YouTube SuperCollider Overview

A one minute overview of using SuperCollider posted on YouTube. The YouTube page is here.

Percussa AudioCubes

I've been interested in alternative controllers like the AudioCubes so I was interested to hear that they are coming up with a beta version of an SDK written as a C-based library and designed to integrated with the C++ JUCE framework. No, I don't know what that is, either, but it sounds good...

Today's SuperCollider Links

I continue to be a fan of the open source computer music language SuperCollider which can produce some amazing sounds. I confess to being somewhat of a preset tweaker myself, though many neurons ago, I did spend a lot of time trying to create my own instrument patches in SC as well as CSound. I still seek out SC documentation and examples on the web. Here are a few from the latest round-up:

• Tour of the Unit Generators
• Nick Collins' course on Computational Music 1 and Computational Music 2
• Guide to downloading and installing the latest SC 3 Build in OS X
• The original but deprecated audiosynth page from SC 2
• The Sourceforge Page with links and resources to the eList, Wiki, nightly builds

MuO musical objects for Squeak

I briefly caught the SmallTalk bug in the early 90's when I was interested in algorithmic composition. These days, music programmers like Stéphane Rollandin are writing for the open source version called Squeak.

Stéphane is porting his MIDI/Csound GeoMaestro environment to Squeak as MuO, and it looks pretty interesting.