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PI WEEKLY #1

Sonic Pi Welcome to the future of music. Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. Simple enough for computing and music lessons. Powerful enough for professional musicians. Free to download with a friendly tutorial. Diverse community of over 1.8 million live coders.. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical

SONIC PI - TUTORIAL

Boot up your Raspberry Pi, launch Sonic Pi from the Programming menu, type the following into a fresh buffer and then hit the Run button to hear a pre-recorded drum beat: A recording of a sound is simply represented as data - lots of numbers between -1 and 1 which represent the peaks and troughs of

SONIC PI WEEKLY #6

Welcome to Sonic Pi Weekly #6. Wow, what an exciting week for Sonic Pi! Not only was v2.3.0 codename "Bitcrushed" released, the new quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 was announced! In fact, v2.3.0 of Sonic Pi is already installed on the latest RPi 2-ready Raspbian image so new users are all set to go. v2.3.0 is a nice solid improvement and comes packed with a number of new exciting FX and utility

SONIC PI WEEKLY #1

Sonic Pi Weekly #1. Hello there and welcome to the first edition of Sonic Pi Weekly - the newsletter to help you keep on top of the many exciting things happening in the Sonic Pi community. Of course, the most exciting thing to have happened is the release of v2.1 SONIC-PI.NET LIVE CODING EDUCATION Tutorial WALKTHROUGH 44 Educator’s Edition raspberrypi.org/education he lights sliced through the mist as the rhythms moved the crowd, the atmosphere ripe with a SONIC PI - THE LIVE CODING MUSIC SYNTH FOR EVERYONEINTROTUTORIALSONIC

PI WEEKLY #1

Sonic Pi Welcome to the future of music. Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. Simple enough for computing and music lessons. Powerful enough for professional musicians. Free to download with a friendly tutorial. Diverse community of over 1.8 million live coders.. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical

SONIC PI - TUTORIAL

Boot up your Raspberry Pi, launch Sonic Pi from the Programming menu, type the following into a fresh buffer and then hit the Run button to hear a pre-recorded drum beat: A recording of a sound is simply represented as data - lots of numbers between -1 and 1 which represent the peaks and troughs of

SONIC PI WEEKLY #6

Welcome to Sonic Pi Weekly #6. Wow, what an exciting week for Sonic Pi! Not only was v2.3.0 codename "Bitcrushed" released, the new quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 was announced! In fact, v2.3.0 of Sonic Pi is already installed on the latest RPi 2-ready Raspbian image so new users are all set to go. v2.3.0 is a nice solid improvement and comes packed with a number of new exciting FX and utility

SONIC PI WEEKLY #1

Sonic Pi Weekly #1. Hello there and welcome to the first edition of Sonic Pi Weekly - the newsletter to help you keep on top of the many exciting things happening in the Sonic Pi community. Of course, the most exciting thing to have happened is the release of v2.1 SONIC-PI.NET LIVE CODING EDUCATION Tutorial WALKTHROUGH 44 Educator’s Edition raspberrypi.org/education he lights sliced through the mist as the rhythms moved the crowd, the atmosphere ripe with a WHAT ADVANTAGES ARE THERE TO USING SONIC-PI INSTEAD OF I’m looking to build a hardware instrument and have been evaluating Supercollider and Pure Data as possible sound/sequencing engines. I have been leaning toward Supercollider and recently found Sonic Pi. I’m curious to know what advantages the Sonic Pi environment offers over working directly in Supercollider. Thanks so much for your input. STRANGER THINGS THEME SONG! Hi all! Just started playing around with Sonic Pi and inspired by the amazing music of Stranger Things, I decided to tackle the theme song. Right now, it’s pretty rough. Having issues with the arpeggio matching up with the “heartbeat” and would appreciate some guidance on how to effectively play the changing alto line/very rhythmic bass towards the end of the track. Of course, went SONIC PI IN A WEB BROWSER samaaron October 12, 2018, 7:43am #5. As far as I understand, they both use Web Audio for their sound production and therefore generate their sound in the browser. As for features, there’s likely to be things they can do that Sonic Pi can’t and visa versa. It all really depends on your musical goals. SONIC PI V3.3.1 IS RELEASED This is compatibility release addressing two issues with macOS Big Sur: Correct language translations now used based on user’s current locale The language server is no longer killed by macOS Gatekeeper when a sample’s onset times are queried. This release also includes minor translation updates. Releases macOS x64 (10.13+) Link Sonic-Pi-for-Mac-x64-v3-3-1.dmg Size 120M MD5 NO SOUND IN SONIC PI sudo apt update. sudo apt upgrade. to make sure it has all the latest files. Then reinstall sonic-pi 3.2.2 from the deb file. Then add the temporary fix detailed here to add the changes to get sonic pi to play ball with pulseaudio. Reboot the machine having doe so then try

