The Lucid Musician Blog

Latest articles, tutorials, and insights from our team

February 26, 2026 • 12 min read

Building an Audio Plugin with GitHub Actions (macOS + Linux, multi-arch)

The nitty-gritty details of building an audio plugin with GitHub Actions for macOS and Linux.

#development#audio#plugin#github-actions#build
February 26, 2026 • 12 min read

Precomputed Music-Theory Metadata: Packed Formats for Fast, Reliable Harmony

Learn how to precompute music theory offline to make realtime harmony generation fast and repeatable.

#machine-learning#music-theory#harmony#data-structures
December 17, 2025 • 14 min read

It's 2026 and DLL Hell is Still a Thing

How we almost lost the war against Windows DLL hell or how a 13MB DLL nearly destroyed a product.

#ai#machine-learning#windows#transformers
December 17, 2025 • 14 min read

How is this AI?

A deep dive into autoregressive sequence modeling: Markov chains, n-grams, LSTM, and GPT-style Transformers for music generation.

#ai#machine-learning#lstm#transformers#markov#decoding
December 17, 2025 • 10 min read

The LucidHarmony Tech Stack: Modeling, Plugin, and Website

A categorized inventory of the core technologies behind LucidHarmony.

#tech#architecture#plugin#machine-learning#web
December 15, 2025 • 12 min read

Harmonic Generators for DAWs: State of the Union

A survey of currently available DAW applications and plugins for generating harmonies.

#plugin#daw#harmony
December 11, 2025 • 12 min read

Modeling Harmonies: From Scores of the Masters to Real-Time AI

Explore the pipeline behind LucidHarmony's AI harmonic generation, from historical scores to a lightweight neural network.

#machine-learning#music-theory#lstm#harmony