The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Similarly, if you would like to transform only the inputs (that is, you would like the transformation to
skip over the current Sound), you would use
snd doNotTransformThisSound.
Controlling Expansion
Most of the system prototypes provided in Kyma are actually combinations of several Sounds. When one
of these prototype Sounds is played, it is first expanded. When you apply a transformation to the parameters
of a Sound, it may make a difference whether you transform the parameters before or after the
Sound has been fully expanded.
When you create a new Sound class from an example (see The Class Editor on page 536), you can choose
whether the new kind of Sound should expand before transformations are applied to its parameters. If
you check the Expand box, the Sound will expand before transformation; if the box is not checked, parameter
transformations will be applied to the Sound parameters before the Sound expands.
For example, a RhythmicCellularAutomaton takes a single input and repeats it in a rhythmic pattern
generated algorithmically according to the Rule that you supply. (See the Prototypes Reference on page
218 or the on-line help for a more detailed explanation of how the Rule is used to generate the pattern.)
A RhythmicCellularAutomaton expands to a Concatenation of TimeOffsets. Each TimeOffset contains a
copy of the RhythmicCellularAutomaton’s input.
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