posted 13 September 2000 09:35            

Here's an interesting side-effect which might be useful (if I'm truly understanding it)- Moving an real-time expression out of a hot parameter field and into a Constant (which is then cut/pasted into the hot field) is equivalent to delaying the result of the expression evaluation by a small amount (probably 1 sample time).

Reading this explanation, I see I probably need to include some example sounds to make it clearer. I'm not at my Kyma system right now (sometimes I'm ACTUALLY away from it!) but maybe i can put something together tomorrow. In the meantime, here's how I used this side-effect:

I was experimenting with real-time looping so my signal flow diagram had a record part and a playback part. I was using Sample for the playback part. In the Sample Sound, I used the expression "1 - !recGate" for the Gate parameter. Elsewhere in my signal flow I used "!recGate" to trigger the recording. Now I wanted the recording to operate ahead of the Sample so that the playback would "hear" what was recorded. I thought about delaying the "1 -!recGate" signal to the Sample Gate so I put the expression into a Constant, then pasted the Constant into the Gate parameter. Next, I intended to insert a 1 sample Delay between the Constant and the Sample but I found it was unnecessary! The Sample was triggered after the recording! In other words, since the "1 - !recGate" was evaluated in a Constant and the output sent to the Sample's Gate, it was automatically delayed by at least 1 sample period! Cool!