Sonic Pi
The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
Sonic Pi is a free, open-source live coding environment that lets users create music by writing code. It is designed to be approachable for beginners while being powerful enough for professional live performances. The tool supports a wide range of synths, samples, and effects programmable through a Ruby-based language.
Users write and run code snippets in Sonic Pi's editor, which are instantly interpreted to produce synthesized music and sound in real time.
Musicians, coders, educators, and creative technologists interested in live coding music
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
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