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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What’s this? A “QR Code Link” you say? Yes, it’s Sonic Pi code encoded into a url that opens ready for you to read, play and edit in Sonic Pi in your browser. Share your live coded tracks with greater ease!

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What's this? Another screen shot of Sonic Pi v5? Oh no my friend... This is a completely new implementation of Sonic Pi running live in my web browser running on top of SuperSonic. Coming soon to a browser near you...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A quick demo of Sonic Pi controlling VST plugins. Note that it's not just trigging like a MIDI track, it's also algorithmically controlling the controls (cutoff in this example).

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In Sonic Pi v5 the documentation for each synth is an actual playable synth. Use the qwerty keys to trigger the notes and play with the control knobs like a standard synth - it then generates the code for you. Sonic Pi v5 RC1 is now freely available to download: www.patreon.com/samaaron/pos...

Sonic Pi v5's new synth documentation panel showing a traditional computer synth with a keybaord, pot controls and the code it generates.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sonic Pi v5 now opens up with a new Quickstart Card system. This gets people up and running much faster and more joyfully than a long wordy tutorial. You can play the cards directly or drag them into the editor to use the snippet in your own composition.

Sonic Pi v5 GUI with a new card system at the bottom displaying 3 cards with playable / draggable snippets of simple code.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sonic Pi now supports game controllers. Connect a spare Xbox controller just like a MIDI controller and jam away. Use your finely honed Fortnite skills to express yourself through music! Available next week as an exclusive pre-release for Patreon supporters in v5 Beta 4. patreon.com/samaaron

gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.5669291615486145] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.5748031735420227] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.5826771855354309] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.5905511975288391] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.5984252095222473] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6062992215156555] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6141732335090637] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6220472455024719] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6299212574958801] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6377952694892883] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6456692814826965] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6535432934761047] /gamepad:controller/axis/right_y [0.6614173054695129] /gamepad:controller/button/south [1, 1.0] /gamepad:controller/button/south/down [1.0] /gamepad:controller/button/south [0, 0.0] /gamepad:controller/button/south/up [0.0] /gamepad:controller/button/west [1, 1.0] /gamepad:controller/button/west/down [1.0] /gamepad:controller/button/west [0, 0.0] /gamepad:controller/button/west/up [0.0]

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sonic Pi now has the ability to sync bpm with external MIDI clocks. Up to 8 simultaneous MIDI clocks are supported - so you could drive multiple threads at different BPMs simultaneously via different clocks. Coming in v5 Beta 4 in a week or so...

use_bpm :midi

live_loop :beat do
sample :bd_haus
sleep 1
end

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Simmering in the background - SuperSonic Embedded. I've got it running on a ESP32-S3.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Working on a new shortcut editor for Sonic Pi. Patreon supporters will get exclusive access to the pre-release beta very soon...

The new Sonic Pi shortcut editor. A list of shortcut descriptions and their assigned shortcut keys

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm making good progress integrating Ableton Link Audio streams into Sonic Pi. Now you can receive link streams in addition to sending the main stereo out. I think this is a really powerful feature - especially if we see wider adoption of Link Audio in other audio software.

An example of a working design of Sonic Pi's Link config panel. It shows the ability to change link name, the audio stream latency, to enable, disable it, change its network visibility and it gives you a list of visible peers. All on top of the existing Link buttons in Sonic Pi.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

SuperSonic's new Link Audio output stream seems too good to be true. It just works. It even gracefully handled a network card switch. With an ethernet connection you can get the latency really low. Nice work Ableton. This will feature in Sonic Pi v5 Beta 3 - available to Patreon supporters soon.

Section of menu from Ableton Live showing that the SuperSonic Link Audio stream is connected

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm working on adding full Ableton Link v4 support to SuperSonic. This includes support for Link Audio - enabling you to effortlessly stream audio between different machines on your local network. Today I successfully streamed sound from a modified Sonic Pi on my Mac to Ableton Live on my PC.

Ableton Live interface showing that the link audio SuperSonic peer is visible and making sound

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Rumour has it that Patreon supporters now have access to a private beta of v5 of Sonic Pi - powered by SuperSonic. patreon.com/samaaron

Sonic Pi's audio settings shown new dropdown menus for audio configuration such as audio device, input and output device, buffer size etc. There's fun ascii art saying "SuperSonic".

