Tau5 will be a hub for live coding music, visuals, and art with friends – or bots

Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron is building something new. It’s early days, but Tau5 promises to be a “next-gen” creative coding environment. You can use it with your favorite tools, including Ableton Live, hardware, TidalCycles, Hydra, and others. And you never have to feel alone: you can jam with others, code with friends, and even code with AI — or keep it all-human if you prefer. Let’s explain.

Unofficial “Move – Extended” hacks extra powers for Ableton Move, free

It’s unofficial. It’ll void your warranty. But – that adds to the fun, right? Move-Extended gives you a companion website for Ableton Move that adds new features, including sample reverse, a Drum Rack Inspector, Macro editing for synths, kit slicing, chord kits, and MIDI import. It’s free, open source, and fully documented.

Peter Kirn - May 30, 2025

bop: free, fast, friendly, fun music stuff for Pd, old CPUs and RasPi

It’s free, it’s fast, it’s fun, it’s bop for the free Pure Data Vanilla. It runs on old computers. It runs on Raspberry Pi. “You probably don’t have any use for bop,” its developer says humbly – but wait, with everything from text sequencing to reverbs to esoteric musical notation, this looks great!

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2025

Zoe McPherson track Thumb Governance loaded in Bandcamp with Bandcamp Tempo Adjust plugin controls available - CDJ-style bpm detection, range toggles, and master tempo toggle visible.

Bandcamp and Discogs Tempo Adjust has a new UI, Master Tempo

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2024

Super Synthesis is taking their excellent Eurorack modules open-source

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2024

LFO device in Max over top an Ableton Live session, showing the Presentation view. The Freeze button (set to unfreeze to allow editing).

Ableton has a new free guide to making better Max for Live devices

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2024

Deluge synth-sequencer-sampler open-source community firmware is here

Peter Kirn - December 4, 2023

Could a new DAW file exchange format help you move projects around?

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2023

New Noise Engineering modules, new platform: multiband dynamics, drum kit

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2022

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