The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

The two spectra to be synchronized are displayed in the Guide View and Warped View fields. Using
markers, you specify the time points in the warped spectrum file that will be shifted to align with the corresponding
points in the guide spectrum file. For example, you could mark the beginning and the ending
of each feature in the guide spectrum and then mark the beginning and ending of those same features in
the warped spectrum. “Features” would be things like the attack of an instrument tone, each phoneme in
a sample of human speech, or each note in a musical passage.
Click the Guide… button and the Warped… button to choose these two spectra using file dialogs. If the
files already contain markers, the markers will be displayed along with the spectrum.
Only one of the spectrum views can be active at a time — the one with the white border. To switch to the
other spectrum view, you can either click the mouse in the view, or you can press the Tab key.
To zoom in on an area in the active spectrum view, hold down the Command or Control key while
clicking and dragging a box around the area to magnify. To return to a display of the entire spectrum,
click in the marker area to deselect the markers and press the Return or Enter key.
To audition the active spectrum file, press the Space Bar. Use either pitch bend on a MIDI controller or
drag the yellow scrub bar to scrub through the spectrum.
To add a marker at the scrub bar position, press the m key. To let Kyma choose these markers automatically,
press the a key. Then add or remove markers as necessary.
To make it easier to see the correspondence between markers in the two files, the markers are color coded
in order from left to right: red, green, blue, red, green, etc. A red marker in the warped spectrum will be
shifted ahead or behind in time to line up with the corresponding red marker in the guide spectrum.
To name a marker, select the marker with the mouse, and press Enter. To delete a marker, select it and
press the Delete key. Press the s key to save the markers into the spectrum file in the active view.
Click the Save markers button to save the markers you have entered.
The Mix and Morph buttons construct example Sounds to perform a mix of the resynthesized spectra or a
morph between the two spectrum files. In order for these examples to be generated, the two files must
have the same number of markers.
Tools menu: RE Analysis
The RE Analysis Tool is used to create files for resynthesis using the Resonator/Excitation synthesis
method (RE synthesis) found in the REResonators Sound.
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