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Play music with Sonic Pi

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Play music with Sonic Pi

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- "Switched-On Bach," the Grammy award winning album released in 1968 was recorded on a modular Mpog synthesizer. Today, experimenting with that synthesizer would cost $35,000 or more if you're lucky enough to be able to buy one or you can experiment with Sonic Pi, a programmable music synthesizer included free with any Raspberry Pi. In fact, the music you're hearing right now is being produced be a program running in Sonic Pi. Hi, I'm Mark Niemann-Ross and welcome to this week's edition of "Raspberry Pi Weekly." Every week we explore the Raspberry Pi and share useful tips. Sonic Pi is an amazing piece of software in several ways. It's an electronic musical instrument. It's a complete programming language. It's a controller for MIDI and a controller for Open Sound. You'll need to connect a speaker. Either use the standard sound plug or Bluetooth speaker if your Raspberry Pi supports Bluetooth. To use Sonic Pi, start up…

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