Klanghelm is a Berlin, Germany-based
software company that specializes in creating audio plugins and
standalone audio applications. Klanghelm plugins support both
Windows (64bit) and Mac (64bit).
All plugins are
coded in C++.
Klanghelm is currently a
one-man-show, with some helping hands and minds here and
there.
My name is Tony Frenzel.
Since
sitting in my baby buggy with my first ghetto-blaster, listening
to The Rubettes' "Sugar Baby Love", I've been passionate about
everything music-related.
I can't remember when
I first tried to disassemble that damn thing to see how it
works. The ghetto-blaster, not the buggy.
I was
in bands, toured the country up and down, recorded in studios,
wrote with celebrities, and published songs. I sang, I played
guitar, drums, keys, bass, whatever. I produced other bands, did
live-sound for others, wrote for others - the whole
gamut.
And I have a programming background. I
started in the 80s with BASIC and Pascal. Years later, I added
C++ to my roster, because if you want to seriously code
cross-platform audio software, there's no way around
C++.
I've always wanted to build stuff.
Unfortunately, I suck at soldering. And this was the moment when
DSP came through the door. A few years ago, I took my knowledge
of electronics to DSP coding. With all the horsepower current
computers provide, it's finally possible to create great,
sophisticated audio plugins which hardly tax the CPU. The nearly
endless possibilities of DSP fascinate me everyday.
What
a great journey (and challenge) DSP is. And what an elegant way
for me to combine the two things in life I know a thing or two
of: music and coding.
I only create plugins I
need / want for myself, something I am missing. I am not trying
to fill a market niche or something. I want to code decent
sounding stuff that's easy to use and, most of all, a joy to
use. I am not interested in emulating existing analog gear in
the digital realm. I want to build stuff that's missing in the
analog world. I want to code stuff that stands on its own feet
sound-wise, being different, not worse than the best existing
gear (analog and digital).
I hope you enjoy the
plugins offered here as much as I enjoy creating them.
If
you want to get in touch with me, please do so by dropping an
email to tony@klanghelm.com