Sonic Pi 4.6 released

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@samarron has just released Sonic Pi 4.6 installers for Mac and Windows available on sonic-pi.net or on the sonic pi GitHub site. I won’t have access to my raspberry pi till early next week but I hope to produce a binary image installer for the pi then and will post details here. I already have it running on a pi and virtual Debian and Ubuntu platforms.

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On my Intel iMac 27-inch 2020 Sequoia 15.5, Sonic Pi 4.6.0 would not start.

SonicPi460error
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Sorry to hear that. Can you report on GitHub · Where software is built ? Also with content .sonic-pi/logs Thats best place for this to be followed up. From the log image loocks like there is a missing library.
I’ve only got M2 and M4 based macs here and they are workig fine.

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Thank you,
It worked on M2 MacbookPro.
15 new samples found.

s_451_to_50beta=[:bd_jazz,:hat_sci,:ride_tri,:ride_via]
s_50beta_to_460=[:tbd_fxbed_loop,:tbd_highkey_c4,:tbd_pad_1,:tbd_pad_2,:tbd_pad_3,:tbd_pad_4,:tbd_perc_blip,:tbd_perc_hat,:tbd_perc_tap_1,:tbd_perc_tap_2,:tbd_voctone]
s_451_to_50beta.concat(s_50beta_to_460).each do |i|
  puts i
  sample i
  sleep sample_duration i
  sleep 0.5
end
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Thanks, good catch. This is unfortunately because my old intel-based Mac is too old for macOS 13 and so this was the first year I didn’t test with it to catch this sort of thing. Lesson learned!

Please delete your copy of Sonic Pi and re-download from the website. I just replaced the image with one that fixes this issue. Have fun!

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Thank you for your prompt response.
Sonic Pi ver. 4.6.0 worked fine on my Intel Mac.

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Thanks a lot for the update, especially the reworked keyboard shortcuts @samaaron! I think it makes a lot easier for people to get into Sonic Pi when they can use their familiar OS’s keyboard conventions. And I found some great new samples in 4.6 too!

May I suggest one modification to the Windows shortcuts? Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End would work great as “Move to Start / End of Document” because those shortcuts are used in most text editors, in MS Office etc. so Windows users have those already in muscle memory.

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Yes, I second the motion. Those new shortcuts would be most useful indeed. And thanks for adding the Windows shortcuts. God knows I hate emacs with the hatred of a thousand burning suns. :slight_smile:

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Great suggestion - this will be part of the next release: GUI - improve Windows shortcuts · sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi@594c5e4 · GitHub

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