Editing SuperCollider (section)

=== The SuperCollider synthesis server (''scsynth'') ===
SuperCollider's sound generation is bundled into an optimised command-line executable (named ''scsynth''). In most cases it is controlled from within the SuperCollider programming language, but it can be used independently. The audio server has the following features:<ref name="book"/>

* [[Open Sound Control]] access
* Simple [[ANSI C]] and [[C++11]] plugin [[API]]s
* Supports any number of input and output channels, including massively multichannel setups<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/mulch.shtml|title=SuperCollider mailing lists|access-date=20 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106111225/http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/mulch.shtml|archive-date=6 November 2009}}</ref>
* Gives access to an [[Ordered tree data structure|ordered tree]] structure of synthesis nodes which define the order of execution
* Bus system which allows dynamically restructuring the signal flow
* Buffers for writing and reading
* Calculation at different rates depending on the needs: audio rate, control rate, demand rate

Supernova, an independent implementation of the Server architecture,<ref>T. Blechmann, [http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/papers/32.pdf supernova, a multiprocessor-aware synthesis server for SuperCollider], Proceedings of the Linux Audio Conference, Utrecht 2010.</ref> adds multi-processor support through explicit parallel grouping of synthesis nodes.