News in 3.7

In addition to the new features and changes described here, there are many bugfixes and interesting improvements, a full list of which can be found in CHANGELOG.md.

SuperCollider IDE

• Menu entries for Recording, scope and server inspection
• Modify and query IDE documents from sclang
• Support for the Atom text editor
• Integrated help with auto-completion
• Autosave feature

SuperCollider Language

• Improved Quark system and many new interesting Quarks.
• TempoClock: -beats can be set.
• An interface for key-value-pairs, see Key Value Pairs
• Refactored JITLib, see JITLib Changes in 3.7 (in particular dynamic channel expansion).
• QuartzComposerView

External Interfacing

There is an entirely new HID (Human Interface Device) implementation: see Working with HID that works cross platform (Linux and macOS thus far). This deprecates the GeneralHID interface. Also the LID interface has been updated to match the API of the new HID implementation.

New methods and classes

• Collection: -collectCopy, Collection: -collectInPlace
• SimpleNumber: -lcm and SimpleNumber: -gcd have consistent interpretations of negative values and zero.
• Dictionary: -embedInStream can be customized from within the dictionary.
• Server: *remote Create a new Server instance corresponding to a server app running on a separate machine.

Deprecated classes and methods

• TuningInfo
• ScaleInfo
• Proutine (use Prout instead)
• Document style api - set postColor background etc.
• Date-bootTime
• Platform-getMouseCoords (use GUI.cursorPosition instead)

SuperCollider Server

Apart from UDP, the TCP-protocol is now supported.

When mapping controls of synths to busses, their number of channels is limited to the number of control channels, avoiding a "spill-over" of mappings.

List of new UGens

• NodeID (UGen that returns the current node id)
• Dconst

Improved or corrected behavior

• LinXFade2 (correct fading direction)
• LFPulse (when width = 0.5, return exactly as many 0 as 1)
• TrigControl is now independent of synth order, like Control.
• TRand, TExpRand, TIRand (can operate at audio rate)
• Env: *new accepts a new step2 shape, which steps to a value at the end of a shape
• UGen: -curvelin is now inverse of UGen: -lincurve
• Server: -record correctly closes short files
• In combinations of demand-ugens: Instances of PV_Copy are added automatically where necessary for parallel processing

More operators work uniformly across sclang and scserver

The following operators have been added as UGens and work the same as in sclang:

See Operators

Known Issues

While much has improved and many bugs from 3.6 have been fixed, there are still many known issues. For a complete list see: https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/

Please do not hesitate to add new issues you find to the issue tracker or mention them on the mailing list