Getting Started: play a sound

[dahvid]

I don't know SuperCollider. Your initial tutorial works fine, but I can't find anywhere in your documentation how to actually play a sound. For example: the synth group in the tutorial: how do I actually use to to play something?

[josephine-wolf-oberholtzer]

This project really assumes you know something about SuperCollider first, but let's see what we can do (and yes, the docs are severely under-resourced 😅. I'm still looking for a winning lottery ticket so I can quit my job and work on this full time).

Take a look at the two "hello, world!" examples in the examples/ directory. I just added them this week: https://github.com/supriya-project/supriya/blob/main/examples/hello_world/hello_world.py

[josephine-wolf-oberholtzer]

Also realize I don't know what you mean by "play a sound", since that's kinda open ended. Instantiate a synth? Define your own SynthDef? Hook stuff up to MIDI? Something else?

You might take a look at https://github.com/dayunbao/supriya_demos. @dayunbao has been writing a variety of higher-level examples.

[dahvid]

Maybe I should have said "play a note so that it can be heard on my audio system". Your above example is exactly what I wanted. I need to know the whole audio production path is working.

[dayunbao]

Yeah @dahvid , you should make sure you have a good understanding of how things are done in SuperCollider, since Supriya works in largely the same way. Having said that, in addition to my GitHub repo, I do a write up about each demo in Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/supriya_python/s/UJPzAuTr9S. Looking at those might help. Also check out Eli Fieldsteel's SuperCollider tutorials on YouTube. I still go back and reference those.

[dahvid]

BTW, real happy with the responses you've all given me. Hopefully I'll have more interesting questions soon.