#87

Y’all. Supercollider is the Dark Souls of music tech. I’ve got the YOU DIED screen on every save. How did you learn it?

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#88

The built-in documentation helps a lot. Once I had this committed to memory, things got a lot easier:

{ SinOsc.ar(55) ! 2 }.play;

Edit: Of course you seem a ways further along than that, so that’s not really helpful. Those “does not understand message” errors can be super frustrating.

Also I got a lot out of pulling apart these tweets, trying to understand them, and mostly failing, but learning a neat trick here and there:

https://mobile.twitter.com/redfrik

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#89

cries in binary

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#90

Ohh yeah that page :joy:

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#91

Never felt so attacked via a wiki page in my life. Almost wrote the exact same thing in my SynthDef.

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#92

20 characters of \kablooie

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#93

SinOsc = object, my only friend here.
.ar = audio rate, a method.
55 = first argument, frequency.
! = same as .dup.
2 = stereo.
.play = play.

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#94

20 characters of Nailed it!

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#95

I’m trying to learn more about Crone. How come SC can’t run the CroneEngine? My thinking was I would make a little “bootstrap” environment in SC so my engines could inherit from this. Obviously, SC is clearly stating there is a syntax error. But this < is just a getter, no?

I humbly thank you for your brain cycles.

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#96

it runs just fine (it is developed on desktop,) but it is class code and not interpreter code. put Crone.sc et al in your supercollider extensions folder. (or symlink from there to norns/sc/classes)

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#97

Ok, I need to go back to SC 101. :sweat_smile: Thank you.

#98

@license and I are working on a thing. Is this possible? Our understanding is that there is a hardware constraint that couples the stereo outs with the headphones. We’d like to just monitor and record the inputs.

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#99

Nope. 20 characters of reference

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#100

Great. Thank you for confirming.

#101

This look interesting.

I think it would be pretty easy to convert the free version of this SuperCollider 808 emulation into a Norns engine.

Whether it’s ethical to do that is another question, I guess.

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#102

Hi everyone. I am getting a norns shield soon and quite excited to join it in my portable setup with OP-Z.

I would like to ask if anyone has done SuperCollider livecoding on norns? I guess another, roundabout way to ask the question is what happens on the norns if I modify the SuperCollider engine while it’s is running?

Cheers!

#103

speaking literally, engines are classes and cannot be modified at runtime.

but depending on your familiarity with supercollider, you can pretty easily create livecoding structures around engines or within engines.

for example:

  • you can get the current engine in the SC REPL, and call its methods.
e = Crone.engine
-> a Engine_Dronecaster
e.caster.setHz(...

i’d think this would be the kind of technique one would adopt to easily make a SC livecoding environment on the norns itself, if one were so inclined.

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#104

Thanks @zebra, i am encouraged and looking forward to trying this on the device!

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#105

Side note: thank you for putting Redfrik tweets into an engine!

#106

eh… that was sort of an experiment to see if i could programatically scrape all the tweets that consist of a single synthdef each. they don’t all quite work, so… buyer beware. maybe most interesting as a starting place

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