# New member introduction and a question about the lang guide

**URL:** <https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/new-member-introduction-and-a-question-about-the-lang-guide/3525>\
**Category:** Introductions & Stories\
**Created:** [March 29, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/new-member-introduction-and-a-question-about-the-lang-guide/3525 "2020-03-29T18:36:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![gl3nn206](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@gl3nn206](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/gl3nn206)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/new-member-introduction-and-a-question-about-the-lang-guide/3525/1 "2020-03-29T18:36:30Z")

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Greetings. I just started studying Sonic Pi after spending some time thinking about my own options of how I’d like to proceed with making electronic music. I have played a bit with csound in the past, and also with puredata, and was just in the process of learning tone.js, when I accidentally stumbled on a youtube video of a Sonic Pi piece done by a fellow whose JS/music tutorial series I had been following. I had heard of Sonic Pi before but for some reason always thought it was a Raspberry Pi only thing so I never tried it – since I don’t have R-Pi.

I’m quite pleased with what I’ve found so far in Sonic-Pi, so much in fact that I decided to become a Patreon supporter because I’d like to see Sonic-Pi flourish.

Okay, enough about that – now on to my question. And I did search around a bit before deciding to ask:

Is the Lang hosted anywhere that we can read it apart from the Sonic-Pi application? I do see that the Tutorial is hosted outside of the app, but I don’t see that the Lang reference is? …or not that I’ve found.

Thanks!

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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:** [March 29, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/new-member-introduction-and-a-question-about-the-lang-guide/3525/2 "2020-03-29T20:14:51Z")

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Hi @gl3nn206,

a warm welcome to the forum!

Not sure if this is of any help to you: As a Linux user with a self compiled version I can browser lang documentation using this (local) url:

```ruby
file:///home/[user]/[path-to-sonic-pi-installation]/app/gui/qt/book/Sonic%20Pi%20-%20Lang.html

```

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**Author:** ![gl3nn206](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@gl3nn206](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/gl3nn206)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/new-member-introduction-and-a-question-about-the-lang-guide/3525/3 "2020-03-30T00:37:37Z")

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Thanks @Martin. I didn’t compile the source, I just downloaded the latest Mac build.