Sonic Pi Changelog

What's new in Sonic Pi 4.5.1

Apr 26, 2024
  • 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's: :sc808_bassdrum, :sc808_snare, :sc808_clap, :sc808_tomlo, :sc808_tommid, :sc808_tomhi, :sc808_congalo, :sc808_congamid, :sc808_congahi, :sc808_rimshot, :sc808_claves, :sc808_maracas, :sc808_cowbell, :sc808_closed_hihat, :sc808_open_hihat, :sc808_cymbal,
  • Improvements:
  • Improve error message for invalid midi_to_hz args
  • 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

New in Sonic Pi 4.5.0 (Nov 1, 2023)

  • 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's: :sc808_bassdrum, :sc808_snare, :sc808_clap, :sc808_tomlo, :sc808_tommid, :sc808_tomhi, :sc808_congalo, :sc808_congamid, :sc808_congahi, :sc808_rimshot, :sc808_claves, :sc808_maracas, :sc808_cowbell, :sc808_closed_hihat, :sc808_open_hihat, :sc808_cymbal,
  • Improvements:
  • Improve error message for invalid midi_to_hz args
  • 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

New in Sonic Pi 4.3.0 (Feb 19, 2023)

  • GUI:
  • Restrict running instances to only allow one instance of Sonic Pi to be running at any one time on a given machine.
  • Translations:
  • Improvements to the Dutch, Estonian, Japanese and Polish translations.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The behaviour of external audio card configuration should now be as it was in v4.1.
  • The auto-indent preference in the GUI now works as expected. Unchecking will stop the GUI from automatically reformatting the code.