SuperCollider
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6recommend
0warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Oct 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If you respect the SuperCollider project, you should also respect its license.”
“there's always SuperCollider[2] and its many derivatives”
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“a SuperCollider-based system that runs in the browser”
“Fortunately, SuperCollider still has a quite active forum”
“The whole album was sequenced and synthesized entirely in SuperCollider with no samples, external hardware, or third-party plugins.”
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“I used SuperCollider and Logic(piano) for sound”
“There are alternative frameworks that also drive supercollider”
“If you respect the SuperCollider project, you should also respect its license.”
“write actual source code (supercollider synths)”
“there's always SuperCollider[2] and its many derivatives”
“a SuperCollider-based system that runs in the browser”
“I have not used SuperCollider in a long time”
“supercollider is tightly integrated but not required”
“supercollider is tightly integrated but not required”
“Supercollider”
“helped a friend a little on this one”
“Fortunately, SuperCollider still has a quite active forum”
I should clarify that it hasn't been 100% confirmed that "eric_hard_jams" was really him, but many people on the list thought so, including James McCartney himself: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:20:06 -0600 From: James McCartney <---@---.---> Subject: Re: [ OT ]very low signal to noise ratio . on 1/17/01 9:18 PM, eric_hard_jams at eric_hard_jams@btinternet.com wrote: > >> ok boss. i'm really sorry. back to normal now. mu
“The whole album was sequenced and synthesized entirely in SuperCollider with no samples, external hardware, or third-party plugins.”
“here's a whole opera from a Star Trek episode I coded in Supercollider”
There's also Strudel as a programmatic music composing app: https://strudel.cc/
“check out SuperCollider[2]. You can use that to create your own ambient sounds.”