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Bart’s Kyma Tutorial C: Generating Patterns Outside the StepSequencer, Part 1

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial C: Generating Patterns Outside the StepSequencer, Part 1

In this tutorial, we look at other ways to generate patterns in Sound parameter fields.

BartonMcLean 8 April 2016 Tutorials No Comments Read more

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 2

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 2

In this fourth tutorial, we continue our work with the StepSequencer.

BartonMcLean 14 February 2016 Tutorials No Comments Read more

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 1

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial B: The StepSequencer, Part 1

In this third tutorial, we examine the StepSequencer and how it can be thought of as one big, resource-rich automated MIDI keyboard.

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Thoughts on FM: behind the algorithms

Thoughts on FM: behind the algorithms

In the past, the Frequency Modulation technique was used widely in radio transmission but had not been applied to sound synthesis. In the early 1970s, John Chowning, a composer and researcher at Stanford University, developed some important new techniques for music

Roland Kuit 30 January 2016 Tutorials No Comments Read more

Ecosystemic Programming and Composition Part 1

Ecosystemic Programming and Composition Part 1

A large part of my work the past decade has involved applications of ecosystemic programming. I was introduced to the concept of musical ecosystems by Agostino Di Scipio’s lectures on his Audible Eco-Systemic Interface (AESI) project at the Centre de

Scott Miller 25 January 2016 Tutorials No Comments Read more

Reading CSV Files in Kyma: Part 1

Reading CSV Files in Kyma: Part 1

I’ve been interested in data-driven music over the past few years, and have explored this topic in some of my previous work (San Giovanni, Carbonfeed, #Ferguson) and I am currently working on a sound installation using historical data sets of California’s

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Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 2

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 2

In this second tutorial, we look at mixing Sounds and controlling them from the Virtual Control Surface.

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Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 1

Bart’s Kyma Tutorial A: Getting Things Sounding, Organized, and Uncluttered, Part 1

In this first tutorial, we look at how to trigger and gate Sounds from a MIDI keyboard.

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Bart’s KYMA Tutorials

Bart’s KYMA Tutorials

These tutorials arose from my own initial struggles with learning Kyma, and were spurred on by subsequent needs of my private students. Learning a new language (whether a spoken language or computer language) is not trivial. But my struggles have

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