Salutations! (A Journey into Sonic Pi and MIDI)

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@M_Rollers: if you want your code to be optimal and without repetition, I really think that you should aim at writing every instruction only once. I still think that wrapping parameters inside a function is not always a good idea because it makes you jump in your code too often. I do prefer using a dense writing style that helps me moving fast when I improvise.

Here is an example. You posted the following code:

 live_loop :db1 do
  dbk2
  sleep 0.5
  dbchat
  sleep 0.5
  dbk2
  #dbclp
  sleep 0.5
  dbchat
  sleep 0.5
end

Here is how I would have written it:

live_loop :db1 do ; tick ; use_bpm 120
midi (ring dkb2, dbchat, dbk2, dbchat).look, release: 1, channel: 1
sleep (ring 0.5).look 
end

I think that this gives you the opportunity of making changes really fast. For instance, I only have to add a comma and another number to create rhythmic variation. I just have to write something like [0.5, 1].choose to play with the release time, etc…