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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Sep 2

“It's not clear if this happens locally or requires a connection to the MusicAI servers” - it’s local, on device

Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Jul 27

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...

Tangerine Dream - Signale aus der Schwäbischen Straße (1976)

YouTube video by TangerineTux

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · May 7

Blogged: Proper trance or proper slop? olilarkin.blogspot.com/2025/05/prop...

Proper Trance or Proper slop?

My two favourite genre/eras of electronic music are Italo disco circa 1983/4 and Goa trance circa 1995/96. When Suno v3 dropped in April las...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · May 6

Chiptune based on a loop i made > 20 years ago...

suno.com/s/D9rM14OIes...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · May 4

Very impressed with the long-form structure and genre coherence.

Here's some pretty convincing 90s sad piano trance: suno.com/s/lL8NuhWGyU...

suno.com

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · May 2

Suno 4.5 model 🤯

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 28

Open sourcing by any chance? ;-)

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 23

are you using a cloud service for running SAO?

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 20

youtu.be/arKDc_Jr3O0?...

This Booklet from 1984 Taught Me (Almost) Everything I Know about Synthesizers

YouTube video by Keith Crosley

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 17

Copilot reviewed my PR. Nice

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 5

gist.github.com/olilarkin/86...

Shader's Gambit iPlug2

Shader's Gambit iPlug2. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 5

With 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...

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 5

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:

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Apr 4

Quicklook plugin that embeds libfaust: github.com/njazz/QLFAUS...

Release v0.0.6 · njazz/QLFAUST

improved build version info string added

github.com

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 27

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...

Spherical Harmonics

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 24

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.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 24

RIP 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.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 21

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!

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 21

nice... github.com/ahujasid/abl...

GitHub - ahujasid/ableton-mcp

Contribute to ahujasid/ableton-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 11

Obviously not. Don’t know about their political statements but AFAIK they were meant to play at the Nova festival on oct 7th FFS

Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 10

www.patreon.com/posts/iplug2...

iPlug2 + SwiftUI + Metal | Oli Larkin

Get more from Oli Larkin on Patreon

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 10

agree. Surprised it is this easy to upload music to a DSP using a well known band's name though

Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 10

The Astral Projection Apple Music Page is full of slop for some reason... music.apple.com/de/artist/as...

Astral Projection on Apple Music

Listen to music by Astral Projection on Apple Music.

music.apple.com

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 5

Although it is used by Chromium etc, Dawn is a cross platform GPU abstraction - it doesn't have anything todo with web-based GUIs

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Oli Larkin @olilarkin.bsky.social · Mar 5

I 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

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