Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi

Sonic Pi might interest you if you don’t know it already. It’s an alternative to DAWs where you use ruby code to make music Here’s a demo ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: Those who left software development for a different technical field?” · View on HN

It's a species of programmable synthesiser. If it looks like a lot of work, you should see someone playing an analog modular synth. In fact, you should see someone playing classical piano; that's years of practice and a whole chunk of music theory. The most impressive thing you can do with it is live coding: ▶ this video

in “Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code” · View on HN

if you like that kind of thing (algorithmic chiptunes), you might enjoy the emerging school of live coding: [link] ▶ this video

in “A Mind is Born” · View on HN

Sonic Pi is really fun to play around. However, the editor is fucking abysmal and turns me off every time I try to use it, since I can't use my muscle memory to copy/paste/multiselect and have to otherwise learn another set of keybinding that make no sense whatsoever (instead of CTRL-X to cut you have ALT-X, for example). I wish I were able to use VSCode. I know an extension exists, but it only sends the current file to the Sonic Pi session and has no autocompletion, which is fairly necessary during a live-coding music session to keep the tunes flowing. If I'll ever get around to understand how to develop an extension I'll try my hand at it, I guess. But otherwise yeah, it's some good stuff and has lots of unexplored potential. ▶ this video

in “Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool” · View on HN