posted 05 September 2000 19:59            

Each registered member has a personal directory that can contain up to 12 files of 500 kilobytes each.

Each attachment can contain up to 5 files of type: Kyma Sound file, timeline, AIFF or WAV sample file, Kyma spectrum file, or text file. (Other analysis files are AIFF files.)

To attach a file when composing a new note or response:

1. click the "upload your files" link
2. identify yourself
3. click the browse button to locate each Kyma file you want to upload
4. click the "upload now!" button

To download an attachment, click and hold down on the attachment link until you get a pop up menu, and then choose "download link to disk".

To view or delete files from your personal space, post a note or reply and use the "view/delete files" link. You do not actually have to submit the response.

posted 06 September 2000 07:00            

However I was very disappointed to see that you are only allowing 12 uploads per user.

The one thing that makes Kyma rise above all the other DSP sound systems is its sound morphing ability, and this means spectrum files. But building a library of these is very time consuming, and it is something that really needs to be done up front. It's not like a Gigasampler, where you have the sample providers falling over themselves to add to the available sounds. With Kyma, we have to do it ourselves (which is both the strength and weakness of Kyma!).

So, we - the community of Kyma users - really need a good library of Kyma spectrum files. And that means we have to cooperatively build it ourselves by submitting just about every decent spectrum file we are able to create. But this is only going to be really worth while if it reaches critical mass, which makes the 12-file per person limit a killer.

If your 12 limit is a hard constraint, might I suggest a separate Spectrum file library? It could be curated by someone either within Symbolic Sound or without, to remove duplicates, bad files, etc. Or perhaps a separate tree that is self-administrated but reserved exclusively for .spc files? Whatever.

posted 10 September 2000 12:13            

I am pretty sure that all Macs can decompress ZIP files (with StuffIt Expander, that comes with the newer Apple OS installs). I am not sure that all PCs can decompress the StuffIt SIT files.