App made with Kivy that interacts with Sonic Pi. Currently it has three screens:
- Synth: for testing the sounds of the different synths SPi has and the different scales. It's a grid of buttons of notes, where the notes correspond to the chosen scale and tonic;
- Samples: easy access to the samples in the Sonic Pi library, separated by groups, for hearing before using;
- Drum Machine: for creating drumlines easily. It uses the Amen Break loop sample as the source of sound and each line of the grid correspond to a part of the sample. Set the bpm, choose which parts should be played by selecting the buttons and hit play.
- Chord Progression Generator: for testing composing in different keys. Choose the key, set the bpm and start experimenting with the chords of that key.
- For better results, please, always clone / download the latest release available.
- Before installing Kivy, you need to install the SDL2 dependencies that are listed on the Kivy docs.
- pipenv is recommended.
pipenv run pip install -r requirements-INSTALL-FIRST.txtto install Cython. You need to install it before installing the other requirements.pipenv installto install Kivy and other required libraries.
- Open Sonic Pi, copy the script in
sonicpi-script.rband paste in one of its buffers and run it. - On a terminal window, go to the folder you downloaded
sonicboxand runpython src/main.py. - Have fun.