sc

Package sc provides a way to interface directly with the supercollider server from Go programs.

Why

Supercollider has a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to learn. I believe that sclang is a big reason for this. I also believe that Go is quite easy to learn, hence replacing sclang with Go makes a lot of sense to me.

Who

See https://github.com/scgolang/sc/blob/master/AUTHORS

What this is not

sc is not intended for livecoding (for more about livecoding see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding). I may decide someday to support some livecoding-esque features, but for now the goal is to be able to build music applications that use supercollider as the audio engine.

Install

First, and most importantly, you must have supercollider installed (see http://supercollider.github.io/download.html).

Next, you must install go (see https://golang.org/dl).

Then

go get github.com/scgolang/sc

Test

There are a handful of synthdef files that are necessary for the tests.

These synthdef files are created by sclang, so you have to

make test

instead of

go test

Also, there are tests that attempt to connect to scsynth on port 57120 (see client_test.go).

If you do not have scsynth running the test will hang, so run

scsynth -u 57120

Usage

Find godocs at http://godoc.org/github.com/scgolang/sc. Also, take a look at some of the example programs here: https://github.com/scgolang/examples.

The list of supported ugens is here: https://github.com/scgolang/sc/blob/master/UGENS.md

Develop

See https://github.com/scgolang/sc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING and https://github.com/scgolang/sc/blob/master/HACKING.md.

Roadmap

See https://github.com/scgolang/sc/milestones

Thanks

This project is hugely indebted to

• The supercollider developer community
• Overtone (https://github.com/overtone/overtone)