Sonic Pi VS sonic-pi-cli

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYzvS8A_rTYEba_4SDvR...

- Sonic Pi is built on-top of SuperCollider, but it's MUCH easier to get started with making bleeps and bloops. Sam Aaron, who originally created Overtone (a Clojure front-end for SuperCollider) created Sonic Pi initially to teach kids computer programming and music, but now it's turning into a pretty nice live-coding setup. The language is basically a DSL extension of Ruby, and although it's very elegant, I feel like it's a little nerfed in terms of a full language when compared to SCLang, so I'm sticking with the latter for now. High recommend checking it out if you're new to making music or code. https://sonic-pi.net/

- This 'Intro To Live Coding' vid from Alex McLean is great. Gives a good overview of a few fun tools out there that I won't mention here for sake of time (check out Gibber and Hydra for web-based coding things. Gibber is really slick). Alex invented Tidal Cycles, which I feel is like god-tier in terms of power and conciseness. Maybe I'll tinker with Tidal someday, but I want to start with SC.

Strange dice that it seems to mostly be c++, sponsored by 3 prominent elixir shops, with an original OSC server implementation by Joe Armstrong.

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...

The lead developer seems to have move on to https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

Discovering Sonic Pi: Sonic Pi is an open-source programming environment that allows you to create music through code. Designed for both beginners and experienced musicians, Sonic Pi provides an accessible platform for composing, improvising, and performing music. To get started, download and install Sonic Pi from their official website (www.sonic-pi.net.

So you’re wondering what would making music with code look like? The tools I’m familiar with are TidalCycles, Sonic Pi, and SuperCollider. I’m having a hard time describing what it’s like to make music with tools like these so here’s a video of a performance. One person is live coding the music and the other is live coding the visuals. I think it’s super cool how the music is improvised and built over time by layering commands. Some keywords you could search to see more examples would be Algorave and Livecoding.

Similar idea but with an ide, Sonic Pi!

As I understand it, the server is being switched over to Erlang https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...

A few years ago I wrote about controlling Sonic Pi with Ruby code without needing to code in the IDE directly. That relied on the sonic-pi-cli gem. For my Anyone Can Play Guitar (With Ruby) talk, I took a different approach.

This is all in a string (the data type, not the part of the instrument), because we're going to pass it to Sonic Pi via the sonic-pi-cli gem. This is going to execute the note method in Sonic Pi to play that single tone.

To get around using the IDE directly, I found the sonic-pi-cli gem. Its principal use case is to be used directly in the terminal. However, it's a gem, and written in ruby, and the core functionality is available in a class that you can use in any of your code.