The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Adjust the fader upwards until you remove all of the pitched parts of the resynthesis. You’ll know
when the fader is in the proper position when all you can hear is the “ph” in “morphing” and a little
gasp for breath at the end. You do not want to hear any of the “ing” and you do not want to hear the
pitched parts of the sound breaking up.
It may seem a little counterintuitive to remove the pitched parts of the signal when you are trying to
analyze just the pitched parts. The trick is that once you have removed everything except the noisy
bits, then, by process of elimination Kyma knows which parts of the sound do have a pitch to them.
Once all you hear are clicks, air bursts or gasps, you can click Next to continue.
7. Please wait while Kyma prepares the next screen; watch the thermometer, or get yourself a glass of
water, but don’t start hitting keys until Kyma has displayed a color graph of the lower end of the
spectrum.
8. The goal for this section is to look at the spectrum, decide which track is the fundamental frequency,
and to trace the fundamental frequency track using the white line you see (now drawn straight across
the lower part of the spectrum).
First, zoom in on what seems to be the fundamental (the orange colored line at the bottom of the
screen):
♦ Click in the black spectrum display to select it. You can tell when it is selected because you
will see the square endpoints on the white line.
♦ Hold down the Control or Command key until you see the cursor change to a magnifying
glass.
♦ Still holding down the key, draw a box around the lower fourth of the spectrum. (The plus
sign inside the magnifying glass is transparent, and the center point of the plus is where the
cursor will draw the box).
Line up the first endpoint of the white line with the beginning of the fundamental track by clicking
on the white box and dragging it upwards. Adjust the last endpoint similarly so that the white line
draws a straight line closest to the orange fundamental.
Now add some additional breakpoints to the white line so that it traces the fundamental more
closely. To add a new point, click the mouse while holding down the Shift key.
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