The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Using Selection Criteria
F12
Playing
Scrubbing
Zooming in/out
F9
To select tracks according to some criteria, press the selection criteria button. This presents you with a list
of options for selecting tracks:
Amplitudes within a range selects only those tracks and frames whose raw amplitude values §
fall within the specified range
Above amplitude threshold selects only those tracks and frames whose raw amplitude value exceeds
the given threshold
Complement selection selects all tracks and frames that are not currently selected
Even tracks selects the even numbered tracks only
Odd tracks selects the odd numbered tracks only
Octave harmonics selects tracks whose numbers are a power-of-two
Fibonacci tracks selects tracks numbered (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…)
Prime numbered tracks selects tracks whose numbers are prime (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13…)
The leftmost play button plays all tracks. Pressing the F1 key also plays all tracks. The button to the right
of that one is for playing the selected regions only. Pressing F2 also plays the selected tracks only. To play
the segment marked by begin and end loop markers, use the button third from the left, and the button
fourth from the left is used for playing everything but the segment marked by the begin and end loop
markers.
F1 F2 F3 F4
When you move the scrub bar with the mouse, with MIDI pitch bend, or using the left/right arrow keys,
you will hear either all tracks or the selected tracks only, depending upon which of the play buttons was
used last.
To hear different sections of the file, use the mouse to drag the vertical yellow scrub bar over the regions
you would like to hear. If you hold down the Shift key while dragging the scrub bar, the scrub bar will
always jump to the mouse location rather than smoothly approach the mouse location.
You can also use MIDI pitch bend to move the scrub bar. To step the scrub bar one frame to the left or one
frame to the right use the left and right arrow keys.
To zoom closer, that is, to look in more detail at a smaller region of the display, use Zoom in (Ctrl+]) from
the Edit menu.
Alternatively, you can zoom in on a region of interest by holding down the Control or Command key
while drawing a box around the area of interest. The editor will magnify the boxed region so that it fills
the entire area of the display.
To zoom back out again use Zoom out (Ctrl+[) to zoom out in steps, or press the full display button to
zoom all the way out.
§ The raw amplitude value is the value shown in parenthesis in the information area when you pass the mouse over a
track.
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