KYMA Capybara 320 Sound Computation Engine SN 61940

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"Here it is. A flawless Kyma Capybara 320 with Symbolic Sound Factory Firewire Interface, factory power supply, KYMA X disk and KYMA X Revealed Manual. This unit and serial # are registered with Kyma, documentation included. This is the original Capybara 320 - not the older Capybara. This is the standard four processor Kyma. As such it contains all the hardware interfaces the newest units are lacking. Comes with KYMA software and all licenses. 100% compatible with the latest KYMA X release and enjoy compatibility across all units.
The Capybara 320 can be used as a standalone multi-channel AD/DA converter for incredible fidelity.The Capybara and other units can be used as high end multi channel effects processors. Compare my pics to other listings. This is the nicest. Comes with four DSP processors. Kyma X is an incredibly flexible and powerful sound design environment being used in music and post-production studios, research labs, art installations, game developers' studios, educational institutions, home studios, and live performances. A sound library with over 1000 pre-packaged examples means you can start creating amazing sounds straight out of the box. Extensive documentation, online knowledge bases and free email/phone support ensure that you'll be able to take Kyma anywhere your imagination inspires you to go!.."

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KISS2013: INTER faces - Kyma International Sound Symposium in Brussels

"Kyma International Sound Symposium in Brussels, 12-14 September 2013, to focus on interfaces for interactive sound design and live performance

Champaign, Illinois, June 18, 2013 - Composers, sound designers and performers are invited to register for this year's Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2013) in Brussels Belgium from September 12-15 2013. Featured events include hands-on demonstrations of interfaces for interactive sound and performance, a public dialog on spatialization featuring electronic music pioneers Annette Vande Gorne and Joel Chadabe, a competition pitting teams of sound designers and engineers against the clock to create new performance interfaces, an exclusive preview of new developments in the Kyma sound design language, concerts of new music inspired by the Belgian painter René Magritte, live Kyma electronics spatialized through a 70+ speaker Acousmonium in the Espace Senghor, and an installation in the ISIB foyer where visitors (tracked by a Kinect camera) will create a continuous, collaborative soundscape.

[PHOTO: Caption: Actor Allison Goodman, shown here controlling Kyma with an Emotiv EPOC neural headset, is one of the performers scheduled to appear at KISS2013 in Brussels September 12-15 2013]

"KISS2013: INTER faces" will also feature technical sessions on topics ranging from signal processing to interfaces, an 'Open lab' where Kyma experts will be available to answer questions, hands-on demos and workshops focusing on innovative user interfaces and controllers, and evenings filled with live musical performances showcasing some of the best work created in Kyma this year, including music controlled by brain interfaces, game controllers, iPads, Continuum fingerboards and drawing tablets; audio signals used as controllers; Foley artists as live performers; live cinema; motion-tracked dancers, and more!

Kyma developers Carla Scaletti and Kurt J. Hebel will be joined by over 30 audio and music professionals from ten countries in presenting the seminars, music, and hands-on demonstrations.

The full KISS2013 schedule is available on-line at http://bit.ly/150XXuP

Program highlights

KISS2013 organizers Rudi Giot and Jacques Tichon, along with their students at the Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB), have several special activities planned for KISS2013, including:

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Symbolic Sound Kyma Capybara 320 System with Firewire

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Haken Continuum/Kyma Demo with Sally Sparks

Published on Nov 16, 2012 by experimentalsynth

"A quick look at the Haken Continuum and Kyma sound engine. Thanks to Sally Sparks for the demo. More at www.experimentalsynth.com"

Lariat Rituals & Tokyo Lick

Published on Oct 10, 2012 by jeffreystolet

"Real-time performance of data-driven instrument - Gametrak and Kyma"

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Tokyo Lick

Uploaded by jeffreystolet on Jun 30, 2007

"music composed and performed by Jeffrey Stolet using custom software and infrared sensors"

strome by cebec

"This album is entirely Kyma and Serge Modular."

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.

Symbolic Sound KISS2012

"KISS2012: real time, reel time, sound and Kyma

Sound designers to converge on St Cloud Minnesota for over 24 hours of lecture/demonstrations, 9 hours of hands-on workshops, and 3 nights of live music, cinema and improvisation

CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, June 26 - The fourth annual Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2012) - to take place September 13-16 at St Cloud State University School of the Arts in St Cloud, Minnesota - will include over 24 hours of technical sessions presented by Kyma experts, 9 hours of hands-on labs, and evenings filled with live music and live cinema showcasing some of the most outstanding work created in Kyma this year.

