supernova1

Usage

Overview

SuperCollider is a real time audio synthesis programming language. This manual page documents briefly the supernova command, the audio server of SuperCollider.

SuperCollider has documentation in the HTML format available in the supercollider-doc package.

Options

A summary of options is included below. There must be a -u and/or a -t option, or -N for nonrealtime.

-u <udp-port-number>

a port number (0‐65535)

-t <tcp-port-number>

a port number (0‐65535)

-c <number-of-control-bus-channels>

default 4096

-a <number-of-audio-bus-channels>

default 128

-i <number-of-input-bus-channels>

default 2

-o <number-of-output-bus-channels>

default 2

-z <block-size>

default 64

-Z <hardware-buffer-size>

default 0

-S <hardware-sample-rate>

default 0

-b <number-of-sample-buffers>

default 1024

-n <max-number-of-nodes>

default 1024

-d <max-number-of-synth-defs>

default 1024

-m <real-time-memory-size>

default 8192

-w <number-of-wire-buffers>

default 64

-r <number-of-random-seeds>

default 64

-D <load synthdefs? 1 or 0>

default 1

-R <publish to Rendezvous? 1 or 0>

default 1

-l <max-logins>

default 64
maximum number of named return addresses stored
also maximum number of tcp connections accepted

-p <session-password>

When using TCP, the session password must be the first command sent. The default is no password. UDP ports never require passwords, so for security use TCP.

-N <cmd-filename> <input-filename> <output-filename> <sample-rate> <header-format> <sample-format>

-L

enable memory locking

-H <hardware-device-name>

-v <verbosity>

0 is normal behaviour
-1 suppresses informational messages
-2 suppresses informational and many error messages

-U <ugen-plugins-path>

a colon-separated list of paths
If -U is specified, the standard paths are NOT searched for plugins.

-P <restricted-path>

If specified, prevents file-accessing OSC commands from accessing files outside <restricted-path>.

To quit

To quit, send a 'quit' command via UDP or TCP, or press ctrl-C.