The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Even if the selected Sound cannot play in real time (and is heard with clicks in the audio output), the
digital recording made will be correct and will be free of clicks.
Action menu: Compile to disk…
Compile to disk… stores a compiled version of the selected Sound onto the disk. Compiled Sound files
can be played by choosing Play… from the File menu (see page 421). Compiled Sound files are also used
by the compiled Sound grid.
Compiled Sound files and the compiled Sound grid are explained in detail in Compiled Sound Grid
starting on page 485.
Action menu: Collect
Collect… applies only to groups of selected Sounds in Sound file windows. It prompts for the name of
the collection and places the selected Sounds into a new Sound collection (icon shown on the left) with
the given name.
Action menu: Duplicate
Duplicate applies only to the selected Sound in a Sound file window. It makes a copy of the selected
Sound(s) and/or Sound collections(s), and puts them into the Sound file window. A duplicate of a Sound
collection contains a duplicate of each Sound that was in the original collection.
Action menu: Expand
More than half of the prototypes supplied with Kyma are constructed out of other Sounds. Selecting Expand
from the Action menu makes this lower level construction available for editing and inspection.
Expand often is used to debug complex Sounds and Sound classes.
Expand can be applied in the Sound file window and the Sound editor. In the Sound file window, a copy
of the expanded Sound is saved in the window and no changes are made to the selected Sound. However,
in a Sound editor, Expand replaces the selected Sound with its expansion; this operation is not reversible.
Action menu: Revert
Revert applies only to the Sound editor. It discards all changes made to the Sound whose parameters are
displayed in the lower half of the Sound editor.
Action menu: Set default Sound
Kyma keeps a default Sound that it can use as a value for variables that are Sounds. To change the value
of this default Sound, select a Sound and choose Set default sound. See Variables on page 510 for more
information.
Action menu: Set default Sound collection
Kyma also keeps a default Sound collection that it can use as a value for SoundCollectionVariables. To
change the value of this default Sound collection, select a group of Sounds and choose Set default collection.
See Variables on page 510 for more information.
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