Comments | cola_fan: spcldr

cola_fan

spcldr

Sep 13, 2002 23:24

I am sitting in the Rich lab, playing with Supercollider on a Mac.
This is something I have wanted to spend time on for a while.
Supercollider is a realtime synthesis application.
You write programs in Smalltalk and they create sound.
Supercollider is now free, it used to be commercial.
The author got a job with Apple.

programming, computer music

Comments 2

noprofile September 14 2002, 00:50:29 UTC

oh oh oh tell me!!! what does it do!!

cola_fan September 15 2002, 10:35:45 UTC

I highly recommend you check it out if you have a Mac with OS9 sitting around in a lab somewhere. It is here.

Currently I have just been playing around with the examples. If I come up with anything novel I will post it.

Basically you write code to create oscillators, manipulating them and finally playing them. something like this:

Synth.play({ SinOsc.ar }); //plays a sine wav

A tutorial is here. The basics seem to be on this page.

Good luck. I'll post a little bit as I learn more. Last night Vinny and I were messing with using mouse input to change the sound.

If this kind of thing interests you, you might also check out Cycling74 MAX/MSP. The same kind of internal structure, except you drag around boxes and wires instead of code.