SoundBlock

Soundblock is a block-based interface for Sonic Pi, a music programming language. Similar to scratch, it allows the user to write non-code code, using loop blocks and music blocks to do so. Soundblock provides music lovers a way to make sounds differently, but without the steep learning curve of coding.

Instructions to download

Our backend depends on Sonic Pi v2.11.0
The download link can be found here: https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v2.11.0

NOTE: Please read our conventions here contributing: https://github.com/Soft-Serve-SDD/SoundBlock/blob/dev/coding_standards.md

Developer instructions 1 : making changes

1. Clone this repo: https://github.com/Soft-Serve-SDD/SoundBlock
2. Open up two terminals
3. cd into the repo directory
4. In one terminal, run the frontend

cd frontend
npm install    % This only needs to be run once for every update
npm start

5. In another terminal, run the backend.

cd backend
python main.py

Note: For there be sound, Sonic Pi needs to be running in the background.

Instructions 2 : Running application

We should have a bat and sh file. This runs the above commands 2-5 for you.