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SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. scsynth, a real-time audio server, forms the core of the platform. It features 400+ unit generators (“UGens”) for analysis, synthesis, and processing. Its granularity allows the fluid combination of many known and unknown audio techniques, moving between additive and subtractive synthesis, FM, granular synthesis, FFT, and physical modeling. You can write your own UGens in C++, and users have already contributed several hundred more to the sc3-plugins repository. sclang, an interpreted programming language. It is focused on sound, but not limited to any specific domain. sclang controls scsynth via Open Sound Control. You can use it for algorithmic composition and sequencing, finding new sound synthesis methods, connecting your app to external hardware.
Features
- IDE for sound synthesis
- For algorithmic composition
- Single inheritance object-oriented and functional language
- Similar to Smalltalk or Ruby with syntax similar to C or Javascript
- Constant time message lookup and real-time garbage collection
- Closures are lexical, and scope is both lexical and dynamic
- Embedded subsystems for composing patterns and signal graphs
- Quarks package manager for code sharing
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