Sonic Pi

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2018–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sonic Pi, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Large lag between pressing a button and sound; half the presses do nothing2026-08-10
Building your own synths is hard to get the basics down2022-11-08
Interface is awful for performing live coding music2022-11-08
Menu shortcuts collide with commands, so Alt+R gets stuck in the Edit menu; no way found to switch language2020-05-05
Editor keybindings differ from standard shortcuts, so muscle memory for copy, paste and cut fails2020-05-05
Code is a poor interface for music, adding distractions that separate sound from expressive intent2018-07-29