Getting Started

Oscilla is an open-source framework for animated, cue-driven graphic scores that run in the browser. You draw the score in Inkscape, give its elements behaviour — they move, sound, reveal, send OSC — and every performer opens the same score on their own device, kept in time by a small server on your computer.

Start here, in this order:

1. What is Oscilla? — what it is for and what you can do with it. Five minutes.
2. Install — download the app for your system and open it. Most people need only the first section.
3. Your First Score — from a new project to a shape that moves when you press play, and a phone that follows along. Ten minutes.
4. Workflow — the full authoring loop: projects, Inkscape, the cue editor, saving, sharing, rehearsing.
5. The Server Console — the window the app opens: where performers connect, your projects folder, OSC ports.

Want to see it before installing? The cue and animation pages each have a picture taken from one of the demo projects that come with Oscilla.

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