Supercollider Vst Plugins
Original author(s) | James McCartney |
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Initial release | 1996; 24 years ago |
Stable release | |
Repository | github.com/supercollider/supercollider |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | FreeBSD,[2]Linux, macOS, Windows |
Type | Audio programming language |
License | GPLv3[3] |
Website | supercollider.github.io |
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SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-timeaudio synthesis and algorithmic composition.[4][5]
Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language providing a framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music, interactive programming[6] and live coding.
Released under the terms of the GPLv2 in 2002, SuperCollider is free and open-source software.
Architecture[edit]
Starting with version 3, the SuperCollider environment has been split into two components: a server, scsynth; and a client, sclang. These components communicate using OSC (Open Sound Control).[6]
The SC language combines the object-oriented structure of Smalltalk and features from functional programming languages with a C-family syntax.[6]
The SC Server application supports simple C and C++ plugin APIs, making it easy to write efficient sound algorithms (unit generators), which can then be combined into graphs of calculations. Because all external control in the server happens via OSC, it is possible to use it with other languages or applications.[6]
The SuperCollider synthesis server (scsynth)[edit]
SuperCollider's sound generation is bundled into an optimised command-line executable (named scsynth). In most cases it is controlled from within the SuperCollider programming language, but it can be used independently. The audio server has the following features:[6]
- Open Sound Control access
- Simple ANSI C and C++11 plugin APIs
- Supports any number of input and output channels, including massively multichannel setups[7]
- Gives access to an ordered tree structure of synthesis nodes which define the order of execution
- Bus system which allows dynamically restructuring the signal flow
- Buffers for writing and reading
- Calculation at different rates depending on the needs: audio rate, control rate, demand rate
Supernova, an independent implementation of the Server architecture,[8] adds multi-processor support through explicit parallel grouping of synthesis nodes.
The SuperCollider programming language (sclang)[edit]
The SuperCollider programming language is a dynamically typed, garbage-collected, single-inheritanceobject-oriented and functional language similar to Smalltalk,[5] with a syntax similar to Lisp or the C programming language. Its architecture strikes a balance between the needs of realtime computation and the flexibility and simplicity of an abstract language. Like many functional languages, it implements functions as first-class objects, which may be composed. Functions and methods can have default argument values and variable length argument lists and can be called with any order of keyword arguments. Closures are lexical, and scope is both lexical and dynamic. Further features typical of functional languages are supported, including creation of closures via partial application (explicit currying), tail call optimization, list comprehensions, and coroutines. Specifics include the implicit expansion of tuples and the stateless pattern system. Its constant-time message lookup and real-time garbage collection allows large systems to be efficient and to handle signal processing flexibly.[6]
By supporting methods of reflective, conversational, and literate programming, SuperCollider makes it relatively easy to find new sound algorithms[9] and to develop custom software as well as custom frameworks. With regards to domain specific knowledge, it is both general (e.g., it allows to represent properties such as time and pitch in variable degrees of abstraction) and copious of example implementations for specific purposes.[6]
GUI system[edit]
The SuperCollider language allows users to construct cross-platform graphical user interfaces for applications. The standard class library with user interface components may be extended by a number of available frameworks. For interactive programming, the system supports programmatic access to rich-text code files. It may be used to generate vector graphics algorithmically.[10]
Interfacing and system support[edit]
Clients[edit]
Because the server is controlled using Open Sound Control (OSC), a variety of applications can be used to control the server. SuperCollider language environments (see below) are typically used, but other OSC-aware systems can be used such as Pure Data.[6]
'Third-party' clients for the SuperCollider server exist, including rsc3, a Scheme client, hsc3, based on Haskell, ScalaCollider,[11] based on Scala, Overtone, based on Clojure, and Sonic Pi.[12] These are distinct from the development environments mentioned below because they do not provide an interface to SuperCollider's programming language, instead they communicate directly with the audio server and provide their own approaches to facilitating user expression.[6]
Supported operating systems[edit]
SuperCollider runs on macOS, Linux, Windows and FreeBSD. For each of these operating systems there are multiple language-editing environments and clients that can be used with SuperCollider (see below).[6]
It has also been demonstrated that SuperCollider can run on Android[13] and iOS.[14]
Editing environments[edit]
SuperCollider code is most commonly edited and used from within its own cross-platform IDE (which supports Linux, Mac, and Windows).
