Downloads for:

• Mac OSX
• GNU/Linux
• Windows
• Plugins and extensions

Mac OSX

OSX 10.4 and 10.5:

The official stable release is SuperCollider 3.2, released Feb 2008.

There are also third-party versions (with added extras!):

• Wesleyan binary download (updated 22nd April 2008)
• RealizedSound binary download (updated 26th April 2008)
• CocoaCollider (updated 2nd January 2007) - a fork of SuperCollider with an Objective-C bridge for advanced Mac OSX GUI creation (More info)

OSX 10.3:

• Download for Mac OS X 10.3 (updated 29th July 2007) provided by RealizedSound
• SCLang Emacs, for Mac OS X 10.3 (updated 31st March 2007) - an alternative Emacs-based interface for SC

GNU/Linux

SuperCollider is used by many on Linux. Packaged versions are available via the package-management systems for Ubuntu(view), Debian(view), and others.

• PlanetCCRMA provides a recent build of SuperCollider for RedHat or Fedora Core as part of its collection.
• pure:dyne is a Linux Live CD distribution, with SuperCollider built in.
• The swiki has some further notes about SC on Linux.

Windows

Download PsyCollider, the Windows port of SuperCollider. The latest release is 3.2rc2.

Windows users might alternatively like to try the pure:dyne Linux Live CD mentioned above ;)

Plugins and extensions

Plugins

SuperCollider plugins provide additional synthesis (and other) capabilities to the server - i.e. new types of sound source, filter, etc.

• Plugins from the sc3-plugins project
  (collects together many third-party UGens, and provides compiled versions for Mac OSX).
  
  • sc3-plugins for Mac OS X 10.4 (updated 29th March 2008)
  • sc3-plugins for Mac OS X 10.3 (updated 14th June 2007)

• Other sources of SuperCollider plugins
  (listed on the wiki)

Extensions

SuperCollider extensions are classes or class libraries that provide additional functionality for use in the object-oriented language.

• SuperCollider class extensions (listed on the wiki)

How to install plugins/extensions

SuperCollider will search in a specific folder for plugins/extensions:

• Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/SuperCollider/Extensions
• Linux: ~/share/SuperCollider/Extensions
• Windows: ~/SuperCollider/Extensions

Place the plugin/extension files in there and then restart SC. It's particularly useful to keep all your add-ons in there (separate from the main app) so that you can upgrade SC without having to re-install the add-ons.

Quarks

Quarks is the name for the new SuperCollider "package-management" system, i.e. a system for automatically installing/updating SuperCollider class extensions written by users. Check out the current list of Quarks to see what's available.