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Showing posts with label Capybara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capybara. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Resonations

Resonations from bar|none on Vimeo.

Soundplane + KYMA playing a model of a resonating string instrument. What instrument? Something unknown but wonderful and expressive.

Imaginary instruments are the world that is KYMA.

The sound is a resonation synth that models initial attack and picking of a string + the resonations and feedback associated with a resonating instrument body. More pressure means more feedback and energy into the resonations.

Spent some time with this sound to make it respond properly with the soundplane.
Faster hits and you hear the picking. Vibrato and you hear the scraping on the strings.

I can't tell you how this feels to play but I can say that you forget this is a controller and it feels like playing something tactile like a real instrument.

This uses the Madronalabs Soundplane to send OSC to KYMA directly via ethernet, no MIDI here. The soundplane client supports zeroconf discovery of OSC capable devices, so KYMA pacarana appears as an OSC destination and that is all required to connect the two. Symbolic Sound helped with the integration.

The result is very high resolution control of the sound that you can feel as you play the Soundplane.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Kyma X + Wiimote


YouTube via inthegray. Sent my way via Dr. Future.

"For reference, the Kyma is the software (runs on MAC and Windows), and the Capybara is the box with the DSP's in it. There's a program, Osculator, that can be used to interpret Wimote and OSC and send it to your Kyma Sound running on the Capybara." Symbolic Sound's Kyma and Capybara

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Sonic Steel Bass - You've heard this sound in film before.

Someone sent email to the AH list asking for the source of a low droning bass sound in a film. I instantly recognized the sound from numerous films and wondered where it could have come from. I thought it could have been Symbolic Sound's Capybara Kyma system, but someone posted a link to Sonic Steel Instrument's Sonic Steel Bass. That was the sound. The instrument was used by Lucas Skywalker Studios for their filmscores as well as the Discovery Channel's "The Power of Music." Amazingly rich sounding instrument. Click here and have a listen.

"The Space Bass is a 10 ft sheet of mirror finish stainless steel with 5 octaves of tuned steel and brass rods bolted to a bar. The rods can be double bowed, struck percussively or the metal sheet can be rubbed to create still another effect. Several tones can be created by bowing a single rod, creating a multi-tiered overtone series. The Space Bass emits deep, primordial, archetypal resonances that invariably put audiences into altered states."
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