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Today I learned: how to generate music with Sonic Pi!

Fen Slattery on October 03, 2018

Sonic Pi is a live-coding music program that uses Ruby to generate synth music. Ever since I learned about Algorave earlier this year, I've been ...
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Ben Halpern

Sonic Pi is one of the coolest things. I wish I had any musical talent. 😳

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André Pena

Oh my God you hooked me into sonic-pi!

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Michael

Sonic Pi made it so much more easier for music programming. Languages like Csound and supercollider are really good. But have a big learning curve. Sonic Pi is a very fun, great to help people understand programming basics as well.

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sebkolind

That is so cool!! Gj :)

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Tony Tin Nguyen

It's awesome. Thanks Fen for introduce to us.

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David Graff

I made this site so people can collaboratively code sonic-pi online makemusiconline.net:8080

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Sócrates Díaz

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing! :D

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Gaurav Chaddha

This is so cool. Thanks for writing about this.

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Mahmoud Abdelsalam

oh my!! I love this.

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Guney Ozsan

I can't miss experimenting with this. Thanks for pointing out!

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Jose Añasco

Hey, i made this dsl/language inspired in sonic pi and tidal cycles: negasonic.org. It works on the browser, so you don't have to install supercollider or anything to start using it

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Garrett / G66

This is awesome! The track reminds me a lot of the song that Aphex Twin remixed for Nine Inch Nails - Further Down The Spiral

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André Pena

The Sound Cloud link is broken: soundcloud.com/wombatgal/sonic-pi-...

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Fen Slattery

Hm, could you take a look again? It's working just fine for other folks.

soundcloud.com/wombatgal/sonic-pi-...

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Isa Levine

omg this is amazing! i was JUST wondering if i knew enough ruby to help me make music :)