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.

Patch in VR using gestures, not controllers: PatchWorld update

Virtual patching has reached a major milestone: you don’t need a controller. Using just your hands and natural gestures, you can now build up entire interactive worlds, connect virtual wires, tweak knobs and faders, and play virtual instruments in PatchWorld on Meta Quest. Combined with Mixed Reality, virtual physics, and support for OpenSoundControl and Ableton Live and Link integration, it’s a glimpse of how mixed reality and VR can work for music making.

Peter Kirn - December 24, 2024

Bitwig Studio and TouchDesigner can now play one another

Welp, now that we’ve been putting modular environments inside modules inside modular rigs, next we get to make TouchDesigner play Bitwig Studio and Bitwig Studio play TouchDesigner — and Bitwig’s modular The Grid and TouchDesigner’s modular UI interact. It’s all coming on the eve of the TouchDesigner Roundtable in Berlin – and it’s even part of the official Touch build. 3D and generative visuals, meet the DAW.

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2023

PatchWorld shows power of multiplayer VR music, integrates with Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2023

Lemur lives: iOS/Android app acquired by MIDI Kinetics

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2023

Musical, powerful live coding in the browser is here with Strudel – child of Tidal

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2022

Here’s a free custom VCV Rack module controlling tempo and time in Ableton Live

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2021

TouchOSC next-generation is here, and it’s an awesome touch controller for everything

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2021

OSC to MIDI conversion and MIDI over network, with a free, open source tool

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2021

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