A collection of plugins for the SuperCollider sound environment, all of which are ported / remixed from elsewhere - including hardware synthesizers, research papers / demos, VST plugins, VCV rack and other programming environments.
See the PortedPlugins.schelp
help file for an overview inside of SuperCollider and the respective help files for each plugin for more information about the particularities of each plugin.
Instructions for most systems:
Platform.userExtensionDir
- the path will be posted in the post window).Building and installing from within SuperCollider
If you have Plugins.quark installed in your SuperCollider system, you can run the following line of code from SuperCollider. This will get the dependencies, build and install the plugins.
Plugins.installPlugin("portedplugins")
Arch Linux:
yay -S supercollider-portedplugins
RaspberryPi OS / ALARM:
See the accompanying script for downloading, building and installing the plugins.
Clone the project:
git clone https://github.com/madskjeldgaard/portedplugins
cd portedplugins
git submodule update --init --recursive
This will get you the portedplugins.
Before continuing, you need two things:
First, the SuperCollider source code :
git clone https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider.git
Note where you placed this source code on your computer and copy the full path to it for use with CMake.
Secondly, you need the path to your SuperCollider extensions directory. This is where CMake will install the plugins.
You can get this by opening up SuperCollider and running this line of code
Platform.userExtensionDir
Note the path that it posts to your post window in SuperCollider, copy it and save it for the next part of the build process.
To build the plugins, run these commands. Note the two paths you need to put in to the CMake command, these are the ones you got from the preparatory steps above.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Release' -DSC_PATH=/path/to/sc/source -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/extensions
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --build . --config Release --target install
This repository includes a script for the Raspberry Pi users (Raspberry Pi OS- / ALARM based) that installs the prerequisites for building (cmake), downloads all of the source code needed and compiles and installs it.
If you are compiling these plugins on a Mac M1, it will detect your architecture as arm and install an arm version of the plugins. Chances are you've installed the x86 version of SuperCollider and if so you will get architecture mismatches between the two.
To explicitly build for a Mac M1 running SuperCollider under the Rosetta compatibility layer, run these commands:
# Location of SuperCollider source code
SC_LOCATION="/path/to/sc/source"
# Force this architecture:
OSX_ARCH="x86_64"
# Install here:
INSTALL_LOCATION="$HOME/Library/Application Support/SuperCollider/Extensions"
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DSC_PATH="$SC_LOCATION" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$INSTALL_LOCATION" -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="$OSX_ARCH"
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --build . --config Release --target install
Contributions are welcome!
If you experience any problems, post it as an issue or if you have the skills to fix it yourself you may open up a PR with a suggested change.
If you see any problems in the documentation, feel free to do the same here (please submit a PR if you can - otherwise feel free to post an issue).
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on how to contribute.
Thank you to Notam for the support.
Most of these plugins build on code, research and ideas of others, including:
A massive thank you to them and everyone who contributed to the sub projects this relies on for sharing knowledge and ideas and making new sounds possible!
You can find more information about sources of information and code in the help files for the plugins.