Introduction to SuperCollider

✍ Scribed by Andrea Valle

• Publisher: Logos Verlag
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1 Getting started with SuperCollider
1.1 About SuperCollider
1.2 SC overview
1.3 Installation and use
1.4 Objectives, references, typographical conventions
2 Programming in SC
2.1 Programming languages
2.2 Minima objectalia
2.3 Objects in SC
2.4 Methods and messages
2.5 The methods of type {\tt post} and {\tt dump}
2.6 Numbers
2.7 Conclusions
3 Syntax: basic elements
3.1 Brackets
3.2 Expressions
3.3 Comments
3.4 Strings
3.5 Variables
3.6 Symbols
3.7 Errors
3.8 Functions
3.9 Classes, messages/methods and keywords
3.10 A graphic example
3.11 Control Structures
3.12 Yet another GUI example
3.13 Conclusions
4 Synthesis, I: Fundamentals of Signal Processing
4.1 A few hundred words on acoustics
4.2 Analog vs. digital
4.3 Synthesis algorithms
4.4 Methods of {\tt Signal}
4.5 Other signals and other algorithms
4.6 Still on signal processing
4.7 Control signals
4.8 Conclusions
5 SC architecture and the server
5.1 Client vs. Server
5.2 Ontology of the server as an audio synthesis plant
5.3 The server
5.4 SynthDefs
5.5 UGens and UGen graphs
5.6 Synths and Groups
5.7 A theremin
5.8 An example of real-time synthesis and control
5.9 Expressiveness of the language: algorithms
5.10 Expressiveness of the language: abbreviations
5.11 Conclusions
6 Control
6.1 Envelopes
6.2 Generalizing envelopes
6.3 Sinusoids \& sinusoids
6.4 Pseudo-random signals
6.5 Busses
6.6 Procedural structure of SynthDef
6.7 Multichannel Expansion
6.8 Conclusions
7 Organized sound: scheduling
7.1 Server-side, 1: through UGens
7.2 Server side, 2: Demand UGen
7.3 Language-side: Clocks and routines
7.4 Clocks
7.5 Synthesizers vs. events
7.6 Graphic interlude: drawings and animations
7.7 Routines vs. Tasks
7.8 Patterns
7.9 Events and Event patterns
7.10 Conclusions
8 Synthesis, II: introduction to basic real-time techniques
8.1 Oscillators and tables
8.2 Direct generation
8.3 Spectral modelling
8.4 Physical Modeling
8.5 Time-based methods
8.6 Conclusions
9 Communication
9.1 From server to client: use of control buses
9.2 From server to client: use of OSC messages
9.3 OSC to and from other applications
9.4 The MIDI protocol
9.5 Reading and writing: File
9.6 Pipe
9.7 SerialPort
9.8 Conclusions