Testing GitHub Agents for cleaning up the Musical Gestures Toolbox

Over the last few days, we have run a toolbox hackathon between the three music-related research centres of excellence in the Nordic countries (MIB, MMBB, and RITMO). Researchers across all centres are actively developing various toolboxes, including myself and the Musical Gestures Toolbox (MGT). Due to all the MishMash things happening lately, I was unable to spend much time myself on hacking. Instead, I thought of the opportunity to test how GitHub Agents could assist. ...

April 14, 2026 · 5 min · 878 words · ARJ

Developing basic music tools with GitHub Copilot agents

Many musicians rely on basic tools in everyday life, including a tuner, a metronome, and a keyboard. I support the kids in a marching band, and I see that they rely on numerous poorly developed apps that differ between iOS and Android devices. Many of them also include ads, and some even play video ads in the middle of a tuning session. I wanted to see if I could develop some web-based apps to solve the problem. ...

March 22, 2026 · 6 min · 1128 words · ARJ

MultiControl on GitHub

](/images/2014/03/MultiControl_062.png) Screenshot of MultiControl v0.6.2 Today I have added MultiControl to my GitHub account. Inititally, I did not intend to release the source code for MultiControl, because it is so old and dirty. The whole patch is based on bpatchers and trying to hide things away in the pre-Max5-days, when presentation view did not exist. I originally developed the Max patch back in 2004, mainly so that I could distribute a standalone application for my students to use. I have only incrementally updated it to work with newer versions of Max and OS X, but have never really given it a full brush-over. ...

March 29, 2014 · 1 min · 209 words · ARJ