The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

DSP menu. This is useful for loading a Sound before a performance or for very dense Sounds with many
structure changes that must be completely downloaded before being started.
Action menu: Record to disk…
Select Record to disk… to make a digital recording of the selected Sound into a sample file on the hard
disk. (See Samples on page 493 for additional information about digital recordings.)
A dialog box asks you to specify how the Sound should be recorded: pick a file format; decide whether to
record in stereo or monaural; and choose a bit resolution of 8, 16, or 24-bits.
If your Sound is the same in the left and right channels, recording in monaural will save disk space.
Similarly, if you know that the recorded samples will only be played back over 16-bit converters, you can
save disk space by choosing the 16-bit recording format.
In monaural mode, only the left channel of the selected Sound is recorded to disk.
Choose the file format, number of channels, and resolution, and click OK or press Enter. Then enter the
name of the sample file in which to place the digital recording:
and click Save or press Enter.
If the selected Sound uses live input (either MIDI or audio input), Kyma will prompt for the length and
tempo of a metronome count-off. When you click OK the Capybara will beep for the specified number of
beats at the specified tempo. Recording begins on the beat after the count-off.
If you don’t want a count-off, enter zero for the number of beats.
Finally, Kyma will compile, load, and start the selected Sound, recording the audio into the sample file.
To stop the recording prematurely, click the mouse button while holding down the Shift key.
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