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

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

Good morning @jnationconf.bsky.social with @samaaron.bsky.social giving us a nice pre keynote fill with @sonic-pi.net

That is @samaaron.bsky.social opening @jnationconf.bsky.social 🤩

Just pushed new Ableton Link v4 support into SuperSonic. Link offers local-network discovery to sync timing *and* now v4 adds Link Audio which lets any peer stream low-latency audio to any other peer. This will be integrated into Sonic Pi. github.com/samaaron/sup...

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.

Notes on the Synthesis of Time: The Art of Engineering with AI - the title of a new talk I'm looking forward to giving this Friday in Munich: www.bigtechday.com/en/talks#40r...

I'm Sam Aaron & I've worked on free music coding software for ~20 years. I've had meaningful impacts in both education and research. However, I'm independent & self-funding is harder than ever. Please enable me to continue by supporting on Patreon. patreon.com/samaaron

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.

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.

What if the first thing you built with code was music instead of a TODO app? @samaaron.bsky.social joins @boicy.bovon.org to talk about Sonic Pi and a surprisingly simple idea: People learn differently when coding feels creative. 🎧 Listen to this #GOTOpodcast episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

Sonic Pi v5 Beta 2 [VJ + Streaming Tools]. Fresh new Sonic Pi beta just dropped - ASIO support, audio + video recording, video streaming. www.patreon.com/posts/sonic-...

Today I got my first sounds from SuperSonic running on an embedded device.

Coming up in Sonic Pi v5 beta 2... * Support for ASIO on Windows * Record jams as both video and audio * Stream video via Syphon/Spout to OBS/VJ software etc. * New debug logs in the GUI

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that this year's Goatmire will be legendary. In my opinion it was by far the best conference of 2025. goatmire.com

Just completed my first live coded performance using v5 of Sonic Pi powered by SuperSonic. Definitely a MASSIVE eat your own dogfood moment. I live coded up to the opening keynote for MongoDB.local London and it went super smoothly.

For the past few years I've used a free tool called Syphoner to extract the Sonic Pi GUI as a Syphon stream to mix in my VJ software. Recently it stopped working and the project seems abandoned. So I did what any sensible individual would do and added Syphon output support to Sonic Pi directly.

Making good progress adding ASIO support to supersonic.exe

Sonic Pi v5 beta 1 'SuperSonic' is here. A new audio engine. A year in the making. Hot-swap audio devices without a restart. www.patreon.com/posts/sonic-...

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

The reason there will be no ‘fuel crisis’ in the Netherlands is that every town, city, & village in the land is connected by fully-segregated cycle lanes. It’s possible for the Dutch to easily stop driving while fuel is short and prices are high. That’s real energy resilience.

Sonic Pi's tectonic plates have shifted as the original SuperCollider scsynth server is now replaced with SuperSonic. This brings the ability to switch audio devices without having to restart. It's the result of almost a year of hard work. Delayed gratification FTW! github.com/sonic-pi-net...

What if learning to code felt more like making music? 🎶 @samaaron.bsky.social & @boicy.bovon.org explore teaching programming through @sonic-pi.net — creative, engaging, and surprisingly powerful 👀 🎥 youtu.be/Exh0jWu-88o?... #Coding #EdTech #LearnToCode #SonicPi

Not only does @samaaron.bsky.social do great educational work getting kids interested in programming by live-coding music – he also does deep engineering work on the underlying audio synth engine, which now runs in web browsers!

For those confused about the naming of my projects *and* used to play Quake... Consider Sonic Pi as Quake III, Sonic Tau as Doom 3 & Tau5 as id Tech 5. Tau5 doesn't yet exist beyond a myriad of experiments, but I plan to extract the core from Sonic Tau & use it as the foundation of my future work.

I've made dramatic progress on Sonic Tau over the past couple of weeks. I've already managed to leap ahead of Sonic Pi in a number of areas. All the many years of deep thinking and design is really paying off. Read more in my latest Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/re-re-...

I made a TikTok. I'll be using it to share a short live coded video every day until I either get my Patreon income up to a sustainable level or I burn out... Let's go! www.tiktok.com/@tau5coder

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

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

AI makes code cheap to write. Verifying it is now the hard, expensive, human part — and the "prompt and review" model risks burning out the very engineers we need to catch what AI gets wrong. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/shipping-...

Sonic Tau - Re-Rerezzed An update on the considerable progress I've made on Sonic Tau... www.patreon.com/posts/re-rer...

Sam Aaron is quite busy at Goatmire. First a workshop where you can learn to program music. He is also speaking on his marvellous progress on Tau5. And a proper DJ set at the After Party at a proper venue to finish out the conference. goatmire.com/talk/make-so... #elixirlang #goatmire

Introducing Sonic Tau www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

Just had a fab weekend at Cambridge Uni. I relived my past as a Computer Labs postdoc by walking around & knocking on the doors of everyone I remembered and catching up. It's such a nice feeling to relax into speaking at 100 miles an hour about seriously deep things with everyone. Pure joy!

Announcing SuperSonic Native. SuperSonic now has an optional native JUCE backend so it can now act as a drop-in replacement server for the original scsynth. www.patreon.com/posts/supers...

SuperSonic 0.63.0 can now build a native Mac/Linux/Windows server that's a drop-in replacement for the scsynth server executable within Sonic Pi. It also builds as an Erlang NIF which is where my attention will go next for Tau5 Tech. github.com/samaaron/sup...

It feels surreal but I have a working build of Sonic Pi with a native *SuperSonic* audio server. This is my port of SuperCollider’s audio engine reworked for the web then *back* to native - this time with a JUCE backend. Sonic Pi can switch audio devices without crashing and needing to restart!!!

On Saturday I'll be delivering a talk at TEDxManchester where I hope to live code music on the phones of all the audience like an orchestra using my new tech. I'm both terrified (so much can go wrong) and excited (if it works it will be amazing!). Fingers crossed...

Just hacked up a prototype of SuperSonic running natively on Windows ARM64 with a JUCE backend.

A Clockwork Programming Language - www.patreon.com/posts/clockw...

Looks like I have a working version of Sonic Pi built natively for Windows ARM64.

Current status: building Erlang for Windows ARM64.

SuperSonic now supports using UUIDs as synth node ids in addition to i32s. This removes all the worries about coordinating integer ids across multiple concurrent clients. It also opens the door to being able to replay and work with full or partial OSC streams recorded from past performances.

Since announcing SuperSonic a few months ago I've made more than 50 releases and almost 700 commits. SuperSonic is no longer experimental, it's a robust well engineered & tested web synth. I'm going to build such cool stuff with it & I hope you do too! sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...

I'm speaking at TEDx Manchester this year! I'm really looking forward to sharing my thoughts on coding, education, art and AI with the lovely people of Manchester. Maybe see you there? www.tedxmanchester.com/speakers-2026/

What if your programming language didn't try and be as fast as possible but instead tried never to be slow. What would that look like?

The core of Tau5 will be a new live coding runtime implemented as an AudioWorklet for soft-realtime execution. Currently I'm exploring whether implementing a deterministic live coding environment is more like building a digital audio synthesiser than writing a language compiler and memory model?

Vibe Coding should really be called Vegas Coding.

VRC ALBUM RELEASE!?! @samaaron.bsky.social , @xenonchameleon.bsky.social & Sclews playing his debut album!!?!! + @zaronmiz.bsky.social visuals???!!!??? 15/2/26 13:00 GMT

Have you ever considered that your PM is “vibe coding” you