Alternative versions

• 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.
• The SourceForge SuperCollider file-releases page has a full listing of various things including older releases

Source code

SuperCollider is free software (published under the GPLv2 free software license).

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

• Stable release:
  • SuperCollider3.3-with-extras source code
  • SuperCollider3.3 source code
• 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).
  • 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.