The Montréal Music Hackathon stage at PHI — MONTRÉAL MUSIC HACKATHON · 22–23 AUG 2026

Case studies

The engine where it has to hold up

Where THIRI has done real work outside a chat window, written the way we work: what was built, what was measured, with the method and the data linked, and what is still open. More studies follow as the people in them sign off.

Elk Audio · Embedded · hardware

THIRI VST on the Elk Stomp

A real-time harmonizer with THIRI voicings, ported from the JavaScript engine to C++ and running inside a 1.333 ms audio callback on a dual-core Cortex-A7 pedal. First in the Elk Audio challenge at the MUTEK Montréal hackathon.

0.592: of the deadline, average, five voices
0.788: worst block
16,353+: golden vectors pinning C++ to JS

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