Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social)

Live Coding Artist. Creator of @Sonic_Pi, programmer, educator, musician, PhD, Sam 'transcends the present' - Rolling Stone. he/him [email protected]

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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.

https://t.co/QvqsLtRK8Q

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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.

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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...

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

Nice, SuperSonic just passed 200 stars and 1000 commits.

(And I haven't even started the fun stuff...)

https://t.co/LVDyMsrF2l

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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!"

https://t.co/L6YxaGxzJD

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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.

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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.

https://t.co/VeoJZuh6EV

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

@josevalim Massive congratulations!

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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
https://t.co/zBZZe5JdWR

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

Simmering in the background - SuperSonic Embedded.

I've got it running on a ESP32-S3.

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

Experimenting with new autocomplete ideas for
@Sonic_Pi

Patreon supporters will be able to get their hands on an exclusive pre-release very soon.

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

@chadfowler @josevalim Maybe you should treat yourself to Goatmire: https://t.co/2y9wcqraq8

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

Experimenting with new autocomplete ideas for @Sonic_Pi.

Patreon supporters will be able to get their hands on an exclusive pre-release very soon.

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

Working on a new shortcut editor for Sonic Pi.

Patreon supporters will get exclusive access to the pre-release beta very soon...

[Andrea @and_prf]

@samaaron on stage kicking off @JNationConf ! Let's the party begin!

[JNation 🇵🇹 May 26 & 27 - 2026 @JNationConf]

This year’s surprise artist: Sam Aaron!

Creator of Sonic Pi and one of the world’s best-known live coding artists.

Tonight at #JNation. #LiveCoding #Coimbra @samaaron

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

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.

https://t.co/LVDyMsrF2l

[Sam Aaron (@samaaron.bsky.social) @samaaron]

@juliettemm Huge hug x