dathinaios / cactus

Less Code | More Music 🌵 A framework for the SuperCollider programming language

Cactus

A style agnostic framework for creative coding using the SuperCollider audio programming language. At its most basic level it will:

• Create a project file structure with configuration, initialisation and cleanup files.
• Create a buffers folder from which it collects all sound files and make them available through an intuitive interface.
• Allow for defining quickstart templates for different types of projects using a (very) basic templating engine.

Work in Progress:

• Allow for the creation and access of modules of sound processes. The 'modules' and 'browse' keys on the GUI are already present and the structure is functional but there are but a few modules available. The interface may still change quite a bit on this.
• Add a folder titled 'classes' in your Cactus project and the classes will be auto-linked to SuperCollider. Has not been tested but feel free to use and provide feedback.

Installation

Install it as a quark from within SuperCollider, via:

Quarks.install("Cactus");

or download it from GitHub, unzip & and place the folder in:

~/Library/Application Support/SuperCollider/Extensions/

Quickstart

Run:

CactusGUI.new;

This will create a project file structure with configuration, initialisation and cleanup files. It will also create a buffers folder from which it collects all sound files and make them available through an intuitive interface.

The config.scd is run only once when you first initialize the Cactus project. The .scd files found in the init folder will run after config.scd on initialisation and also every time you call .restart. On restart cleanup.scd will be called before reinitialisation.

Any wav or aif file placed in the buffers folder will be automagically available as a buffer:

c = Cactus("/path/to/the/project");
// for a test.wav file found at the root of the buffers folder
c.buf("/test");
// for an asdf.wav file found in the folder moreSounds
c.buf("/moreSounds/asdf");
// get a List of all files in the moreSounds folder
c.buf("/moreSounds")

For more see the Cactus help files.

---

Copyright © 2020, Dionysis Athinaios
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.