The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Parameters
Suppose you wanted to drag the same Sound into two different input fields. For instance, say you wanted
to route one disk recording through three different processing modules, and you didn’t want use up disk
bandwidth reading the same disk file three times.
Within the Sound editor, you can drag the same Sound (not a copy), by holding down the Control or Option
key when you start dragging. Alternatively, you can copy the Sound, and use Paste special… from
the Edit menu in order to paste the Sound rather than a copy of the Sound.
Notice that you need a Mixer as the last module in the signal flow diagram in order to mix the three different
processing paths.
Save
When you click in the close box of the Sound editor, Kyma will ask whether you want to keep all the
changes you’ve just made to the Sound. If you choose Yes, the changes will be retained. But you have not
yet saved the Sound to the disk! This does not happen until you save the entire Sound file window.
There are two ways to save the changes you are making to a Sound in the Sound editor:
♦ The simplest way is to choose Save ( Ctrl+S) from the File menu when in the Sound editor. This will
cause the Sound to be saved to the Sound file window, and then the Sound file window to be saved
to the disk.
♦ Alternatively, you can close the Sound editor, confirm that you want to save the changes, then choose
Save (Ctrl+S) or Save as… from the File menu of the Sound file window.
The parameters of a Sound can be constants, hot parameters, functions of time, Sounds, or arithmetic
combinations of these things. On-line help on any of the parameters of a specific Sound is available by
clicking on the name of the parameter in the Sound editor.
To illustrate each of these parameter types, let’s look again at our concrete example Sound: a Generic-
Source feeding into a HarmonicResonator.
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