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*** Welcome to SuperCollider 3.10.0. *** For help press Ctrl-D.
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Optionally, you can also install SuperDirt without opening the SuperCollider IDE. If you are familiar with the command line, type sclang in a terminal to launch the SuperCollider interpreter and paste the line above. Everything will work the same! You can also install various plugins in your text editor to interact with SuperCollider without using the IDE ( Emacs , Vim or Atom ).
To start the interpreter just run sclang in a terminal, then just paste the command line from above and press Enter to run it. Once the installation is done, you can exit the interpreter by pressing Ctrl + C.
III - SC3 Plugins
SC3Plugins is a community-made extension for SuperCollider. Installing it is highly recommended. You won't be able to use the default synthesizers provided with Tidal Cycles without it. Please be sure to read these instructions to get the extension.
Ubuntu / Mint / Debian: follow the instructions above.
Arch / Manjaro: there is an up-to-date package in the Community repository .
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If you installed SuperCollider using the build-supercollider method, you won't need to install them. SC3Plugins is compiled and installed by the script.
Tidal Cycles #
Open a Terminal. If you’re unsure how to open a terminal window in Linux, it varies according to distribution, but generally you can find Terminal in the menus. Then type and run these two commands (ignoring any complaints that cabal has of 'legacy v1 style of usage'):
cabal update
cabal install tidal --lib
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If you've never installed TidalCycles before, then the cabal install tidal step may take some time. At the end of the command output, it should say Completed tidal-x.x.x (where x.x.x is the latest version number) without any errors.