Coding Music with Sonic Pi

History of Sonic Pi

• Sam Aaron created Sonic Pi
  • Digital musician and Cambridge Computer Lab researcher
• Uses Ruby
• Teach appreciation of music and coding
• "The live coding synth for everyone"
• (You can also use it to control Minecraft...)

• Play

• Sleep

• looping
• live_loop
• samples
• synths

Some built-in opts in Sonic Pi:

• beat_stretch
• release
• attack
• amp
• pan
• cutoff
• use_bpm

Miscellaneous:

• rrand/rrand_i
• rand/rand_i
• .times
• .tick
• .choose
• .ring
• cue/sync

Further Reading/Listening

• Source code behind the project https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi
• Daft Punk on Sonic Pi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydH_JAgSfg
• ebook by Sonic Pi creator https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Essentials_Sonic_Pi-v1.pdf
• Sam Aaron on Sonic Pi source code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRTTzlhquo