Sam Aaron

@samaaron.bsky.social

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Live Coding Artist. Creator of Sonic Pi & Tau5, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him bookings@sonic-pi.net

Sonic Pi v5's new synth documentation panel showing a traditional computer synth with a keybaord, pot controls and the code it generates.
Sonic Pi v5 GUI with a new card system at the bottom displaying 3 cards with playable / draggable snippets of simple code.
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]
use_bpm :midi live_loop :beat do sample :bd_haus sleep 1 end
An ESP32-S3 board with built in screen showing the SuperSonic logo. It's connected to a usb-c cable and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
The new Sonic Pi shortcut editor. A list of shortcut descriptions and their assigned shortcut keys
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.
Section of menu from Ableton Live showing that the SuperSonic Link Audio stream is connected
Ableton Live interface showing that the link audio SuperSonic peer is visible and making sound
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".
Sonic Tau’s editor being triggered by touch buttons
Sonic Tau code dancing and flashing in an editor.
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.
A highly abstract image of a etherial programmer next to a monomer grid and some synths
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.
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.
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.
A projection of C++ and Elixir code on a wall behind the Tau5 logo
Arovane performing in from of the observatory in Tortosa, Spain.
screenshot of the second diagram from https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/GenServer.html
Tracking sonic-pi.net popularity by location. Popularity & location insights are derived from Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 data 1. Russian-Federation 54.5% 2. United States 18.2% 3. Brazil 9.1% 4. France 9.1% 5. Netherlands 9.1%
The Sonic Pi GUI showing the experimental hydra integration.