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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 the Bela platform.
The online documentation of the development version is available via dev.docs.supercollider.online.
Install
macOS and Windows builds for stable releases are provided at our downloads page. See the macOS README and Windows README for instructions on usage, and how to build SC yourself.
To get the latest stable version, Linux users will need to build SuperCollider themselves. See the Linux README for instructions.
See the Raspberry Pi and Bela READMEs for instructions on building on those platforms.
Platform support
SuperCollider is tested with:
- Windows 10 64-bit and MSVC 2022
- macOS 15 and Xcode 15.2
- Ubuntu 22.04 and gcc 12
SuperCollider is known to support these platforms:
- Windows 10, 11
- macOS 11-15
- Ubuntu 22.04-24.04
SuperCollider has guaranteed support for:
- Windows 10, 11
- MSVC 2019, 2022
- macOS 13-15
- Xcode 14-16
- Debian >= 11
- Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04
- Fedora 36, 37
- Arch Linux
- gcc >= 9
- clang >= 11
- Qt >= 6.2
There is still limited support for Qt 5.15. Further details are described in README_MACOS.md.
For more information on platform support guarantees, see the project Wiki.
Learn
The official docs can be viewed in the SuperCollider IDE's built-in documentation browser. You can also view them online at doc.sccode.org.
We recommend the following resources for learning SC:
- A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider, a free ebook by Bruno Ruviaro
- Eli Fieldsteel's video tutorials
- Getting Started with SC
- Nick Collins' SC tutorial
- SCCode.org, a repository of user-submitted examples
Discuss
You can join our forum at scsynth.org or our Slack channel.
You can also view the archives for the old mailing lists at sc-users and sc-dev.
Please read our adopted code of conduct, which applies to all the above communities.
Contribute
Development of SuperCollider happens here on GitHub, and we are grateful to the community for contributing bugfixes and improvements. Read below to learn how you can take part in improving SuperCollider.
Code of Conduct
Please read our adopted code of conduct before contributing, so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.
Contributing Guide
Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes.
Good First Issues
To help you get your feet wet and get you familiar with our contribution process, we have a list of good-first-issues that contain bugs which have a relatively limited scope. This is a great place to get started. You can also ask on our developer's mailing list, on Slack, or on the forum.
License
SuperCollider is free software available under Version 3 the GNU General Public License. See COPYING for details.