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SCSYNTH(1) General Commands Manual SCSYNTH(1)

NAME

scsynth - SuperCollider audio synthesis server

SYNOPSIS

scsynth [options]

DESCRIPTION

SuperCollider is a real time audio synthesis programming language. This manual page documents briefly the scsynth 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.

a port number (0‐65535)
a port number (0‐65535)
default 4096
default 128
default 2
default 2
default 64
default 0
default 0
default 1024
default 1024
default 1024
default 8192
default 64
default 64
default 1
default 1
default 64
maximum number of named return addresses stored
also maximum number of tcp connections accepted
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.
enable memory locking
0 is normal behaviour
-1 suppresses informational messages
-2 suppresses informational and many error messages
a colon-separated list of paths
If -U is specified, the standard paths are NOT searched for plugins.
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.

SEE ALSO

sclang(1),
/usr/share/doc/supercollider-server

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Paul Brossier <piem@altern.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Modified and updated by Artem Popov <artfwo@gmail.com>.

November 18, 2008