Episode 636 – Meet Anukari, The Totally Unique 3D Physics Synthesizer ft. Evan Mezeske

On this week’s episode, indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske’s story.

Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to create Anukari, the first commercially available 3D physics modeling synthesizer that runs in real time.

He discovered that technical originality creates a marketing problem most developers never anticipate.

When a product is genuinely new, the market has no category for it, and polished 3D visuals can trigger skepticism instead of excitement.

His path from that invisible launch to being discovered by Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon and Star Trek’s lead sound designer reveals what actually moves a tool without a genre.

Listen to how this totally unique approach to synthesis went from unnoticed to being on everyone’s radar in this Inner Circle Podcast episode.

You can also hear it via Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Mixcloud, Spotify, Deezer, and TuneIn Radio.

Also, a video version of this podcast is now available on YouTube as well.

Enjoy the show!

Chapters:

00:00:00 – Coming up…

00:01:23 – What is a 3D physics based synthesizer?

00:02:53 – How did the idea for Anukari first hit you?

00:05:18 – Why great visuals and real sound design are not mutually exclusive

00:07:38 – The beta launch that did not go as planned

00:11:28 – How Mick Gordon turned the tide for Anukari

00:12:49 – The Star Trek connection and working with Mike Shapiro

00:17:02 – From Google engineer to audio software founder

00:19:01 – What surprised Evan most about the plugin industry

00:23:17 – Using AI as a coding tool in a music world that pushes back

00:27:19 – Why human imperfection is what makes music feel real

00:30:27 – What people misunderstand about how Anukari actually works

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