The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Positioning the Fields
Field Layout shows you what the Sound editor for Sounds of this class will look like. When you select
a parameter, its field is highlighted in gray.
To change the position of a field, type the coordinates of a new rectangle in the Field Rectangle text
editor and then press Enter.
The format for specifying rectangle coordinates is as follows:
upperLeftX @ upperLeftY corner: lowerRightX @ lowerRightY
where the parameter fields are laid out in a square whose corner points are as shown below:
0 @ 0
0 @ 1
539
1 @ 0
1 @ 1
The x and y values are not in absolute units like centimeters or pixels; they just indicate a position relative
to a maximum x and y of 1 @ 1.
Whenever you type in a new rectangle, you should adjust each of the other parameter field positions as
necessary to avoid any overlapping fields.
Class Description and Comments
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Each class has a Class Description, a paragraph or two describing how Sounds of that class behave.
In addition to an overall class description, each parameter has its own Comment. A parameter comment
provides later users of Sounds of this class with instructions for how to enter a value for the parameter,
any restrictions on its range of legal values, and an indication of how it relates to the other parameters
and to the class as a whole.
The Edit menu is active in the class editor for editing the class description and the parameter comments.
When the Expand box is checked, the new class will expand before any transformations are applied to it
(see Controlling Expansion on page 545 for more information).
Closing the Class Editor
Debugging
The first time you close the editor on a new Sound class, you will be asked whether you want to save an
instance of the new class. Click Yes unless you would like to start over from scratch. An instance of the
new class is created using default values for each of the parameters. To change those values, double-click
on the Sound and edit it.
When you close the class editor window after subsequent editing of that Sound class, you will be asked if
you want to save the changes made to the class. Choose Yes to save the changes, No to discard the
changes, or Cancel to return to the class editor without closing.
When a Sound that you have constructed has some unexpected behavior, it can be helpful to expand it, so
that you can see how Kyma is really interpreting your Sound. The Expand operation from the Action
menu expands a Sound one level only. You can then select specific inputs for further expansion.