Michael Fisher
Owner at Kushview
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Fisher is an owner and hands-on software engineer with 15 years of experience blending audio engineering, full-stack development, and product work for music technology. Starting from a background in audio and telecommunications, he pivoted from sales and live sound into software—contributing to notable open-source audio projects like Ardour and Kushview's Element, where he improved LV2 plugin handling and audio-host UI/feature work. Based in Fort Wayne, he runs Kushview and has a track record of shipping practical audio tools while continuing freelance videography and sound engineering that inform his product sensibility. Notably, his work often bridges low-level audio plugin management and user-facing interfaces, a combination that makes him adept at solving both performance and usability challenges.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Telecommunications Engineering at Ball State University
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
plugin-development10
plug10
user-interface10
plugin10
lv210
cprogramming-language10
dac9
audio-processing9
dao9
cplus9
dag9
audio9
cpp9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kushview/element
Apr 2015 - Oct 2022
Element Audio Plugin Host
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 3260 commits, 60 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael implemented and modified features in the Element Audio Plugin Host project, focusing on adding new functionality to the AudioFilePlayerNode and updating UI components. They added a directory watch function, improved the layout, and incorporated key presses for the virtual keyboard. Their contributions spanned the UI and underlying functionality of the audio plugin host, including some work in the scripting domain.
midivst-pluginjuce-applicationvst3-hostaudio-applications
Ardour/ardour
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Mirror of Ardour Source Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the Ardour digital audio workstation's codebase, concentrating on functionality related to LV2 plugin loading and handling. Their commits include refactoring code to lazily load bundled LV2 plugins and updating the DLL path. Additionally, the user addressed indentation and formatting issues and corrected a typo in the OSX BETA startup screen.
vstmidic-plus-plusaudiodaw
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