Audio Tech Hub is a one-person VST company and the engineering shop behind a dozen commercial plugin releases for producer brands you've probably already bought from. It was founded in 2019 by Paul Jones after a decade of building instruments as a hired developer — MacShooter, Busy Works Beats, Studiolinked, Infinit Audio, StudioTrap, and others. The course you see on this site is the next thing.
The short version.
Musician since a kid. Developer almost as long. Attended Full Sail in 2011. Started taking paid plugin work in 2015 and never really stopped. Twelve-plus distributors, and every shipped plugin has my engineering in it from scratch — UI, DSP, build pipeline, and the parts nobody talks about.
What I actually ship.
Commercial VSTs. Not toys, not tutorials with the paint still wet — instruments that sit on the same shelf as plugins from Arturia, Native Instruments, and Spectrasonics, sold through the same distributors. Samplers, synths, effects, and MIDI-FX built in HISE with custom UI and DSP layered on top. You can see a rotating selection on the plugins page.
What the course is, and why now.
For six years I've been answering the same questions in email and on calls with producers who want to ship their own plugin: what's the real dev stack, how do UIs get past the "home-made" tell, how do you get on ADSR / Plugin Boutique / Loopmasters, what does a real build pipeline look like. The VST Development course is all of that, compressed. It's the tech stack I use for every client plugin, taught at the level I'd hand to a junior on day one.
The framing is VST-first — shipping a plugin that sells. HISE is the tool we teach it in because it's the fastest route from zero to a commercial release; but the course covers the parts that are tool-agnostic too (UI that doesn't look student-built, DSP judgment, the business side of getting on a distributor).
Not an influencer.
You won't find me in a YouTube thumbnail with my face blown up in red text (ok… sometimes). I don't do pressure launches. I'm the engineer the influencers hire — and the course reflects that. Less padding, more signal, and the answer to every "why did we do it this way" is on-the-record in client work you can go hear.
Founders' pricing is open.
Three tiers, 30-day refund from the day the final module ships, fifteen seats on Label (the 1:1 tier). Details are on the home page; reply to any course email if you want to talk shop before reserving.