Anyone else noticed the increase of Vibe coded plugins flooding the market?

[D-Fusion]

https://www.soundsdope.net/bang

[Zeisner]

I wonder how Idiocracy would look like if Mike Judge would make it today. With all the vibe coding and vibe banging and wireborns and wiregods...

[AGIGA]

Audioloom is a total game changer. I can go from plugin idea to working prototype in a matter of hours - where it used to take weeks and many thousands of dollars.
JORDAN VALERIOTE
Producer, Mixer, Entrepreneur
Silverstein, Auras, Skynet

I'm glad I never purchased anything from Black Salt Audio.

[VariKusBrainZ]

Coming soon and apparently for free from Artists in DSP

https://artistsindsp.gumroad.com/l/amorphearlyaccess

The idea is simple: AMORPH is a plugin that doesn't have a fixed sound. Instead, it lets you describe any effect or instrument in plain English to an AI (like ChatGPT), which then writes the code for you. You just paste that code into AMORPH, and it works instantly.

Whether it’s a specific vintage saturation, a weird rhythmic delay, or a synth idea you’ve had for years, you can now just "prompt" it into existence.

And yes, we will release it for free.

[Dave_p]

This is a nightmare becoming a reality.

Its basically what happened to the Buy & Sell board on here. Some might remember it being a pretty decent place to really buy or sell some stuff, even just exchange. Then something sneaked in, first just a very few then after a while it got flooded with people selling their gathered codes for some random freebies. So instead of actually selling their own unused plugins, they started to sell unused codes of stuff given away for free a few weeks earlier. Now look at that place and tell me how useful it still is for people wanting to go the good old ways.

This is why, ignorance is a Bliss!

I understand your concerns; profiteering off of others' labor, without consent, is questionable. It's like ticket scalpers at concerts - taking profit from the performer - riding on their coattails.

[VariKusBrainZ]

https://www.soundsdope.net/bang

You know how most of us hate people we can tell are fakes, this ‘company’ gives me the same ick, they trigger a visceral dislike

[c_voltage]

I tried to use Grok and ChatGPT for make some scripts\plugins in Cycling Max (and in 3DsMax too) - many errors \ mismatches (due to difference in versions etc), prticularly at entry levels. Next, inelegant/clumsy solutions, with piling up stacks of identical code blocks and bad perfomance.
As result i going to conclusion that all better do by hands.
Idk, perhaps for editing\checking of already existed code AI can be useful\save some time. Or i used not right platform (not tried Claude btw). Or for creating something common\popular, code of what widely presents in various communities (that can be easy for parsing by AI).
In general, so far did not found it specially useful (as for not progammer).

[El°HYM]

Most developers have been using AI to some degree and it would be a surprise, if they didnt. Using Claude or other tools in that vein, is a step apart though as this doesnt necessarily involve an expertise in coding anymore. This could be good, or not so good depending on the Individual involved. A musician with some golden ears and an innovative Idea could most definitely create some useful stuff. My constrain here is, how will we be able to find those Gems in between a Deluge of quickly shoved out pointless waste.

[Funky40]

My constrain here is, how will we be able to find those Gems in between a Deluge of quickly shoved out pointless waste.

yeah, boils down to that as a customer. (at least it does for me)

[theviirus]

Name some names. What are some examples of vibe coded plugins? Genuinely curious.

this

"Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471648

product: Temecula DSP SST-206 Plugin
https://www.temeculadsp.com/

[Ivan_C]

Vibe coding DSP for audio plug-ins = basically ripping automatically in an automated way all the code available as open source in Git repositories, without any care for the licensing terms. Then the developer can claim he and the AI agent have created something on their own, thanks to AI digesting all the data, and dilue the responsability for not respecting the licensing terms of the original code in the process.

I'm staying far away from all this stuff. And anyway, my DSP skills are not limited to what is only visible in open source code so... Good luck to plug-ins vibe coders for doing anything original! (same issues with AI generated music production)

[kerfuffle]

If you completely vibe code a product, do you own the copyrights on it? (Spoiler: it depends / no / unknown, depending on the terms of service on the AI tool and local laws.)

If the answer is no, and the vibe coder doesn't own any rights, someone could buy such a vibe coded plugin, ask for their money back, and then make it available for free to others *without it being piracy*. The product is public domain by definition.

Personally, I wouldn't announce to the world that you vibe coded something because it might mean you give up your rights over that product.

[Gamma-UT]

If you completely vibe code a product, do you own the copyrights on it? (Spoiler: it depends / no / unknown, depending on the terms of service on the AI tool and local laws.)

If the answer is no, and the vibe coder doesn't own any rights, someone could buy such a vibe coded plugin, ask for their money back, and then make it available for free to others *without it being piracy*. The product is public domain by definition.

Personally, I wouldn't announce to the world that you vibe coded something because it might mean you give up your rights over that product.

The US Copyright Office's decision on an AI-generated comic/graphic novel a year or two ago suggests no, you don't get copyright on it: https://www.copyright.gov/docs/zarya-of-the-dawn.pdf.

The cases against Copilot going through now (though very slowly) are looking at how the AI strips out open source licence terms. So, it might be the case that someone else owns most of it and it's free anyway.

[Gamma-UT]

Name some names. What are some examples of vibe coded plugins? Genuinely curious.

this

"Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471648

product: Temecula DSP SST-206 Plugin
https://www.temeculadsp.com/

"recreate"

It's not clear to me this was vibe-coded per se: he claims he was going off the ROMs but there's little evidence he matched this to more than his memory of it.

But, as for vibe coding, a bit further down, obviously not the one who is selling the reverb:

For context, I'm working on a proper SPICE component-level Diode Ladder.
I tried this for laughs with Gemini 3 Pro. It spit out the same ZDF implementation that is on countless GitHub repos, originating from the 2nd Pirkle FX book (2019).

[zerocrossing]

So you can get your AI to write the songs and write the plugins? Excellent. When can it do the washing and washing up for me?