samaaron
Hi everyone,
just thought that some of you might be interested in a new experimental live coding system I co-developed with the University of Sheffield.
It doesn’t quite have a name yet, but we developed it in collaboration with the band The Black Dog who have used it to release a number of tracks of their latest EP Seclusion as code.
http://bleep.sheffield.ac.uk/artist/seclusion
The live coding system was built using Phoenix LiveView, Luerl and WebAudio. It was a huge amount of fun and it was amazing how much power the tools gave me to build it. Soooo much nicer than Qt and C++ 
If you want to know a little more about how it works, we gave a workshop recently and the material we used is here:
Also, the source code is available here:
http://github.com/samaaron/bleep
I’m going to use ideas and experiences from this project to build the next version of Sonic Pi.
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binaryape
This is wonderful!
linusdm
Thanks for bumping this!
I’ve wondered about using the web audio api in combination with LV/Phoenix. Thanks for sharing Sam! In the past I’ve done some work on the crossroad of (very modest) audio processing and Qt. Nowhere near as fun as Elixir development. I can imagine how much more fun this other stack is for this kind of domain.
I’ve seen you present your work about Sonic Pi a few years ago in Londen. Till today it still stands as one of the most energetic and inspiring presentations I’ve seen.
samaaron
I haven’t yet found any direct benefits from WebAudio + LiveView, but WebAudio + Phoenix Channels opens up a huge set of opportunities for collaborative jamming.
I plan to consolidate my learning from this project and fold it back into Tau5, a ground-up rewrite of Sonic Pi, which will drop Ruby and switch to Luerl + Elixir. I also plan to switch to Phoenix/LiveView for the GUI - working simultaneously with an embedded Qt WebEngine for a standard app feel and web browsers for a more web-approach.
I still plan on using SuperCollider for the standalone desktop app, but will definitely explore integrating the WebAudio engine from the project with The Black Dog to enable pure web-based audio possibilities. Note that the Web Audio engine was written by Guy Brown from Sheffield University and can be found here (still quite rough around the edges): GitHub - guyjbrown/synth-designer: A system for designing synthesizers with WebAudio, and a synthesis engine that underpins software for live coding. · GitHub
My plans for Tau5 can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112605951
Also, thanks for your kind words regarding my talks. It’s always wonderful to share the joy of programming with others!