This month at Designing Sound, we are focusing our lens on the concept of Audio Programming. The above image is from David Padilla's (AKA dabit) Banjo (here is the github link), which is a MIDI looper for live performance. He is a professional programmer (and an audio hobbyist) who's work producing music within a programming language is quite impressive and academically … [Read more...]
DSP Environment Learning Resources
So far this month; Shaun Farley's Pure Data Wavetable Synth series and Varun Nair's pep talk An Intimidating Start have been great introductions into the word of Max/MSP and Pure Data (I wish I had those articles when I got started!). I am still quite a beginner myself with Pure Data (and moreso with Max/MSP) so what I thought I would do is share some links that have helped me … [Read more...]
Sylvain Lasseur Interview
Symbolic Sound has published on their blog called "the eight nerve", an interview with sound designer Sylvain Lasseur talking about his use of Kyma system and several aspects about his work. Sound designer Sylvain Lasseur is not just bi-coastal; he’s bi-contintental, working part time in Paris and part time in Los Angeles! We recently had a chance to ask him a few questions … [Read more...]
Symbolic Sound Releases Kyma Control for iPad
Kyma Users: If you don't have an iPad yet, you'd love to get one now. Apart of the amazing sound making apps you can found there, Symbolic Sound is announcing the release of Kyma Control, a new iPad app that offers different control options for Kyma/paca(rana) systems. For use in the studio, on stage, in a theatre or performance venue, in an installation, in the lab, at home, … [Read more...]
First International Kyma Symposium Starts Today
The first International Kyma User Symposium starts today at Barcelona, Spain. U.S.O will be covering all the event, you can follow the activity with: Twitter - Hashtag --> #KISS09 Flickr - Tag --> KISS09 Facebook - Kyma Users Group U.S.O - Twitter | Flickr About Kyma X is a powerful visual programming language for music and sound, originally created by Symbolic … [Read more...]
First International Kyma User Symposium in October
Kyma X is a powerful visual programming language for music and sound, originally created by Symbolic Sound in 1987 and still going strong today. The Kyma sound design environment is used by composers, researchers and sound designers for realtime sound generation and manipulation. The First International Kyma Symposium will be held from the 8-10 October 2009 at the Niu Espai … [Read more...]
Symbolic Sound Pacarana expanded
Symbolic Sound has expanded the real-time sound-computing power of its Pacarana sound engine by making it possible for Kyma sound designers to chain two or more multiprocessor Paca(rana)s together via the built-in A/B Expansion ports. To the Kyma software, a network of Paca(rana)s appears as a single sound computation engine with multiple processors. Kyma automatically detects … [Read more...]