Other development environments with SuperCollider support include:
- Emacs (Linux, Mac, Windows)[15]
- Vim (Linux, Mac)
- Atom (Linux, Mac, Windows)[16]
- gedit (Linux, Windows)
- Kate (Linux)[17]
Code examples[edit]
Live coding[edit]
As a versatile dynamic programming language, SuperCollider can be used for live coding, i.e. performances which involve the performer modifying and executing code on the fly.[18] Specific kinds of proxies serve as high level placeholders for synthesis objects which can be swapped in and out or modified at runtime. Environments allow sharing and modification of objects and process declarations over networks.[19] Various extension libraries support different abstraction and access to sound objects, e.g. dewdrop_lib[20] allows for the live creation and modification of pseudo-classes and -objects.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Releases'. Github. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^asynth. 'SuperCollider'. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^'COPYING'. Github. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^J. McCartney, SuperCollider: A new real time synthesis language, in Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC’96), 1996, pp. 257–258.
- ^ abJ. McCartney, Rethinking the computer music language: SuperCollider, Computer Music Journal, 26 (2002), pp. 61–68.
- ^ abcdefghijScott Wilson; David Cottle; Nick Collins (2011). The SuperCollider Book. The MIT Press. ISBN978-0-262-23269-2. Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
- ^'SuperCollider mailing lists'. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^T. Blechmann, supernova, a multiprocessor-aware synthesis server for SuperCollider, Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference, Utrecht 2010.
- ^J. Rohrhuber, A. de Campo and Renate Wieser. Algorithms Today. Notes on Language Design for Just in Time ProgrammingArchived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, 2005.
- ^The vector graphics interface is provided by the Pen class. Various examples can be found in Audiovisuals with SC, blog by Fredrik Olofsson, 02.05.2009 (updated 11.05.2012)
- ^Rutz, H. H. (2010). 'Rethinking the SuperCollider Client...'. Proceedings of SuperCollider Symposium. Berlin. CiteSeerX10.1.1.186.9817.
- ^'Systems interfacing with SC'. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^SuperCollider Android project on GitHub
- ^Tiny Music System - Cylob Blog, 04.11.2009
- ^'SuperCollider with emacs: scel'. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^'supercollider'. Atom. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^'jleben/Scate'. GitHub. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^Collins, N., McLean, A., Rohrhuber, J. & Ward, A. (2003), Live Coding Techniques for Laptop Performance, Organised Sound 8(3): pp 321-30. doi:10.1017/S135577180300030X
- ^J. Rohrhuber and A. de Campo. Waiting and uncertainty in computer music networks. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Miami, 2004.
- ^One of the numerous user contributed libraries known as 'Quarks', and published in the SuperCollider Quarks repository.
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Aaaaoooeoeeeoeeeee!
The Formant Filter will boost two frequencies to mimic the sounds of different vowels.
- Vowel Selector
- Selects two frequencies to boost. We've put the phonetic symbols of some common vowel sounds on the selection pane. (Honestly that doesn't help much. I have no idea how ɤ sounds anyway.)
Applying a LFO modulation to either axis of the pane can give some nice human-esque qualities to your sound. - Q knob
- Adjust how powerful and narrow the frequency boost is.
- Lows
- Allow low frequencies through the filter.
- Highs
- Allow high frequencies through the filter.
- Settings panel
- Whenever you have your mouse cursor over a snapin there is a small arrow at the top right corner (not visible in screenshot). It opens a settings panel where you handle presets.
It also has a 'randomize' button that can be useful. I guess... - Enabled checkbox
- The small checkbox to the left of the plugin name is a checkbox that bypasses the effect when disabled.
- Resize handle
- The bottom right corner of all Kilohearts plugins is a resize handle for scaling the UI to any size. This allows you to get a good view of the controls whatever the screen resolution, and also comes in handy if you need big controls, e.g. when using Formant Filter as a real-time effect on a touchscreen monitor during a live set. (This is not available when the snapin is used inside a snapin host.)
Formant Filter is a snapin
Kilohearts plugins work great together, and all the snapins can work double duty as modular components inside our snapin hosts. There are several different hosts that allow you to apply any number of snapins in various contexts, like to each individual band in the band-splitter Multipass, or add your full effects chain right inside the preset of the synth Phase Plant.
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