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Rerezzed - Live Coded on Sonic Tau sonic-pi.net/tau

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Jamming with Sonic Tau on my phone. sonic-pi.net/tau

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I just pushed v0.35 of SuperSonic - my port of SuperCollider's powerful synthesis engine scsynth to the web as an AudioWorklet. This comes with a lot of performance improvements, improved bundler compatibility and much polish to the fun example. Take it for a spin: sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

The SuperSonic demo UI - lots of code, logs, metrics and a simple track pad interface showing a trail of movement. A big scope is at the top indicating that it's making sound.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

SuperSonic now exposes the scsynth node tree for fast reading from JS. This does not require a full OSC round-trip like /g_queryTree (which is also supported for legacy use cases). Instead it’s automatically written to the SharedArrayBuffer so visualisers can read it at 60fps without issue.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Absolutely loving the new album “Instant Holograms on Metal Film” by @stereolabgroop.bsky.social The music is so on point and the lyrics movingly poignant. Highly recommended!

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

SuperSonic - my port of SuperCollider’s powerful synthesis engine scsynth now has improved metrics - opening up a window to the internals. Play with the demo and see for yourself! sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I updated the SuperSonic example to include synths, samples and FX and a fun playful interface. SuperSonic is my port of SuperCollider’s extremely powerful scsynth engine to Web AudioWorklets so it can run in the browser. Play with it here: sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I've been busy hacking away on Tau5 - I'm still working hard laying the best foundations I can. If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon. Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability. patreon.com/samaaron

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Experimenting with tiled layouts for Tau5.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Tau5 will be a creative coding native/web platform for secure, event-driven, concurrent, hot-swappable, deterministic & precisely-timed distributed computation. Features include a native GUI, remote browser UI, LAN discovery/mesh, central server global sync & a sandboxed local MCP for AI. tau5.live

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Experimenting with a fun loading overlay for Tau5 using gratuitous GLSL shaders :-)

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Tau5 just got vastly improved server debugging with a new Elixir console to the server and a powerful inspection dashboard.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Tau5 - now with web developer tools (the app is essentially a custom browser connected to an internal web server running on the BEAM VM). The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just added a new dev log console for observing the BEAM VM running in the background. The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens. The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Tau5 can now blend Hydra sketches.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yikes, I seem to have taught Tau5 to speak MIDI...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Oops, I accidentally added @Ableton Link support to Tau5. (Ableton Link is an open source technology that lets you effortlessly synchronise tempo with other Link-powered apps/hardware over the network.)

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Tau5 now has support for auto-discovering other Tau5 nodes to jam with on the local network. Here's me firing up a headless Tau5 node running on a Raspberry Pi and it immediately pops up on my Windows node. I can even click the link and jump to operating the Pi node.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New live coding studio vibes.

The inside of my studio containing a desk with a laptop and keyboard, and in the back of the shot a chest of drawers with a bunch of analogue synths and monome grids illuminated. There’s a projector projecting colourful hydra visuals on the wall.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Finally getting my synths set up again in my new live coding studio.

A wooden chest of drawers with a number of analog synths on top including two monome grids - square matrices of orange led buttons in a wooden encasing.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Are you ready to learn how to code music with Sonic Pi? sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Yesterday afternoon's bike ride was pretty special.

A bike lying on the side of a bridleway in front of the Peak District hills near Higger Tor. The sun shines like a beacon as it sets on a November afternoon and the skies are blue and striped with whispy clouds. The hazy sunset casts heavy shadows.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Our home was in desperate need of new everything - new insulation, new plaster, new heating, new windows, new joists, new electrics....

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Really excited to be heading to New York to introduce my recent work on Tau5 at Code BEAM Lite NYC. I'll be sharing my latest work & ideas combining live coding, art & education using the incredible power of BEAM technologies (Elixir, Luerl and Erlang). It's going to be fun! codebeamnyc.com

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

What if you could dynamically resize the Tau5 editor containing its own Hydra sketch as a background?

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Tau5 now lets you live code the Hydra sketch.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Getting ready to start recording some new content.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

@theblackdog.bsky.social Live Coding excerpts of their wonderful new EP - Seclusion. This was the first public performance using new experimental software I developed along with Guy Brown and @sheffielduni.bsky.social.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Live Coding at PSV Eindhoven stadium.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Opening Jfokus with some serious live coded beats. Photo by Jens Reiterer.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I am excited to be speaking at #GOTOcph Oct 2-4 2023 where I'll be sharing the latest updates with my Sonic Pi development and turn the whole audience into a live coded orchestra. Register with the promo code “sam10” for 10% off: gotocph.com/2023

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