Since the inaugural symposium in Barcelona in 2009, KISS attendees around the world have benefited from the extensive technical training, aesthetic inspiration, and opportunities for collaboration that KISS is known to deliver. This year, more than 100 sound designers, composers, performers, filmmakers, game designers, authors, audio engineers, educators, and students are expected to participate in KISS2012.

"The dual nature of this year's theme - reel time || real time - has attracted an incredibly diverse group of people! It's just a great learning opportunity for everyone involved." - Scott Miller, professor of music composition at St Cloud State University School of the Arts and host of this year's KISS.

Throughout the four-day event, sound designers will be able to explore the latest innovations, features, and capabilities of the Kyma Sound Design Language and learn how to optimize their work flow so they can create amazing new sounds for film, games, music and more. Kyma practitioners are invited to bring their own Sounds to the labs where they can work with Kyma developers and fellow Kyma practitioners to enhance their results.

"One of our passions is to partner with Kyma users to help bring their creations to life. There is no better way to maximize your Kyma skills and discover new collaborative opportunities than by participating in the Kyma International Sound Symposium." - Carla Scaletti, president of Symbolic Sound Corporation, co-host of KISS2012.

If you are obsessed with sound - whether a novice seeking to kickstart your career, an expert looking to take your mastery to the next level, or someone who's simply curious about sound design and Kyma - KISS2012 is your chance to immerse yourself in sound and ideas for four intense and inspiring days and nights.
The deadline for discounted registration is August 10, 2012: http://bit.ly/J7URvC


[Photo Credit: Adam Studer]

Keynote speakers, expert presenters, and topics

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KymaControl Kyma iPad Controller App

YouTube Published on May 2, 2012 by ipadloops

"iPad app for controlling symbolic sound corporation's Kyma sound design software for Mac. http://ipadloops.com/kyma-controller-app-for-ipad/"


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Serge/Kyma Improvs by cebec

improvisations 2 by cebec

Follow-up to Recent Serge and Kyma one-take improvs

Recent Serge and Kyma one-take improvs

spontaneous improvisation recordings by cebec

Spont 01 Serge
Spont 02 Serge
Spont 03 Serge / Kyma
Spont 04 Serge
Spont 05 Serge
Spont 06 Serge
Spont 07 Serge
Spont 08 Kyma

Symbolic Sound Releases Kyma X.82

Update: some pics & video added

"KYMA X.82: A SYNTHESIS ENGINE FOR ALTERNATIVE CONTROLLERS & INTERACTIVE SOUND DESIGN
New software features twenty-one new keyboard-controllable morphing synthesis algorithms, support for 14-bit MIDI controllers, polyphonic aftertouch, & publication of the Kyma OSC protocol for third-party developers

Champaign, Illinois - November 21, 2011 - The culmination of two years of research and development, Kyma X.82, a new software update for the Kyma X/Pacarana sound synthesis engine, is specifically designed to take advantage of the expressive capabilities and extended control offered by today's new crop of alternative controllers and cutting edge musical interface designs.

The recent explosion of interest in new musical interfaces and alternative controllers for sound design and music has created a need for sound synthesis and processing engines that can take full advantage of the increased bandwidths, higher resolution, lower latencies, continuous pitch and velocity values, and subtle expressive capabilities of these new controllers. Symbolic Sound has a long history of support for alternative and extended controllers in Kyma X, and Symbolic Sound's newest release, Kyma X.82, introduces several additional features to support these innovative musical interfaces and alternative controllers.

Features in Kyma X.82 include over 20 new morphing sound synthesis algorithms, support for 14-bit MIDI controllers, and the publication of Kyma's OSC protocol to support and inspire future developments of new instruments and controllers that can exploit Kyma's responsive, high-resolution sound synthesis and processing algorithms in a seamless, plug-and-play manner.

Whether you are a sound designer performing expressive creature voices to picture, an electronic musician performing live on stage with alternative controllers, or a composer using physical controllers to create dense multi-layered textures of sound in the studio, you will be able to take advantage of Kyma X.82's ease of parameter-mapping, low latency, high-resolution parameters, and legendary sound quality. Additional features of the new release include enhanced multichannel panning and effects, higher quality spectral analysis, and a 40% speedup in the software executing on the host computer.

Sound and Video Examples

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Lainhart NYC Performances October 20 and 23

A chance to see the Buchla 200e, Haken Continuum & Kyma System live.

