Awesome SuperCollider

A curated list of SuperCollider stuff

Contents

• Learning resources
  • Written tutorials
  • Videos
  • Books
  • Research papers
• Plugins
• Quarks and extensions
  • Metacontrol, mapping and gestures
  • Live coding
  • Live Performance
  • Controllers
  • Network
  • Physics
  • Buffer management
  • Patterns
  • Maths
  • Immersive audio
  • FX
  • Synthesis
  • GUI
  • Misc
• Synthdefs
• Instruments
  • Emulations / clones
  • Granular
  • Other
• Single board computers
  • Norns
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Others
• Clients
  • Language clients
  • Livecode interfaces
• IDE alternatives
• Other tools
• Community
• Build scripts and templates
• Development
  • Quarks
  • Writing plugins
  • Others
  • Contribute
  • License

Learning resources

Written tutorials

• A gentle introduction to SuperCollider – Introduction to SC by Stanford's CCRMA
• How to write server plugins using C++ - How to create UGens
• 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
• learn - Official SuperCollider tutorial
• A-Practical-Guide - A fantastic pattern tutorial (which can also be found in your help files)
• Minibee Tutorial - How to work with the Minibee sensors (for dance performances, etc.) in SuperCollider
• Mads Kjeldgaard's Tech and research - A blog containing a range of tips, tricks and tutorials
• Implementing a SuperCollider UGen in Rust
• SolarPowered SuperCollider on a Raspberry Pi Zero - Great little guide for using SC on a solar powered Pi Zero.

Videos

• SuperCollider Tutorials - Tutorials by Eli Fieldsteel covering a range of subjects
• Project Free Jazz - A Four part tutorial about algorithmic composition with SuperCollider
• Audio signal processing in SuperCollider - A series of lectures by Zlatko Baracskai focusing on audio signal processing.
• 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
• SuperCollider and Time - James McCartney (author of SuperCollider) giving a talk at IRCAM
• SoundEngraver - video demos showcasing a variety of things in SC
• Musical Sound Design in Supercollider video series - Videos on sound design techniques in SC, including pulsar synthesis examples.

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.
• Example code for The MIT SuperCollider Book
• 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
• OXford Handbook of Algorithmic Music - Not strictly speaking SuperCollider, but a great resource nevertheless.

Research papers

• Rethinking the Computer Music Language: SuperCollider - James McCartney, SuperCollider's father, presenting his work on SuperCollider (2002).
• Continued Evolution of the SuperCollider Real Time Synthesis Environment - An even older article concerning SuperCollider (1998)
• It's morphin' time - Sound morphing by Jennifer Hsu
• Influx – Loose Control, Gain Influence - Super interesting article about Alberto de Campo's Influx system and gesture control/mapping in general
• NNdef: Livecoding Digital Musical Instruments in SuperCollider using Functional Reactive Programming

Other documents

• SuperCollider Tweets - SuperCollider patches in 140 characters.
• SuperCollider Tweets Explained - Comments on some of these tweet-sized patches.

Plugins

• vstplugin – IEM's VST Plugin integration for SuperCollider (and Pure Data)
• f0plugins - chip tune UGens
• flucoma - FluCoMa, an awesome framework for signal decomposition, machine learning and analysis.
• steroids-ugens - Standard UGens on steroids
• super-bufrd - UGens for accessing long buffers with subsample accuracy
• xplaybuf - A buffer player that can loop and fade, while not suffering from the "float precision issue"
• bytebeat - A bytebeat interpreter
• mkplugins - Mads Kjeldgaard's personal plugins
• sc3-plugins - The classic sc3-plugins community repository
• mi-ugens - 1:1 ports of Mutable Instruments algorithms

Quarks and extensions

Metacontrol, mapping and gestures

• Influx - System for complex mapping of gestures

Live coding

• SuperDirt - The sound engine of the TidalCycles pattern language
• JITLibExtensions - Some extensions to the common JITLib classes
• 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

Live Performance

• CuePlayer - A tool for composing and performing real-time and mixed electronic works using SuperCollider.

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
• OpenObject - Share object contents over the network via osc.

Physics

• TraerPhysics - A simple particle system physics engine

Buffer management

• PolyBuf - Easily load and access a bunch of audio files into collections of buffers in SuperCollider
• Convenience - Load entire sample banks or folder structures (folders within folders) of audio files into easily accessible collections of buffers. And more.

