The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Event Values, Virtual Control Surface, and Global Map
Event Values
Placing Event Values and Sounds into hot parameter fields of a Sound lets you control the parameters of
the Sound in real time. You can exercise this real-time control when you link the Event Values to the virtual
control surface, external MIDI controllers, or programmed events. In effect, you create custom, realtime
controls of your patch by using Event Values in the parameter fields of your Sounds.
The virtual control surface allows you to monitor and control Event Values in the currently loaded Sound.
Event Values are like hardware controls (a volume control, for instance) in that they have initial positions
that you can adjust within specified ranges. Event Values are also like most hardware controls in that
they remain at the value where you last set them until you reset them. But unlike hardware knobs and
buttons, these software controls are easily remapped. This mapping is contained in the global map.
Event Values can be used as real-time “hot-links” between your Kyma Sound and the outside world. You
can set an Event Value to be updated by external event sources such as MIDI, the virtual control surface,
or programs other than Kyma. Event Values can be linked to sources of events by MIDIVoice, MIDIMapper,
SoundToEvent or AnalogSequencer Sounds. If your Sound does not include any of these Sounds, the
Event Value will be associated with a source in the global map. This global map is initially set to a default
map. Later, you may want to devise your own maps that correspond to the controllers in your studio.