The SuperCollider Book 2nd Edition - now available
July 29, 2025
The second edition of The SuperCollider Book is now available from MIT Press! Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle and Nick Collins, this edition of the essential SuperCollider reference represents a comprehensive update, providing students and professionals with a refreshed and user-friendly guide to the language's design, syntax, and use. This edition covers the basics as well as explorations of intermediate and advanced topics, including microsound, sonification, spatialization, and the cross-platform GUI library.
Highlights include:
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New chapters on musical notation and score making, machine learning, SC Tweets, alternative editors, non-standard synthesis, and SuperCollider on small computers
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Technical documentation of writing and implementing your own unit generators
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Artist statements from a diverse collection of international musicians
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Code examples to accompany the book, available at https://github.com/supercollider/scbookcode/
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