A synth design course taught in SuperCollider.
Taught to 16-25 year olds at the Roundhouse, Camden, London as part of their Take Part projects in the lead up to the Roundhouse Rising festival.
http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/take-part/creative-projects
- 1:30 - 2:00 setup/catchup
- 2:00 - 3:00 session 1
- 3:00 - 3:20 break
- 3:20 - 4:40 session 2
- 4:40 - 4:50 discussion
- 4:50 - 5:00 packup
- Intro to SuperCollider
- Coding Basics
- Making a sound
- Input: MouseX/Y, MIDIdef
- Catchup: synths, variables, .set
- SynthDef/Synth
- Envelopes
- Polyphony
- Into to filters
- Catchup: SynthDefs, Envelopes, Polyphony
- Filters
- Subtractive Synthesis
- retriggering envelopes
- Demo: recreating Logic's ES P
- Learning by example
- Mul, add and modulation
- Sound files
- Phase Vocoder
- Sequencing with code
- FX / Routing
- FM synthesis
- Drum Synthesis
- Live Input
- Machine Listening:
- Onsets
- Pitch/Tartini
- Amplitude
- Integrating with DAW
Teaching style and material influenced by Nick Collins' SuperCollider Tutorial
http://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.collins/teaching/supercollider/sctutorial/tutorial.html#chapter1
Examples folder includes material from SuperCollider examples, sc-users mailing list, sccode.org. Credit in files
Video of students jamming with the synths they coded: