3.12.0 Release Candidate 1

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There is now a release candidate available for the next release of SuperCollider, version 3.12.0-rc1. Please note this is a release candidate meant for testing and evaluation, and not an official release. If no major issues are found in the release candidate, a proper release will be made in about two weeks. You can download it here: Release 3.12.0-rc1 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub

CHANGELOG.md contains a more extensive list of changes. Notable improvements in this version include:

  • Supernova is now available on Windows
  • Supercollider is officially supported on Bela platform
  • macOS Big Sur is now fully supported
  • On macOS output signal won’t go over the system volume level
  • The method not found error in sclang now provides suggestions, using fuzzy array comparisons
  • Oppressive terminology has been updated throughout the project
  • CI has been updated to use GitHub Actions and now also runs our test suite

Happy coding!
Marcin & Josh

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Fantastic work. I am particularly excited about these two features

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Not sure what was changed, but a particularly nice improvement, at least on macos, is the GUI stuff seems to be waaaaaayyy more efficient.

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Good to hear. GUI improvement might be due to upgraded Qt (5.15.2, I believe 3.11.2 was on 5.15.1 or earlier)

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If something seems a little off, where would be preferable that I report that?
Not a regular bug report on the main SC repo right? Somewhere else right?

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I think filing an issue on the SC repo is best.

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Supernova is now available on Windows

That’s great news!

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This is awesome! I’ve never used SuperNova. Are there significant differences as to what I can code on sn? If so, is there a place that lists the differences to scsynth? I can’t seem to find one on the github

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@poison0ak take a look at ParGroup helpfile - only synths put in pargroups can take advantage of supernova multi-core processing.

Most things should be interchangeable between supernova and scsynth, but there are still some outstanding bugs in supernova.