Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool.
- Simple enough for computing and music lessons.
- Powerful enough for professional musicians.
- Free to download with a friendly tutorial.
- Diverse community of over 1.8 million live coders.
Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical & Jazz to Grime & EDM.
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5.0.07 Aug 2026
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4.6.026 Jun 2024
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4.5.128 Apr 2024
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Improvements to the Chinese, Dutch, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Russian translations
4.5.01 Nov 2023
This release comes packed with a number of exciting
new synths for you to play with. We have a new
hard-hitting kick drum :gabberkick for
that gabber sound and a new vintage electric piano
:rhodey synth. There are also 16 new
percussive synths inspired by the infamous TR-808 drum
synthesiser. All the synths come with many opts for
you to play with to manipulate and change the default
timbres.
There are also a number of minor improvements and bug fixes as detailed below.
Have fun and get your live coded 808 on!
Synths:
- New synth:
:rhodey- The sound of an electric piano from the 60’s and 70’s, producing a characteristic metallic sound for notes below:g2. Adapted for Sonic Pi from SuperCollider Code. - New synth
:gabberkick- An aggressive Gabber synth sound adapted for Sonic Pi from SuperCollider Code - 16 new 808 inspired synths based on Yoshinosuke Horiuchi’
Improvements:
- Improve error message for invalid
midi_to_hzargs
Translations:
- Improvements to the Chinese, Danish, Portuguese, and Spanish translations.
- Add native language name for Arabic
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a regression in the error reporting - “did you mean” suggestions now work again.
- Fix system language detection when the language is generic English