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WeeklyBeats.com / Music / chiefthomson's music / a sonic pi moment 001
as the title might give away, I discovered Sonic Pi... after a crash course in Ruby and some tutorials, this is my very first song in code... good code moments y'all
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
this is pretty cool, never seen sonic pi before. You gonna share the code?
there you go mate. have fun 
use_bpm 123
live_loop :melody do
use_synth :pulse
with_fx :distortion, distort: 0.4 do
with_fx :reverb, room: 0.8 do
with_fx :band_eq, freq: 90, db: 1 do
play chord([52,56,48,59].choose, [:m6,:m9].choose), invert: rrand_i(0,2), amp: 1, release: 2, cutoff: rrand(80,110)
end
end
end
sleep [1.5,2].choose
end
live_loop :sphere, sync: :melody do
sample :ambi_haunted_hum, amp: 1.5, attack: 1, pitch: [-1,1,3].choose
sleep 8
end
live_loop :echo_fx, sync: :melody do
with_fx :echo, decay: 16, phase: 0.62, max_phase: 8 do
sample :perc_swash, pan: rrand(-0.6,0.6), amp: 0.5
end
sleep 21
end
live_loop :kick, sync: :melody do
sample :bd_gas, amp: 5
sleep 1
end
live_loop :snare, sync: :melody do
sleep 1
with_fx :reverb, room: 0.8, mix: 0.35 do
sample :sn_dolf, decay: 0.2, decay_level: 0
end
sleep 1
end
hihat = "C:/temp/spi/CC2_Hat_06.wav"
live_loop :hihat, sync: :melody do
sample hihat, pan: rrand(-0.6,0.6), amp: rrand(0.7,1.2)
sleep 0.25
end
live_loop :bassline, sync: :melody do
use_synth :dtri
nuotti = scale(:a1, :minor_pentatonic).choose
with_fx :echo do
play nuotti, cutoff: rrand(10, 130), release: 0.1, amp: 1.8, release: 0.9, cutoff: 60
end
sleep [1,1.5,2].choose
end