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Side Brain @sidebrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Developed in the ’80s, CDP is one of the wildest sound-design toolkits, and it’s now available as a free Ableton Live Extension! I used Reverse Grain Order to transform percussion loops and the Harmoniser to create unexpected vocal ear candy.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thanks for telling me so much for Web standards!

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“It's not clear if this happens locally or requires a connection to the MusicAI servers” - it’s local, on device

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

TIL i moved pretty much next door to the epicentre of Berlin School Electronic Music in the 1970s. Where Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze recorded some classic albums www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xe4...

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Tangerine Dream - Signale aus der Schwäbischen Straße (1976)

YouTube video by TangerineTux

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Chiptune based on a loop i made > 20 years ago... suno.com/s/D9rM14OIes...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Very impressed with the long-form structure and genre coherence. Here's some pretty convincing 90s sad piano trance: suno.com/s/lL8NuhWGyU...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Open sourcing by any chance? ;-)

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

are you using a cloud service for running SAO?

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Copilot reviewed my PR. Nice

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

With the SKIA backend in iPlug2, it's pretty easy to just drop in shaders (SKIA has it's own SkSL shading language which is like GLSL). This one that was recently shared to the skia mailing list is pretty cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUsF...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

GPT-4-0 Imagegen is good for UI assets, icons etc as well as memes. Can do transparency, etc. Even makes knobs that go to 11:

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Gemini 2.5 oneshot "Can you plot me the first 16 spherical harmonics in 3d, as used in ambisonics, using blue and red for positive/negative lobes" codepen.io/olilarkin/pe...

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Spherical Harmonics

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

They both helped me with my various projects. It's sad that I won't get to show them what I've been working on for many years.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

RIP Angelo Farina, who developed the sine sweep technique used widely for IR capture in convolution reverbs amongst other things. A few weeks ago we also lost Dave Malham, a former colleague who developed HOA/Ambisonics theory in the 90s, and was a friend of prof Farina. Audio Engineering legends.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I tried it. It's impressive, especially using dictation. Was a bit slow. Music it made me was meh.. but it was fun having claude start playback, then after bring in new clips it wrote, which were of course- on the beat grid. Will be interesting to see where this goes!

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Obviously not. Don’t know about their political statements but AFAIK they were meant to play at the Nova festival on oct 7th FFS

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

agree. Surprised it is this easy to upload music to a DSP using a well known band's name though

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Astral Projection Apple Music Page is full of slop for some reason... music.apple.com/de/artist/as...

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Astral Projection on Apple Music

Listen to music by Astral Projection on Apple Music.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Although it is used by Chromium etc, Dawn is a cross platform GPU abstraction - it doesn't have anything todo with web-based GUIs

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I doubt that would be added to SkSL, but Skia has a WebGPU backend via DAWN. It should be possible to use WGSL for such things. I hope to update iPlug2 to use the WebGPU backend of Skia soon

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thanks, hope to find time to look at your PRs properly soon!

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

vocal version: suno.com/song/b9156fd...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

one day my suno genius will be appreciated: suno.com/song/ed0af4a...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Too many VSTs to learn, too many hacks to hack, too many banging suno songs to tweak... option paralysis is real

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

that's how you make a product demo vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhU...

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Introducing VProm 3.0

YouTube video by Aly James Lab

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Apple’s coreaudio system is really a masterpiece of engineering. Incredibly forward thinking r.e. spatial audio and complex routing capabilities that have been there since ages

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

i can reproduce. in debug builds it doesn't crash

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I've even got a new "IGraphics" backend using Visage now :-). Do you intend to add support for drawing paths? I guess that might be really hard

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yes, although it'll be easier when iPlug2 cmake branch is merged. Seeing some text related crashes when i build as a plugin that i haven't figured out yet github.com/iPlug2/iPlug...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I remember when I first got into audio programming how hostile and scary IRC servers like music-dsp on efnet seemed to a newbie. I really like that discord is so much more friendly. Our 500th user just joined the iPlug2 discord, which is nice. discord.gg/BKx8G8XmBF

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Join the iPlug2 Discord Server!

Check out the iPlug2 community on Discord – hang out with 500 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Took me < 5 mins to make a cross platform iPlug2 webview plugin featuring the Live shader coding thingy hydra, github.com/iPlug2/iPlug... thanks to: github.com/felixroos/hy... Now to hook up audio input...

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