KVR Audio

soundmodel · Post by **soundmodel** » Sat Nov 25, 2023 5:34 pm

How long does it take to produce one model (say, a hardware-emulated compressor)?

Archit3ch · Post by **Archit3ch** » Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:03 pm

It depends on your tooling. Assuming you have something like QSpice, no developing new components, and no hardware measurements, it shouldn't take that long.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:04 pm

Estimates are worthless. My current project was estimated (also by me) to be doable in 4 to 6 weeks. I started in July and it's not done yet. I guess it still might take 4 to 6 weeks.

Hofstadter's Law wrote: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

When I studied computer science, I heard of a study done on 100 programmers given the same assignment and they measured how long it took. Result: the fastest programmer was 5x faster than average / median, while the slowest was 5x slower.
These extremes thus differ by a whopping factor of 25.

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:48 am

What is a "model" anyway? It could mean a ton of things and on top of that when some model is "done" is mostly a question of "can I afford to spend more time on it" so it's really like asking how long does it take to do a painting? You can splash some paint on a canvas and call it done, or you can spend weeks refining the details... or you might spend a year sketching anatomy studies before you even start with the actual painting.