Sonic Pi

s.pi

Context: http://media.thi.ng/2014/talks/we-are-the-incanters/index.html

Recording of the Sonic-PI livecoding demo given at Retune 2014 conference (slightly extended with extra synth stacks after the conf, but still recorded as another live coding session - no cheating!).

Sourcecode here:
https://gist.github.com/postspectacular/d9c951efb166a2e82f53

Check out Sonic-PI yourself, it's amazing!
http://sonic-pi.net

Sonic - Pi - Retune14

Playing around with Sonic Pi, a basic live coding environment. This is a sample of my first attempt.

This was an adaptation of one of the tutorial codes:

define :metro do
use_bpm 30
  cue :tick
  sleep 0.5
end

define :drums do
with_fx :slicer do
  sync :tick
  sample :drum_heavy_kick, rate: 0.75
  sleep 0.5
  sample :drum_bass_hard, rate: 0.3
  sleep 0.5
  sample :drum_cymbal_closed, rate: 0.3, attack: 0.3, release: 0.2
  end
end

define :synths do
with_fx :ixi_techno do
  sync :tick
  use_synth :tb303
  use_synth_defaults amp: 1, mod_range: 15, cutoff: 60, pulse_width: 0.2, attack: 0.03, release: 0.6,   mod_phase: 0.25
  play_pattern_timed chord(:C, :m7), 1, amp: rrand(0.1, 0.8)
  sleep 0.25
  play 38
  end
end

define :bassline do
with_fx :slicer do
sync :tick
sample :bass_thick_c, rate: 0.6, decay: 0.75, amp: 0.75
end
end

in_thread(name: :drums){loop{drums}}
in_thread(name: :synths){loop{synths}}
in_thread(name: :metro){loop{metro}}
in_thread(name: :bassline){loop{bassline}}


Testcoding

An extract from a Live Coded performance using Ruby and Sonic Pi http://www.sonic-pi.net
Musical source code: https://github.com/repl-electric/live-coding-berlin/blob/master/destination/practice/tiergarten.rb

Tiergarten [Live Coded]

Coded entirely in Sonic Pi running on a Raspberry Pi

Code: https://github.com/meta-ex/sonic-pi/blob/master/code-tracks/sonic-dreams.rb

Sonic Dreams

Live Coded with Sonic Pi. Extracted from my live set for NODE15 in Frankfurt, May 2015

Testcoding

David Officer