RubyConf 2024 Sounds, Synths, and Sonic Pi! Oh My! by Herve Aniglo

Have you ever thought about making some really awesome beats by coding? You can do that with Sonic Pi! Sonic Pi is based off of Ruby and you can create all types of beats and melodies with this technology and I can show you how to do it through a demo. In this talk attendees will learn about Sonic Pi, a live coding environment based on the Ruby programming language, and will learn how to create different genres of music by coding. Attendees will leave this talk with an understanding of Sonic Pi and learn how to: make music make beats make songs music transcription and playback audio looping, computer-aided music composition development of computer-based musical instruments (including hybrid instruments) live performance Live demo where I will turn my computer into a myriad of musical instruments to play music and songs of different genres