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Sonic Pi is really fun to play around. However, the editor is fucking abysmal and turns me off every time I try to use it, since I can't use my muscle memory to
by birracerveza 6y ago
Sonic Pi is really fun to play around. However, the editor is fucking abysmal and turns me off every time I try to use it, since I can't use my muscle memory to copy/paste/multiselect and have to otherwise learn another set of keybinding that make no sense whatsoever (instead of CTRL-X to cut you have ALT-X, for example). I wish I were able to use VSCode. I know an extension exists, but it only sends the current file to the Sonic Pi session and has no autocompletion, which is fairly necessary during a live-coding music session to keep the tunes flowing. If I'll ever get around to understand how to develop an extension I'll try my hand at it, I guess.
But otherwise yeah, it's some good stuff and has lots of unexplored potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPdbp1An2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPdbp1An2s
- delineator 6y agoFor those using Atom, I've had some success using this Atom editor plugin: https://atom.io/packages/sb-atom-sonic-pi https://atom.io/packages/sb-atom-sonic-pi
- Moru 6y agoThey are working on different setups apparently, I was able to use ctrl+c/v to copy paste and next versions promises different selectable profiles. Sadly it defaults to your system language (swedish) and the menu shortcuts collide with some of the commands. I can't use alt+r for running the music for example, it just gets stuck in the menu for "Redigera". Only way I can find to start is by clicking run with the mouse. Can't find a way to switch language either. Really great program, daughter really loved the few minutes we had before bedtime. Not that it's only for kids, it's nothing like scratch where you can get started but the next step up is gigantic to programming. It seems to nicely scale up with your learning level. I'm no musician though so can't say how far we get with it :-)