Introducing Sonic Tau

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Hi everyone,

for the past month I’ve been working on a web port of a subset of Sonic Pi. As mentioned in a recent post I tested it out in a workshop I gave at the Cambridge University Computer Labs. That workshop went well and since then I’ve added a bunch more features and it’s actually starting to feel pretty fun.

You can have a play here: Sonic Tau

Note that this is just a demo - I plan to completely rewrite it from the ground up. However, it’s performaning better than I had hoped so I think it’s a great signpost of where things will go.

For those curious - it’s built directly on top of SuperSonic - my web port of SuperCollider’s scsynth - so gives us full access to all of Sonic Pi’s synths directly in the browser.

Have fun and let me know what you think!

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Would You add FREQ as an alternative to PLAY ( then use Hz instead of midi #)

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It’s very fun! I tried something mellow.

Tau tune

use_bpm 60

2.times do
live_loop :modpulsy do
use_synth :mod_pulse
play :a3, sustain: 4, mod_range: [1, 5, 8, 12, 15].choose, amp: 0.3
sleep 2
end

live_loop :fred do
use_synth :bass_foundation
play :f2, sustain: 3.5, amp: 1
sleep 4
play :d2, sustain: 3.5, amp: 1
sleep 4
play :g1, sustain: 3.5, amp: 1
sleep 4
play :c2, sustain: 3.5, amp: 1
sleep 4
end

live_loop :pluck do
use_synth :pluck
play [:a5, :c5, :e5].choose, amp: 2
sleep [0.25, 0.75].choose
end
end

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Here’s another Sonic Pi piece I made a while ago, converted to Sonic Tau:

the first one, from another thread was:

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