The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Double-click a Sound in the signal flow diagram to edit its parameters. While a Sound’s parameter fields
are being edited, the Sound’s icon is gray, and its parameters are shown in the lower section of the Sound
editor window. You can edit the parameters of only one Sound at a time. To close the parameters of a
Sound, double-click on either an empty area of the signal flow diagram or double-click on another Sound
in the signal flow diagram.
Each parameter field has the parameter name above it. To see a description of the parameter, click on the
parameter name. To see a complete description of the Sound, click on the Sound class name in the lower
right of the window (Oscillator in the image above). To expand the active parameter field to the full size
of the screen, choose Large window… from the Edit menu. Alternatively, to make more space for the parameter
fields, you can either resize the window (by clicking and dragging the mouse in the lower right
corner of the window), or you can click and drag the thick line that divides the upper and lower halves of
the Sound editor window.
Operations in the Edit menu apply to the active field in the Sound editor. The active field is the field with
a border drawn just inside its editing area (Reset in the image above). You can click inside a field to
make it active, or press Tab to cycle through all of the editable fields.
In parameter fields that contain text, all of the standard text editing operations are available, including the
keyboard arrow keys (←, →, ↑, ↓) for positioning the cursor and the operations listed in the Edit menu.
To select text that is enclosed within parentheses, brackets, or quotes, place the blinking insertion point
just within the enclosing punctuation, and double-click the mouse.
To set a parameter field to the same value it has in another Sound, drag the other Sound into the parameter
field. (If the dragged Sound doesn’t have a parameter of that name, the Sound is rejected and the
parameter field is unchanged.)
Variables as Parameter Values
Variables are names preceded by question marks; they are green on color monitors and bold on other
monitors. A variable is a kind of place holder in a parameter field of a Sound. The variable must be set to
a real value before the Sound can be compiled; if you try to load a Sound that still has some free variables
in it, a series of dialog boxes will prompt you to enter a value for each variable. Once the variable has
been assigned a value, that variable takes on that value for the full duration of the Sound.
A variable or an expression containing variables can appear in any parameter field. For more information
about variables, see Variables on page 510.
If you set an array parameter to a variable, Kyma will ask whether you want an array containing that one
variable or whether you want the variable to represent the entire array:
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