Resonate SuperCollider Workshop

Extra Session

• Concat
• setting up a project

Day structure

• 10:00 - 10:15 - Setup, questions (15m)
• 10:15 - 11:45 - Session 1 (1h 30m)
• 11:45 - 12:00 - Break (15m)
• 12:00 - 13:00 - Session 2 (1h)
• 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch (1h)
• 14:00 - 15:30 - Session 3 (1h 30m)
• 15:30 - 15:45 - Break (15m)
• 15:45 - 17:15 - Sesssion 4 (1h 30m)
• 17:15 - 18:00 - Questions / recap / experimenting (45m)

Day 1

Session 1 - Basics

• Setup / IDE basics

  • Help System

• Printing

  • Last thing posted

• Make sounds, servertools, global vars, interpreter

• Comments

• Precedence

• Controlling sounds

  • args/vars
  • MIDI In
  • ar / kr

• Recording from the server

Sessions 2 & 3 - SynthDefs, Synthesis Basics

• Filters
• Envelopes
• Polyphony
• Generators
• Combining sounds
• Multichannel expansion
• Modulation
• mul - add
• examples

Session 4 - Audio Files

• Buffers
• Playing
  • PlayBuf / BufRd / LoopBuf
• Recording, SoundIn

Day 2

Session 1 & 2 - Sequencing

• Routines
• Forks, Subroutines
• Clocks
• Patterns
• Tdefs

Session 3 - sclang

• Language vs Server
  • GPU / CPU analogy
  • Impulse/SendReply vs poll/get
• Language basics
  • conditionals
• collections
  • Load a lot of buffers
• Functions
  • Calling functions
  • Named params
• Order of operations
• Defs
• Loops / Collect / Select / Reject
• mapping values (linlin etc)
• Symbols
• Classes
  • New
  • Getter/Setter syntax, chaining
• Where to look for language help

Session 4 - Connecting Nodes

• Ordering
• Groups
• FX

Day 3

Session 1 - Machine Listening pt.1

• Amplitude
• Onsets
• Beattrack
• Pitch/Tartini

Session 2 - Interfacing pt.1

• Receiving OSC
  • Opening ports to receive on
  • OSCdef Task: Add sounds and sequences of sounds to incoming osc messages

Session 2 - Machine Listening pt.2

• FFT / IFFT
  • Buffer wintype
  • FFTSubbandPower
• MFCC

Session 3 - Interfacing pt.2

• Sending OSC

• Sending info to Processing app

• Sending MIDI

Session 4 - Project Time / Buffer session

Further Synthesis

• Granular
• Phase Vocoder
• Examples - Steal This Sound
• Concatenative

GUI

• Sliders
  • Multisliders
  • EZSlider
  • 2D Slider
• Buttons
• Meter View