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MIDI KEYBOARD WITH SONIC PI NO AUDIO Hi, I have my midi keyboard (keystation 88) connected to my computer. I would like to use it with Sonic Pi, but I cannot hear anything when I play the keyboard. I have followed the instructions for MIDI In provided by Sam Aaron in the Sonic Pi app, and everything seems to be connected correctly. I’ve provided a screenshot of what I see on my screen. Also, I know it is not an issue with my FADING LIVE_LOOP IN /OUT? These rings are different in that when you tick to the end, they don’t wrap around but stay at the last value. You can reverse the ring to fade out. live_loop :fade_in do synth :beep, note: (chord :c3, :min).tick, amp: (line 0,1,steps: 32, inclusive: true).ramp.look sleep 0.25 end. You can reset ticks using tick_reset or tick_reset_all, but

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CONTROL THE STOP OF A LIVE_LOOP WITH A CONDITION Hi everybody, I’m working on a apckey 25 project and try to start or stop a live_loop if a toggle is on. So i try with this piece of code to try to understand what i’m doing 🙂 live_loop :metronome do sleep 1 end live_loop :foo do sync :metronome stop if get sample :bass_dnb_f # sleep 1 end live_loop :toggle_inspector do sync :metronome tick :boo if look(:boo)==3 set :toggleOn EXPORT TO WAV WITH COMMAND LINE Hello! is there a way to “play” a .rb file with a command line tool and have it directly stored in a wav file? I mean, without having to hear it and press a key at some point. STOPPING A LIVE_LOOP OR A THREAD VIA OSC COMMAND Here is a demo program that starts and stops the loop using osc messages. In this case the messages are sent from this instance of Sonic Pi, but they could be sent from an external source, eg another computger running Sonic Pi on the same network.

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SONIC PI

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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF MUSIC.

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SONIC PI IS A CODE-BASED MUSIC CREATION AND PERFORMANCE TOOL. SIMPLE enough for computing and music lessons. POWERFUL enough for professional musicians. FREE to download with a friendly tutorial . DIVERSE community of over 1.8 million live coders. LEARN TO CODE creatively by composing or performing MUSIC in an incredible range of styles from CLASSICAL & JAZZ to GRIME & EDM. BROUGHT TO YOU BY SAM AARON AND THE

SONIC PI CORE TEAM

PLEASE SUPPORT US ON PATREON TO HELP

KEEP SONIC PI FREE.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE 663 OUT OF 1000 SUPPORTERS NEEDED TO CONTINUE. Windows macOS Raspberry Pi OS ORIGINALLY CREATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE COMPUTER LABORATORY. DEVELOPED WITH KIND SUPPORT FROM 400+ CONTRIBUTORS

AND

GENEROUS PATREON SUPPORTERS . SONIC PI IS AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT RELEASED UNDER THE MIT LICENCE.

CODE. MUSIC. LIVE.

Sonic Pi is a NEW KIND OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. Watch how you can use it for live performances from ambient sets to dance music in nightclubs... REELED - JYLDA & SAM AARON SONIC PI BAND - SAM AARON & BEN SMITH GENERATIVE AMBIENT PATCH #1 CODED BY SIRMAPLELEAF DAFT PUNK - AERODYNAMIC CODED BY SÉBASTIEN RANNOU WELCOME TO OUR COMMUNITY Join the FRIENDLY Sonic Pi community and share your ideas and thoughts with other EDUCATORS, MUSICIANS and LIVE CODERS... COME AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION... LIVE CODING EDUCATION SONIC PI HELPS YOU ENGAGE STUDENTS IN COMPUTING THROUGH MUSIC. READ HOW IN THE ARTICLE 'LIVE CODING EDUCATION' WATCH THIS INTRODUCTORY CAS TV INTERVIEW

WITH

SONIC PI CREATOR SAM AARON.

SONIC PI IN THE

COMPUTING CLASSROOM

Sonic Pi was specifically designed for and built in collaboration with teachers for use in the classroom.

MUSIC LIVE CODING

Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument which enables exciting new learning pathways in the classroom. Music programming workshop by Mehackit

CLASSROOM READY

Sonic Pi was designed, implemented and developed with extensive classroom trials in close collaboration with teachers. Introduction for Teachers

CREATIVE COMPUTING

Sonic Pi comes with a scheme of work targetted for KS3 Computing developed in harmony with the new UK curriculum. Scheme of Work for Computing Lessons Engage your students by coding music in your classroom today.

SONIC PI TALKS

"SONIC PI LOWERS THE BARRIER TO ENTRY FOR A CREATIVE EXPERIENCE WITH

CODE..."

