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Generating Music with Sonic Pi

Jessica Garson on June 01, 2018

This post was first posted on the Twilio Blog on May 17, 2018 Sonic Pi is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing music in Rub...
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Ben Halpern

@mikeydorje I told you about Sonic Pi a little while back, did you ever end up playing with it?

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Mikey Dorje

Thanks @ben ! You told me about this but I couldn't remember what it was called. I've been meaning to ask you to remind me. It looks extremely cool and I plan and diving into it soon.

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Ben Halpern

I’m sure you can make much better use of it now than when I first told you about it anyway. Your Ruby has come a long way, and this could be a really useful divergence from Rails to give you practice in a different context.

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Jared

I just started fiddling with Sonic Pi. It's incredible! First time with Ruby too. What a wonderful language.

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Rodolfo Ferro

Awesome post @jessicagarson !!!
Right now I'm experimenting with Sonic Pi, so for sure wait for my tweet!

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Preslav Rachev

That’s a nice one! Is there a similar Python wrapper?

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Jessica Garson

There is, I play with that sometimes too. I spoke about it as a 5 minute talk at PyCon: foxdot.org/foxdot-being-demod-at-p...

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Mikk Pristavka

I've been wanting to get into Sonic Pi for a few months now, but it has always seemed a bit too much to take in at once. Now I want to take a stab at it again. Thanks!

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Jessica Garson

I got started by taking the examples and changing them until they became my own.