A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider (2nd Edition)

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Santa Clara University Scholar Commons 2014 A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider (2nd edition) Bruno Ruviaro Recommended Citation I BASICS Hello World Server and Language Booting the Server Your first sine wave Error messages Changing parameters Comments Precedence The last thing always gets posted Code blocks How to clean up the Post window Recording the output of SuperCollider Variables ``Global'' vs. Local Reassignment II PATTERNS The Pattern family Meet Pbind Pseq Make your code more readable Four ways of specifying pitch More keywords: amplitude and legato Prand Pwhite Expanding your Pattern vocabulary More Pattern tricks Chords Scales Transposition Microtones Tempo Rests Playing two or more Pbinds together Using variables Starting and stopping Pbinds independently Pbind as a musical score EventStreamPlayer Example III MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE Objects, classes, messages, arguments Receiver notation, functional notation Nesting Enclosures Quotation marks Parentheses Brackets Curly Braces Conditionals: if/else and case Functions Fun with Arrays Creating new Arrays That funny exclamation mark The two dots between parentheses How to ``do'' an Array Getting Help IV SOUND SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING UGens Mouse control: instant Theremin Saw and Pulse; plot and scope Audio rate, control rate The poll method UGen arguments Scaling ranges Scale with the method range Scale with mul and add linlin and friends Stopping individual synths The set message Audio Buses Out and In UGens Microphone Input Multichannel Expansion The Bus object Panning Mix and Splay Playing an audio file Synth Nodes The glorious doneAction: 2 Envelopes Env.perc Env.triangle Env.linen Env.pairs Envelopes—not just for amplitude ADSR Envelope EnvGen Synth Definitions SynthDef and Synth Example Under the hood Pbind can play your SynthDef Control Buses asMap Order of Execution Groups V WHAT'S NEXT? MIDI OSC Sending OSC from another computer Sending OSC from a smartphone Quarks and plug-ins Extra Resources