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Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool
- trollied 5y agoCheck out the Awesome Livecoding list for similar things: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/REA... Also, Algorave for live performances: https://algorave.com/ https://algorave.com/
- hangtwenty 5y agoYes And! https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding
- the-dude 5y agoCovered multiple times over the last 5? years : https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sonic+pi https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sonic+pi with decent comment threads.
- yitchelle 5y agoKinda shows the interest in this subject is not ramping down.
- lo0pback 5y agoI just finished my first sonic piece after watching a ton of tutorials and seeing examples last week. https://gist.github.com/pgagnidze/fd01ddb9332c336d7e853f121538c953 https://gist.github.com/pgagnidze/fd01ddb9332c336d7e853f1215... I had sonic-pi bookmarked/planned for more than 5 years. It is sad how most bookmarked items never get viewed or they are postponed to eternity.
- keeganj 5y agoSounds great! I just started working through their tutorial this weekend too and hope to be able to make something like this soon.
- yardshop 5y agoBookmarks are a form of technical debt!!
- runevault 5y agoDid you save off your links for the tutorials you watched etc? I've messed with SP in the past but never got comfortable with it so additional tutorials would be rad.
- lo0pback 5y agoI watched a few talks from Sam Aaron, you can find a ton of them. I would recommend this playlist to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPKaHV7Q5U&list=PLaitaNxyd8SHvTQjRGnMdKLsARXW7iYyp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPKaHV7Q5U&list=PLaitaNxyd8... and the help > tutorial section of sonic itself. Those two are just amazing: https://youtu.be/a1RxpJkvqpY https://youtu.be/a1RxpJkvqpY, https://youtu.be/GPan4gRSwZs https://youtu.be/GPan4gRSwZs
- psychomugs 5y agoI also have a bunch of 'things' that have been bookmarked for years: mostly movies and articles, some projects. This stockpiling has become tsundoku for more than books [1]. On one hand, divorcing myself from the initial impulse to consume or create something helps filter down to what I am and will be truly interested in. On the obvious other hand, the backlog grows to the point where I get paralyzed by so many options and the perfect ideas in my head that I end up not doing anything. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
- lo0pback 5y agoI struggle with the same, and I have exactly the same thought process. Occasionally, I have a filtering session when I am going through everything and narrowing them down, however extra items are appearing until the next filtering session and the same goes again. It is a vicious cycle.
- nmstoker 5y agoIt's worth checking out the live sessions by Sam Aaron - plenty of videos on his YouTube channel. He gives an introductory talk about it here: https://youtu.be/TK1mBqKvIyU https://youtu.be/TK1mBqKvIyU
- voigt 5y agoI like the idea of sonic-pi and think its very well designed. What I would like to see is a "multi-player" mode, where I can collaboratively code on the same session. Is there anything that would enable this with sonic-pi?
- huskyr 5y agoSonic Pi is awesome. I can highly recommend Mercury as well for live coding music: https://github.com/tmhglnd/mercury https://github.com/tmhglnd/mercury
- tailspin2019 5y agoThis looks rather interesting. Haven’t checked it out yet but the README alone is well written and quite compelling. (Maybe I’m just a sucker for ASCII art…)
- eythian 5y agoA project in a similar domain: https://supercollider.github.io/ https://supercollider.github.io/
- spdegabrielle 5y agoFun fact: Sonic pi uses supercollider! https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/blob/main/SYNTH_DESIGN.md https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/blob/main/SYNTH_DES...
- beepbooptheory 5y agothere is a lot more friction in understanding sclang, but the server here is the same (scsynth/supernova), and to me, Sclang is really one of the most beautiful things to work with. Wish I could get paid to work with it
- scns 5y agoPlayed with with it when i got my first Raspberry, it was fun. There is a Vim plugin with which you get a kind of sonic-pi REPL [0], there is a newer one for Neovim too [1]. [0] https://github.com/dermusikman/sonicpi.vim https://github.com/dermusikman/sonicpi.vim [1] https://github.com/lilyinstarlight/vim-sonic-pi https://github.com/lilyinstarlight/vim-sonic-pi
- failrate 5y agoI've used SonicPi on my old laptop for quite a while. It is quite enjoyable to just sit down and jam with it.
- queuebert 5y agoImagine having a huge, open-source library of instruments and clips for Sonic Pi. Like scipy but for music. I've never understood how DAW makers have made so much money off of the FFT plus a MIDI envelope.
- ta988 5y agoThere is a bit more to DAW than just that. You need a highly stable and performant piece of software that accomodates all kind of plugins and hardware. Look at the Ardour source code. They have done an incredible job with it.
- EamonnMR 5y agoGood UI and workflow are the main selling points for DAWs since at the end of the day they'll all be using the same VSTs.
