My cousin Juli had a baby! I knitted a baby blanket for her, my first time making a blanket. I experimented with alternating knit and purl stitches in chunks to make a checkerboard pattern. It ended up not being very square, because my stitches got tighter at the end when I was worried about running out of yarn. Regardless, it is soft and cuddly which is what matters for a baby blanket. It was so fun knitting with gigantic yarn.
I’m so proud to share that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized iZotope by awarding RX 8 a Scientific and Engineering Award! It is so cool to see a product that I contributed to getting awarded such an honor.
This year, I had a lot of fun making “virtual choir” Christmas carols with my sister and friends scattered across the country. Since we couldn’t be together due to the pandemic, we each recorded our part separately and then put it together after the fact. Such a fun project!
iZotope’s Vinyl plugin is a classic vinyl emulation effect that was originally released in 2000, and for its 20th anniversary we gave it a complete overhaul. The update includes a brand new modern UI, as well as a new lofi effect, and it is available for free!
This year, I assisted Lisa Ferrante-Walsh, iZotope’s Senior Director of Software Engineering, with organizing a panel for the AES Show Fall 2020. Our panel, titled Evolution of Audio Products – Demystifying Innovation, used case studies to present strategies for bringing innovation into the product development process.
We brought in two experts from the audio tech industry to share their experiences, and I also presented about innovation at iZotope.
After months of development work, iZotope has finally released RX 8! I’m so proud of all the work our team put in over the past months to get this out the door.
I worked primarily on the updated Batch Processor, a tool for applying the same chain of processing steps to many audio files simultaneously.