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Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 6 This includes improvements for multichannel audio on Linux and lots of lovely polish. Grab it whilst it’s hot! https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/165649028?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

It took 7 years of self-funded work, but Sonic Pi is finally at a place I'm happy with. It's even easier than beginners and even more powerful for pro users - and just way more polished in every way. It's also a (friendly) technical trojan horse for SuperSonic. https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-1-164093369

Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 1 is almost ready for a public release.

Highlights:

• New SuperSonic engine: hot-swap audio devices live
• New autocompletion with built-in docs
• Session recording: window + audio to video
• Syphon/Spout streaming (OBS + VJ apps)
• Game controller input
• New colour themes with hue rotation
• MIDI clock sync: use_bpm :midi
• Link Audio: stream audio between (Ableton) Link peers
• Runnable docs + Examples menu
• Friendlier errors
• A full accessibility overhaul

@mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online I’ve been using Qt which seems to have shielded me from this.

@PaulDavisTheFirst@fosstodon.org @mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online Oh absolutely true - I was referring to audio apps rather than VST plugins or equivalent.

@mafe@layer8.space @ercanbrack@mastodon.online It's been a very tricky space predominantly because there's no such thing as "Linux" only "Linuxen". So you end up having to support a wide range of slightly different contexts. Things are a lot better in this new Pipewire world though - so there is hope. However, unless you're doing the AppImage thing you have to find a maintainer for each distro you want to support and ideally setup CI runners for the full matrix of possible Linuxen.

Rumour has it that Patreon supporters now have access to a private beta of v5 of Sonic Pi - powered by SuperSonic.

https://patreon.com/samaaron

Jamming with Sonic Tau on my phone.

https://sonic-pi.net/tau

@nnenov have fun!

@plexus@toot.cat Yep, I saw - super cool. I sent a PR a few weeks ago. Hopefully things are even easier to work with now.

I'm speaking at TEDx Manchester this year!

I'm really looking forward to sharing my thoughts on coding, education, art and AI with the lovely people of Manchester.

Maybe see you there?

https://www.tedxmanchester.com/speakers-2026/

Since announcing SuperSonic a few months ago I've made more than 50 releases and almost 700 commits.

SuperSonic is no longer just an experimental prototype. It's now a robust well-engineered, comprehensively tested web synthesiser.

I'm going to build such cool stuff with it and I hope you do too!

https://sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html

It says a lot about the corpus of existing code when the first thing the LLM does when it encounters a segfault due to execution order of concurrent threads is to introduce a timer to delay part of the computation.

WTF?!? Who on earth does this?

Clearly a lot of people...