Thanks! I'm trying my best to pre-empt all the issues.
I reduced the payload of the WASM synth + language from 4mb to 600kb and 3/4 of that is now being served by CDN.
The live stuff is all Elixir / LiveView / PubSub powered by the BEAM.
Still crossing my fingers though!
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.
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.
I could not do what I do without the NHS.
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...
My approach is to stay hyper focussed on a given thing and make sure you try and do daily exercise outside for at least 1-2 hours.
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/
Yes, the BEAM is the closest industry level tech I’ve seen that takes this path.
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?
Note I’m not using an audioworklet to generate audio but just to run in a timely manner in a hardware pulse.
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!?!
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Have you ever considered that your PM is “vibe coding” you
I updated my website for the first time in 13 years!
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Yeah, I’ve been hacking on it for 5 months full time now.
Pretty much - although it's less a "compile" and more a complete inversion & re-architecture of the scsynth internals to circumnavigate the strict constraints of AudioWorklets.
There's also a *lot* of work on live telemetry and smooth OSC flow.
For background see: www.patreon.com/posts/introd...
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.
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...
Our final presentation video.
Sam Aaron takes us all the way out. Lighting the fire of making music with code in all of us. What a blast.
Thank you for enduring these releases. #goatmire will aspire to be quiet until we have something new to share.
goatmire.bold.video/v/e85qw
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In the late 90s a synthesis engine was built - so powerful, it was separated from its language & set free.
Today, running in an AudioWorklet it survives as a soldier of sound.
If you have a web page... if you need real-time synthesis... maybe you can call SuperSonic.
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
I updated the SuperSonic README with some history:
"Back in the late 90s James McCartney designed a suite of live programming environments called SuperCollider...
One of the many gifts from this work is scsynth"
github.com/samaaron/sup...
More SuperSonic developments! SuperCollider (scsynth) in the browser progresses...
Here's a working demo of SuperSonic's new mic input into some fun FX
codepen.io/samaaron/pen...
SuperSonic v0.23.0 now supports audio input from the microphone 🙂
github.com/samaaron/sup...
This now means Code Pens can now become powerful synthesisers...
codepen.io/samaaron/pen...
