In this short guide you will learn how to supercharge your creative workflow by setting up SuperCollider with the Atom text editor. This means you can ditch the (ugly) SuperCollider IDE, and run your code directly from Atom!

Prerequisites

The following software must be installed before proceeding with the rest of the tutorial:

Install atom-supercollider Package

Once you have the required software installed you will need to install an Atom package called atom-supercollider. While inside Atom do the following (Windows users should replace cmd ):

1. Hit cmd + shift + p and type: Settings View: Open and hit enter

2. Click the Install tab on the left

3. Type in: supercollider and hit enter

4. Press the Install button

And that’s it! The package is now installed and you’re ready to use SuperCollider from within Atom.

Testing

To test everything is working correctly create a new file called test.scd . Paste the following code and hit save:

"Hello World!".postln

Next hit cmd + shift + p , type supercollider: Boot Server , and hit enter . If everything went well this will boot up the SuperCollider server and open a post window directly within Atom.

Note: If anyone knows how to autoboot the SuperCollider server when Atom loads please let me know in a comment.

Next put your cursor on the first line of code and hit shift + enter . You should see the following output printed in the post window:

Hello World!

Hello World!

Help?!

Hopefully that wasn’t too difficult and you managed to get everything working, but if you have any issues head over to the lurk chatroom and somebody will be happy to help.

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