Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social)

With the right instrument everyone is musical. Could code be yours? Imagine the music you could create with the expressive power of code. Make it your 2025 resolution to get started with this friendly introductory course. sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-int…

- A full accessibility overhaul - IPv6 support - Debug panel with node-tree visualisation - Improved translations - Lots of love

- Game controller input - New colour themes with hue rotation - MIDI clock sync: use_bpm :midi - Link Audio: stream audio between (Ableton) Link peers - Runnable docs + Examples menu - Friendlier errors continued...

Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 1 is almost ready for a public release. Highlights: - New SuperSonic engine: hot-swap audio devices live - New autocompletion with built-in docs - Session recording: window + audio to video - Syphon/Spout streaming (OBS + VJ apps) continued...

Dr. Sam Aaron - @samaaron, Sonic Pi Creator & live coder, is keynoting at Code BEAM Europe 2026! Hear from a pioneer merging music & programming, whose performances "transcend the present." 📅 21-22 Oct 2026 | Haarlem, NL Save your spot: #register" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">codebeameurope.com/#register

One of my highlights at @CodeBEAMio Europe will be catching up with @samaaron. If you want to know what he is up to, listen to the BEAM There recording with him: youtube.com/watch?v=XZ0iV1… x.com/CodeBEAMio/sta…

Sonic Pi v5 Beta 4 - Release Notes Read about the new features in the latest Sonic Pi beta release: Support for gamepads (works like MIDI), tracking and sync with external MIDI clocks, bundled with lots of polish and love. patreon.com/samaaron/posts…

I'm excited about my work on SuperSonic for a myriad of reasons. Yet it's not anything technical that gets the most interest. It's when I say: "SuperSonic is the project I intend to spend the next 10 years of my life on". Is it an alien concept to have a long-term perspective?

Sonic Pi v5 Beta 4 - Download Links Available. This is pretty much v5. Just performance testing & further polish left. Beta 4 brings support for tracking external MIDI clocks (up to 8 simultaneously), and many internal improvements and optimisations. patreon.com/samaaron/posts…

This next year is going to be extremely testing financially. Cost of living continues to grow & interest rates are crazy high. In the next 6 months I'm going to have to somehow earn a *lot* more just to continue to barely stay above the waterline. Suggestions on a postcard!

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.

Most new features added to Sonic Pi have come directly from the adoption of SuperSonic. Improving SuperSonic now improves Sonic Pi: - Using JUCE enables live hot swapping the audio hardware - Integrating Link v4 enables Link Audio - Integrating MIDI enables MIDI clock support

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...

Nice, SuperSonic just passed 200 stars and 1000 commits. (And I haven't even started the fun stuff...) github.com/samaaron/super…

The reviews for Sonic Pi v5 beta3 are starting to come in: "I love the supersonic display. Quite mesmerising to watch" "The additional features are marvellous. They make sense to me as a teacher" "First impression: Phenomenal! A real joy to play with!" patreon.com/posts/sonic-pi…

Dancing to Sonic Pi's Rerezzed example running live on an instant-booting embedded board. No "computer" involved! For my lovely hw friends, it's an ESP32-S3 dev board running SuperSonic at 16 bit 48kHz. Audio is via i2s to a pico audio board by Pimoroni.

Sonic Pi v5 is almost ready and I'm excited to get it into your hands. If you want to play with it you have two options: 1. Wait until the final free release (hopefully) in July. 2. Become a Patreon supporter and get access to high-quality pre-releases. patreon.com/samaaron

@josevalim Massive congratulations!

Elixir v1.20 released! Now officially a gradually typed language: Elixir type checks every single line of code, finding bugs and dead code, without developer overhead (no typing signatures) and extremely low false positives rate. Plus a faster compiler! Links and reports below.

Sonic Pi v5 Beta 3 is now available. * Link Audio - stream audio between multiple Sonic Pi instances over the network. Works with any Link 4 peer incl. Ableton Live * Shortcut Editor * New Autocomplete System * Debug Panel * Improved Accessibility Support patreon.com/posts/sonic-pi…

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

Experimenting with new autocomplete ideas for @Sonic_Pi Patreon supporters will be able to get their hands on an exclusive pre-release very soon.