The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

About the table:
♦ File Description describes the kind of file.
♦ File Type lists the Macintosh file type (4 letters) and the Windows file extension (3 letters).
♦ Open indicates whether you can open an editor on files of this type via Open… in the File menu.
♦ Create indicates whether you can use Kyma to create files of this type.
♦ Play indicates whether Kyma can play files of this type via Play… in the File menu or the File Organizer.
♦ Import indicates whether Kyma can import files of this type via Import… in the File menu.
About the files:
♦ A Sound file contains a collection of Sound objects.
♦ The five flavors of sample files contain digital recordings in various formats.
♦ A spectrum file contains amplitude and frequency envelopes for additive resynthesis.
♦ A compiled Sound file contains the Capybara program for a specific Sound.
♦ A compiled Sound grid is a collection of Sounds and their associated compiled Sound files.
♦ A global map file contains text that describes a relationship between MIDI devices and Kyma Event
Values.
♦ A LIME file contains music notation created by the Lime application. ‡
♦ A MIDI file contains a MIDI sequence created by a MIDI sequencer application.
♦ A preferences file contains the settings of Kyma’s user preference items.
♦ A text file contains text.
♦ A tool file contains a high level tool, made up of a state machine with a graphic user interface, created
in the developer’s version of Kyma.
Where the File Type Information is Stored
The Macintosh and Windows operating systems store the file type in different ways.
On Macintosh computers, there is a four character file type value stored in the resource fork of each file.
Applications running on the Macintosh use this file type value to determine whether a specific file is a
text file, MIDI file, AIFF sample file, etc.
On Windows computers, the file type is stored in the three character extension that follows the period in
each file’s name. Applications running on Windows use this extension to determine whether a specific
file is a text file, MIDI file, AIFF sample file, etc.
File menu: Open…
To open a file that already exists, choose Open… from the File menu.
‡ Lime is available at: http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu.
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