The second edition of The SuperCollider Book is now available from MIT Press! Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins, this edition of the essential SuperCollider reference represents a comprehensive update, providing students and professionals with a refreshed and user-friendly guide to the language's design, syntax, and use. This edition covers the basics as well as explorations of intermediate and advanced topics, including microsound, sonification, spatialization, and the cross-platform GUI library.
Highlights include:
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New chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, non-standard synthesis, and SuperCollider on small computers
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Technical documentation of writing and implementing your own unit generators
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Artist statements from a diverse collection of international musicians
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Code examples to accompany the book, available at https://github.com/supercollider/scbookcode/