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He hasn't had the easiest of rides when it comes to sustainable support for his work. I'd encourage folks to contribute here: https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (he'll certainly do wonderful things with such support).
What's the advantage of a "code-based" music creation respect of the classic one musicians use?
you can translate your thoughts into sound without having to have any sort of manual dexterity or years of practice
I spent years of my childhood learning to play the piano. I did not have the patience to practice four hours a day , so I never became more than moderately proficient.
And learning to play an instrument does not necessarily mean learning to create music. While playing off sheet music and focusing on dexterity exercises can be rewarding, they are not creative activities.
With Sonic Pi you can focus on music creation and simple programming concepts. It is rewarding in a different way.
Looks really nice, I'll be sure to try it out! For people interested in this, there's also a recent project https://github.com/overtone/overtone which looks similar, using Clojure though (which seems to deem itself better to live programming).
There is also Andrew Sorenson's [1] Extempore [2] which is also a Lisp. [1] https://twitter.com/digego [2] https://extemporelang.github.io/
https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding is a nice curated list of live coding languages and tools.
Looks really nice, I'll be sure to try it out! For people interested in this, there's also a recent project https://github.com/overtone/overtone which looks similar, using Clojure though (which seems to deem itself better to live programming).
Orca[1] is like a moving 2D functional programming crossword puzzle for generating sequences, be sure to watch some tutorial videos to get started.
TidalCycles[3] is a lovely way to very concisely and quickly generate looping patterns of samples and tones, still getting my head around it.
[0] https://twitter.com/neauoire
[1] https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca examples on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ORC%CE%9B
[3] https://tidalcycles.org/ examples on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/TidalCycles
This reminds me a great deal of Supercollider, which is pretty robust and time-tested. One of the things that bothers me about Supercollider is its weird server architecture and esoteric language. I'll take Ruby over that, but these things really beg for APIs that let you hook in with other languages.
In Sonic Pi you can send and receive MIDI messages and OSC messages to interoperate with external synthesiser hardware and software. Sonic Pi comes bundled with SuperCollider. The Sonic Pi server calls out to SuperCollider to play samples, synth tones, and apply FX. See the slightly out of date diagram here for details: https://delftswa.gitbooks.io/desosa2016/content/sonicpi/chap...
One wonders what the great classical composers would have done with these tools?
This reminds me a great deal of Supercollider, which is pretty robust and time-tested. One of the things that bothers me about Supercollider is its weird server architecture and esoteric language. I'll take Ruby over that, but these things really beg for APIs that let you hook in with other languages.
Oo! I will maybe check this out. I've explored Supercollider and thought that was v interesting, though a bit tedious to jump into actual music making with for me personally.
I have seen a 9-year old reinventing nested loops with it, just because that's what she needed to make a tune.
The install and learning curve is as flat as it gets, there's no excuse for not trying it if you are curious.