Scoring Sound

Preface

Introduction

1. A Tip on the Post Window
2. Using the Documentation
3. About the Installation
4. Part I

Chapter 1 - The SuperCollider language

1. The semicolon, brackets and running a program
2. Matching brackets
3. The post window
4. Comments
5. Variables
6. Functions
7. Tip
8. Arrays, Lists and Dictionaries
9. Methods?
10. Conditionals, data flow and control
11. Looping and iterating
12. Peaking under the hood
13. Tip

Chapter 2 - The SuperCollider Server

1. Booting the Server
2. The ‘s’ Variable
3. The Unit Generators
4. Control Rate
5. The SynthDef
6. Observing server activity (Poll, Scope and FreqScope)
7. A quick intro to busses and multichannel expansion
8. Getting values back to the language
9. ProxySpace
10. Ndef

Chapter 3 - Controlling the Server

1. Tasks, Routines, forks and loops
2. Patterns
3. The TempoClock
4. Updating GUI from a TempoClock Process
5. GUI Control

Chapter 4 - Interfaces and Communication (GUI/MIDI/OSC)

1. MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
2. Free MIDI Synthesizers
3. OSC - Open Sound Control
4. GUI - Graphical User Interfaces
5. ControlSpec - Scaling/mapping values
6. Other Views (but not all)
7. HID - Human Interface Devices
8. Hardware - Serial port (for example using Arduino)
9. Part II

Chapter 5 - Additive Synthesis

1. Adding waves
2. Creating wave forms out of sinusoids
3. Creating Arrays
4. Bell Synthesis
5. Xylophone Synthesis
6. Harmonics GUI
7. Some Additive SynthDefs with routines playing them
8. Using Control to set multiple parameters
9. Klang and Dynklang

Chapter 6 - Subtractive Synthesis

1. Noise Sources
2. Filter Types
3. Klank and DynKlank
4. Bell Synthesis using Subtractive Synthesis
5. Simulating the Moog

Chapter 7 - Modulation

1. LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators)
2. Theremin
3. Amplitude Modulation (AM synthesis)
4. Ring Modulation
5. Frequency Modulation (FM Synthesis)
6. Tip
7. The use of Envelopes in FM synthesis
8. FM7 Ugen

Chapter 8 - Envelopes and shaping sound

1. Envelope types
2. The EnvGen - Envelope Generator
3. Triggers and Gates
4. MIDI Keyboard Example

Chapter 9 - Samples and Buffers

1. Buffers
2. Allocating a Buffer
3. Reading a soundfile into a Buffer
4. Recording live sound into a Buffer
5. BufRd and BufWr
6. Streaming from disk
7. Wavetables and wavetable look-up oscillators
8. Pitch and duration changes

Chapter 10 - Granular and Concatenative Synthesis

1. Granular Synthesis
2. Concatenative Synthesis

Chapter 11 - Physical Modelling

1. Biquad filter
2. Waveguide synthesis
3. Filters
4. TBall, Spring and Friction
5. The MetroGnome
6. The STK synthesis kit
7. Part III

Chapter 12 - Time Domain Audio Effects

1. Delay
2. Phaser (phase shifting)
3. Flanger
4. Chorus
5. Reverb
6. Tremolo
7. Distortion
8. Compressor
9. Limiter
10. Sustainer
11. Noise gate
12. Normalizer
13. Limiter (Ugen)
14. Amplitude
15. Pitch
16. Filters

Chapter 13 - Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

1. Fast Fourier Transform examples
2. Language manipulation of bins

Chapter 14 - Busses, Nodes, Groups and Signalflow

1. Busses in SC (Audio and Control Busses)
2. Nodes
3. Groups
4. Part IV

Chapter 14 - Musical Patterns on SC Server

1. Stepper and Select
2. PulseCount and PulseDivider
3. Demand UGens

Chapter 15 - Musical Patterns in the SCLang

1. The SynthDefs
2. Routines and Tasks
3. Clocks in SuperCollider
4. A survey of Patterns
5. Syncing Patterns and TempoClocks

Chapter 16 - JIT lib and ProxySpace

1. ProxySpace
2. Ndef
3. Tdef

Chapter 18 - Tuning Systems and Scales

1. The SynthDefs
2. Equal Temperament
3. Just Intonation
4. Pythagorean tuning
5. Scales
6. The Scala Library
7. Using Samples
8. The Scale and Tuning Classes
9. Part V

Chapter 19 - Creating Classes

1. Creating Classes

Chapter 20 - Functional Programming

1. Functional Programming

Chapter 21 - Live Coding

Chapter 22 - Other clients

Chapter 23 - Twitter code