How to Program in SuperCollider

Installing BBCut2 is a nifty library for doing break beat cutting. To use it, you must first install it. It is not available as a quark, a...

Waiting Last time , we learned that the language does not wait for the server to finish loading buffers before it carries on with the progr...

Let's say you want to open a short audio file and play it back. You can do this with a Buffer . s.boot; b = Buffer.read(s, "s...

The most important subclass of Dictionary is Event : ( var evt; evt = Event.new; evt.play; ) Much like Arrays can be declared just by ...

Let's take a break from Pbinds and their ilk to talk about a data type. A Dictionary is a data type like an array, except that instead...

There's a very useful helpfile set for Streams Patterns and Events, which is available by looking for the helpfile for Streams . We kno...

Let's say that you want to pick random numbers? You could use Pwhite. But what if you wanted random multiples of 2? You would still u...

Let's say you want to control some part of your Pattern from, say, a task. For example, we want to execute some block of code, then wa...

Chords Now that we can use Pbinds to make sure our sounds come on time, let's look about how to order them and play more than one note ...

If you've been using tasks to control rhythmic sounds, you may have noticed that sometimes the timing can wander a bit. If you have two...

As you've heard many times, a list surrounded by square brackets is an Array . Specifically, it's a comma delineated list of 0 or m...

We’ve used Boolean expressions to control the flow of execution of a program with if. Another control structure is while . While is a mes...

Last time , we learned to randomly pick true or false values, however, it would be more useful if we could test to see what's going on a...

In our programmes, we need control structures , that is, ways to make decisions. One control structure is if . if has it's own helpf...