Editing SuperCollider (section)

{{Short description|Audio programming language}}
{{About|the programming language||Supercollider (disambiguation){{!}}Supercollider}}
{{Infobox programming language
| name = 
| logo = SuperCollider logo.svg
| author = James McCartney
| released = {{Start date and age|1996}}
| latest release version = 3.13.1
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|03|15|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Releases |url=https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/releases |website=Github |access-date=15 March 2025}}</ref>
| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider}}
| programming language = [[C++]]
| operating system = [[FreeBSD]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54622|title=SuperCollider|author=asynth|access-date=20 June 2015}}</ref> [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]]<ref name="license">{{cite web |url=http://doc.sccode.org/Other/Licensing.html |title=SuperCollider Licensing |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807141456/http://doc.sccode.org/Other/Licensing.html |archive-date=2020-08-07}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|supercollider.github.io}}
}}

'''SuperCollider''' is an environment and [[List of audio programming languages|audio]] [[programming language]] released originally in 1996 by James McCartney for [[Real-time computing|real-time]] [[audio synthesis]] and [[algorithmic composition]].<ref name="sc1996">J. McCartney, [http://www.audiosynth.com/icmc96paper.html SuperCollider: A new real time synthesis language], in Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC’96), 1996, pp. 257–258.</ref><ref name="sc2002">J. McCartney, [https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/014892602320991383 Rethinking the computer music language: SuperCollider], Computer Music Journal, 26 (2002), pp. 61–68.</ref>

Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is a [[dynamic programming language]] providing a framework for [[Acoustics|acoustic research]], [[Algorithmic composition|algorithmic music]], [[interactive programming]], and [[live coding]].

Originally released under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]] in 2002, and from version 3.4 under [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0-or-later]], SuperCollider is [[free and open-source software]].