Hey, James - I've had really good luck with controlling 'bot registrations by adding a question on the registration form - something that only a person would know, maybe only a person interested in the forum's topic:  e.g. what's the ugen to create a sine wave? => SinOsc, or something like that.  We went from about 10 bogus registration attempts per day to zero over the last several weeks.

Maybe you've decided this forum is redundant to the very active sc users newsgroup, but if not, there seem to be some mods available for your forum software which provide the 'registration question' feature:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;type=13

Hi,
     Does anyone know where I can download the WaveLoss ugen? I downloaded the plugins from the following link and found the help file but not the ugen. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=182627&package_id=212182

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I started making digital music with Supercollider on Linux, then recently i tested some programs like Ableton Live 8 and Fruity Loop XXL 8, it was a lot easier to produce music i want with them (note: i'm a newbie in music making so i judge only with my little experience, i make amateur music with my little midi keyboard, i'm not at the professional studio level).

I was wondering what is missing to supercollider to achieve this kind of productivity ?

First, why don't just use theses programs instead of SC ? they run only on windows, they are not open-source, they are not modular/customisable. i prefer working with command-line or keyboard driven interfaces (i mean i prefer working with complex interfaces with commands, programming, a lot to learn instead of working with an "user-friendly" one which, thus, is limited).
What i prefer in SC is that i have real control on sound synthesis (not just moving sliders, i can understand what is going on inside), i love programming too, i think a modular environment is better than a monolitic one (everyone can extend it and add new way of working).

However, i am wondering, maybe SC was never thought to be used like this, maybe it's more for experimenting, algorithmic composition, etc, ie not the same target market, maybe because of his conception it's very hard to achieve this ?

Concretly, what is missing ?
- a midi editor gui to record from my midi keyboard
- an arrangement/session/pattern editor gui
- a big library of synths and effects and a lot of presets for them (this is really missing, i can synthetize potentialy everything with SC, but i have no knowledge of how to do it, and there is very little information about that on internet, on theses commercial programs, there is already hundreds of presets (i have already planned to study them to write new synthdefs))

I have heard of teatracks, i will give a try when it will work on linux, and ixiQuarks, but it run only on MacOSX, this sux!

Another possibility is using an external midi sequencer like rosegarden and send midi events to supercollider, but i think it's not a good way, there is no real integration, you lose capabilities.

I have some skills in programmation, so maybe i'll try to write them, i just want to ask you what do you think about theses idea ?

Excellent. That fixed it. Thanks Josh!

My guess is you have installed the Safari 4 beta? If so, there is a problem with the WebKit version in use there, and we are waiting for the final Safari 4 to come out before fixing the problem. You can either uninstall Safari 4 (using the uninstaller that came with it), or do a search on the sc-users mail list for a script that allows for Safari 3 and Safari 4 to live side by side...
Hope that helps.
Josh

Hi I am running supercollider 3.3 on osx 10.5.7 and when i try and access help (cmd-d) supercollider crashes. I have reinstalled numerous times and deleted all supercollider files but it still happens. Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance,Mike.

Hi all,

I've been running SC 3.2 fine on win XP but have recently installed on a different laptop with vista. I can't get the server to boot, and keep returning the same error:

Device options:
  - MME : Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output   (device #0 with 0 ins 2 outs)
  - MME : Speaker/HP (Realtek High Defini   (device #1 with 0 ins 2 outs)
SC_PortAudioDriver: PortAudio failed at Pa_OpenDefaultStream with error: 'Device unavailable'
could not initialize audio.
RESULT = 1

I've also tried with an M-Audio Audiosport Duo but still no joy.

Anyone any ideas?

I am trying to route the SC through an audio channel of my pro tools (I am using M box 2) - can anyone help me with this?

thanks a lot.

The only way to get new values into a running Synth is using a Control input. Controls are automatically created from arguments of the SynthDef function.

The code you posted looks of the value of d.at("name") once when building the SynthDef. After that, it's hard coded and can't be changed (without rebuilding the SynthDef).

I'd suggest, keep the dictionary on the client side and send the new value as needed using .set --


hjh

hi there,
i'm using dictionary for handling my variables and arguments. the question now is how can I change the parameters with Synth using the keys in the dictionaries. Maybe easier explained in an example:
d = Dictionary.new;
d.put("cfreq", 90);
(SynthDef("name", {var instr;
instr = SinOsc.ar(d.at("cfreq"));
Out.ar(0, instr);
}).send(s)
)
y = Synth("name", [d.at("cfreq", 900)])
is obviously wrong, before i had my variables in the dictionary i changed it with the backslash, but i cant seem to work out how it works now,
thanx for any help or hints