"Sonic Pi is your free code-based music creation and performance tool."
nazgulsenpai 1 hours ago [-]
Every time I click a HN post with the Something Pi naming convention my graybeard brain expects to see an SBC. This is something just about as interesting! I grew up on (and still use) trackers for sequencing. It might be fun to try a similar workflow in this!
thenthenthen 20 minutes ago [-]
Oh my pi! (Same here, yesterday I came to the conclusion that I dont understand any of the front page links. Thanks for commenters clearing it up also!)
minraws 47 minutes ago [-]
I blame Mario for ruining me until a year ago Pi was RPi or 3.142... but yeah this is nice, I have been using daws and have written my own small piano roll app because bosca ceoil vanished a couple years ago, but this is nice too.
I think that app(bosca ceoil) is now back around among us, though I don't recall what had happened back in the day.
stets 1 hours ago [-]
This looks like a lot of fun. I wish they'd name it better though, the name makes me think it's a raspberry pi related thing. or a piece of hardware.
samaaron 21 minutes ago [-]
Sonic Pi was originally written for the Raspberry Pi and shipped on their OS for many years - hence the name :-)
Zetaphor 21 minutes ago [-]
In the defense of Sonic Pi, the first version of it and the Raspberry Pi were released in the same year. Obviously one went on to become more popular
samaaron 11 minutes ago [-]
That’s because Sonic Pi was originally built specifically for and in collaboration with Raspberry Pi :-)
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kwanbix 52 minutes ago [-]
Was thinking the same.
samaaron 3 days ago [-]
Sonic Pi v5 is released.
Sonic Pi is now more friendly, more accessible, more powerful and more fun.
There's something to excite everyone - from the friendlier error messages, to the pro-audio config, to the new dynamic visuals for performance.
Enjoy!
specproc 31 minutes ago [-]
I've been playing with it the last few weeks, great software and really fun to use. Fantastic timing. Thanks for all the hard work that went into the release.
I'm particularly happy to see keyboard shortcut preferences in the release notes, that's been a real pain point.
Thanking you kindly, sir.
Fervicus 1 hours ago [-]
Congrats on the release Sam! Looking forward to checking it out. What's your favorite new feature?
samaaron 9 minutes ago [-]
I love the new Link Audio which lets you stream and receive audio on the local network with any other Link Audio capable software such as Ableton Live.
I also like the new QuickStart Cards as a way to get started that doesn’t require reading the built-in tutorial.
The primary difference to me is that strudel's license is so restrictive that it's impossible to use on anything. This is MIT.
spacechild1 11 minutes ago [-]
How exactly does the license matter if you just want to make music?
herpdyderp 6 minutes ago [-]
I want to embed the player into standalone video game binaries that don't require internet access to download the restrictively licensed files. I'm not looking to embed music file outputs, I want the music to remain customizable on the fly.
glimshe 35 minutes ago [-]
I think the underlying Supercollider sound engine uses the more restrictive GPL, though...
herpdyderp 11 minutes ago [-]
Darn, you're right. Looks like there's still no hope here.
Fervicus 1 hours ago [-]
For starters, strudel runs in the browser while Sonic Pi is a stand alone application.
glimshe 36 minutes ago [-]
I keep wanting to learn Supercollider but I never get to. Maybe I'm more enamored of the idea of live coding than actually wanting to play this way. Sonic Pi could finally convince me!
gizajob 29 minutes ago [-]
Get Claude to come up with ideas and generate .scd files which you can launch with supercollider. Ask it to build a gui with parameters. It’s pretty good at it.
gizajob 1 hours ago [-]
why is the Amen Brother breakbeat included in this software as if it's open source and GPL / MIT license? Just because something has been stolen a million times, that doesn't make it public domain, it's still under copyright and owned by its publisher, who I'm pretty certain has never given it away under a free license.
noman-land 1 hours ago [-]
I'd be really curious for this particular sample to go to court because unless The Winstons have been aggressively enforcing this copyright they may have already lost it to the public domain.
aduty 57 minutes ago [-]
Pretty sure that aggressive defense is required for trademarks and not copyright. However it may be interesting whether or not it's still protected by copyright.
gizajob 1 hours ago [-]
It would need to be defended in court yeah, but the absence of that defence doesn't automatically make it so it falls under the GPL and can be included in MIT licensed code just because the copyright holder doesn't know about it to defend it or refuse to be part of your software. Maybe you can argue the technicality but certainly not in the spirit of open source. There would be hundreds of other breakbeats you could include and give away under your MIT license if that were the case.
juliend2 1 hours ago [-]
Is there any (somewhat) known artist who uses Sonic Pi in their actual work?
https://sonic-pi.net/
"Sonic Pi is your free code-based music creation and performance tool."
I think that app(bosca ceoil) is now back around among us, though I don't recall what had happened back in the day.
Sonic Pi is now more friendly, more accessible, more powerful and more fun.
There's something to excite everyone - from the friendlier error messages, to the pro-audio config, to the new dynamic visuals for performance.
Enjoy!
I'm particularly happy to see keyboard shortcut preferences in the release notes, that's been a real pain point.
Thanking you kindly, sir.
I also like the new QuickStart Cards as a way to get started that doesn’t require reading the built-in tutorial.
she started with Sonic Pi back in ~ 2020 but i guess she uses other stuff by now