- Tjanovsky 5y agoAlso, check out https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot It is more userfriendly layer above SuperCollider, coding is in python.
- rwhaling 5y agoI think I shared this last time Sonic Pi got posted here, but Sonic Pi is also extremely flexible when you bus the MIDI output to other tools - Ableton, external synthesizers, etc. I posted a clip on IG a while back - https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKvWP6h3xQ/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKvWP6h3xQ/ And I've also seen it play well with ORCA and other livecoding tools: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
- eggy 5y agoSonic Pi is very accessible and a great front end for SuperCollider and livecoding music in general. Some others worth trying depending on your personal choice and bias for a particular PL: Euterpea - Haskell library for music creation [0]. Extempore - Scheme-based livecoding environment with a low-level language too - xtlang [1]. Grace (Common Music) - Scheme-based livecoding with crossplatform IDE [2]. Sporth (used by AudioKit) - Forth-based, low-level livecoding of music. I think Grace is probably the most self-contained. The single executable for Linux, Mac, and Windows comes with samples and a choice of a scheme-based language, or a more simplified, more Algol-like one called SAL. I like extempore because of its CAAS (compiler as a service) model, scheme language, and the ability to create from the note up, or to create sounds from scratch (sine waves and such). I splurged for the Haskell School of Music book based on the Euterpea library that was originally written by Paul Hudak, but finished by one of his students, Donya Quick. This is how I originally learned Haskell, and it was a lot of fun and educational to boot. [0] https://www.euterpea.com/ [1] https://extemporelang.github.io/ [2] http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://pbat.ch/proj/sporth.html
- zebproj 5y agoI appreciate the shoutout to Sporth! Admittedly, I haven't used it for quite a few years. But it still works just fine. In addition to being a part of AudioKit, it also has it's own repository as a self-contained command line program: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Sporth/ https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Sporth/ I used to use a live-coding setup with Sporth centered around Vim, though it has never been added to the codebase. If anyone is interested in this, please feel free to email me at thisispaulbatchelor at gmail dot com.
- eggy 5y agoWhen I was pursuing Forth, and about to give up on doing anything beyond a file munger I wrote, I discovered Sporth, and had a blast for at least two or three weeks and kept Forth on my radar! A lot of complexity from a few lines of Sporth! What are you up to nowadays?
- kristianp 5y ago
- cutler 5y agoFor Clojure lovers there's Overtone (https://github.com/overtone/overtone https://github.com/overtone/overtone), also created by Sam Aaron. Not sure if it's still maintained, however.
- BuboBubo 5y agoAnother excellent Haskell based live-coding tool: https://tidalcycles.org/ https://tidalcycles.org/ Even if you don't know Haskell, it is a delight to improvise electronic music with this library. It comes with its own mini-language for dealing with musical patterns and can synchronize with any instrument. Very extensible, the backend uses https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt, a SuperCollider extension for dealing with synths / samples / effects.
- inciampati 5y agoI'm taking the recent 8-week course now. Highly recommended. https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/weeks-1-4-index/395 https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/weeks-1-4-index/395
- schaefer 5y agoDoes anyone know of a way to achieve a livecoding music workflow with VCV rack?
- georgeoliver 5y agoThere probably is a VCV midi module you can interface with livecoding tools that send midi.
- dang 5y agoSome past related threads: Sonic Pi 3.3.0 (Beam) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971096 - Jan 2021 (1 comment) Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23066922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23066922 - May 2020 (66 comments) Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632999 - July 2018 (61 comments) Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17483234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17483234 - July 2018 (3 comments) Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888550 - April 2018 (1 comment) Sam Aaron, Joe Armstrong – Keynote: Distributed Jamming with Sonic Pi and Erlang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036095 - Nov 2016 (4 comments) Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 - Feb 2016 (69 comments) Sonic Pi: Make Music Using Ruby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8825017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8825017 - Jan 2015 (10 comments) Sonic Pi – A Music Live Coding Environment for Schools - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344827 - Sept 2014 (28 comments)
- intrasight 5y agoI went looking for some music samples done with Sonic PI but couldn't find any. Does anyone know of some?
- xor99 5y agoSonic Pi is great but I think some more accessible resources for SuperCollider get passed over. See https://github.com/brunoruviaro/A_Gentle_Introduction_To_SuperCollider/blob/master/00_LULU_2014-09-06_PDF_A_Gentle_Introduction_To_SuperCollider.pdf https://github.com/brunoruviaro/A_Gentle_Introduction_To_Sup...
- iamcreasy 5y agoAnybody knows any resource to learn music theory using tools like this?
- Synaesthesia 5y agoYoure better off drawing a piano keyboard or playing with one to learn music theory IMO.