Thinking it would be useful to have a thread to collect advice, tips and tricks, or best practices for writing Supercollider code for Norns.
Or perhaps as a meta thread to link to specific answers in mega-threads.
As a first example, here’s @mimetaur’s “Norns Engine Development on MacOS” guide for running norns supercollider engines on MacOS for dev/testing
https://gist.github.com/mimetaur/18346a71f1444ec8bea98a0c3c6fa365
And then a question:
What’s the better syntax? Is there any practical difference?
SynthDef(\MySynth, {| arg1, arg2 | or SynthDef(\MySynth, {arg arg1, arg2;
SynthDef(\MySynth, {| arg1, arg2 |
SynthDef(\MySynth, {arg arg1, arg2;
Throwing another option in the mix (my personal fave): SynthDef(\MySynth, { SinOsc.ar(\arg1.ar(440), mul: \arg2.kr(0.5)); }) See this thread for why: https://scsynth.org/t/namedcontrol-a-better-way-to-write-synthdef-arguments/186
SynthDef(\MySynth, { SinOsc.ar(\arg1.ar(440), mul: \arg2.kr(0.5)); })
Much as I like supercollider it has too many syntax options!! I agree though. The named controls seem much better for a synthdef
