Hadron

Hadron is a graphical patching environment that lives inside SuperCollider. It is designed for building interfaces made with SuperCollider code chunks built as plugins, and tries to handle the connections between them. I am using it as a way to organize things now, so it is also a compositional tool.

Hadron is in its initial release cycle, and needs some support. It was coded inside the SC environment with cross-platform compatibility in mind, so it has no Cocoa specific code inside it. But I had some time to test it on windows with SwingOSC GUI and observed that some GUI stuff breaks (edit: not anymore! read below). But I’m pretty sure they can be easily fixed by someone who knows the idiosyncrasies of the Swing GUI system.

Update: I’ve released a new version that works fine with SwingOSC, at least on Linux and Mac. On windows, there is a problem I can’t seem to solve yet (text are missing on the views).

The system is thoroughly documented and you can obtain it from the official Quark repositories. In SC, issue:

Quarks.gui;

Then do a checkout and install it from there. Here is a screencast I made to give an essence of the workflow:

I know, using my speaking voice as a source to show stuff was not the best idea.

Anyway, after I apply a face-lift for my existing and non-essential plugins written for the system, I’ll release them in another Quark called HadronPlugins. If you’ll have some plugins to share, you may submit them to the HadronPlugins repository or send them directly to me to place them there. The details about the process are included in the documentation.

As always, comments and whatnot are welcome.

HadronPlugins:

As of July 14, 2009, the HadronPlugins Quark is also available. There are 2 plugins in the repo right now, eith the names HrCodeSequencer and HrPresetMorph. HrCodeSequencer is a visual sequencer that sequences supercollider code. It helps you experiment and compose with generative form in an intuitive manner. And HrPresetMorph provides two-to-many preset/state interpolation functionality for the Hadron system. Here are the two screencasts for them:

HrPresetMorph:

HrCodeSequencer: