Make Music with Code: Complete Guide to Coding with Sonic Pi

Make Music with Code: Complete Guide to Coding with Sonic Pi, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.85, with 50 lectures, based on 54 reviews, and has 217 subscribers.

You will learn about Gain a deep understanding of the fundamentals of coding and program flow. Learn how to generate, create, record and perform music with Sonic Pi. Use synths, samples, filters and envelopes in code to enhance your sound design repertoire. Use Sonic Pi's randomisation function to create generative music. Take the knowledge gained in this course and be able to create entire musical compositions using code as your instrument. This course is ideal for individuals who are Musicians wishing to gain some knowledge of programming, to use code as an instrument for composition, recording and live performance. It is particularly useful for Musicians wishing to gain some knowledge of programming, to use code as an instrument for composition, recording and live performance.

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Summary

Title: Make Music with Code: Complete Guide to Coding with Sonic Pi

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 50

Number of Published Lectures: 50

Number of Curriculum Items: 50

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50

Original Price: £29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Gain a deep understanding of the fundamentals of coding and program flow.
Learn how to generate, create, record and perform music with Sonic Pi.
Use synths, samples, filters and envelopes in code to enhance your sound design repertoire.
Use Sonic Pi's randomisation function to create generative music.
Take the knowledge gained in this course and be able to create entire musical compositions using code as your instrument.

Who Should Attend

Musicians wishing to gain some knowledge of programming, to use code as an instrument for composition, recording and live performance.

Target Audiences

Musicians wishing to gain some knowledge of programming, to use code as an instrument for composition, recording and live performance.

Aimed at musicians with little or no coding experience, this fun course will teach you how to compose and perform music using code as your instrument. Based on the free Sonic Pi framework, popular in the Algorave scene, you’ll cover everything from the very basics of programming to using Sonic Pi for live performance, including writing a drum sequencer. Later in the course, you’ll even learn how to integrate your code with MIDI & audio instruments.

With four hours of video split across fifty lectures, you will find detailed descriptions and demonstrations of:

How to create music by coding musical patterns with synths and samples.
Fundamental programming concepts, including program flow and Sonic Pi’s built-in data structures.
Creating a drum sequencer, looping melodies, chord progressions and bass lines from scratch.
How to use filters and ADSR envelopes for code-based sound design.
How to add effects such as distortion, delay and reverb to make your sounds more interesting.
How to control MIDI and audio from your code.
How to use the features of Sonic Pi to enhance your live performances.

We’ll be using the free Sonic Pi throughout the course, and by the end, you’ll be able to apply what you’ve learned to create unique musical compositions and perform live using code. As you’ll see, anyone can learn to program. We take each new concept step-by-step, and it’s easier than you think, even if you have absolutely no prior coding experience!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Sonic Pi

Lecture 1: Getting Sonic Pi

Lecture 2: Getting to know the Sonic Pi user interface

Lecture 3: Lets make some noise!

Lecture 4: Using MIDI note names

Lecture 5: Code comments

Lecture 6: Using the log

Lecture 7: Play options

Lecture 8: Setting the tempo

Chapter 3: Synths, Samples, Filters and Envelopes

Lecture 1: Synths

Lecture 2: Applying synth filters

Lecture 3: ADSR Envelopes

Lecture 4: Playing samples

Chapter 4: Program Flow

Lecture 1: Program flow

Lecture 2: Loops

Lecture 3: Nested loops

Lecture 4: To infinity, but not beyond!

Lecture 5: Enhancing your beat

Lecture 6: Randomisation

Lecture 7: Generating melodies with randomisation

Lecture 8: Other random functions

Lecture 9: Selection

Lecture 10: if … else

Lecture 11: Combining comparisons

Lecture 12: The one_in randomisation function

Lecture 13: The simple if

Lecture 14: Variables

Lecture 15: Loop counters

Chapter 5: Data Structures

Lecture 1: Lists

Lecture 2: Indexes

Lecture 3: Making a drum sequencer

Lecture 4: Playing patterns

Lecture 5: Chords

Lecture 6: Scales

Lecture 7: Rings

Lecture 8: Ring functions

Lecture 9: Custom functions

Lecture 10: Function parameters

Chapter 6: FX

Lecture 1: Effects in Sonic Pi

Lecture 2: FX options

Lecture 3: Chaining effects

Lecture 4: Taking control

Lecture 5: Controlling note slide

Lecture 6: Controlling effects

Chapter 7: Live Performance

Lecture 1: Live loops

Lecture 2: Live performance with live loops

Lecture 3: MIDI in

Lecture 4: MIDI out

Lecture 5: Live audio

Chapter 8: Wrapping Up

Lecture 1: Wrapping up

Instructors

Steve Lydford
Musician, Software Engineer & Author

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