@olilarkin.bsky.social
Music Technologist. Software engineer at Ableton, lead developer of iPlug2 framework. Maker of VirtualCZ and Endless Series plug-ins.
βIt's not clear if this happens locally or requires a connection to the MusicAI serversβ - itβs local, on device
02.09.2025 12:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
TIL i moved pretty much next door to the epicentre of Berlin School Electronic Music in the 1970s. Where Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze recorded some classic albums www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xe4...
27.07.2025 20:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Blogged: Proper trance or proper slop? olilarkin.blogspot.com/2025/05/prop...
07.05.2025 20:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chiptune based on a loop i made > 20 years ago...
suno.com/s/D9rM14OIes...
Very impressed with the long-form structure and genre coherence.
Here's some pretty convincing 90s sad piano trance: suno.com/s/lL8NuhWGyU...
Suno 4.5 model π€―
02.05.2025 20:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Open sourcing by any chance? ;-)
28.04.2025 17:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0are you using a cloud service for running SAO?
23.04.2025 22:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Copilot reviewed my PR. Nice
17.04.2025 21:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With the SKIA backend in iPlug2, it's pretty easy to just drop in shaders (SKIA has it's own SkSL shading language which is like GLSL).
This one that was recently shared to the skia mailing list is pretty cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUsF...
GPT-4-0 Imagegen is good for UI assets, icons etc as well as memes. Can do transparency, etc. Even makes knobs that go to 11:
05.04.2025 04:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Quicklook plugin that embeds libfaust: github.com/njazz/QLFAUS...
04.04.2025 10:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Gemini 2.5 oneshot "Can you plot me the first 16 spherical harmonics in 3d, as used in ambisonics, using blue and red for positive/negative lobes"
codepen.io/olilarkin/pe...
They both helped me with my various projects. It's sad that I won't get to show them what I've been working on for many years.
24.03.2025 07:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RIP Angelo Farina, who developed the sine sweep technique used widely for IR capture in convolution reverbs amongst other things. A few weeks ago we also lost Dave Malham, a former colleague who developed HOA/Ambisonics theory in the 90s, and was a friend of prof Farina.
Audio Engineering legends.
I tried it. It's impressive, especially using dictation. Was a bit slow. Music it made me was meh.. but it was fun having claude start playback, then after bring in new clips it wrote, which were of course- on the beat grid. Will be interesting to see where this goes!
21.03.2025 20:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
nice... github.com/ahujasid/abl...
21.03.2025 15:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Obviously not. Donβt know about their political statements but AFAIK they were meant to play at the Nova festival on oct 7th FFS
11.03.2025 14:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0agree. Surprised it is this easy to upload music to a DSP using a well known band's name though
10.03.2025 20:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Astral Projection Apple Music Page is full of slop for some reason... music.apple.com/de/artist/as...
10.03.2025 20:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Although it is used by Chromium etc, Dawn is a cross platform GPU abstraction - it doesn't have anything todo with web-based GUIs
05.03.2025 08:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I doubt that would be added to SkSL, but Skia has a WebGPU backend via DAWN. It should be possible to use WGSL for such things. I hope to update iPlug2 to use the WebGPU backend of Skia soon
05.03.2025 07:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks, hope to find time to look at your PRs properly soon!
04.03.2025 22:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0vocal version: suno.com/song/b9156fd...
02.03.2025 10:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0one day my suno genius will be appreciated: suno.com/song/ed0af4a...
02.03.2025 10:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Too many VSTs to learn, too many hacks to hack, too many banging suno songs to tweak... option paralysis is real
25.02.2025 21:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
that's how you make a product demo vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhU...
25.02.2025 19:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
