The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Continue experimenting with different values until you are satisfied with your percussive sound. Then
close the editor, and confirm that you want to save your new wavetable. Choose the file type, the number
of channels, and the number of bits per sample, press Enter, then enter a name for your wavetable.
From the system prototypes, drag a Sample into a Sound file window and double-click it to edit it. Set
Duration to on, Frequency to !Pitch, Gate to !KeyDown, and use the disk button next to the Sample
parameter to locate your newly created impulse response. Try playing the Sample. Try inserting a
Waveshaper between the Sample and output speaker icon to make the audio output louder through distortion.
Now substitute an Oscillator for the Sample; set its Duration to on and its Frequency to !Frequency
* 50 hz and its Wavetable to your impulse response wavetable. Play the Oscillator and control
!Frequency using the virtual control surface.
Unlike a Sample, which plays through its wavetable once each time you trigger it, an Oscillator reads
through its wavetable cyclically, over and over again. Depending on the Frequency you specify, an Oscillator
will step through the wavetable using larger or smaller increments; this increases or decreases the
rate at which you hear the waveform repeating, thus changing the perceived pitch of the oscillator.
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