TEDX NEWCASTLE 2015 - PROGRAMMING AS PERFORMANCE GOTO 2018 - LET'S GET READY TO ROCK WITH SONIC PI

FREE SONIC PI BOOK

Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, has written this book to complement the built-in documentation . Master live loops, code drum breaks, compose your own melodies make random riffs and loops, learn to shape and sculpt sounds and much,

much more...

DOWNLOAD "CODE MUSIC WITH SONIC PI" NOW! MUSIC. CODE. SIMPLE. See how easy it is to get started coding your first sounds...

HAUNTED BELLS

loop do

sample :perc_bell, rate: (rrand 0.125, 1.5)

sleep rrand(0, 2)

end

LISTEN TO THE CODED BELLS...

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PENTATONIC BLEEPS

with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.2 do

loop do

play scale(:Eb2, :major_pentatonic, num_octaves: 3).choose, release: 0.1, amp: rand

sleep 0.1

end

end

CODE WITH SCALES AND CHORDS...

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TRON BIKES

loop do

with_synth :dsaw do with_fx(:slicer, phase: .choose) do with_fx(:reverb, room: 0.5, mix: 0.3) do start_note = chord(.choose, :minor).choose final_note = chord(.choose, :minor).choose p = play start_note, release: 8, note_slide: 4, cutoff: 30, cutoff_slide: 4, detune: rrand(0, 0.2), pan: rrand(-1, 0), pan_slide: rrand(4, 8) control p, note: final_note, cutoff: rrand(80, 120), pan: rrand(0, 1)

end

end

end

sleep 8

end

LISTEN TO BIKES FROM THE FUTURE...

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WOB RHYTHM

with_fx :reverb do

in_thread do

loop do

r = .choose

8.times do

sample :ambi_choir, rate: r, pan: rrand(-1, 1)

sleep 0.5

end

end

end

end

with_fx :wobble, phase: 2 do |w| with_fx :echo, mix: 0.6 do

loop do

sample :drum_heavy_kick sample :bass_hit_c, rate: 0.8, amp: 0.4

sleep 1

end

end

end

HEAR THE RHYTHMIC WOBBLE...

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OCEAN WAVES

with_fx :reverb, mix: 0.5 do

loop do

s = synth .choose, amp: rrand(0.5, 1.5), attack: rrand(0, 4), sustain: rrand(0, 2), release: rrand(1, 3), cutoff_slide: rrand(0, 3), cutoff: rrand(60, 80), pan: rrand(-1, 1), pan_slide: 1, amp: rrand(0.5, 1) control s, pan: rrand(-1, 1), cutoff: rrand(60, 115)

sleep rrand(2, 3)

end

end

HEAR THE DIGITAL WAVES CRASH...

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IDM BREAKBEAT

define :play_bb do |n| sample :drum_heavy_kick sample :ambi_drone, rate: .choose, amp: 0.25 if rand < 0.125 sample :ambi_lunar_land, rate: .choose, amp: 0.25 if rand < 0.125 sample :loop_amen, attack: 0, release: 0.05, start: 1 - (1.0 / n), rate: .choose sleep sample_duration(:loop_amen) / n

end

loop {play_bb(.choose)} LISTEN TO CRAZY CODED BEATS...

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ACID WALK

in_thread do

use_synth :fm

sleep 2

loop do

28.times do

sample :drum_bass_hard, amp: 0.8

sleep 0.25

play :e2, release: 0.2 sample :elec_cymbal, rate: 12, amp: 0.6

sleep 0.25

end

sleep 4

end

end

use_synth :tb303

with_fx :reverb do |rev|

loop do

control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.3) with_fx :slicer, phase: 0.125 do sample :ambi_lunar_land, sustain: 0, release: 8, amp: 2

end

control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6) r = rrand(0.05, 0.3)

64.times do

play chord(:e3, :minor).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(50, 90), amp: 0.5

sleep 0.125

end

control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6) r = rrand(0.1, 0.2) with_synth :prophet do

32.times do

sleep 0.125

play chord(:a3, :m7).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(40, 130), amp: 0.7

end

end

control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6) r = rrand(0.05, 0.3)

32.times do

play chord(:e3, :minor).choose, release: r, cutoff: rrand(110, 130), amp: 0.4

sleep 0.125

end

control rev, mix: rrand(0, 0.6) with_fx :echo, phase: 0.25, decay: 8 do

16.times do

play chord(.choose, :m7).choose, release: 0.05, cutoff: rrand(50, 129), amp: 0.5

sleep 0.125

end

end

end

end

START PRODUCING LONGER TRACKS...

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What are you waiting for? Get yourself a copy of Sonic Pi for: Windows macOS Raspberry Pi OS WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH

SONIC PI

Here's a taster of some of the exciting things happening in the Sonic

Pi world...

