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Sonic Pi v2.2 Release Notes

  • 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.