2 summary:: Mark Polishook tutorial
3 categories:: Tutorials>Mark_Polishook_tutorial
4 related:: Tutorials/Mark_Polishook_tutorial/00_Introductory_tutorial
8 Navigate to the folder (the directory) in which SuperCollider resides and double-click on it (the red and white balloon icon). An untitled document with text such as
12 compiling class library..
14 compiling dir: '/Applications/SuperCollider3/SCClassLibrary'
16 Method Table Size 3091264 bytes
17 Number of Method Selectors 2880
18 Number of Classes 1744
19 Number of Symbols 6926
21 compiled 299 files in 1.61 seconds
23 prGetHostByName hostname 127.0.0.1 addr 2130706433
25 Class tree inited in 0.09 seconds
28 appears in the top left of the screen. The document functions as a "Post Window," so-called because SuperCollider uses it to "post" notifications.
30 section::Two more windows
32 On the bottom of the screen are two more windows. One is called "localhost server" and the other is "internal server." Click on the "boot" button on the localhost server. The words "localhost" in the black box of the button turn red and the word "Boot" on the button changes to "Quit." More text, such as
36 SC_AudioDriver: numSamples=512, sampleRate=44100.000000
37 start UseSeparateIO?: 0
38 PublishPortToRendezvous 0 57110
39 SuperCollider 3 server ready..
43 will print to the post window. The localhost server is now ready to be used. Activate the internal server, if you wish, in the same way.
45 section::Workspace windows
47 Open existing SC documents with File->Open... or cmd-o. Use File->New or cmd-n to create new documents.
49 SuperCollider documents generally have .scd appended to their file names; however, SuperCollider can read and write documents in Rich Text Format (.rtf) and several other formats, as well.
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