The SuperCollider Book, second edition
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SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real-time interaction, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. Now in a comprehensively updated new edition, The SuperCollider Book remains the essential reference for beginners and advanced users alike, offering students and professionals a user-friendly guide to the language’s design, syntax, and use. Coverage encompasses the basics as well as explorations of advanced and cutting-edge topics including microsound, sonification, spatialization, non-standard synthesis, and machine learning.
Second edition highlights:
• New chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, SuperCollider on small computers, and the cross-platform GUI library
• New tutorial on installing, setting up, and running the SuperCollider IDE
• Technical documentation of implementation and information on writing your own unit generators
• Diverse artist statements from international musicians
• Accompanying code examples and extension libraries
Details
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- Apr 29, 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9780262049702
- ISBN-10
- 0262049708
- Pages
- 832
- Carton quantity
- 10 copies
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| 25 – 99 | $93.00 | 38% off list |
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| 1,000+ | $75.00 | 50% off list |
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