Why are some Sounds highlighted?

Question

This is probably a really newbie question, but I haven't been able to find anything about it in the documentation. There is usually (always?) one Sound in a signal flowchart which is highlighted. Sometimes it seems to be the "original" Sound, but sometimes it happens late in the signal flow.

Is it ever possible to highlight a Sound yourself? And in a perhaps related question, sometimes when I select Save As... to try and rename a Sound, the resulting dialog box says "Save this Sound without overwriting the original Sound?" but there is no option for saving the Sound under a different name. I think I'm missing something simple but I'm not getting it. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

There is usually (always?) one Sound in a signal flowchart which is highlighted. Sometimes it seems to be the "original" Sound, but sometimes it happens late in the signal flow. 

The Sound that is highlighted in a cyan color is the "replaceable input".  To select a different Sound as the replaceable Input, select it, go to the Action menu and select Set Replaceable Input.  In the Sound Browser, the Timeline and the Multigrid, a Sound with a Replaceable Input is marked with a cyan, right-pointing arrow.  

This is a way to mark what you consider to be the "input" to a complex signal flow graph (since it is not always necessarily the leftmost Sound in the signal flow).  You can find more details in the Index of Kyma X Revealed (in the Documentation folder in the Kyma folder) under Replaceable Input.

 

Save As... to try and rename a Sound, the resulting dialog box says "Save this Sound without overwriting the original Sound?" but there is no option for saving the Sound under a different name. 

To rename a Sound, select it and press Enter; then type in the new name.  At that point, you can do the Save as and save without rewriting the original.

Comments

Thanks very much! I did read that the cyan arrow in the Sound Browser denotes replaceable input, but I did not make the connection into the signal flowchart. And goodness gracious - I've been looking for a copy of Kyma X Revealed, but I did not realize it is right inside the Documentation folder! That is fantastic.