Re: 11 Bark channels

Okay Matt,

I will put a copy of the Crescendo that I’m using up on my cloud drive and send along a link for downloading.

One concern I have is that Apple may block our attempt to do this, due to the way they make me crypto-sign the app. I might need to add you as a member of my development team in order to allow the plugin to run on your computer. 

Or, maybe there is a workaround where you can just tell the Mac to ignore signing conflicts. I know that sometimes works with unsigned apps.




> On Nov 4, 2025, at 12:34, Matt Fahrner <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Cool – I use Pro Tools. I’d love to give it a try – thanks David!
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> From: David McClain <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
> To: Matt Fahrner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Yuri Davidovsky <[email protected]>, Lispworks HUG <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: 11 Bark channels
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> The plugin runs on Mac as an AudioUnits plugin. That means you can run it in any AU Host program, any DAW, or in Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource.
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> If that fits your situation, I can send you a copy of Crescendo.
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> On Nov 4, 2025, at 11:50, Matt Fahrner <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Thanks for the offer – don’t know how I’d access it, but it does sound interesting if I could.
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> Fortunately for me tinnitus is just a part of life. The only time it bugs me is when I’m relaxing in nature and trying to enjoy the sound of the wind, trees, birds, etc. Still, hearing what I’ve lost when it comes to music would undoubtedly be a joy (and helpful to correctly mix music).
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> Matt
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> From: David McClain <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
> To: Matt Fahrner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Yuri Davidovsky <[email protected]>, Lispworks HUG <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: 11 Bark channels
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> Well, you are certainly welcome to try Crescendo for your needs.
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> I also have raging Tinnitus, but I am able to ignore it for the most part. I know it drives some people absolutely crazy. 
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> I had polio as an infant, and so I learned over my lifetime how to ignore pain, hunger, sleepiness, Tinnitus, etc. That’s what allowed me to burn the candle at both ends all my life. 
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> Just deep focus on some technical problem to be solved.
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> Lately, I have finally quit vaping, after substituting for tobacco maybe 10 years ago. And still, every week I have an urge. I find that the only way to deal with it is the same way I deal with pain, hunger, etc. 
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> On Nov 4, 2025, at 10:33, Matt Fahrner <[email protected]> wrote:
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> As someone who did in his hearing in his youth, and who has constant tinnitus, and is trying to do mixing for a band - I am absolutely the target audience. I suspect that all these kids walking around with headphones will also be (my early 20's son already has tinnitus).
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> Unfortunately, the hearing aid industry remains broken, with hearing aid pricing putting it out of reach for large numbers. Heck if my hearing aids actually corrected music the way you describe, I might wear them more often. __
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> Matt
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> On 11/4/25, 11:22 AM, "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> I went through several attempts to commercialize, going all the way back to 2005.
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> In 2010 we formed a more substantial company with $1M funds raised from family and friends, and then more rounds from a wider network of investors. I spent an entire year shopping the idea to cell phone makers.
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> The iPhone had just burst upon the scene, and sent everyone scrambling.
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> At the time, Nokia had been king of the hill, but then underwent some peculiar difficulties resulting in being bought by Microsoft. But I did travel all the way to Tampere, Finland to discuss Crescendo for cell-phones.
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> We also met with Intel, Broadcom, Sony, Samsung, Yahoo, and many many others. In the end, the little company folded. 
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> This was for a product with wide scale potential, not a product for hearing-impaired musicians. Being able to hold a normal conversation with adaptive sound processing, no matter how loud or quiet your surroundings? And not noise-cancellation with all its attendant problems.
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> But Samsung’s answer pretty much summarized the situation: their response to being able to hear a telephone conversation was - who will be talking? everything will be texting…
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> And so, wrong time? wrong place? Who knows.
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> But frankly, my first and main concern has always been the correct restoration of musical sound for hearing impaired people and musicians. How massive is that audience???
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> So my main interest is in seeing that people who need the Crescendo algorithm receive it. 
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> It would be grand to not see all the effort that went into finding Crescendo disappear after my death. But I did my part as a member of the Universe. 
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> G-d kicked me in the pants with a bout of hearing impairment. Why me? Because, who better to overcome this? I made lemonade out of all the lemons. I was the perfect storm - a Musician, a Physicist, a DSP Expert, and Signals Expert, (an old Cold-Warrior who eavesdropped on Ivan), who better to find a solution?
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> On Nov 4, 2025, at 09:07, Yuri Davidovsky <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On 4 Nov 2025, at 16:26, David McClain <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> I remember that sentiment on my part, very clearly. We are in unmapped territory - or more correctly, we are entering territory where what others have already mapped is very jealously guarded by an industrial cabal.
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> I do not mind. In fact I like it this way. Since once you find yourself in such a situation it means you have a secret weapon that no-one sees in plain sight (kinda like lisp itself).
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> I even found that the Crescendo processing, in personalized degrees, is pleasurable to everyone, even a young man, Golden Ear, mixing engineer at a sound studio in San Francisco. I was blown away by this fact.
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> Some producers over the years have contacted me about using Crescendo as a sound enhancing plugin on their recordings.
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> About that. This is something that I also meant to ask: what is your roadmap to commercialisation? Or do you not really care and you are okay with just having your name on it?
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> I think the algorithm is rather straight forward to implement (once you know what is going on, that is, of course) and I would estimate the time to the market to be only a few months, which is fairly quick for a useful product. There will be no documentation worth talking about to deliver with the product either, which makes matters even simpler. Just a decent looking website and the product, and you are good to go, both are manageable.
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> I think I may be able to find time on putting a product prototype together (I am currently on a sabbatical, in the second year of it to be exact), so if you’d be interested we could discuss it. There is no real commitment required from either side at this stage, just a consensus if it is worth pursuing would suffice for now.
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> If anything, that would make for a fun side project.
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