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…

@timClicks Huge love x

Hello, Internet. Sorry that I haven't been here for a while. It turns out that burnout can get as bad as they say. How are you doing?

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. patreon.com/posts/superson…

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/super…

@rikarends Lol, this is the absolute opposite of my experience so far - unless you're just interested in creating experimental prototypes.

Like 'ai people only saying this because they make ai' is often obviously cope, in this case tho its pretty obvious.

Some inspiring speakers & ideas today at tedx in #manchester @samaaron was so unique & brilliant….

@mxjxn It’s a possibility. Although there already is pluginCollider: github.com/asb2m10/plugin…

@samaaron yoooo okay this is an exciting development... this means native plugins built with SuperSonic are in the future for us, if im right?

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

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...

@chgeuer Note that SuperSonic is purely JS / C++

@chgeuer Not officially but I managed to compile it myself.

@rikarends I actually make about 10 super rough and ready prototypes, synthesise them myself in my head. I then delete them all then I make the plan and then go super slowly step by step towards a solution doing meticulous testing, telemetry observstion & WTF bug removal during the process.

Pattern i'm noticing with AI coding: First figure out what you want, let it make a plan, implement it. Wow! thats amazing, and then you spend days finding small things wrong (missing from plan) and iterate and over time you get a ok understanding of the implementation.

A Clockwork Programming Language - patreon.com/posts/clockwor…

@itisyev I'm actually using Rust -> WASM for a new AudioWorklet-hosted real-time language that is designed to pair well with SuperSonic - my recent port of the SuperCollider scsynth to WASM. sonic-pi.net/supersonic/dem…

Sonic-Pi is getting a rewrite in Elixir (shoutout @samaaron ) and it's already evaluated Lua as the sandbox for untrusted code but... May I suggest using WebAssembly with Elixir?

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 int ids across concurrent clients. It also opens the door to being able to replay & 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/dem…

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? tedxmanchester.com/speakers-2026/

@ejgallego Curious - how did it got about achieving that?

@samaaron The original CAML light (now OCaml) implementation would fit this description very well IMHO

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?