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Sonic Pi

62 points - last Friday at 5:51 PM

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  • jyrkesh

    today at 3:50 AM

    First few lines of the tutorial linked above the fold:

    > Welcome to Sonic Pi. Hopefully youโ€™re as excited to get started making your own sounds as I am to show you. Itโ€™s going to be a really fun ride where youโ€™ll learn all about music, synthesis, programming, composition, performance and more.

    > But wait, how rude of me! Let me introduce myself - Iโ€™m Sam Aaron - the chap that created Sonic Pi. You can find me at @samaaron on Twitter and Iโ€™d be more than happy to say hello to you. You might also be interested in finding out more about my Live Coding Performances where I code with Sonic Pi live in front of audiences.

    > If you have any thoughts, or ideas for improving Sonic Pi - please pass them on - feedback is so helpful. You never know, your idea might be the next big feature!

    In an older age, I might have thought this overly flowery or indulgent, but it's SO refreshing to see technical prose that's so clearly written by a real human with an individualized voice, tone, writing style, etc. I'm by no means anti-LLM, but I'm becoming incredibly fatigued at seeing the same style of marketing speak as the intro text to nearly all the new software I come across. Kudos to being a human and injecting your voice into an increasingly impersonal space.

    The rest of the tutorial that I read below that doesn't disappoint, I intend to run through it despite my not so Copious Spare Time. I've really been looking to get into programmed music and this seems as good as a time and tool as any.

    Cheers!

    • thiodrio

      today at 3:28 AM

      Something related:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478

      • y1n0

        today at 3:24 AM

        Sonic Pi was done in clojure once upon a time. Looks like ruby now?

        • markkitti

          today at 1:26 AM

          If you are interested in a live demo / performance, see minute 7:13 from JuliaCon 2024 / PyData Eindhoven 2024:

          https://youtu.be/g1Jsk3p_9O0?t=433&is=fXBtVdS6R178V7Lm

        • suprjami

          today at 2:39 AM

          So this is like OpenSCAD (code-based 3D modelling) but for music?

          • roflmaostc

            yesterday at 11:56 PM

            I always wanted to test it out but it's really hard to get it run under Linux (e.g. Arch Linux) even though it runs fine on a Raspberry Pi

          • kuil009

            yesterday at 11:44 PM

            I've seen this software before. I'd like to know what caught your attention about it again.