Sonic Pi changelog

Changelog History

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• v2.2 Changes

  Thursday 18th December, 2014 (view commits)

  🚀 This release brings a number of nice enhancements. However the main 🔋 feature is the accurate timing for triggering FX. This means you can now reliably use FX for accurate rhythmic purposes such as wobbling, slicing and echoes.

  💥 Breaking Changes

  • use_sample_pack_as now uses a double underscore __ as a separator between the user-specified alias and the sample name.

  API Changes

  • 🚀 Teach synth args to take prefixed maps: play 50, {amp: 0.5}, {release: 2}, amp: 2
  • 🖨 Don't round Floats when user specifically prints them to log with puts
  • with_fx FX synths are now triggered using virtual time rather than real time. This means that FX can now be used for rhythmical purposes.
  • Work on new RingArray datastructure. This is essentially an array that wraps its indexes so you can use indexes larger than the array size.
  • 🆕 New fn ring - (ring 1, 2, 3) creates a new ring array.
  • 🆕 New fn knit - (knit :a1, 2, :c1, 1) returns (ring :a1, :a1, :c1)
  • 🆕 New fn bools - (bools 1, 0, 1) returns (ring true, false, true)
  • 🆕 New fn range - (range 70, 100, 10) returns (ring 70, 80, 90, 100)
  • 🆕 New fn sample_loaded? - to detect whether a specific sample has been loaded

  Synths & FX

  • 🛠 Fixed regression in :tb303 synth - sound is reverted to v2.0 behaviour
  • 🆕 New Synth - :square - Pure square wave

  GUI

  • Help system now autodocks on close
  • Preferences are now remembered across sessions
  • On Raspberry Pi, previous volume and audio output options are forced on boot.

  🆕 New Samples

  • bd_tek - Bass drum

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • one_in now returns false if num is < 1
  • Ensure live_loop's no-sleep detector works within nested with_fx blocks
  • chord now returns a ring.

• v2.1.1 Changes

  Tuesday 25th November, 2014 (view commits)

  • 🏁 Windows version no longer needs special firewall exceptions to run
  • ➕ Added license information to info window
  • Minor grammar and spelling tweaks to tutorial

• v2.1 Changes

  Friday 21st November, 2014 (view commits)

  🚀 The focus of release is very much on technical improvements, efficiency 💅 and general polish.

  The most obvious and exciting change is the introduction of the live_loop which will change the way you work with Sonic Pi. For more information on live_loop take a look at the new section in the tutorial. Another very exciting development is that v2.1 marks the 🏁 official support for Windows thanks to the excellent work by Jeremy 🚀 Weatherford. Finally, this release is also the first release where Sonic Pi has a Core Team of developers. Please give a warm welcome to Xavier Riley, Jeremy Weatherford and Joseph Wilk.

  API Changes

  • 🆕 New fn live_loop - A loop for live coding
  • 🆕 New fn inc - increment
  • 🆕 New fn dec - decrement
  • 🆕 New fn quantise - quantise a value to resolution
  • 🆕 New fn factor? - Factor test
  • 🆕 New fn at - Run a block at the given times
  • 🆕 New fn degree - for resolving a note in a scale by degree such as :i, :iv
  • 🆕 New fn chord_degree - Construct chords based on scale degrees
  • New TL fn use_sample_bpm - for changing the BPM based on a sample's duration
  • 🆕 New fn rest? - Determine if note or args is a rest
  • 🆕 New fn vt - Get virtual time
  • New fn set_control_delta! - Set control delta globally
  • 🔀 wait now handles both sleep and sync functionality
  • 👍 Allow first arg to play to be a proc or lambda. In which case simple call it and use the result as the note
  • Teach play to accept a single map argument (in which case it will extract :note key out if it exists.
  • Fns play and synth now treat 'notes' nil, :r and :rest as rests and don't trigger any synths.

  GUI Modifications

  • ⚡️ Updated and improved tutorial
  • Much improved autocompletion
  • ➕ Add HPF, LPF, mono forcer and stereo swapping preferences to new studio section for use when performing with Sonic Pi through an external PA.
  • 💅 Shortcuts overhauled - now supports basic Emacs-style Ctrl-* navigation.
  • Shortcuts Alt-[ and Alt-] now cycle through workspaces
  • Shortcuts now work when toolbar is hidden
  • Font sizes for individual workspaces are now stored between sessions
  • 🏁 Ctl-Mouse-wheel zooms font on Windows
  • 🔗 Links are now clickable (opening external browser)
  • 📚 Entries in docsystem's synth arg table are now clickable and will take focus down to arg documentation
  • Stop users accidentally clearing entire workspace if they type quickly after hitting run
  • Hitting F1 or C-i over a function name now opens up the doc system at the relevant place

  🐛 Bugs/Improvements

  • Reworked examples.
  • Much improved efficiency in many areas - especially for Raspberry Pi.
  • Avoid occasional clicking sound when stopping runs
  • Note Cb is now correctly resolved to be a semitone lower than C
  • Non RP systems now start with more audio busses (1024)
  • 👀 Array#sample and Array#shuffle are now correctly seeded with thread local random generator
  • 🌲 Log files are now placed into ~/.sonic-pi/log
  • Chords and scales now wrap around when accessed from indexes outside of their range.
  • rand_i and rrand_i now correctly return integers rather than floats
  • rrand arguments now correctly handle a range of 0 (i.e. min == max)
  • Line offset in error messages is now correct
  • 🏁 When saving files on Windows, CRLF line endings are used
  • Stop users defining functions with same name as core API fns

  Synths, Samples & FX

  • 🆕 New samples (bass drums, snares and loops)
  • 👍 Allow mod_range: opt to have negative values (for oscillating with lower notes)
  • Change slide mechanism to default to linear sliding with support for changing the curve type. All modifiable args now have corresponding _slide_shape and _slide_curve args.
  • 👌 Improve TB303 synth - now supports separate cutoff ADSR envelopes. New opts:
    • cutoff_attack:,
    • cutoff_sustain:,
    • cutoff_decay:,
    • cutoff_release:,
    • cutoff_min_slide:,
    • cutoff_attack_level:,
    • cutoff_sustain_level:,
    • cutoff_env_curve:

• v2.0.1 Changes

  Tuesday 9th September, 2014 (view commits)

  • 🛠 Fix recording functionality
  • 👌 Improve documentation content and layout
  • Close off OSC server from external clients
  • ➕ Add History, Contributors and Community pages to info window
  • 👌 Improve startup speed on OS X
  • Re-work and add to shortcuts for key actions:
    • on RP they are all alt-* prefixed
    • on OS X they are all cmd-* prefixed
  • 👌 Improve highlighting of log messages (cue/sync messages are more clearly highlighted)
  • 🌲 Log now communicates when a run has completed executing
  • 🛠 Fix bug encountered when stopping threads in super fast loops (stopped comms with server)

• v2.0 Changes

  Tuesday 2nd September, 2014 (view commits)

  • Complete rewrite since v1.0
  • 👌 Support for Live Coding - redefining behaviour whilst music is playing
  • 🆕 New timing system - timing now guaranteed to be accurate
  • Many new synths
  • 🆕 New chainable studio FX system
  • 👌 Support for sample playback
  • Inclusion of over 70 CC0 licensed samples from http://freesound.org
  • 👌 Support for controlling and modifying synth, fx and sample playback arguments after they have been triggered
  • Completely re-designed GUI
  • 📚 Help system with full documentation, tutorial and many examples
  • 🐎 Record functionality (for recording performances/pieces)
  • 👌 Support for controlling system audio settings on RP

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