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SuperCollider 3.3 released

From:  Dan S <danstowell+lxau-AT-gmail.com>
To:  A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user-AT-lists.linuxaudio.org>, linux-audio-announce-AT-lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject:  [LAA] SuperCollider 3.3 released
Date:  Tue, 5 May 2009 15:15:15 +0100
Message-ID:  <286e6b7c0905050715m40b2dda4ma5ebcef06ed592d9__22426.7527614304$1241631085$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
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SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time
audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an
interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network
client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

Many changes since 3.2; here are some headlines:

* scvim and sced are now part of the main bundle, for using vim or
gedit as your sc code editor
* New UGens added:
    * BEQSuite filter UGens (popular set of nice-sounding filters)
    * PartConv (efficient frequency-domain convolution)
    * SendReply (sends arrays from server to the language client)
    * VDiskIn (like DiskIn but with variable rate)
    * LFGauss
* Buffer recording/playback UGens used to be limited to 16-channel;
now they can handle massively multi-channel audio
* LocalBuf framework allows synths to create/free their own "private"
buffers, simplifying buffer management in many situations
* GUI system updates: easier syntax, plus a major update of GUI documentation
* Various behind-the-scenes efficiency improvements, for a sleeker
audio server that can do more on a given machine

Source packages for linux can be found at
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/


Ubuntu debs are on launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/+archive/ppa


Best,
Dan
-- 
http://www.mcld.co.uk



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