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Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool.

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."

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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.)

Training

Links to external sites:

Free Sonic Pi Book

Cheat Sheets

cheatography by Sam Aaron

Related Pages

Links to related PPM Wiki pages:

Raspberry Pi

Electronics

Hand-Curated Links

Links to member-recommended external sites:

Links to YouTube:

Ted Talks

Links to other external sites:

For Additional Help

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Sonic Pi on Wikipedia

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