Alternative versions

• The SourceForge SuperCollider file-releases page has a full listing of various things including older releases
• Mac OSX third-party versions (with added extras!):
  • Wesleyan binary download
  • RealizedSound binary download
  • CocoaCollider - a fork of SuperCollider with an Objective-C bridge for advanced Mac OSX GUI creation (More info)
• Mac OSX 10.3:
  • Download for Mac OS X 10.3 provided by RealizedSound
  • SCLang Emacs, for Mac OS X 10.3 - an alternative Emacs-based interface for SC
• The JSCEclipse project provides an alternative interface to the SuperCollider language, from within Eclipse.

Source code

SuperCollider is free software (published under the GPLv3 free software license).

You can build SuperCollider from the source-code download on Mac, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD:

• Stable release:
  • SuperCollider source code downloads
• Bleeding-edge source code access is described on the developers page

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 and Windows).
  • sc3-plugins for Mac OSX
  • sc3-plugins for Windows
  • sc3-plugins source code download

• 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.

Quarks is the name for the 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.