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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.
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AirWindows’ free PointyDeluxe is dangerous, unstable, and wonderful
AirWindows, if you aren’t already in the know, is a planetary treasure. Developer Chris Johnson has built a massive playground of DSP, available for free/Patreon donationware. And this time, he’s created something he says is “not normal.” What was supposed to be a brutal guitar sound went off the rails. But don’t let that stop you from getting onboard.
Peter Kirn - July 29, 2025
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Nasko’s completely free N-IRIS is a spectrum disperser – why that’s cool
Nasko, the prolific and imaginative software developer, is back with a new one – and it’s completely free, running in Plug Data (Pd) on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s a convolution-based spectrum disperser. Say what? Well, you get a powerful, precise, fairly rare method for generating impulse responses for convolution tools, like Kilohearts Convolution (now on sale), the one just added to Serum 2, and more. Or just play it live, because that also sounds kind of awesome.
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2025
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Tim Exile’s cancer recovery project is a generative, morphing groovebox
Peter Kirn - November 26, 2024
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Super Synthesis is taking their excellent Eurorack modules open-source
Peter Kirn - April 12, 2024
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Saffron supports women, non-binary people in music tech – now with online memberships
Peter Kirn - July 31, 2020
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