SuperCollider

3 December 2004

SuperCollider is an interpreted Object Oriented programming language and realtime sound synthesis server. The language is based on Smalltalk but with C language family syntax. One or more client applications runs the language (OSX / *nix / windows) with which you can do any kind of sequencing, generation or physical interfaces you can think of, which then sends messages to one or more synthesis servers over TCP/IP or UDP (locally or remote) on which you can do nearly any type of synthesis or sound processing you can think of.

SC was written by James McCartney over a period of many years. It is now an open source GPL'd project maintained and developed by James and a few others.

http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/

For your enjoyment: some SuperCollider music by me Timeblind.

Most of my public offerings to the SuperCollider libraries are now included with the main distribution of SuperCollider 3. Some of the stuff listed here is therefore old and deals mainly with SC2 (for os 9). Which is still a nice piece of software.

the old candidate consolidated common library for sc2
* consolidated

Crucial Library For any OS9 SuperCollider2 from 2.2.10 onwards

these utilities are included with the lib, but i put a page up for them anyway:
* lint check
* classfinder
* findReferencesToMethod


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Solar Life Raft Ingredients

Timeblind
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The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)

I’ve been waiting/yearning for Coltan and Cassiterite to come out for much of last year. I was about to release it myself just to relieve my own tension waiting for it. Anyway, its on a good home: The Agriculture and the reviews have been great so far.

The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.

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