Soinc_Pi_Wokshop-abend.md

Sonic Pi Workshop Abend

First Step:

Download Sonic Pi => https://sonic-pi.net/

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Agenda

• Create a Simple Song => Code can be found here
• 30-45 minutes "Create your own sounds"
• Make the simple Song more advanced => Code can be found here
• 30-45 minutes "Create your own sounds"
• Presentations :)

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Tips & Tricks

Keyboard Shortcuts

The Sonic Pi integrated editor has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. A handy list of all shortcuts is integrated in the tutorial browser or online on github.

Loop through all available synths:

# Loop through all available synths, playing a note with each synth
# Nice for getting a feel for the sound/timbre of each synth

synth_names.each do |name|
  use_synth name
  play 60
  sleep 1
end

Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

This image explains nicely, the four important parameters to controlling played sounds in Sonic Pi.

Sonic Pi CheatSheet

http://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/exercises/en/10-cheatsheet/01-cheatsheet.html

Tutorials

The tutorial browser within Sonic Pi covers already a lot! You can find the tutorials online too.

Another good introduction into Sonic Pi: http://sonic-pi.mehackit.org/

A crazy tuturial with coding Aerydynamic from Daft Punk https://aimxhaisse.com/aerodynamic-en.html

Video Introductions:

• RubyConf 2015 - Learn to Make Music. With Ruby.
• Playing the Live Bass with Sonic Pi
• Sam Aaron about Sonic Pi at GoTo 2018