Tutorials¶

Recommended tutorials¶

• Getting started with SC by Scott Wilson and James Harkins. This tutorial, as well as a few others, come bundled with SuperCollider’s help system. (there’s a quick reference by Andrew McWilliams based on this tutorial)

• A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider by Bruno Ruviaro

• Nick Collins’ SuperCollider tutorial has a 12 week course of tutorial files as browseable HTML, and is also available in a downloadable zip

• Computer Music with examples in SuperCollider 3 by David Cottle

• SuperCollider Tutorials on YouTube by Eli Fieldsteel

• Remember that SC’s built-in Documentation system has a Tutorial section.

Other tutorials¶

• Spanish Coursera Course by Mauro Herrera and Cristian Bañuelos, Facultad de Música UNAM

• Spanish-language tutorial translations by Federico Reuben

• German-language tutorials

• Spanish-language “screencast” video tutorials

• Italian-language tutorial by Andrea Valle

• Portuguese (Brazil) language tutorial by Universidade Estadual de Maringá

• Japanese-language study group at IAMAS with jp/en tutorials (also forum, faq, wiki)

• Chinese-language tutorial translations by Way Wang

• Les Hutchins’ SC tutorials

• ixi’s basic audio programming tutorial in SC (download)

• Designing Sound in SuperCollider (how to create sound effects)

• Seven part tutorial, aimed at first time programmers by Arthur Carabott

• howto_co34pt_liveCode, a guide on how to live code in SuperCollider, with a companion GitHub repo of code, examples and samples by co34pt

Tutorials covering more advanced techniques and/or third-party libraries¶

• dewdrop_world’s SC tutorials - making good use of the dewdrop extensions

• miSCellaneous lib - tutorials for miSCellaneous lib and general SuperCollider, with a focus on Patterns