Scoring Sound

Course overview

Scoring Sound is a tutorial and a handbook for sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and instrument design in SuperCollider.

6 parts
25 chapters
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Part 1

Preface2 chapters

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  1. Preface

  2. Introduction

Part 2

Part I4 chapters

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  1. Chapter 1 - The SuperCollider language

  2. Chapter 2 - The SuperCollider Server

  3. Chapter 3 - Controlling the Server

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

Part 3

Part II7 chapters

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  1. Chapter 5 - Additive Synthesis

  2. Chapter 6 - Subtractive Synthesis

  3. Chapter 7 - Modulation

  4. Chapter 8 - Envelopes and shaping sound

  5. Chapter 9 - Samples and Buffers

  6. Chapter 10 - Granular and Concatenative Synthesis

  7. Chapter 11 - Physical Modelling

Part 4

Part III3 chapters

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  1. Chapter 12 - Time Domain Audio Effects

  2. Chapter 13 - Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

  3. Chapter 14 - Busses, Nodes, Groups and Signalflow

Part 5

Part IV4 chapters

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  1. Chapter 14 - Musical Patterns on SC Server

  2. Chapter 15 - Musical Patterns in the SCLang

  3. Chapter 16 - JIT lib and ProxySpace

  4. Chapter 18 - Tuning Systems and Scales

Part 6

Part V5 chapters

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  1. Chapter 19 - Creating Classes

  2. Chapter 20 - Functional Programming

  3. Chapter 21 - Live Coding

  4. Chapter 22 - Other clients

  5. Chapter 23 - Twitter code