Music I've made using Sonic Pi. Mostly for fun when I have time.

• Set Sail (in progress)

All of these songs were made in 16-bit with nanoloop.

• Set Sail
• Silver Spark
• Vale

I have a MSI GS60-002, and its sound card doesn't play well out-of-the-box with Sonic Pi or JACK. I installed Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and installed Sonic Pi from the Ubuntu repositories with apt.

I found that Sonic Pi didn't finish startup because it was looking for a JACK server. I started one with QjackCtl, but that disabled PulseAudio from working and I still couldn't hear anything from Sonic Pi.

The solution was using Cadence, which I installed by using KXStudio's repository .deb and using apt. I had to change the following settings:

• Configure --> Driver --> change Input Channels and Output Channels from 0 to 2
• JACK Bridges --> ALSA Audio --> Bridge Type: "Alsa -> PulseAudio -> JACK (Plugin)"
• JACK Bridges --> PulseAudio --> Start + Auto-start at login

The result had audio from both Pulse and JACK playing out of my laptop speakers and 3.5 mm. To solve this, I used alsamixer to disable the laptop speakers. However, the 3.5 mm had line level coming out (i.e. really loud for my headphones). This behavior is expected since JACK is intended for use in a professional audio environment. This can be solved elegantly by using a different DAC, or what I did was plug in my Denon stereo receiver, disable speaker output, and plug my headphones into the 1/4" jack on the receiver. This way, I could use my receiver to adjust the volume of my headphones to a reasonable level (and gave me the ability to adjust the EQ!).

TODO: MIDI