i think this message is relevant to anyone involved in electronic music, programming, dsp, etc...
SuperCollider is a labor of love, and amazingly, one that I have been able to live off of for 2.5 years. But it is not a very stable income. Now I've accepted a job with a major fruit company (I wore Takeko Kawamura's SuperCollider socks to the interview for good luck), and so there will be some changes.
All versions of SuperCollider are now free programs. Copy protection is removed. I will release the current state of affairs with SC Server on OSX soon. I will release the source code to SC Server as soon as I am able. (website will be updated in the next few minutes)
Unfortunately due to the source code license of the MacZoop framework,(see: http://www.maczoop.com/legal.html) it appears that, since I hacked up that framework pretty extensively, I would not be able to distribute all of the source code to SC 2 & 3 on OS9 without substantially recoding it.
I will continue to do some tweaking on SC in my spare time, but obviously I will have a day job and will not be able to sustain the level of work that I have in the past. I will finish SC Server on OSX soon. SuperCollider or the ideas in it will always be my preferred way to make my own noises, so I will always be doing something in that direction.
Actually in an ideal world I would have done this long ago, but I could not make SC free and still pay my rent, so it had to be commercial. I have wanted to make it free for some time, because I know that it is only a matter of time before someone tries to copy or do something like it. And for pride, I wouldn't like for people to be using something else inferior just because it was free.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support I've had from all of my customers. Without that support, SuperCollider would not exist. I hope no one who has paid feels cheated that it is now free. I would like, out of good will,to make a refund to people who have paid in the last month, though it will take a little time.
Since you will all soon have access to the source code for SC Server, and a larger user community due to the new low low price, I think that this turn of events will be a positive one for SuperCollider.
Finally a Zappa quote: "This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER.. As you can see MUSIC [software] can get you pretty f***ed up... Take a tip from Joe, do like he did, hock your imaginary guitar and get a good job... Joe did, and he's a happy guy now,"
(I thought about calling this post "test, ignore", but decided against that. ;)
-- --- james mccartney james@audiosynth.com http://www.audiosynth.com SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the PowerMac. ftp://www.audiosynth.com/pub/updates/SC2.2.15.sea.hqx
Now, someone should make it into a pd extern... [sc~]
On Tue, 28 May 2002 22:29:38 -0400 christian adam hresko godpup@ix.netcom.com wrote:
i think this message is relevant to anyone involved in electronic music, programming, dsp, etc...
SuperCollider is a labor of love, and amazingly, one that I have been able to live off of for 2.5 years. But it is not a very stable income. Now I've accepted a job with a major fruit company (I wore Takeko Kawamura's SuperCollider socks to the interview for good luck), and so there will be some changes.
All versions of SuperCollider are now free programs. Copy protection is removed. I will release the current state of affairs with SC Server on OSX soon. I will release the source code to SC Server as soon as I am able. (website will be updated in the next few minutes)
Unfortunately due to the source code license of the MacZoop framework,(see: http://www.maczoop.com/legal.html) it appears that, since I hacked up that framework pretty extensively, I would not be able to distribute all of the source code to SC 2 & 3 on OS9 without substantially recoding it.
I will continue to do some tweaking on SC in my spare time, but obviously I will have a day job and will not be able to sustain the level of work that I have in the past. I will finish SC Server on OSX soon. SuperCollider or the ideas in it will always be my preferred way to make my own noises, so I will always be doing something in that direction.
Actually in an ideal world I would have done this long ago, but I could not make SC free and still pay my rent, so it had to be commercial. I have wanted to make it free for some time, because I know that it is only a matter of time before someone tries to copy or do something like it. And for pride, I wouldn't like for people to be using something else inferior just because it was free.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support I've had from all of my customers. Without that support, SuperCollider would not exist. I hope no one who has paid feels cheated that it is now free. I would like, out of good will,to make a refund to people who have paid in the last month, though it will take a little time.
Since you will all soon have access to the source code for SC Server, and a larger user community due to the new low low price, I think that this turn of events will be a positive one for SuperCollider.
Finally a Zappa quote: "This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER.. As you can see MUSIC [software] can get you pretty f***ed up... Take a tip from Joe, do like he did, hock your imaginary guitar and get a good job... Joe did, and he's a happy guy now,"
(I thought about calling this post "test, ignore", but decided against that. ;)
-- --- james mccartney james@audiosynth.com http://www.audiosynth.com SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the PowerMac. ftp://www.audiosynth.com/pub/updates/SC2.2.15.sea.hqx
Hi, Michal Seta hat gesagt: // Michal Seta wrote:
Now, someone should make it into a pd extern... [sc~]
I would be happy if I could run this highly praised software on my Linux PC. I never saw SupperCollider running: MacIntoshs computers are rather uncommon in my peer group, so apart from the opensourcing of SC I eagerly await a multiplattformess to come.
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
am 29.05.2002 8:55 Uhr schrieb Frank Barknecht unter barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de:
Hi, Michal Seta hat gesagt: // Michal Seta wrote:
Now, someone should make it into a pd extern... [sc~]
I would be happy if I could run this highly praised software on my Linux PC. I never saw SupperCollider running: MacIntoshs computers are rather uncommon in my peer group, so apart from the opensourcing of SC I eagerly await a multiplattformess to come.
ciao,
I breathlessly volunteer to port it. (as probably many others)
T
On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:23:09 +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
I breathlessly volunteer to port it. (as probably many others)
It should be quite possible to port SuperCollider Server for OSX: it's a command line programm and OSX is unix.
Excerpt from ftp://www.audiosynth.com/pub/misc/dartmouth-symposium.hqx (November 2001)
SuperCollider Server, a new architecture.
language and synth engine are two separate apps.
MacOS X command line
communication via Open Sound Control
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OSC
the synth engine can be controlled by things other than the SC
language
still experimental, performance not yet fully characterized.
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smoerk wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:23:09 +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
I breathlessly volunteer to port it. (as probably many others)
It should be quite possible to port SuperCollider Server for OSX: it's a command line programm and OSX is unix.
just a warning from my experience of porting externs to OSX :
the dynamic loading differs from most UNIX ( no LD_LIBRARY_PATH magic or ldconfig ), relocatable objects can have different formats also.
scheduling is different.
and something totally irrelevant : there's no 'init 0' command !! so, it's not a real UNIX.
cheers,
yves
On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:42:37 +0200 Yves Degoyon ydegoyon@free.fr wrote:
so, it's not a real UNIX.
As always, they 'Think Different'
re: SuperCollider, I'm afraid there's a lot of low-level Apple hw specific code since SC is especially praised for its efficiency for real-time performance.
Nevertheless a port to Linux would be more than welcome.