[sc3~]

v 0.98/0.99 -- June 2009
SuperCollder v 3.3.0

Brad Garton
v 0.98: Mac OSX 10.4/10.5; Max/MSP 4.x
v 0.99: Mac OSX 10.4/10.5; Max5

download sc3~

[sc3~] links the sound synthesis and signal-processing capabilities of the SuperCollider 3 music programming language into the Max/MSP real-time music environment. This extends both applications in a variety of ways:

[sc3~] integrates the full range of SC3 synthesis and signal-processing capabilities into the Max/MSP graphical patching system.
Within Max/MSP, the [sc3~] object can easily link to other development languages and environments, including Jitter (OpenGL), JavaScript, Java, JMSL, LISP, RTcmix, ChucK and CSound.
SuperCollider 3 scripts can be developed, triggered and controlled from within Max/MSP, and the scripts can be saved with Max/MSP patchers for easy storage and retrieval.

[sc3~] is similar in many of these respects to the [rtcmix~] and the [chuck~] objects.

The original SuperCollider language was written by James McCartney and is now an open source (GPL) project maintained and developed by various people. For more information about the SuperCollider 3 language, visit the SuperCollider 3 home page.

Download and Install

Max5/Macintosh Directions (sorry, no windows version at present!)
(if you are an intel Mac OSX 10.4.x user, see the note below)

sc3~_0.99_max5.zip (8.3 Mbytes download/12 Mbytes on disk)
v 0.99 -- 6/29/2009

Max4.x/Macintosh Directions (again sorry, no windows version at present!)
(if you are an intel Mac OSX 10.4.x user, see the note below)

sc3~_0.98_max4.x.zip (6.6 Mbytes download/12 Mbytes on disk)
v 0.98 -- 6/29/2009
Note to intel Mac OS X 10.4.x users: There is a small problem in the way I compiled the "sclangpipe" command. To fix this temporarily, click here to download the archive "sclangpipe.zip". This will inpack to an "sclangpipe" exeutable file. You will need to move this into the "sc3-cmd/" subfolder of the "SC3/" folder you installed on your Max/MSP search path. Moving this file will overwrite the existing "sclangpipe" command. [sc3~] should work after this change.

Source Code

GNU General Public License (GPL)

[sc3~]

sclangpipe

scsynth

sc3~_0.99_src.zip (66 Kbytes download/312 Kbytes on disk)
sc3~_0.98_src.zip (66 Kbytes download/312 Kbytes on disk)
sc3~ 0.98/0.99 using SC3 v 3.3.0 -- 6/29/2009

Known Problems
Note the less-than 1.0 designation of these objects. I'm sure they are probably a bit "brittle", they have not been extensively tested and the method I use to invoke the SC3 processes can sometimes be very flaky. I hope people can find some use from the object. If enough interest is there, I will work to fix outstanding bugs and make it more robust. I'm also not a terrific SuperCollider programmer (as you will see by looking through some of my SC3 code in the help patcher), so there is much that I've 'left to the imagination'. Such is life.

I do know to watch out for these particular issues:

scsynth

[sc3~]

sclang

[sc3~]

scsynth

[sc3~]

[NOTE: Any bad-coding problems in the

object 'proper' are all mine mine mine, of course. I'm not a Real Programmer.]

Brad Garton
garton - at - columbia dot edu
June, 2009