Devlog - Retro Recordings XR

2026.06.20

Unreal

Atari 1040 ST with hand-soldered memory upgrades

Rediscovering MIDI Mixinglab: A 1995 Atari MIDI Controller, Now in Your Browser

A 1995 MIDI mixer app built in GFA Basic for the Atari ST is discovered and reconstructed in HTML5. Play with it now in your…

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2026.05.08

Unreal

A VR gloved hand gripping a fader on the virtual console, with a readout showing Fader CH 1 at -15.13 dB

Recording your moves — automation, first version

Automation v0.1 is in the studio: record your fader moves, the console plays them back. The bigger design problem is how you edit an automation…

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2026.03.31

Audio Unity Unreal

Point-of-view from the mixing console in the Retro Recordings XR virtual studio

10 Years Building a VR Recording Studio — Why I Left Unity for Unreal Engine 5

After seven years in Unity and a pricing crisis that broke the relationship, I migrated a VR music production studio to Unreal Engine 5 —…

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2024.06.25

Unreal

Unreal 5.4: What Changed and What Broke

Upgrading to Unreal Engine 5.4 — what improved, what broke, and whether it was worth the downtime.

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2023.07.19

Unity Unreal

Burning the Ships: Why I Left Unity for Unreal After 8 Years

After 8 years in Unity, the decision to rebuild everything in Unreal Engine 5 felt terrifying — until it didn't.

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2026.06.02

Unreal

API 1608 recording console VU meter bridge showing needle meters above the mixing board

The Needle Knows: VU Meters and the Analog Soul of Our SSL 4000

The VU meter: eighty years of engineering argument behind one swinging needle. We dig into EBU vs SMPTE calibration, 300ms ballistics, and how it all…

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2026.05.05

Audio Unreal

The patchbay of the virtual console with all ports glowing green during interaction

The patchbay is alive (and a lot of invisible cleanup)

The patchbay went from decorative to fully interactive — 122 ports, virtual cables, live feedback. Plus a lot of invisible cleanup, including a bus compressor…

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2025.12.19

Audio Unreal