N.B. SuperCollider is now hosted at GitHub, and the most recent versions can be downloaded from there. http://supercollider.github.io

A real time audio synthesis engine, and an object-oriented programming language specialised for music.

SuperCollider was created in 1996 by James McCartney, now (since version 3) released as free software.

Features

  • Highly efficient real-time audio synthesis
  • Expressive musical pattern system
  • Efficient object-oriented programming language implementing features of modern functional languages
  • Expressive multichannel support (massive numbers of input/output streams)
  • Supports diverse stylistic and technical requirements
  • Interacts with other systems using MIDI or Open Sound Control (OSC)
  • Essential part of numerous art and science projects

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Categories

Scientific/Engineering, Sound Synthesis, Programming Languages

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • quemmaymn Posted 2013-06-24
    Supercollider runs faster than many paid analogs.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • celesteh Posted 2013-05-27
    A way to create scalable audio projects and to compose music.
  • tfileme Posted 2013-05-15
    Supercollider works great.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • petrykvovkovich Posted 2013-05-14
    very good project, thanks!
  • codemuscian Posted 2013-04-29
    I highly recommend SuperCollider to any one new to digital audio signal processing with the need of manipulating incoming & outgoing audio streams and audio effects in real-time. The specialisation of SuperCollider on real-time audio allows you to design highly efficient & readable audio algorithms / programs (including GUI) in very few lines of code that would need 100-1000 lines of code in other languages (C, C++, Pyhton, Java, Matlab...). I have used SuperCollider by myself for: (1) education purposes at the technical university Berlin / T-Labs Berlin (2) Designing Digital Audio FX (3) Prototyping music application (4) Prototyping interactive (smartphone based) User Interfaces (5) Creating AU Plugins for MAC
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Cocoa (MacOS X), Console/Terminal, Java Swing, Non-interactive (Daemon), Win32 (MS Windows), X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

C++, Lisp, Objective C, Smalltalk

Related Categories

Lisp Scientific Engineering, Lisp Sound Synthesis Software, Lisp Programming Languages, C++ Scientific Engineering, C++ Sound Synthesis Software, C++ Programming Languages, Smalltalk Scientific Engineering, Smalltalk Sound Synthesis Software, Smalltalk Programming Languages, Objective C Scientific Engineering, Objective C Sound Synthesis Software, Objective C Programming Languages

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2002-05-29
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