SuperCollider

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SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It consists of:

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Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)

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BSD

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POX added SuperCollider as alternative to Web Audio Studio and strudel + 2 similar activities
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forkingpaths added SuperCollider as alternative to Tidal Cycles
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Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
Written in
C++
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SuperCollider was added to AlternativeTo by Graziella on Nov 27, 2013 and this page was last updated Nov 3, 2024.

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What is SuperCollider?

SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It consists of:

scsynth, a real-time audio server with hundreds of unit generators ("UGens") for audio analysis, synthesis, and processing
supernova, an alternative server to scsynth with support for parallel DSP on multi-core processors
sclang, an interpreted programming language that controls the servers
scide, an editing environment for sclang with an integrated help system

sclang comes with its own package manager, called Quarks. scsynth and supernova both support third-party plugins via C and C++ APIs.

SuperCollider is written in C++17 using several third-party libraries, including Qt and Boost. It can be used on Windows, macOS, a variety of Linux and BSD distributions, Raspberry Pi, and BeagleBone Black.