taking input from a 'data file' about sonic-pi

[whaleygeek]

As I understand it, Sonic Pi is just ruby (i.e. the files you type in to the edit window interact with the engine are just ruby code). so presumably you could just write some ruby code inside one of the normal edit windows to use the standard ruby libraries and methods for opening sockets and reading data, and then call the play() command with the data that comes back from the socket?

[samaaron]

Yep, you should be able to use regular Ruby libraries from within Sonic Pi - although I definitely think I could spend some time thinking about how to make this easier for users...

[samaaron]

Closing for now - handling of 'generic' data files is not planned - for this use the (unsupported) Ruby features for the particular data file you're planning on working with.

It may be possible that I'll add support for a small number of specific data files such as MIDI files in the future. Please do let me know which file types you'd like to see supported.