The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Sample Rate
To change the sampling rate, choose from one of the rates listed below the Sample Rate label. The input
and output low pass filters will be adjusted accordingly (so as to block out any frequencies above half the
sampling rate).
Interface
If you have digital I/O installed in your Capybara, you can use this list to switch between using the
Analog inputs (the built-in converters), or the Digital inputs, in which case the Capybara expects a digital
signal in either the AES/EBU or S/PDIF formats. You can have digital inputs and outputs or analog inputs
and outputs, but you cannot have a mixture of both (e.g. digital in and analog out). Also, make sure
that the digital signal path does not form a loop; in other words, the digital output of the Capybara
should not be fed through several boxes and fed back in to the Capybara at the end, because the Capybara
will not be able to tell where it should be finding its clock — whether it should pay attention to the
incoming clock or whether it should pay attention to its own internally generated clock.
When you switch to digital I/O, it will appear as if one entire expansion card is always fully loaded, but
don’t worry about this; although it does take up a little extra processing on your last card to use the digital
I/O, it is not really taking up as much time on that processor as the status display indicates.
VU meters
From left to right, the first two meters are VU meters showing the left and right input levels. The next two
give the left and right output levels.
Computation Used on Each Expansion Card
The next grouping has a meter for each expansion card in your Capybara. Although they are numbered
from high to low, Kyma will begin scheduling Sounds on the leftmost (highest numbered) expansion
card, then, if it runs out of time on that one, will spill over onto the next expansion card and so on. For
Sounds that have Concatenations or TimeOffsets, you may be able to see how the amount of processing
required on each card changes over time as some Sounds stop and different ones start up.
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