How to Program in SuperCollider

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...

Last time , we learned how to use an envelope to cause synths to stop playing after a set time. Now we're going to look at one way we c...

In the last post , we wrote a function to play overtones, but it played them all at the same time. In order to write a piece of music, we...

In the previous post , we talked a bit about Integers, which, remember are whole numbers, like -1, 0, 1, 2. And we learned about the do mes...

After reading the last chapter on SynthDefs and the one before that on Variables , Nicole feels like she's got the hang of SuperCollide...