The Audio Programmer began in 2017 with a simple goal: make audio software development more accessible.

Through tutorials, books, events, and open community discussion, TAP helped thousands of people begin and develop careers in audio technology.

Over time, something larger emerged.

The people learning through TAP became developers, founders, researchers, product leaders, executives, and collaborators. Companies began coming to TAP to find specialist talent and create products. New partnerships formed. Events and conversations brought different parts of the industry together.

Today, TAP is more than an education platform.

It is where the people, companies, and ideas building the future of audio software come together.

Built from relationships, not transactions

TAP has spent years contributing to the audio software industry before asking anything from it.

That history gives us something difficult to recreate:

• trust across the community;
• deep specialist knowledge;
• long-term relationships with talent and companies;
• direct insight into how the industry is changing;
• and the ability to bring the right people into the room.

Whether we are helping someone find their next opportunity, supporting a company as it builds a team, hosting an industry conversation, or working on a product, the same principle applies:

Contribute more than we extract.

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Our purpose

To help the audio software industry thrive.

Our vision

To be a trusted meeting point for a connected and thriving global audio software industry.

Our heritage mantra

<span style="color: #F7BE43">Learn. Connect. Create.</span>

<span style="color: #F7BE43">Learn</span> from the industry, emerging technology, and one another.

<span style="color: #F7BE43">Connect</span> people, companies, ideas, talent, and opportunities.

<span style="color: #F7BE43">Create</span> products, careers, relationships, companies, and new possibilities.