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John, Thanks very much for your helpful comments on Kyma's looping capability. I have a few more Kyma questions to ask you, unrelated to looping. I'll ask you off-list. Michael John Altman wrote: > > At 4:23 PM -0500 4/16/99, Michael Preston wrote: > > >Is anyone out there familiar with the Kyma/Capybara system by Symbolic > >Sound Corp? > > I've only had mine for two weeks, still diligently working through the > tutorial at this point > > >If so, can it be made to loop in interesting ways? > > Oh yes indeed! Even with the basic system (4 DSPs, 96 Mb of sample RAM) >it > looks very promising. I've modified a few of the examples using multiple > "Delay w/ Feedback" modules and can't believe what I got. Don't entirely > understand *why* I got it either, but that's indicative of my learner > status. Inputs can be sampled loops on your HD or live audio from other > devices, or both. Performance control can be done with a fader box like >the > Peavey 1600x or anything else you've got that can send MIDI CCs. This > includes triggering, recording to disk on the fly, mixing, morphing, >etc., > etc. > > To compare it to a mature, well-designed, but more narrowly-focused >device > like the EDP, it's clear already that Kyma is serious DIY with a > significant learning curve (especially for the math-challenged like me), > but having said that you can do just about anything you can imagine with > it. Get the free sample CD and/or purchase the manual for, I think, $40 > (can be applied to later purchase) before you plunge. > > John > > >_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ > > Cacophony is at least as intricate an art as harmony. > > Basil Bunting