posted 18 March 2006 10:31            

Thought I'd take the opportunity to say hello, and catch up on all the posts here

posted 18 March 2006 14:26            

i'm thinking, Lightning Bolt, The Locust - this hyper accelerated hyper dense hyper loud modern music, that reflects the same qualities of the hyper world we live in ..

posted 20 March 2006 18:06            

I would start by getting to know the basics, and the best way to do that is probably by working your way through the manual whilst sitting in front of your computer so that you can follow the examples. Mucking about with the factory Sounds can be very useful too, but I would recommend the manual to begin with as you'll get a lot more out of experimenting once you've grasped the basics...

Also, familiarize yourself with the Prototypes (the Prototypes reference is available in PDF form within the Kyma folder) as quickly as possible. The real power of Kyma starts once you begin using Capytalk and Smalltalk to customize the Prototypes and factory Sounds to create your own working library...

Also, some sort of MIDI controller is pretty essential and I would strongly recommend getting hold of a Wacom tablet ASAP if you don't already have one! On the VCS (Virtual Control Surface) if you right-click on a virtual fader there's a learn option that lets you easily assign a hardware MIDI fader to it.

Finally, this isn't a program you're going to master overnight. I've had my system for over 6 months now and I'm still barely scratching the surface. It took me a good three months to get the hang of the basics, it really is an extremely complex program. But once you break through the first layer you'll find great rewards waiting (and many more layers to break through!).

If you have any other questions feel free to email me at: jackmorganrosete@mac.com

Good luck!

Jack

posted 21 March 2006 06:50            

On the controller front, I have a both Modulars, the G2 and the 'G1' , and the Wacom tablet looks useful too... I will probably pick one up asap... I was very interested in the Lemur controller, but I have been writing to the company that makes it, asking for more info about the Lemur and Kyma, but no word yet - so maybe a Wacom in the meantime...

Anyways, the Capy and Kyma software is still stuck at customs, they are 'inspecting' it - ha! - trying to work their way through the manual , to find out what on Earth it is!!!

I have experience with programming and audio languages, from the early days of Basic, Lisp, Csound and Cecilia to Supercollider, Metasynth and the Nord Modular, so I intend to begin with Kyma straight in at the deep end. I do have a project to focus on and apply the system to straight away, in fact they are waiting for the music right now!!

posted 21 March 2006 07:05            

*Chuckles* I wouldn't worry about that. If a lack of knowledge of higher mathematics and physics were a disqualifier for creating electronic music, then I wouldn't have even one CD released, let alone three, and, forgive my arrogance, I'll set the sophistication of what I do against anyone's work, including the academics'.

posted 21 March 2006 20:25            

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Originally posted by cristian_vogel:
yes , i'd also like to know if Kyma is going in the OSC direction, as it makes a lot of sense to drag controller away from the MIDI protocol.

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As far as I know, Kyma doesn't currently communicate via OSC. If you have Max/MSP (or PD or even SuperCollider, I suppose) it's not too hard to rig up a patch that receives OSC and converts it to messages to send to Kyma. I'm using the flame~ max object (which can be found on the Tweaky) to send messages via Kyma's Flame firewire box, but you could just as easily send via out of Max, through an external midi interface, and into Kyma.

I've done this to play around with a Essential Reality P5 virtual reality glove (they don't make them anymore, buy you can pick them up for about $40-$50 on ebay). I set up the patch to receive messages via flame~ (Kyma sees it as messages anywhere from !cc00-!127) and then map them via SoundToGlobal controllers to hot values that I name !GloveX, !GloveY, !GloveZ, Thumb, !Ring, !Middle, !Index, !Pinky - you get 3 dimensional controllers, plus controllers for each finger, plus 3 buttons.

Links to programs to convert P5 data to OSC can be found here (also to midi, for PCs): http://www.audiomulch.com/simulus/p5glove/

Not quite as intuitive to control as the Wacom tablet, but still fun.

posted 02 April 2006 15:23            

I guess your will to master the kyma system. Being not exclusively a composer as for my daily activities, I learned kyma over a very long period of time. In a first stage, yes , it has a lot to do with getting used about the philosophy and "good" habits around kyma...

To my opinion, wha's intersting is that Kyma will be your rewarding friend for a very long long time...It's not only about learning prototypes by reading the files (pdf etc) that go with it : but also about having some prerequisite knowledge that has a lot in common with signal processing techniques and some other technical backgrounds.

We heard sometimes David and some other members here in the forum talking about Hilbert Transform etc...I would have never learned about Hilbert transform just turnin around my synthesizers...it could have lasted so for very long...until eventually last year during my signal processing courses (for communications...).

It's good to know about these things prior using some of the prototypes. Some will "talk" directly to our basic knowledge about music and synthesizer based sounds...everybody knows about lp filter and spectra and other things... But some other prototypes can bring a serious lot, but they remain such as a gold mine that you don't figure out until some later days... so one has eventually to know why and how to use these...etc. It's not a race, it's just experience and patience...so wisdom before being a kyma jedi .