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SONiC (S oftware for O pen N etworking i n the C loud) is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux and developed by Microsoft and the Open Compute Project. SONiC includes networking software components required to have a fully functional L3 device and was designed to meet the requirements of a cloud data center. 226 likes 25 talking about this. We make samples and virtual instruments for music composers and producers.
This plugin allows remote controlling Sonic Pi via Atom.
Sonic Pi is fun to play with, but its built-in editor relies a lot on ctrl-i
to get real stuff done.With this plugin, you can livecode without having to worry about nitty things like which parameters can you slide or control, or what are the currently available parameters for all synths, fx, samples, and functions, or whether 1 stood for linear slide_shape for one parameter, or saw mod_wave for another.
Usage
Start up Sonic Pi or the Sonic Pi server (over UDP), and get live coding in Atom!
Note that the support for executing huge files with the Play Huge File
command,will only work with Sonic Pi 2.11 excluding commit https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/commit/16a55e7657ea5d457c70e7594adcdcbb2b9e1ccd(meaning you'll have to compile it from source though, good luck!)
Default Key Bindings
Key Binding | Action | Description |
---|---|---|
alt-r | sonic-pi-autocomplete:play-file | Sends content of the currently open buffer to Sonic Pi for instant playback |
ctrl-alt-r | sonic-pi-autocomplete:play-selection | Sends currently selected text to Sonic Pi for instant playback |
alt-shift-r | sonic-pi-autocomplete:stop | Tells Sonic Pi to stop all playback |
unbinded | sonic-pi-autocomplete:play-huge-file | Plays a large file that can't be sent over a single OSC message |
Get Started
Basic Usage
Try typing
Now type adsr
, and hit enter to use the snippet.Use tab
and shift-tab
to jump between the attack, decay, sustain and release values. Change them if you want! Used 5.0 coyote engine and transmission for sale for sale.
Now key in amp: 0.5,
or some other slidable parameter. You'll know if it's slidable ifthere's something on the right saying 'Slide Syn. Pms.' (Sliding Synth Parameters).
Now key in slideshape
, hit enter, and bam! There will now be amp_slide
and amp_slide_shape
parameters
Key in the value for amp_slide
, and amp_slide_shape
.. oh wait.. was 1 a linear slide or a stepped slide?
Who cares! Just type in linear
, cubic
, or whatever you want, hit enter and you should have something like this:
Add x =
in front to get something like this: x = play :c4, attack: 0.01, ..
Try typing control
on a new line, you should be able to see x
as a :beep
synth instance. Now you'll be able to see what parameters you can control or slide for :beep
.
This works for all synths, the most recent use_synth
available in the current scope will determine the synth played. This also works if you use x = synth :tb303, :c4, attack: 0.01
or whatever function that returns a synth instance.
Parsing directives
Aliasing #@
control
Sometimes, you may want to use control
a lot, and you end up defining a helper function like this:
Now if you want to alias this shortened c
function with the original control
function, you can create a comment on a new line that goes like this:
And now whenever you are in scope of the alias comment, you will be able to get autocompletion for c
just as you would in control
play
Here's another aliasing directive that can come in handy:#@ play <alias_name> <optional: parameter index to start suggestions> <optional: synth_used>
This will let you control at which parameter of the aliased alias_name
function will autocompletions for the synth parameters appear for either the current synth, (or synth_used
, if provided). It doesn't have to be for the play
command, as demonstrated in the example below:
Sonic Atoms Novel Piano
Note instances
It's also possible to alias identifiers with instances of synths by using #@ :synthname identifier
Download my name is khan sub indo. Here's an example:
use_synth #$
Noteburner audiobook converter. In the same way, if you have a function that changes synths, but the use_synth
is not in scope, you can use #$ :synthname
like this:
Sonic Atomic Los Angeles
to get autocompletions for the tb303
synth.
Full list of autocomplete features:
Functions, Names and Parameters:
- All Synth symbols
- All FX symbols
- All Sample symbols
- All functions
- All parameters + parameter type
Smart Snippets
adsr
- attack, decay, sustain, release
asr
- attack, sustain, release`
pluck
sustain: 0
, release
slide
- adds a
_slide
setting for the parameter just before the cursor
- adds a
slidecurve
- same as
slide
but also adds a_slide_curve
parameter
- same as
slideshape
- same as
slide
but also adds a_slide_shape
parameter
- same as
- All integer enumerations representing wave shapes in wave shape / slide shape parameters
step
linear
sine
welch
squared
cubed
saw
pulse
triangle
sine
Sonic Atomic Clock
What's new?
v.2.1: Minor fixes
- Enumeration autocomplete now works in all places (in
control
fn,with_fx
) - Fixed NPEs (argh)
- Fixed aliases not working sometimes
Sonic Automotive Careers
v.2.0: Huge Update
- Much smarter autocompletion.
- Support for ALL samples, synths, fxs, functions, and their respective params
- Smart scope-based contextual autocompletion with pre-parsing features
- Added autocompletion directives
v.1.1: No file size limit! (only if https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/commit/16a55e7657ea5d457c70e7594adcdcbb2b9e1ccd is excluded)
- Previously, sending OSC messages over UDP to the Sonic Pi server directly limited the maximum file size
- Sonic Pi v.2.11 (still under dev) now supports loading files into the buffer and playing it directly with the /save-and-run-buffer-via-local-file OSC command
- This feature can be accessed via the command palatte (ctrl-shift-P) as
Play Huge File
, but you can create your own keybindings.
v1.0: The fork
- rkh seems to have stopped development on atom-sonic, so I decided to reincarnate it as sonic-pi-autocomplete
- Improved autocomplete, now with context sensing
- Fixed not able to run code, creds to this patch
- Added necessary snippets from
live_loop
s toamp_slide: 1, amp_slide_curve: 3
- Updated all synth names, samples, fx to the latest release: Sonic Pi v2.10
- Added placeholders for things like
note_slide_shape
, because memorizing0: Step, 1: Linear, etc..
won't cut
TODO:
- Add autocomplete for
cue
andsync
- Allow function aliasing directives to be placed right before functions so that the redundant alias name parameter needn't be there.