posted 10 May 2002 06:08            

diskrec.ktl

There is a simple timeline attached, demonstrating a strange behaviour of submixes.

There are two tracks on the timeline.
First track is just 10 sec sample player.
Second track consists of two 5_sec_capture disk recorders placed one after another, creating two sound files, respectively - 'record1' and 'record2'.
First track's output is send to submix 'Rec', which is set as the input for the second track.
As a result we expect first 5 secs of sample being recorded in the 'record1' file, and last 5 secs - in the 'record2'.
Surprisingly, what we get is the first 5 secs of the sample recorded to both files, so they are identical.

How could this be explained?

This effect appears only if submix is used as the track's input - if we switch it to the audio input, everything is recorded perfectly.

posted 10 May 2002 10:23            

When Kyma plays a timeline, it first creates a Sound that is equivalent to the timeline, and then plays that Sound.

With submixes, what you are specifying is that the submix will be supplied as an input to the Sounds in the track using that submix. This is simple when there is one Sound in the track and the time span of the Sound equals or exceeds that of the submix.

When there is more than one Sound in the track, or when the Sound has a shorter time span than the submix, things have to be handled differently. Each Sound in the track is stretched to the same length as the submix. Since each Sound has a FadeInOut envelope, you will hear the output of these Sounds only during the times that you had specified in the timeline.