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.

All versions of Pro Tools now support Ableton Link

The Link-enabled products page has gotten busy, but here’s one you may have heard of – Avid Pro Tools. It’s the latest to support Live’s tech for jamming together across apps, software, and hardware.

Peter Kirn - June 1, 2021

This is What High-End Audio Can Do Now: New Trio of Thunderbolt Boxes from MOTU

You’d be forgiven for missing it in the blur of press releases and trade show hand-outs – and, let’s face it, most musicians are too focused on music to pay much mind. But slowly, steadily, audio interfaces have been getting a lot better. Talk to the people who make them, and they can tell you […]

- July 30, 2014

PixelPusher to Make Networked Syphon Displays from LEDs, Easily, in Crowd-funded Project

Peter Kirn - April 16, 2013

Fractals, Bots, Nodes, and Patternists: Onyx Ashanti’s Cyborg Music Meets the Ensemble [Guest Post]

- April 3, 2013

Sharing Music’s Source Code: Event Pairs Performances with Code, Patches, Schematics

- October 23, 2012

Networked Video: With a Sweet Arsenal of Tools, One VJ Telecommutes

Peter Kirn - July 17, 2012

Plink: Play Music with Strangers, In Your Browser; and the Webby Music Goodness Continues

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2012

Sociable Music Gadgets: Networked Android + Arduino Sequencer in a “Hack of Concept”

- June 9, 2011

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