# Celebrating Sonic Pi 7 years old

**URL:** <https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/celebrating-sonic-pi-7-years-old/2754>\
**Category:** Performances, Streams & Live Coding\
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/celebrating-sonic-pi-7-years-old/2754 "2019-09-25T16:37:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![robin.newman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@robin.newman](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/robin.newman)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/celebrating-sonic-pi-7-years-old/2754/1 "2019-09-25T16:37:56Z")

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Sonic Pi announced 7 years ago. I’ve been using it for a bit over six years. I thought I’d reminisce by blowing the dust of an early Raspberry Pi, running up Sonic Pi 1, and playing excerpts from a couple of the early pieces I coded on it. Here’s to the next 7 years!

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**Author:** ![Martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/martin/32/157_2.png) [@Martin](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/Martin)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/celebrating-sonic-pi-7-years-old/2754/2 "2019-09-25T19:51:11Z")

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Hi @robin.newman,

thanks for this celebration post!

It made me think of when I came to know Sonic Pi and also of my first small success stories in using it. Originally I was about to dive into [Overtone](https://overtone.github.io/) but - not hard to understand once you have had a look at it - found it quite difficult. I then discovered Sonic Pi (I guess some time in 2014) and found it to be much more accessible.

As I had the offer [to hold a seminar](https://github.com/mbutz/sonicpi-leuphana-ws1516) somehow related to audio and/or music I said to myself: To teach is probably the best way to learn how to work with Sonic Pi. I had a few months to prepare and [Aphex Twin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n87PCgYm6mE) provided a blueprint for one of [my first workpieces](https://github.com/mbutz/sonicpi-leuphana-ws1516), which [can still be heard here](https://soundcloud.com/mbutz/digital-bubblebath) if [the code](https://github.com/mbutz/sonicpi-leuphana-ws1516/tree/master/session-4/afx) won’t run for whatever reasons.

Many thanks to @samaaron for this wonderful software and the hard work he put into it and _is_ putting into it and many thanks to all of the Sonic Pi enthusiasts, who enrich this platform with their ideas, insights and creations! To the next 7 Sonic Pi years!

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**Author:** ![EarthToAbigail](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/earthtoabigail/32/1057_2.png) [@EarthToAbigail](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/EarthToAbigail)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/celebrating-sonic-pi-7-years-old/2754/3 "2019-09-26T10:56:39Z")

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@robin.newman I think I remember seeing a post about your Bach piece when I first started and I remember that at the time I felt this was completely crazy to be able to recreate Bach with code! Even the little imperfections we hear just gives it even more of a human feel.

I also remember struggling with certain basic things like syncing loops together when I discovered Sonic Pi and I discovered it not even 3 years ago… It’s really amazing to see the speed of development and how Sonic Pi improved in such a short time. To think of all the way it’s come in 7 years is incredibly inspiring.

As @Martin already said, cheers to the next 7 seven years and a huge **Thank You** to @samaaron and everyone in this community using, teaching and helping develop this amazing software 😃