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Re: Sonic Pi v5

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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!

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.

Re: Sonic Pi v5

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post #5

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.

Sonic Pi was originally written for the Raspberry Pi and shipped on their OS for many years - hence the name :-)

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post #5

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.

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

Re: Sonic Pi v5

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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!

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!)

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post #5

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.

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post #17
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Is there any (somewhat) known artist who uses Sonic Pi in their actual work?

https://m.youtube.com/@dj_dave____ she started with Sonic Pi back in ~ 2020 but i guess she uses other stuff by now

Yeah those recent videos are all Strudel. Pretty amazing stuff btw.

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post #5

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.

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post #5

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.

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

That’s because Sonic Pi was originally built specifically for and in collaboration with Raspberry Pi :-)

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The primary difference to me is that strudel's license is so restrictive that it's impossible to use on anything. This is MIT.

I think the underlying Supercollider sound engine uses the more restrictive GPL, though...

Darn, you're right. Looks like there's still no hope here.
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