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Configuration: The startup file

This SuperCollider script, from the SuperDirt GitHub, indicates the SuperCollider and SuperDirt settings you may want to adjust when launching SuperDirt:

(
// SuperCollider server options are only updated on reboot
s.reboot {
// configure the sound server: here you could add hardware specific options
// see http://doc.sccode.org/Classes/ServerOptions.html
// increase this if you need to load more samples
s.options.numBuffers = 1024 * 256;
// increase this if you get "alloc failed" messages
s.options.memSize = 8192 * 32;
// increase this if you get "exceeded number of interconnect buffers" messages
s.options.numWireBufs = 2048;
// increase this if you are getting drop outs and the message "too many nodes"
s.options.maxNodes = 1024 * 32;
// set this to your hardware output channel size, if necessary
s.options.numOutputBusChannels = 2;
// set this to your hardware output channel size, if necessary
s.options.numInputBusChannels = 2;
// boot the server and start SuperDirt
s.waitForBoot {
// stop any old ones, avoid duplicate dirt
// (if it is nil, this won't do anything)
~dirt.stop;
// two output channels, increase if you want to pan across more channels
~dirt = SuperDirt(2, s);
// load samples (path containing a wildcard can be passed in)
~dirt.loadSoundFiles;
// ~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/myUserName/Dirt/samples/*");
// optionally: wait for samples to be read
// s.sync;
// start listening on port 57120, create two busses
// each sending audio to channel 0
~dirt.start(57120, 0 ! 12);
// make this instance available in sclang (optional)
SuperDirt.default = ~dirt;
// optional, needed for convenient access from sclang:
(
~d1 = ~dirt.orbits[0]; ~d2 = ~dirt.orbits[1]; ~d3 = ~dirt.orbits[2];
~d4 = ~dirt.orbits[3]; ~d5 = ~dirt.orbits[4]; ~d6 = ~dirt.orbits[5];
~d7 = ~dirt.orbits[6]; ~d8 = ~dirt.orbits[7]; ~d9 = ~dirt.orbits[8];
~d10 = ~dirt.orbits[9]; ~d11 = ~dirt.orbits[10]; ~d12 = ~dirt.orbits[11];
);
// Directly below here, in your own copy of this file, you
// could add further code that you want to call on startup.
// This makes sure the server and ~dirt are running.
// You can keep this separate and make it easier to switch
// between setups by using "path/to/my/file.scd".load and
// if necessary commenting out different load statements.
};
// increase this if you get "late" messages
s.latency = 0.3;
};
);