Synth Design Course - Roundhouse 2014

A synth design course taught in SuperCollider.

Taught to 16-25 year olds at the Roundhouse, Camden, London as part of their Take Part projects in the lead up to the Roundhouse Rising festival.

http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/take-part/creative-projects

Workshop format

• 1:30 - 2:00 setup/catchup
• 2:00 - 3:00 session 1
• 3:00 - 3:20 break
• 3:20 - 4:40 session 2
• 4:40 - 4:50 discussion
• 4:50 - 5:00 packup

Workshop Topics

1 - 11/01

• Intro to SuperCollider
• Coding Basics
• Making a sound
• Input: MouseX/Y, MIDIdef

2 - 18/01

• Catchup: synths, variables, .set
• SynthDef/Synth
• Envelopes
• Polyphony
• Into to filters

3 - 25/01

• Catchup: SynthDefs, Envelopes, Polyphony
• Filters
• Subtractive Synthesis
• retriggering envelopes
• Demo: recreating Logic's ES P

4 - 01/02

• Learning by example
• Mul, add and modulation
• Sound files
• Phase Vocoder

5 - 08/02 Cover Tutor - Dr. Matthew Yee-King

• Sequencing with code
• FX / Routing
• FM synthesis
• Drum Synthesis

6-7 - 15/02 - 16/02

• Live Input
• Machine Listening:
  • Onsets
  • Pitch/Tartini
  • Amplitude
• Integrating with DAW

Acknowledgements / Misc

Teaching style and material influenced by Nick Collins' SuperCollider Tutorial

http://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.collins/teaching/supercollider/sctutorial/tutorial.html#chapter1

Examples folder includes material from SuperCollider examples, sc-users mailing list, sccode.org. Credit in files

Video of students jamming with the synths they coded:

http://vimeo.com/arthurc/synthdesign2014