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paulnasca··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes or hybrid (depending on the commuting distance)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Linux, signal processing & audio algorithms, embedded systems, CI, machine learning and many others.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulnasca/ The complete CV is available on request.

Email: nascapaul@gmail.com

Senior software engineer and DSP specialist with 20+ years turning complex ideas into fast, reliable code. I'm best known for creating the open-source synthesizer ZynAddSubFX and of the extreme audio stretching software Paulstretch.

Personal website: https://www.paulnasca.com/

Open to contract or perm role. Seeking senior/lead role.

paulnasca··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes or hybrid (depending on the commuting distance)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Linux, signal processing & audio algorithms, embedded systems, CI, machine learning and many others.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulnasca/ The complete CV is available on request.

Email: nascapaul@gmail.com

Senior software engineer and DSP specialist with 20+ years turning complex ideas into fast, reliable code. I'm best known for creating the open-source synthesizer ZynAddSubFX and of the extreme audio stretching software Paulstretch.

Personal website: https://www.paulnasca.com/

Open to contract or perm role. Seeking senior/lead role.

paulnasca··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes or hybrid (depending on the commuting distance)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Python, Linux, signal processing & audio algorithms, embedded systems, CI, machine learning and many others.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulnasca/ The complete CV is available on request.

Email: nascapaul@gmail.com

Senior software engineer and DSP specialist with 20+ years turning complex ideas into fast, reliable code. I'm best known for creating the open-source synthesizer ZynAddSubFX and of the extreme audio stretching software Paulstretch.

Personal website: https://www.paulnasca.com/

Open to contract or perm role. Seeking senior/lead role.

paulnasca··on MAPS.ME users now can edit OpenStreetMap by themselves
I like very much the Maps.me and I have recomanded it to several people. I would like to know if it's possible to search in London by the postcode or how could I add myself the postcode database (into to my phone).
paulnasca··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)
I am Paul, the creator of ZynAddSubFX, Paulstretch (Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch) and other well known software. I have just moved to London and I am available for contract/permanent job.

Location: London, UK

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, Linux, DSP, Python

Resume/CV: https://goo.gl/04oLaI

Email: nascapaul at gmail dot com

Website: http://www.paulnasca.com

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulnasca

paulnasca··on Breaking the 4-channel Barrier: The PC Tracker War and More
I wonder if the source code of FastTracker 2 will be available.

Of course, I am aware of the open-source trackers (like MilkyTracker, etc), but I believe that the FT2 played a huge part of the demoscene and it should be preserved (the original source code).

paulnasca··on Hugin – Panorama photo stitcher
All my panoramas are made with Hugin:

http://www.panoramio.com/user/1428211/tags/PANORAMA?photo_pa...

paulnasca··on Binaural beats
There is another open source software which generates binaural beats. The software is Paulstretch, an extreme-audio time stretching software I wrote few years ago: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Here is a screenshots of binaural-beats generator: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/screenshot3.p...

But I don't know if there are real psychological effects of the binaural beats :)

paulnasca··on MusicForProgramming();
Few years ago I wrote an extreme time stretching software ( http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ ). You can use it to get a nice audio ambiance from any music or sound.
paulnasca··on Audio synthesis / processing in JavaScript
Unfortunately, in this period of time I am quite busy porting Paulstretch to Android. I have rewritten a (C++) fixed point implementation of Paulstretch and now I have to write the GUI for Android. After I will release it, I hope that I will have some time to port it to JS. Anyway, feel free to add the task for me (my user is 'paulnasca').

If you want to look at the algorithm of Paulstretch you can have a look to a simple Python implementation: https://github.com/paulnasca/paulstretch_python/blob/master/... The algorithm is pretty fast, the most time consuming operations are the FFTs and IFFTs. That's why I think that it might work on real-time JS.

paulnasca··on Audio synthesis / processing in JavaScript
Does it support large (256k samples) array FFTs? I could use it for PADsynth algorithm ( http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm ).

Also, from the API, it seems that I could implement Paulstretch algorithm ( http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ ) easily. When I'll have some free time, I'll try it. EDIT: I looked a bit closer on interface EFFECT and Paulstretch cannot be implemented as an effect, but as a generator. Needs to be studied more :)