A home-made chiptune and MIDI music program in C and SDL3
A small music program grown into a niche DAW with chip, MIDI and tracker playback, written entirely by Claude in C and SDL3 for a non-programmer.
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What began as an outside editor for a clunky in-game music tool has grown into a small DAW with a MIDI mode using sound fonts, a custom chiptune engine, a bus mixer, EQ, automation, a sample editor and a player for MP3 and tracker formats such as .xm and .mod.
The maker has little technical background, so the whole program was written by Claude over a huge number of iterations, in pure C with SDL3 drawing everything on screen. The demo video was recorded with the program's own record option.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: For the past couple of months I've been making a small music music program which is slowly turning i
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: For the past couple of months I've been making a small music music program which is slowly turning i (opens in a new tab)