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### Additive synthesis
#### Supergong
#### supergong

An example of additive synthesis, building up a gong-like noise from a sum of sine-wave harmonics. Notice how the envelope timescale and amplitude can be scaled as a function of the harmonic frequency.

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### Substractive synthesis
#### Supersquare
#### supersquare

A moog-inspired square-wave synth; variable-width pulses with filter frequency modulated by an LFO:

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* `rate` (1): LFO rate
* `pitch1` (1): filter frequency scaling multiplier, the frequency itself follows the pitch set by “n”

#### Supersaw
#### supersaw

A moog-inspired sawtooth synth; slightly detuned saws with triangle harmonics, filter frequency modulated by LFO:

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* `rate` (1): LFO rate
* `pitch1` (1): filter frequency scaling multiplier, the frequency itself follows the pitch set by “n”

#### Superpwm
#### superpwm

A moog-inspired PWM synth; pulses multiplied by phase-shifted pulses, double filtering with an envelope on the second

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* `rate` (1): LFO rate
* `pitch1` (1): filter frequency scaling multiplier, the frequency itself follows the pitch set by “n”

#### Superchip
#### superchip

Uses the Atari ST emulation *UGen* with 3 oscillators:

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* `pitch3` (3): control the ratio of harmonics
* `voice` (0): causes variations in the levels of the 3 oscillators

#### Superhoover
#### superhoover

Hoover, adapted from [Wouter Snoei](http://superdupercollider.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-dominator-deconstruction.html)’s implementation:

* `slide` (0): for the amount of initial pitch glide, positive slides up in pitch, negative slides down
* `decay` (0): for a different envelope shape
* `accelerate` (0): for constant pitch glide

#### Superzow
#### superzow

Phased saws:

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* `slide` (1): how fast it moves through the phase
* `detune` (1): for oscillator detuning

#### Supertron
#### supertron

Feedback PWM:

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# accelerate "0.2"
```

#### Superreese
#### superreese

Vaguely Reese-like synth:

* `accelerate` (0): pitch-glide.
* `voice` (0): number of voices
* `detune` (0): detune amount

#### Supernoise
#### supernoise

Digital noise in several flavors with a bandpass filter:

### Superstatic
#### superstatic

Impulse noise with a fadein/fadeout.

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* `slide`: works like accelerate on the bandpass
* `resonance`: is the filter resonance

#### Supercomparator
#### supercomparator

* `voice` (0.5): scales the comparator frequencies, higher values will sound “breathier”
* `decay` (0)
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* `pitch1` (1): filter frequency scaling multiplier, the frequency itself follows the pitch set by “n”

### Physical modelling
#### Supermandolin
#### supermandolin

Physical modeling of a vibrating string, using a delay line (`CombL`) excited by an intial pulse (`Impulse`). To make it a bit richer, I’ve combined two slightly detuned delay lines:

* `sustain` (1): changes the envelope timescale
* `accelerate` (0): pitch-glide
* `detune` (0.2): detune amount

#### Superpiano
#### superpiano

Hooking into a nice synth piano already in **SuperCollider**:

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* `muffle` (1)
* `stereo` (0.2): stereo amount.

#### Superfork
#### superfork

Tuning fork from Ben Gold’s experimentation and from “On the acoustics of tuning forks”, Rossing Russell and Brown:

* `accelerate` (0): pitch-glide amount.

#### Superhammond
#### superhammond

Hammond B3 sim. Frequency adjustments courtesy of [Tom Wiltshire](https://electricdruid.net/):

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* **9.** Jazz 2


#### Supervibe
#### supervibe

Vibraphone simulation, adapted with some help from Kevin Larke’s thesis Real Time Vibraphone Pitch and Timbre Classification:

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* `detune` (0): adjusts a high harmonic to give the sound a different character

### FM synthesis
#### Superfm
#### superfm

6 operator FM synth (**DX7**-like). Works a bit different from the original **DX7**. Instead of algorithms, you set the amount of modulation every operator receives from other operators and itself (feedback), virtually providing an endless number of possible combinations (algorithms).

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### Drum synthesis
#### Superhex
#### superhex

Waveguide mesh, hexagonal drum-like membrane:

* `rate` (1): ??
* `accelerate` (0): pitch-glide amount

#### Superkick
#### superkick

Kick Drum using [Rumble-San](http://blog.rumblesan.com/post/53271713518/drum-sounds-in-supercollider-part-1)’s implementation as a starting point:

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* `pitch1` (1): affects the click frequency
* `decay` (1): changes the click duration relative to the overall timescale

#### Super808
#### super808

A vaguely 808-ish kick drum:

* `n`: controls the chirp frequency
* `rate` (1): controls the filter sweep speed
`voice` (0): sets the sinewave feedback

#### Superhat
#### superhat

Hi-hat using [Rumble-San](http://blog.rumblesan.com/post/53271713518/drum-sounds-in-supercollider-part-1)’s implementation as a starting point:

* `n`: provides some variation on the frequency in a weird way
* `accelerate` (0): sweeps the filter

#### Supersnare
#### supersnare

Snare drum using [Rumble-San](http://blog.rumblesan.com/post/53271713518/drum-sounds-in-supercollider-part-1)’s implementation as a starting point:

* `n` for some variation on frequency
* `decay` (1): for scaling noise duration relative to tonal part
* `accelerate` (0): for tonal glide

#### Superclap
#### superclap

Hand clap using [Rumble-San](http://blog.rumblesan.com/post/53271713518/drum-sounds-in-supercollider-part-1)’s implementation as a starting point:

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* `rate` (1): affects the decay time
* `pitch1` (1): scales the bandpass frequency

#### SOSKick
#### soskick

Kick drum synth. Increase `pitch1` and `voice` for interesting electronic percussion:

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* `speed` (0.3): controls WhiteNoise sweep (min: 0, max: 1)
* `freq` (65)

#### SOSHats
#### soshats

* `resonance` (1): bandpass filter resonance value (min: 0, max: 1)
* `pitch1` (238.5): oscillator modulation in radians (min: 0, max: `SampleRate.ir / 2`)
* `sustain` (0.5): sustain amount
* `freq` (220): frequency

#### SOSToms
#### sostoms

* `voice` (0.5): controls modulation input phase in radians (min: 0, max: your sanity)
* `sustain` (0.5): sustain amount
* `freq` (261.626): frequency

#### SOSSnare
#### sossnare

`voice` (0.385): controls modulation input phase in radians (min: 0, max: your sanity)
`semitone` (0.452): modulation frequency in semitones of fundamental
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Shepard on a cycle:
* `accelerate` (0): pitch-glide amount.

#### Supersiren
#### supersiren

A controllable synth siren, defaults to 1 second, draw it out with `sustain`.

### Supergrind
#### supergrind

From `synthdef.art` fragment(2018-08-16):

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