Sonic Pi is an open source programming environment designed to explore and teach programming concepts through the process of creating new sounds. Sonic Pi comes with an associated scheme of work which emphasises the importance of creativity in the learning process and gives users the control to turn their sonic ideas into reality.

• Info: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/sonicpi/
• Source: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi
• Education: http://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/sonic-pi-lessons/

There are currently two interfaces, firstly the Qt interface, which is the officially supported interface for use with the Raspberry Pi. Secondly there is a HTML interface which is unsupported and currently only for development purposes.

At this moment, the official Qt interface hasn't yet been re-integrated with the latest development work. Therefore, if you wish to play with the recent developments you need to use the development HTML interface.

The dependencies for building and running this are:

• supercollider
• ruby1.9.3
• libqscintilla2-8
• libqscintilla2-dev
• qt4-dev-tools
• cmake

You will need to compile the Qt app within app/gui and run the script rp-app-bin

The current implementation assumes the execution context is a Raspberry Pi. Patches for other platforms will be happily considered.

To be completed...

Debian package dependency names:

• supercollider
• ruby1.9.3
• libqscintilla2-8
• libqscintilla2-dev
• qt4-dev-tools
• cmake (for some configurations, e.g., 32bit x86)

To build and run:

• Run app/gui/qt/boostrap-qt
• Start the GUI: app/gui/qt/application

If the app hangs on the splash screen, you may need to compile your own native support for the git persistence layer. This can be done by

• Run app/server/bin/compile-extensions.rb

Note: This interface isn't always kept up to date with MASTER on Github.

The dependencies for this are:

• SuperCollider
• Ruby 1.9.3

If you wish to play with the (development) HTML interface on OS X:

BE WARNED Running the development server may open your machine to external exploits as Ruby code is currently evaluated on the server directly. Do not use this development interface on an open network until security features have been added.

• Install SuperCollider manually (the Mac OS X app): http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
• Download a tar ball of the latest version of Sonic Pi: https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/
• Unzip the tar ball somewhere useful
• Install JDK 1.6+ and Leiningen (to compile ClojureScript -> Javascript, not for running the app)
• Compile the cljs source: cd app/gui/html, lein cljsbuild once
• Start the server: cd app/server/bin, ruby ws.rb
• Open a browser and go to http://localhost:8000

Sonic Pi has been developed within the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge with kind support from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Broadcom Foundation.