The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Pan
This is the stereo position of each new grain where 0 is hard left, 0.5 is in the middle, and 1 is hard right.
PanJitter
This is the amount of random deviation added to the pan position. The larger this number, the more
diffuse the apparent location, and the smaller the number, the more localized the sound.
Seed
This should be a number between 0 and 1. The seed provides a starting point for the random number
generator, so each different seed results in a different (but repeatable) sequence of random numbers.
When adding several SampleGrains with the same control parameters together in a Mixer, give each of
them a different seed in order to ensure that each of them has *different* random jitter added to its
parameters (otherwise, they will just double each other).
FromMemoryWriter
Check this box to granulate the live input or to granulate a sample that is being changed by a
MemoryWriter as the granulation is going on. This SampleCloud should be fed into a Mixer along with a
MemoryWriter that is recording something into the sample that you are granulating with the SampleCloud.
The SampleCloud should be fed through a TimeOffset of at least 1 sample, so it is reading *after* the
sample is written.
TimeIndex
This is a pointer into the Sample memory. -1 points to the beginning of the sample, 0 points to the
middle, and 1 points to the end of the sample. Grains are selected from this point and from random
positions in the neighborhood (whose size is determined TimeIndexJitter) around this point.
To read through the sample in linear, forward time, you can use something like:
!KeyDown fullRamp: 10 s
which will scan the sample from beginning to end over the course of 10 seconds each time it receives a
MIDI note event.
To remove the element of time from the sample, set TimeIndex to a fixed position like 0 (the middle of the
sample), and increase TimeIndexJitter to its maximum value. Then grains will be chosen at random from
all different time points within the sample.
TimeIndexJitter
TimeIndex is a time point in the Sample, and TimeIndexJitter is an amount of random deviation forward or
backward in time from the one point specified TimeIndex. A TimeIndexJitter of zero means that all grains
will be chosen from the single point specified in TimeIndex, whereas a TimeIndexJitter of 1 means that
grains may be chosen at random from any time point in the entire sample.
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