Hi, I'm Ionut, a software engineer from Romania with over a decade of shipping products across the stack: backend systems, frontends, payments, and async infrastructure, several of those years as a technical lead on healthcare and security products.
By day I build distributed systems in various languages. The rest of the time belongs to music. I've been producing electronic music at home for ten years, and the two halves finally collided in Laura, a commercial synthesizer plugin I designed and built alone in C++, from the DSP to the installer to the license server, and launched this year.
I like problems where the engineering has to be exact and the result has to feel good, so I build Laura alone: the DSP, the UI, the presets (got some help from friends here), the installers and the licensing too.
Quick orientation if you're new. Laura is a synth plugin (VST3, AU, and standalone on Mac and Windows) with four oscillator engines (wavetable, FM, classic analog, and fractal) plus Mycelium, a reaction-diffusion field that all voices share and also they read modulation while you play.
There's a free demo at lostsynapse.store, and it's $69 once (Until August 11) if you like it, no subscription.
All topics are welcome, but i was thinking of a possible few:
Questions. Anything from sound design tricks to why the license is an offline file. I answer everything.
Requests and bug reports. I ship a feature release roughly every two weeks (and a new release every Tuesaday), and user reports have already shaped several of them. If the demo misbehaves on your machine or you're missing a feature, this is the fastest way to put it in front of me.
Honestly the fractal mode is wild, kind of produces these evolving textures I wasn't expecting from a synth this price. The loudness-matched presets are a nice touch too, makes auditioning way less tedious.
@gke1026178 Thank you so much <3 Really hope you enjoy it! If you hit any hurdles please feel free to email for support, I am reading each and every email and try to respond/address as soon as possible!
Honestly the wavetable editor alone is worth the price for me, super fun to draw your own shapes and hear them morph in real time. The galaxy sequencer keeps throwing up patterns I never would have programmed myself.
@tunahan126076 Thank you! hope you enjoy!
The fractal engine surprised me most—it turns simple waveforms into something alive and breathing. The wavetable editor is intuitive too, making it easy to craft custom sounds without getting lost.
The wavetable editor being built in instead of bolted on is a really nice touch, makes sketching sounds feel fast. Also surprised how clean the mod matrix stays even with that many sources routed.
@nilferuqna Thank you so much <3 Hope you have a blast with it! Please do email me if you hit any missing features/issues, I will respond and address as soon as possible!
The loudness-matched factory presets are a quietly thoughtful touch that sets this apart from most synth releases. Nice execution all around.
@hlyasoyserwd24 thank you! Hope you have a blast with it! <3
Pazi
Such a neat launch. Congrats on Laura and best of luck with everything ahead! 🙌