Sonic Pi v5

(patreon.com)

62 points | by samaaron 3 days ago

7 comments

  • nazgulsenpai 43 minutes ago
    Every time I click a HN post with the Something Pi naming convention my graybeard brain expects to see an SBC. This is something just about as interesting! I grew up on (and still use) trackers for sequencing. It might be fun to try a similar workflow in this!
    • minraws 8 minutes ago
      I blame Mario for ruining me until a year ago Pi was RPi or 3.142... but yeah this is nice, I have been using daws and have written my own small piano roll app because bosca ceoil vanished a couple years ago, but this is nice too.

      I think that app(bosca ceoil) is now back around among us, though I don't recall what had happened back in the day.

  • harwoodr 50 minutes ago
    For those wondering what it actually is, as I was:

    https://sonic-pi.net/

    "Sonic Pi is your free code-based music creation and performance tool."

  • stets 42 minutes ago
    This looks like a lot of fun. I wish they'd name it better though, the name makes me think it's a raspberry pi related thing. or a piece of hardware.
    • kwanbix 13 minutes ago
      Was thinking the same.
  • hiccuphippo 40 minutes ago
    How does it compare to https://strudel.cc/ ?
    • herpdyderp 20 minutes ago
      The primary difference to me is that strudel's license is so restrictive that it's impossible to use on anything. This is MIT.
    • Fervicus 25 minutes ago
      For starters, strudel runs in the browser while Sonic Pi is a stand alone application.
  • samaaron 3 days ago
    Sonic Pi v5 is released.

    Sonic Pi is now more friendly, more accessible, more powerful and more fun.

    There's something to excite everyone - from the friendlier error messages, to the pro-audio config, to the new dynamic visuals for performance.

    Enjoy!

    • Fervicus 23 minutes ago
      Congrats on the release Sam! Looking forward to checking it out. What's your favorite new feature?
  • gizajob 33 minutes ago
    why is the Amen Brother breakbeat included in this software as if it's open source and GPL / MIT license? Just because something has been stolen a million times, that doesn't make it public domain, it's still under copyright and owned by its publisher, who I'm pretty certain has never given it away under a free license.
    • noman-land 28 minutes ago
      I'd be really curious for this particular sample to go to court because unless The Winstons have been aggressively enforcing this copyright they may have already lost it to the public domain.
      • aduty 18 minutes ago
        Pretty sure that aggressive defense is required for trademarks and not copyright. However it may be interesting whether or not it's still protected by copyright.
      • gizajob 26 minutes ago
        It would need to be defended in court yeah, but the absence of that defence doesn't automatically make it so it falls under the GPL and can be included in MIT licensed code just because the copyright holder doesn't know about it to defend it or refuse to be part of your software. Maybe you can argue the technicality but certainly not in the spirit of open source. There would be hundreds of other breakbeats you could include and give away under your MIT license if that were the case.
  • juliend2 34 minutes ago
    Is there any (somewhat) known artist who uses Sonic Pi in their actual work?