supercollider/supercollider
Supercollider
An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Features
- Algorithmic Music Composition - Provides a pattern-based event stream engine for algorithmic composition with live code modification.
- Live Synthesis Controls - Controls sound synthesis and algorithmic composition in real time by sending code to a running audio engine during performance.
- Live Coding Music Performance - Enables modifying and executing synthesis code on the fly while the audio engine continues running for improvisational performances.
- Audio Synthesis - Generates and processes audio signals with low latency using a dedicated server architecture for live performance and composition.
- Musical Event Stream Engines - Generates musical event sequences from composable pattern objects defining note parameters, timing, and probabilistic transformations.
- Real-Time Audio Processing - Provides a low-latency server architecture that generates and processes audio signals for live performance.
- Sound Synthesis - Generates and processes audio signals with low latency using a dedicated server architecture for live performance and composition.
- Audio Sample Blocks - Processes audio in fixed-size sample blocks within a real-time thread for guaranteed low-latency performance.
- Audio Synthesis Runtimes - Ships an interpreted language and real-time server specifically designed for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
- Real-Time Audio Scripting - Sends commands from an interpreted language to a real-time audio engine to program sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
- Synthesis Graph Compilers - Compiles user-defined synthesis graphs into optimized unit generator trees for runtime audio processing.
- Process Separation - Runs the synthesis engine as a separate real-time process from the language interpreter, communicating via OSC messages.
- Audio Node Trees - Organizes synthesis nodes into a tree structure that determines execution order and signal flow for audio processing.
- Live Code Help Browsers - Embeds a searchable help browser that executes code examples directly into the running synthesis environment.
- Integrated Code Editors - Provides an integrated editor with a built-in help system for writing and testing audio synthesis code.
- Audio Plugin Extensions - Supports custom unit generators and language extensions through community plugins and libraries.
- Audio Plugin Extensibility - Adds new unit generators, language classes, and tools by installing community plugins or writing custom extensions.
- Plugin-Based Audio Synthesis - Adds new unit generators, language classes, and tools by installing community plugins or writing custom extensions to the synthesis environment.
- IDEs - Ships an integrated editor with a help system for writing, testing, and documenting audio synthesis programs.
- MIDI and OSC Interfaces - Implements MIDI, OSC, HID, and serial port communication for controlling external hardware and software.
- MIDI and OSC Device Integrations - Communicates with MIDI, OSC, HID, and serial port devices to control or be controlled by local and networked hardware.
- Plugin Extenders - Loads external shared libraries at startup to extend the set of available synthesis primitives without recompiling the server.
- Cross-Platform GUI Frameworks - Provides a cross-platform windowing toolkit for creating and updating UI widgets programmatically from the language interpreter.
- Custom GUI Frameworks - Provides a cross-platform GUI framework for creating interactive windows, controls, data visualizations, and animations.
