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Ten months of development, over 700 individual commits, loving
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contributions from many many people have gone into this new version of
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Sonic Pi. This release is also the result of a 3 month long community
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beta process took place over on
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[Patreon](https://patreon.com/sonic-pi-net) where supporters got access
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to early releases and really helped polish and shape development. Huge
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thanks to everyone that has supported continued development. We're
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really excited and proud to share this new release with you all.
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In terms of significant changes, there have been many internal
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improvements, including a full rewrite of our MIDI subsystem. This
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shouldn't result in much change as a user (although some MIDI cue names
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might have changed slightly) but it really sets us up for some exciting
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developments in the future. We're essentially moving much more of the
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core input/output functionality of Sonic Pi into a special system called
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the BEAM and a language called [Erlang](https://www.erlang.org). This is
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a system that has a strong emphasis on low latency, low jitter and high
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concurrency which is exactly what the IO of a music system requires!
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We're so excited to see what we'll be able to achieve with this new
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approach that the BEAM features as the codename of this release.
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Another area that has seen a lot of love and attention is our strong
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focus on accessibility. We now have a much improved menu bar which
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essentially duplicates much of the functionality found in the
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preferences but in a format that's extremely easy to work with via a
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screen reader. We've also added a new context pane that displays the
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current line and character position as a direct result of a
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collaboration with Leiden University's accessibility group. There have
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already been numerous studies that are reporting success for blind and
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low-vision users of Sonic Pi - so we're confident we're on the right
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track with respect to accessibility. We're also not stopping here and are
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always looking for ways to lower the many barriers to entry for creative
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experiences with code for everyone.
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This is also the first release where we officially welcome Chris Maughan
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as the latest member of the Sonic Pi core team. Chris has made
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significant contributions over the last year including improvements to
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the scope and a complete reworking of our build process. I hope you join
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us in welcoming Chris to the team.
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Finally, we have official support for macOS Big Sur, some lovely new
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synths and FX, improved translations, support for advanced configuration
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(audio and colour theming), new Turkish scales and many, many bug fixes
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and improvements.
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We really hope you love this version of Sonic Pi as much as we do.
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Happy Live Coding!
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### Breaking Changes
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* MIDI port description names may be slightly different from previous versions. Precise matches on MIDI ports via `sync` and `get` will have to be updated accordingly.
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* Incoming MIDI cues now no longer include clock tick events. Optionally re-enabling these and new ways of working with incoming timing systems will feature in a future release.
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