Difference between revisions of "Sonic Pi Tips"

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Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and live performance tool. It is free and open-source software (FOSS).

It can be used by anyone, "including programmers who don't know music, and musicians who don't know programming."

Dr. Sam Aaron developed the program in collaboration with Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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Tips

Sonic Pi is based on the programming language Ruby, and files are saved with ".rb" extension.
Versions of Sonic Pi are available for Windows (10 and 11), MacOS (both Intel and Apple Silicon), and Raspberry Pi OS.

Training

Links to sonic-pi.net:

Sonic Pi Official Site

Links to other external sites:

Essentials - Code Music with Sonic Pi — free pdf from magpi.raspberrypi.com

Sonic Pi — on Wikipedia

Related Pages

Links to related PPM Wiki pages:

GitHub Tips

Raspberry Pi

Computers — Ubuntu

Computers — Windows

Hand-Curated Links

Links to YouTube

Sam Aaron live coding

TEDx Talks — Programming as Performance

Links to raspberrypi.org

Getting Started With Sonic Pi

Sonic Pi Projects

Links to other external sites

Computer Programmed Music for Kids

ChucK and WebChucK— programming alternatives to Sonic Pi

For Additional Help

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-'''Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and live performance tool.'''
+'''Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and live performance tool.''' It is free and open-source software (FOSS).
-It is free and open-source software (FOSS).
-Versions of Sonic Pi are available for Windows (10 and 11), MacOS (both Intel and Apple Silicon), and Raspberry PI OS.
 It can be used by anyone, "including programmers who don't know music, and musicians who don't know programming."
-Sam Aaron developed the program in collaboration with Raspberry Pi Foundation.
+Dr. Sam Aaron developed the program in collaboration with Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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-[[File:Sonic_Pi_logo.png|120x120px|thumb|'''Sonic Pi<br>desktop icon''']]
+[[File:Burst.png|alt=Welcome banner|link=https://wiki.pikespeakmakerspace.org/index.php/About_PPM|right|frameless|250x250px]]
 == Tips==
-*Sonic Pi is based on the programming language Ruby, and files are saved with ".rb" extension
+*Sonic Pi is based on the programming language Ruby, and files are saved with ".rb" extension.
-*However, using Sonic Pi does not require any previous programming experience.
+*Versions of Sonic Pi are available for Windows (10 and 11), MacOS (both Intel and Apple Silicon), and Raspberry Pi OS.
-==Training ==
+== Training ==
 '''Links to sonic-pi.net:'''
-=== [https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html Sonic Pi Tutorial] ===
+===[https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html Sonic Pi Tutorial]===
-=== [https://sonic-pi.net/ Sonic Pi Official Site] ===
+===[https://sonic-pi.net/ Sonic Pi Official Site]===
 '''Links to other external sites:'''
-:'''[https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/essentials-sonic-pi-v1 Essentials - Code Music with Sonic Pi]''' -- free pdf from raspberrypi.com
+:'''[https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/essentials-sonic-pi-v1 Essentials - Code Music with Sonic Pi]''' — free pdf from magpi.raspberrypi.com
-:'''[https://cheatography.com/samaaron/cheat-sheets/sonic-pi-basic-starter/ Basic Starter Cheat Sheet]''' by samaaron on cheatography (lots of ads)
 :'''[[wikipedia:Sonic_Pi|Sonic Pi]]''' — on Wikipedia
-:'''[[wikipedia:List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages|List of free and open-source software packages]]''' — on Wikipedia
 ==Related Pages==
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 :[[Raspberry Pi|<span style="color:#ffffff; background:#864199">&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Raspberry Pi'''&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]]
-:[[Electronics|<span style="color:#FFFFFF; background:#864199">&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Electronics'''&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]]
+:[[Computers — Ubuntu|<span style="color:#000000; background:#D0DD27">&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Computers — Ubuntu'''&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]]
 :[[Computers|<span style="color:#000000; background:#D0DD27">&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Computers — Windows'''&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>]]
 ==Hand-Curated Links==
-'''Links to YouTube:'''
+=== Links to YouTube===
 :'''[https://www.youtube.com/@SamAaron Sam Aaron live coding]'''
 :'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU TEDx Talks]''' — Programming as Performance
-'''Links to raspberrypi.org:'''
+=== Links to raspberrypi.org===
 :'''[https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-sonic-pi Getting Started With Sonic Pi]'''
 :'''[https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?interests%5B%5D=music&software%5B%5D=sonic-pi Sonic Pi Projects]'''
-'''Links to other external sites:'''
+=== Links to other external sites===
 :'''[https://www.techagekids.com/2016/11/computer-programmed-music-for-kids.html Computer Programmed Music for Kids]'''
-:'''[https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK]''' and '''[https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/webchuck/ WebChucK]'''— programming alternative to Sonic Pi
+:'''[https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ChucK]''' and '''[https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/webchuck/ WebChucK]'''— programming alternatives to Sonic Pi
 ==For Additional Help ==