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
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.