ and Rust that help with that. I, for myself, want to do it the hard way to learn as much as I can during this process.

Another thing I've always wanted to do was frontend web development (since other projects forced me to do it). So I was blown away after I came across tauri. This way I can build my frontend using Angular (this is used by the frontend guys at the company that I work at, so I thought they can help me here), my backend using Rust and get into sound synthesis while working on this project.

Please don't take this project too seriously. It's just a fun side project for me. I'm happy for any tips, tricks and comments on my work!

If you want to check out my music:

• Spotify
• YouTube
• Bandcamp

Table of Contents

• Tech Stack
  • Development
    • VS Code Extensions
  • Backend
  • Frontend
• Resources
  • Rust

Tech Stack

Development

I use VS Code. You can find a guide on how to set up debugging for tauri right here.

VS Code Extensions

• Rust: rust-analyzer, Tauri, Rust Syntax
• HTML: Auto Rename Tag, HTML Boilerplate, HTML CSS Support,
• TypeScript: Angular Language Service, Angular Snippets (Version 18)
• Debugging: CodeLLDB
• Quality of life: Code Spell Checker
• Theme: Tokyo Night
• Misc: Markdown All In One, Project Manager, YAML

Backend

• Rust
  • cpal: Low-level library for audio input and output in pure Rust.

Frontend

• Rust
  • tauri (v2.0.0-rc): Frontend framework that compiles to HTML, JS, CSS.
• TypeScript
  • Angular (v18): Single-page web application framework.
  • PrimeNG: Angular component library.
  • webaudio-controls: Javascript library to display the GUI components used in Web Music Applications.
• Assets
  • WebKnobMan: Gallery and editor for audio assets.

Resources

Of course, I didn't came up with all of this myself. I got this idea after watching this excellent video by Sebastian Lauge. I highly recommend watching all of his videos if you're into coding.

Rust

• "The Book": THE resource to learn Rust