Summary
Clément Destephen is an instrument developer with 13 years’ experience designing and programming front-ends for digital music instruments at Native Instruments. He blends practical DSP training with hands-on UI engineering across KompleteUI/KSP, Lua, QML, Reaktor and Max/MSP to ship sampled instruments, synths and advanced UI features like zoomable waveform displays. He currently maintains a reusable library of reactive UI components and a framework for building instrument UIs, having rebuilt front ends for products such as Super 8 HD, Form and TRK-01. A lifelong student of musical acoustics and trained cellist with formal study in Hindustani music and lutherie, he brings a rare combination of acoustic insight and software craft to instrument design. His background in environmental acoustics and deterministic+stochastic synthesis research informs pragmatic, sonically-aware toolmaking.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Digital Signal Processing, Master's degree, Digital Signal Processing at Institut supérieur d'Electronique de Paris
String instruments Acoustics, Musical Acoustics, String instruments Acoustics, Musical Acoustics at ITEMM
Visiting Student, Music Technology, Visiting Student, Music Technology at McGill University
English, Spanish, allemand - b2