About Me

I am a down-to-earth, hardworking, and creative software engineer with interests in audio, interactive media, game development, graphics and more. I love problem solving, Pokémon, and C++. I am a co-founder and lead developer at Red Timbre Audio, where I create exciting audio software products, with a special interest in audio analysis techniques. Check out my audio software reel and game audio reel or my featured projects and featured articles below, or my most recent work at Red Timbre Audio.

Software Engineering

C++ (6yrs), C (2yrs), C# (2yrs), Python (2yrs), Javascript (2yrs)
JUCE, Audio Plugin Development, DSP
Game Development, Graphics Programming
Parallel Programming, Optimization, Data Structures

Audio

Composition, Technical Sound Design
Audio Engineering, Production, Editing
FL Studio, Reaper, FMOD Studio, FMOD API, MaxMSP / PureData
Digital Audio, Signal Processing, Algorithms

Software Engineer, Designer, Co-Founder / Red Timbre Audio

January 2024 - Present | www.redtimbreaudio.com/

Repair Technician, Sales Associate / Santa Cruz Tech Exchange

September 2020 - June 2023 | santacruztechexchange.com

Audio Plugin Developer & Designer / DelayCat

September 2021 - Present | github.com/NiccoloAbate/DelayCat

Lead Composer, SFX Designer, & Audio Engineer / Vines

January 2023 - Present | es-jacque.itch.io/vines

Lead Composer, SFX Designer, & Audio Engineer / Vulpecula

September 2020 - June 2020 | teamlamp.itch.io/vulpecula

Programmer & Technical Sound Designer / UEPhysicalModelingTk

May 2023 - June 2023 | github.com/NiccoloAbate/UEPhysicalModelingToolkit

A B.S. in Computer Science: Game Design and minor in Electronic Music from University of California Santa Cruz have given me a strong foundation in my field, which I have built upon through personal projects, university research, and work experience.

Graduated June 2023 summa cum laude with a 3.99 GPA.

College Scholars honors program student at UCSC.

Published and presented my work at The International Conference for Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) 2023.

Audio Software Reel

Game Audio Reel

Terrestria

Video Game

Featured Articles

How I lowered my plugin's CPU by 66% with one fix

In another article, I discussed how to write performant realtime audio code. In this article, I want to explain how I followed some of...

Niccolo Abate

Oct 4, 20234 min read

How to write performant realtime audio code

The goal of this article is to break down the knowledge of performant realtime audio programming I have accumulated, hopefully in a way...

Niccolo Abate

Oct 3, 20239 min read