Patterns

• Repetition.sc - A set of tools to build a Stream of Events using symbols and a sort of language in the language

Maths

Immersive audio

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

FX

• Vowel - Convenience Class for Vowel Creation
• PitchShiftPA - Phase Aligned pitch shifting
• DWGReverb - A virtual room generator: It has a FDN reverb for the late response but also early reflections generator based on room dimensions

Synthesis

• CaosPercLib - a Collection of Percussion Classes for SuperCollider
• CaosBox - a not-so-common LiveCoding/AlgoRave music GUI secuencer/processor for the CaosPercLib
• Particular - particle synthesis on a per particle basis (to be used with patterns)

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

Misc

• miSCellaneous_lib - various SuperCollider extensions and tutorials: patterns, fx sequencing, granulation, wave folding, sieves, combined lang and server gui control, live coding, single sample feedback, generalized functional iteration synthesis

Synthdefs

• Synthdefs - Synthdef Pool
• SynthDefPool — a public library of handy SynthDefs
• SCLOrkSynths — Collection of SuperCollider SynthDefs (synth definitions) for use with Patterns

Instruments

Emulations / clones

• DX7-SuperCollider - accurate Yamaha DX-7 clone. Programmed in Supercollider
• Benjolis - Instrument inspired by Rob Hordijk's chaotic Benjolin synth
• B700s - A clone of the Buchla 700

Granular

• granular-synth - A simple granular synth GUI, with a handy time/frequency graph
• granular from Discrete Structures course - loads a folder of files into buffers and granulates everything.

Other

• LNX Studio - a Digital Audio Work Station. Repository
• TXmodular - TXmodular is a production environment fully written in SC

Single board computers

Norns

• Monome norns, SuperCollider and Lua - Nice tutorial on getting started with SuperCollider/LUA on the Norns platform

Raspberry Pi

• Solar powered SuperCollider - Running SC on a Solar powered Raspberry Pi Zero
• Notes for setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 for audio work - A comprehensive guide for tuning Raspbian and using (latest version of) SuperCollider
• Networked audio using Raspberry Pi 4, zita-njbridge and SuperCollider - Do networked audio on the Pi using SuperCollider
• 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
• Building SuperCollider for piCore Linux - Great guide for installing stuff on PiCoreLinux

Others

• Bela - Bela is an embedded computing platform for creating responsive interactive applications
• Salt - Bela powered programmable Eurorack module
• 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
• VCV Rack Prototype Module - A digital Eurorack module scriptable using SuperCollider

Clients

Language clients

• SuperColliderJS - JavaScript client
• hsc3 - Haskell client
• Lua2SC - Lua client
• ScalaCollider - Scala client
• supriya - Python client
• sc3 - Python port of some of sclang's features
• cl-collider - CommonLisp client
• sc_client - Rust client
• sorceress - Creative coding in Rust / SuperCollider

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
• Sonic Pi - Ruby based live coding environment, using SuperCollider as an audio engine
• xi - A domain-specific language for live coding musical patterns in Ruby
• Ixi Lang - Thor Magnusson's live coding environment based on musical agents

IDE alternatives

• atom-supercollider - SuperCollider integration for Atom
• scvim - Vim plugin
• scnvim - NeoVim plugin
• scel - Emacs interface
• vscode_supercollider - Supercollider syntax for Visual Studio Code
• Hadron - Simple editor with help browser and post window

Other tools

• supercollider-tree-sitter - A tree-sitter grammar for SuperCollider (supported out of the box in treesitter-nvim for example).

Community

• scsynth.org - Official SuperCollider forum
• sccode.org - A website containing SuperCollider code. Many years worth of good ideas in here.
• 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
• Discord - The SuperCollider Discord Server
• Stackoverflow - SuperCollider discussions on StackOverflow

Build scripts and templates

• Build script for Linux - Easily build SuperCollider with plugins from source on Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)

Development

Quarks

• Cookiecutter template for SuperCollider quarks - A SuperCollider package (quark) generator using the Cookiecutter cli program. The fastest way to get setup for a quark

Writing plugins

• Example plugins - Simple and understandable examples of cpp plugins for SC
• Server Plugins API - Description of some of the boilerplate you get for writing UGens / plugins
• Cookiecutter template for SuperCollider plugin - cookiecutter project for SuperCollider server plugins
• Implementing a SuperCollider plugin in Rust
• UGen quality standards

Others

• superfomus - bindings to Fomus Music Notation (FOrmat MUSic)
• SuperColliderAU - SuperColliderAU is an AudioUnit wrapper that allows using SuperCollider servers inside AudioUnits hosts on macOS. The embedded server may be controlled over OSC as usual

Contribute

All contributions welcome!

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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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