Awesome SuperCollider

A curated list of SuperCollider stuff

Contents

• Learning resources
  • Written tutorials
  • Videos
  • Books
  • Research papers
  • Others
• Quarks, plugins and extensions
  • Live coding
  • Controllers
  • Network
  • Physics
  • Patterns
  • Maths
  • Immersive audio
  • FX
  • Synthesis
  • GUI
• Synthdefs
• Instruments
• Physical/embedded computing
• Clients
  • Language clients
  • Livecode interfaces
• IDE alternatives
• Forums
• Tools
• Contribute
• License

Learning resources

Written tutorials

• A gentle introduction to SuperCollider – Introduction to SC by Stanford's CCRMA
• howto_co34pt_liveCode - Livecoding tutorial
• Nick Collins' SuperCollider tutorial - Course material for a 12 week course on SuperCollider
• udk00-Audiovisual_Programming - Fredrik Olofsson's course materials for UdK Berlin
• Pseudoclasses with events - Faking object-oriented programming in SuperCollider with Events
• SuperCollider_Tutorials - SC tutorials

Videos

• SuperCollider Tutorials - Tutorials by Eli Fieldsteel covering a range of subjects
• Live Coding Tutorials - Tutorials specifically about live coding
• Masterclass "The Ambisonic Toolkit" - A general introduction to ambisonics and the ATK
• Ultimate Arduino-To-Supercollider Tutorials- Control Signals for Digital Audio - How to use the Arduino micro computers with SC
• Unity 5 and SuperCollider(Custom Sound Engine) - How to setup the Unity game engine to work with SuperCollider

Books

• Introduction to SuperCollider - Written by Andrea Valle, includes pdf. Published 2016.
• The SuperCollider Book – The essential reference. Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins. Foreword by James McCartney. Published 2011.
• Thor Magnussons Scoring Sound - Cookbook containing synthesis recipes among other things
• Mapping and Visualization with SuperCollider - Create interactive and repsonsive audio-visual applications with SuperCollider

Research papers

• NNdef: Livecoding Digital Musical Instruments in SuperCollider using Functional Reactive Programming

Others

• scinterviews.com - SuperCollider interviews

Quarks, plugins and extensions

Live coding

• SuperDirt - The sound engine of the TidalCycles pattern language
• JITLibExtensions - Some extensions to the common JITLib classes
• ixiLangQt - The ixi lang live coding environment is a simple visual system presenting a high entry-level control over synth definitions and samples in SuperCollider
• xoxo - Embedded language for SuperCollider
• INSTRUMENT - This tool is aimed at the creation of musical compositions from scratch, 'on the fly'. INSTRUMENT focuses on musical language: rhythm, harmony, melody, audio processing

Controllers

• Modality Toolkit - Powerful and modal controller library
• NanoKontrol2 - Interface for using Korg NanoKontrol2
• NanoKontrol - Simple use of the Korg NanoKontrol2

Network

• Utopia - Network Music Apps in SuperCollider
• BenoitLib - Collaborative and synchronized performances

Physics

• TraerPhysics - A simple particle system physics engine

Patterns

Maths

Immersive audio

• The Ambisonic Toolkit - Toolkit for working with spatial sound in the ambisonic domain

FX

• vstplugin – IEM's VST Plugin integration for SuperCollider (and Pure Data)
• Vowel - Convenience Class for Vowel Creation

Synthesis

• CaosPercLib - a Collection of Percussion Classes for SuperCollider
• CaosBox - a not-so-common LiveCoding/AlgoRave music GUI secuencer/processor for the CaosPercLib
• f0plugins - chip tune UGens

GUI

• wsGUI - User interfaces displayed in a web browser, locally and over the network
• Automation - Record and playback live GUI activity in supercollider audio synth

Synthdefs

• Synthdefs - Synthdef Pool

Instruments

• DX7-SuperCollider - accurate Yamaha DX-7 clone. Programmed in Supercollider
• LNX Studio - a Digital Audio Work Station. Repository
• granular-synth - A simple granular synth GUI, with a handy time/frequency graph

Physical/embedded computing

• Prynth - Prynth are programmable sound synthesizers powered by Raspberry Pi
• supercolliderStandaloneRPI2 - Standalone for Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 with Raspbian Stretch including the full IDE
• supercolliderStandaloneRPI1 - Standalone for Raspberry Pi 1 or Zero with Raspbian Stretch including the full IDE
• Bela - Bela is an embedded computing platform for creating responsive interactive applications
• OpenBCI-SuperCollider - SuperCollider classes for communicating with Open Brain Computer Interface
• IBVA-BlueVAS-SuperCollider - A SuperCollider class for communicating with the IBVA EEG brain wave measurement headset

Clients

Language clients

• SuperColliderJS - JavaScript client
• hsc3 - Haskell client
• Lua2SC - Lua client
• ScalaCollider - Scala client
• supriya - Python client

Livecode interfaces

• TidalCycles - Haskell based live coding environment for patterns
• FoxDot – Python based live coding environment running on top of SuperCollider
• Overtone - Collaborative live coding using Clojure
• xi - A domain-specific language for live coding musical patterns in Ruby

IDE alternatives

• atom-supercollider - SuperCollider integration for Atom
• scvim - Vim plugin
• scnvim - NeoVim plugin
• scel - Emacs interface

Forums

• scsynth.org - Official SuperCollider forum
• Slack - The SuperCollider Slack
• Lurk – Livecode chat
• Mailing list - Official mailing list
• Telegram - Telegram SuperGroup
• Telegram ES - Telegram SuperGroup in Spanish
• Facebook - The SuperCollider facebook group

Tools

• Cookiecutter template for SuperCollider quarks - A SuperCollider package (quark) generator using the Cookiecutter cli program. The fastest way to get setup for a quark
• superfomus - bindings to Fomus Music Notation (FOrmat MUSic)

Contribute

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License

To the extent possible under law, Mads Kjeldgaard has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

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