The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Preproduction
The items in the Tools menu provide support for sound design and development. A Tool could be described
as a cross between a virtual-device front panel, a plug-in, and a “wizard”, the step-by-step guides
provided in Microsoft programs. Any item in the Tools folder shows up as a choice in the Tools menu,
so the tools can be updated by visiting the FTP site and downloading the latest set.
The Tape Recorder tool, for example, provides a quick means for sampling the Capybara input and storing
the results in a sample file on the disk of your host processor.
In pre-production exploratory phases, or whenever you are between projects, you can be developing your
own Kyma Sounds, organizing them into Sound files, setting up precompiled Sound grids, trying out
new synthesis and processing ideas, creating the sounds that no one has heard before. The purpose of
Kyma is to provide tools for creative sound design, so quite a few of the tools and editors support of this
activity:
♦ The Sound file window serves as a workspace when you are using Kyma, and provides a way to
group Sounds from the same project or Sounds of a similar nature in a single disk file.
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