Sonic Pi

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  • Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2024
    It's not really a framework, but I've been having a lot of fun live coding music in Sonic Pi: https://sonic-pi.net/

    It has built-in functions for chords and scales and is pretty easy to make catchy loops.

  • Algorithmic Music Generation with Python
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2024
  • Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
    38 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2024
    Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a whole bunch of programming concepts as a side-effect.
  • Seeking Ideas for Preschool/School Projects
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2024
    With my 7 years old I started to thinker with https://www.scratchjr.org/. She like to create short movies with it. The next level will be https://sonic-pi.net/
  • Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024
    I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/
  • I Need to Grow Away from These Roots
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024
  • History of the Web - Part 1
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    On a seriously light-hearted note, Herve Aniglo, talked about teaching children to code with music using Sonic PI, a language agnostic platform that helps you learn recursions, looping, circuit breaking and functional programming by creating simple tunes.
  • Genuary 2024: Generative Art / Creative Coding Month
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023
    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.

  • Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
  • Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023
    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...

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