The work we do at Goodhertz is fundamentally indebted to Black Americans and Black American culture. In this moment, we must condemn police violence and express solidarity with those who are protesting all across America — those who are fighting to make our society better and more just.

Goodhertz’ latest employee is Noah Dayan, a musician and audio engineer currently living in London. In addition to writing code at Goodhertz, for our latest release (3.5) Noah also translated the plugin interfaces into his native French and contributed to the latest revision of translations in his native Japanese. You can find out more about Noah on his website.

Recently, via Slack, I asked Noah a few questions in English, another language he speaks fluently (!)

Not long after we began translating our plugins into multiple languages, I put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone was interested in translating the plugins into their native language. Soon enough we got an email from Reda Khermach, a student and beatmaker living in Morocco, who said he’d like to translate the plugins into Arabic.

This caught my attention immediately, since I’d long wanted to have the plugins translated into Arabic, not only because of Arabic’s status as a lingua franca for millions of people around the globe, but also because Arabic has historically played a pivotal role in so much of the mathematics and science that make the digital signal processing in our plugins possible, from the concept of an algorithm and the foundations of algebra, to the shapes of the digits that we display in our interfaces (an aesthetic that first came alive over a thousand years ago when North Africans adapted Hindu numerals to the style of their maghrebi script).

I recently chatted with Reda on discord to find out more about his experience with languages and translating the Goodhertz plugins.