THE MUSIC COMMISSION Sonic Pi is represented by Sam Aaron on The Music Commission panel, a new enquiry launched by ABRSM exploring how to better sustain & support progress & progression in learning music. THE NAKED SCIENTISTS The wonderful Naked Scientists covered Sonic Pi in an interview which was broadcast live on BBC radio and is available to listen and read

here

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THE BIG BANG FAIR 2018 The Big Bang Fair is the UK's largest celebration of STEM for young people. In 2018 the Sonic Pi Band performed a series of shows demonstrating how to live code your own band. KOKOA CERTIFIED RESOURCES The incredible Mehackit Sonic Pi creative coding resource has been certified by the Finnish Education Standard Kakoa for its educational quality. ROYAL ALBERT HALL : CONVO Sonic Pi was an Education Partner for Convo, an ambitious new work at the Royal Albert Hall featuring 1,000 young instrumentalists & singers combining traditional instruments & code. Watch the performance here

CODEBUS AFRICA

In 2017, African and Finnish tech and education innovators collaborated to use Sonic Pi to deliver creative coding workshops engaging almost 2000 children in 10 African countries. GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE WINNER Google have announced Sonic Pi as one of a number of projects they either use or think are important. SONIC PI NOMINATED MUSIC TEACHER AWARD FINALIST Sonic Pi was listed as a finalist for the Music Teacher Best Music Education Product Award alongside music instrument manufacturers Boss & Korg. ROLLING STONE REVIEW Sam Aaron performed with Sonic Pi at Moogfest 2016. Rolling Stone featured his performance in their review of the festival and said it _"transcended the present"_. SONIC PI SPACE COMPETITION These are the winning students

that won an

exciting once-in-a-lifetime competition to get their Sonic Pi music played onboard the International Space Station by UK astronaut Tim

Peake.

CBBC TEN PIECES MASTERCLASS Radio 1 DJ MistaJam and Live Coder Sam Aaron compose a piece of music using Sonic Pi, inspired by Bizet's 'Carmen'

DAFT PUNK IN CODE

Sébastien Rannou has published a tutorial on how he live coded his fabulous cover of Aerodynamic

by Daft Punk.

SONIC PI FEATURED ON CBBC NEWSROUND Sonic Pi was featured on the UK national children's news programme CBBC Newsround - with presenter Jenny Lawrence discovering Live Coding for the first time. SONIC PI: LIVE & CODING POP PI VIDEOS LAUNCHED The Sonic Pi: Live & Coding project has launched a series of 10 "Pop Pi" music videos created by artists

using Sonic Pi.

SONIC PI LIVE & CODING - SUMMER SCHOOL Artists Juneau Projects write about the recent Sonic Pi Live & Coding

Summer School

which

involved 60 children aged 10-14 learning to code and perform on stage at Cambridge Junction.

GET SONIC PI FOR

RASPBERRY PI OS

Get started on the world's most affordable computer.

UPDATE SONIC PI

Get the latest version of Sonic Pi for your Raspberry Pi to take advantage of all the new features such as MIDI, OSC networking, new translations, improved interface, headphone audio and much, much

more...

SIMPLE INSTALLATION

Download and double-click to install

v3.3.1

Requires Raspberry Pi OS

January 11th 2021.

Download

TERMINAL INSTALLATION As an alternative to the double-click installation, you can run the following commands via the terminal (within the directory you downloaded the deb file):

sudo apt update

sudo apt install ./sonic-pi_3.3.1_1_armhf.deb

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GET SONIC PI FOR

WINDOWS

Turn any PC into a full Sonic Pi workstation. BUILT FOR WINDOWS 10 Sonic Pi has been developed and designed to work perfectly on laptops and desktops running Windows 10. SONIC PI FOR WINDOWS Download and double-click to install

v3.3.1

Requires Windows 10.

Windows 10 (64 bit)

MSI Installer Still using Windows 7 or 8.1?

Download v3.1 here

MSI INSTALLER

Sonic Pi is available as a signed MSI installer for you to securely install on your machine or network. Getting Sonic Pi running on Windows is as easy as 3, 1, 4...

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GET SONIC PI FOR

MACOS

Use the full power of your Mac to take Sonic Pi to the next level. SECURELY BUILT FOR APPLE Sonic Pi has been built as a secure self-contained macOS app ready for you to download and launch. It is cryptographically signed, notarised by Apple and uses the secure macOS hardened runtime.

SONIC PI FOR MACOS

Download and open DMG to install

v3.3.1

Requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

Download

Using macOS 10.12 or below?

Download v3.1 here

BIG SUR READY

Compiled for 64 bit, Sonic Pi has been tested to run on macOS 10.13 High Sierra through to macOS 11 Big Sur. It also runs well on M1 Macs. Getting Sonic Pi running on your Mac is as easy as eating Apple Pi.

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