News in 3.8

3.8 is light on new features and heavy on small bugfixes. See CHANGELOG.md for more details.

SuperCollider IDE

• The middle mouse button now closes tabs.
• A new menu entry, Language > Quarks, launches Quarks.gui.

SuperCollider Language

• New methods: Function: -plotAudio, Bus: -plotAudio.
• It is now easier to insert custom views, in particular subclasses of SCViewHolder, into layouts.
• New methods: TreeView: -addChild, TreeView: -insertChild, and TreeView: -childAt, alias methods provided for symmetry with TreeViewItem.

SuperCollider Server

• A new command-line option for scsynth, -B, allows binding to a specific address.
• VOsc supports an audio-rate phasein argument.
• TGrains supports numChannels set to 1.

API changes

• The number of default audio buses has been increased from 128 to 1024.
• TGrains, GrainBuf, GrainSin, GrainFM, and GrainIn now have unified panning behavior when numChannels is 2 and the pan exceeds the range [-1, 1].
• Several old methods have been deprecated from PathName: *fromOS9, foldersWithoutCVS, isCVS, foldersWithoutSVN, isSVN, filesDoNoCVS, filesDoNoSVN, streamTreeNoCVS.
• The argument "startframe" has been renamed to "startFrame" and "aSoundFile" to "soundFile" in the following methods of SoundFileView: loadFile, setData, readFile, read, readFileWithTask, readWithTask.

Known Issues

While much has improved and many bugs from 3.7 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