Has anyone had any luck getting this running on a non-Raspbian Linux distro?
IIRC he has at least one YT video where he bemoans the lack of Linux support for sound, sounded like it was non-trivial in many cases.
Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
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#62Sonic 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…
They 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 :-)
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#63I would feel remiss not pointing out Sam Aaron’s prior project Overtone which while similar in spirit to Sonic-Pi is much more oriented toward the programmer/musician and less to the musician/programmer. It’s interface language is Clojure which probably tells a lot. Both projects are amazing, but, after playing with Sonic-Pi, I’ve stuck with Overtone as my coded music synthesis toolset.
Other than programming language, what are the main differences?
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#64Can you program tempo envelopes?
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#65I would feel remiss not pointing out Sam Aaron’s prior project Overtone which while similar in spirit to Sonic-Pi is much more oriented toward the programmer/musician and less to the musician/programmer. It’s interface language is Clojure which probably tells a lot. Both projects are amazing, but, after playing with Sonic-Pi, I’ve stuck with Overtone as my coded music synthesis toolset.
Other than programming language, what are the main differences?
The main difference to me is that Overtone is closer to the “medal”, where medal in this case is Supercollider.
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#66Didn't Joe Armstorng use this to DJ at a Erlang User Conference? Can't find it now, but at least there is this talk from a years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SUdnOUKGmo
It was a keynote he did together with Sam. Loved it....
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#67Didn't Joe Armstorng use this to DJ at a Erlang User Conference? Can't find it now, but at least there is this talk from a years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SUdnOUKGmo
This is another keynote from CodeMesh in memory of Joe joining together the tiddly wiki and the SonicPi, by Sam, Erlang co-inventor Robert Virding and tiddly wiki inventor Jeremy Rushton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUji_DlXjm8
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#68Did anyone get this running on Ubuntu/Mint? When I `sudo apt get install sonic-pi` and start sonic-pi (even with root privileges) the loading screen appears and nothing happens. There are no logged error-messages in the terminal either.
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#69It seems really fun watching others, but I guess my lacking music theory knowledge makes everything I try to result in awful noise instead of anything resembling music
Anyone out there have any good resources for using Sonic-Pi (or anything else) as a hands on way to to learn more about music theory?
Do you think doing any MOOC in music theory can help? Or is it something that I just have to put hours on and just keep fiddling and trying?
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