posted 30 September 2001 12:44            

Just how smart is Kyma about "K-Rate" processing when you paste a Sound into a hot-field and give it a time period using

<sound> L: 5

for, say, 5 ms intervals?

Does Kyma hold off processing some hot value source Sounds except for the 5 ms K-Rate sampling? Or does it universally continue to run the sources at A-Rate and simply sample the hot field at the chosen K-Rate?

I suspect the latter, because some Sounds need to continue processing at A-Rate no matter what, e.g., AmplitudeFollower, RMS, Delay, IIR & FIR Filters, etc. -- anything that accumulates state over time based on information at audio rates.

Other things like the WaveShapers with interpolation could reasonably run only at the K-Rate intervals and this would save a lot of DSP horsepower. These useful intermittent sounds are stateless point operations on the incoming audio stream.

- DM