posted 05 June 2010 15:18            

Still a little fuzzy on relationship between classes, modules and prototypes, where things are defined and how to find them. After a day into Kyma I wanted to know how to use Flame as audio I/O. After another day of frantic RTFM'ing I found ichatfun.kym example.

Now, ichatfun.kym uses SamplesFromExternalSource, which is not it my list of system prototypes and it doesn't turn up in Ctrl-B search. But the example works, so clearly it exists in the system.

Is there supposed to be a direct relation between system prototypes and system classes or is there something wrong with my system? If there is no such relation, where is the list of all system classes and how could I have used it in a sound without that example?

posted 05 June 2010 18:12            

The class name can be found when you open up the module and look at the bottom right of the window. The Module name is written under the icon.

If a module has a slot for an input it must always have a module in it's input. The group of modules together as called sounds, or a module on it's own that needs no input is also a sound.

The prototypes are sounds that are useful starting points but in general they have tried to make at least one sound in the prototypes that has every class type as the right most module (mixed in with the rest). This is not always true. I believe the module/class you are talking about (SamplesFromExternalSource) as a BETA module and is not fully implemented yet. I don't think it will work in all cases, like on PCs for example. It has not yet made it's way into the prototypes.

Hope this makes sense.

posted 05 June 2010 18:52            

Thanks! That was quite helpful, especially the BETA part. I was mainly frustrated by being unable to find that class in my library.