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by fundamental 3386 days ago
It's a pretty big area and there's plenty of open source projects in this space (and a decent crowd of people working on linux audio development). I'd say a great way to learn a new domain is to help out existing open source projects (though I'm biased towards that as that's how I learned).

Let me know what you're specifically looking for (via a few examples if possible) and I might be able to direct you to some resources.
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eagerNewb 3386 days ago
What I decided to do is use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

I know it's javascript and that it's definitely not the best choice for sound manipulation, but I'll learn a lot from practicing. C++ has a very steep learning curve and even if I understood music theory( which I dont, just a bass player ), I wouldn't be able to express myself in C++. So, decided to learn some music theory and implement this theory in javascript code.

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fundamental 3386 days ago
If you have decided to stay in javascript then I wouldn't be of much help. Most of my focus is on hard-realtime audio generation and processing and languages like javascript are unsuitable for that task. C/C++ introduce a variety of new concepts which may lead to a steep learning curve, but the same can be said about learning many other languages for the first time. Additionally I would like to say that audio programming and music theory are very separate areas when it comes to learning each topic.
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