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Sonic Pi v3.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-01-23 // over 6 years ago

  • 🚀 The major feature of this release is that it brings v3 functionality to
    🏁 Windows. Windows now supports all the good stuff listed alongside
    👀 v3.0.x including live_audio, midi, osc and much more. See
    🚀 v3.0.1 and v3.0.0 release notes below for more infomation.

    🚀 Of course, no new release comes without new features, and there are a
    number of additions and improvements on all levels. Firstly, we are
    honoured to include a number of wonderful new samples kindly recorded
    🚀 and released into the public domain by our friends Mehackit. If you
    aren't already aware, Mehackit organise and run creative coding
    workshops all around Finland and Europe and were a core part behind the
    CodeBus Africa project which used Sonic Pi to engage almost 2000 African
    students with creative code. Our favourite of these samples is the new
    🚀 :ambi_sauna which has given us the name for this release.

    👍 We have added support for Ogg Vorbis encoded audio files .ogg and
    🆓 .oga. These are lossy encoders similar to .MP3 but free from license
    👀 restrictions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

    🌐 Another notable addition is the increase in translation coverage across
    🌐 a number of languages. If you still feel the translation for your
    language could be improved, please do consider joining in the
    crowd-sourced effort here: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/sonic-pi/

    We have also included some styling tweaks to the GUI - to make
    👍 it look even cleaner and also work better when projecting code with
    visuals underneath.

    🚀 Finally, this release also gives me the opportunity to welcome Ethan
    Crawford to the Core Team. He has been a prolific contributor to the
    💅 project over the years and his keen eye for detail has helped polish
    Sonic Pi from the rough stone it once was to the shining gem it is
    today.

    🏁 Have fun and enjoy the new features - especially you lovely Windows
    👉 users!

    💥 Breaking Changes

    • 🚀 The synth chip_noise now has standard default envelope opts (sustain: and release: are now 0 and 1 respectively (as opposed to 1 and 0))

    🆕 New Fns

    • set_audio_latency! Apply positive or negative timing offset for audio events to allow for any timing differences between OSC/MIDI events caused by external latencies (such as wireless speakers).
    • midi_pc for sending MIDI Program Change messages

    Samples

    • ➕ Add support for Ogg Vorbis encoded audio files .ogg and .oga.
    • ➕ Add new samples (kindly recorded and released into the public domain by Mehackit).
      • new glitch_ sample group containing sounds with a glitchy texture.
      • new mehackit_ sample group with sounds of old toys
      • new samples: :perc_bell2, :perc_door, :perc_impact1, :perc_impact2, :perc_swoosh, :ambi_sauna, :bd_mehackit, :sn_generic, :loop_3d_printer, :loop_drone_g_97, :loop_electric, :loop_mehackit1, :loop_mehackit2, :loop_perc1, :loop_perc2, :loop_weirdo,

    GUI

    • ➕ Add new in_thread forum to the community listings (and update other entries).
    • 🌐 Many, many translation additions and improvements for a multitude of
      languages. The tutorial is now available in German, Spanish, French,
      💅 Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Russian.
    • GUI now lets the user know when the buffer capacity has been exceeded
      🍎 on macOS and Linux (Windows behaviour is currently unchanged). This
      🚀 capacity limitation will be addressed more thoroughly in a future release.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • Stop the internal sample pattern matcher from duplicating matches in some cases.
    • Stop pro icon preference from resetting to 'off' when switching from dark to light mode

    🚀 Releases
    Mac
    🚀 Link
    Size 85M
    MD5 09137b7ad16224ca524d723369608d1d
    SHA256 d1e232e39f875db717f4efab85362dfaac31cafb9e555b21136d7b12720c9a30
    🏁 Windows Portable
    🚀 Link
    Size 78M
    MD5 5c08a058ea63cf44875794335046833c
    SHA256 afe2eba6213c0823f68d858c6fd7a4fc79f2d6d35062042a31fd2f14ac39d5ed
    🏁 Windows Installer
    🚀 Link
    Size 129M
    MD5 a4cfdbb6c3750aa341cfe42310ac8650
    SHA256 bb6805d9a5bfb3b220491310518785d87579556740fd9bbfa11b89f30284ed65