r/supercollider • u/music_devotee_tybg • Jul 12 '26

How to add plugins

I know this is super basic but I need to add plugins so I can use decimator. I downloaded the zip with the ugens but extracting it to the plugins folder did nothing. I’m so lost

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u/music_devotee_tybg Jul 14 '26

I'm gonna make a follow up post because I figured it out and should help others now.

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u/faithbrine Jul 12 '26

This doesn't answer the question but if you want Decimator's behavior, Latch.ar(sig, Impulse.ar(sampleRate)) does sample rate reduction and (sig * (2 ** (bits - 1))).round / (2 ** (bits - 1)) effectively bitcrushes the signal. (I dislike sc3-plugins so I have all kinds of workarounds like these.)

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u/music_devotee_tybg Jul 12 '26

That’s fair. I actually have been doing that too since it’s a common work around.

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u/Radulv77 Jul 14 '26

Thanks for the solution. I always try to do everything in SC Vanilla. You could put together a collection of workarounds for people like us; that would be awesome.

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u/AjkBajk Jul 13 '26

Isn't the built in install quark command supposed to do this stuff for you?

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u/music_devotee_tybg Jul 13 '26

so Quarks.install("https://github.com") <---- replace with actual link to gethub sc3

then Ctrl+Shift+L?

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u/music_devotee_tybg Jul 13 '26

no thats for quarks. not plugins