The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Click Filename to choose the format of the recording (set it to AIFF, 16-bit, mono, for example), and to
choose where it should be saved on the disk.
Press the red record button (symbolized by a red circle on the button face) to put the tape recorder into
monitor mode. This automatically presses the pause button and monitors the input. It won’t start recording
until you press the play button or unclick the pause button.
In monitor mode, test the input levels. Max(L) and Max(R) show the maximum levels seen so far at the
input. Click Reset to reset those to zero. Attenuate the input using the two faders on the right.
When you are ready to record, press the play button (symbolized by the large rightwards pointing arrow),
and start speaking.
To stop recording, press the stop button on the left (symbolized by a black square at the center of the
button).
To listen to the recording, press the play button.
When you are done, click in the close box of the window.
Action-Record to disk... and File-Play
This Sound file also contains examples of other variants on the record-to-disk theme. For example, you
can record any Kyma Sound to the disk; you are not limited to recording the ADInput only.
Try recording the Concatenation example in the prototypes (Algorithms category). To record any Sound
to disk, select its icon, and choose Record to disk… from the Action menu. Give this a try with the Concatenation
in the prototypes. Record a 16-bit mono AIFF format file to your desktop, giving it a name like
deleteMe so you can get rid of later and keep from cluttering up your disk. To play the recording, select
Play… from the File menu, and locate deleteMe in the file dialog. This is a quick way to play disk files
when you don’t need to edit them.
Listen Wet, Record Dry
The Action menu option is fine for recording a complete Sound to the disk, but what if you want to have
the disk recording operation occur as one sub-part of a larger Sound structure?
Then your best bet is to us the Sound called DiskRecorder (found in the Disk category of the prototypes).
Double-click on record dry, listen processed to see how it is put together. This Sound takes a Generic-
Source, feeds it into a DiskRecorder, and then processes the output of the DiskRecorder. A structure like
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