"On Thursday, October 20 at 10PM, I'll be performing a set of new works for Buchla and Continuum at The Stone, an East Village not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the experimental and avant-garde. My performance is one of a series curated by Phill Niblock, director of Experimental Intermedia Foundation, featuring recording artists on the XI Records label. The Stone is located at the corner of Avenue and Second Street in Manhattan. For more information: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php

On Sunday, October 23 at 4:30PM, I'll be performing 100 x John 2, in honor of John Cage's 100th birthday year, as part of Ear To The Earth's New York Soundscape 2011 series. 100 x John 2 is for New York City environmental sounds processed with the Kyma System and activated by live electric guitar "to transform the ambient noise of Manhattan's streets and alleys into a magically lyrical sound". The performance takes place in Union Square Park at 14th Street in Manhattan as part of the Green City Challenge Race and Family Expo. For more about Soundscape 2011: http://www.eartotheearth.org/events.html

For more about Green City Challenge: http://greencitychallenge.org/

Finally, on Sunday October 23, at 10PM, I'll be back at The Stone performing as part of Phill Niblock + Guitars with Robert Poss, Byron Westbrook, and Matt Rogalsky, where we'll be playing Phill's Stosspeng for Ebow electric guitar quartet: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php"

Haken Continuum / Capybara / Kyma System

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"(1) Full Size Haken Continuum Fingerboard
(that's right- FULL SIZE!)
(1) Symbolic Sound Capybara 320 and Kyma X

All cabling, manuals, and discs are included as well as the Capybara Firewire Interface and a standard Hard Case for the Continuum."

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Joseph Fraioli Workspace on TRASH_AUDIO

via TRASH_AUDIO where you'll find more pics and the full post.

"My favorite pieces of gear would have to be my eurorack modular system and my Pacarana Kyma system. The modular is so great for original source generation. Like every module is an idea and a patch becomes a cohesive thought. The possibilities seem endless and I like how you cant recall anything. Once you take apart a patch thats it, it forces you to be creative in a different way. With Kyma, I love how I can make sound into silly puddy: bending and stretching conventional sounds into something new and different. What really gets interesting for me is using Kyma and the modular together. Another go to processor for me is the Eventide Orville. Such a deep machine especially with the vSig software."

Note the Tiptop Audio stackable cables.

Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2011) Portugal

"EXPLORING SOUND SPACE | EXPLORANDO O ESPAÇO DO SOM

Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2011): 15-18 September 2011 in Porto Portugal

July 14, 2011 -- Can sound define a space? In sound, is there a Point-of-View or culturally-influenced focus of attention? Sound designers, musicians, audio engineers, composers, acousticians and others interested in "sound space" are invited to discuss these and other questions during the third annual Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS2011), scheduled for 15-18 September 2011 in Porto, Portugal.

Inspired by Portugal's proud history of navigators who set out to explore beyond the known and visible horizon, the theme of this year's symposium is "Explorando o espaço do som" ("Exploring Sound Space") and will celebrate the sound designers, composers and researchers who are exploring beyond the familiar horizons in sound and music. Set in the nautically-inspired Casa Da Musica, architect Rem Koolhaas' dramatic new music venue in Porto, the symposium promises four intensive days of workshops, keynotes, technical talks, films and live performances.

To cite just a few highlights:

* A mathematician and co-editor of a new book on the Sonic Spaces of Music (Spazi sonori della musica) will discuss the public space defining and defined by the sounds of the Trevi Fountain in Rome;
* Kyma practitioners will have opportunities to attend master classes, participate in interactive workshops and consulting sessions, and most importantly, to make connections with and to learn from fellow Kyma practitioners;
* The author of a new text for teaching and learning Kyma (published in both English and Chinese) will describe his search for the SumOfSines disco club;
* Plus there will be an abundance of technical talks on a wide range of topics including how to use the spectrum of a sound as a sequencer; techniques for data sonification; using sound to help people confront pain; how to create a dynamic sonic ecology; using context-free-grammars to simultaneously generate dance movements and trajectories through abstract timbre space; techniques for spectral modification & morphing; and more.

Evening performances are to include a screening of the very first science fiction film accompanied by a live-improvised electronic sound track generated by Kyma reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonorumori instruments; a portion of an audio documentary on Holocaust survivor Ksenija Drobac; and a live-generated audio/video film about Galileo that uses Kyma to control VJ software via Open Sound Control (OSC). Other live musical performances will create sound spaces controlled by (among other things) dancers, RFID cards held by the audience, iPads, Wacom tablets, video position trackers, Continuum fingerboards, SoftStep pedal-boards, OSC, acoustic instruments, the acoustics of the room itself, and even a sensor-enhanced Teddy Bear!

For more details on the program, please see: http://kiss2011.symbolicsound.com/program and join the mailing list to be kept up to date on future enhancements and additions.

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Kero's Bits & Beats Featuring Kyma Sounds

"Twisted Tools Presents Kero's Bits & Beats

[FREE SAMPLE PACK, BATTERY KITS AND KYMA SOUNDS]

Dateline June 1st, 2011. It’s summer time and Twisted Tools has decided to kick things off with an incredible free sample collection by Detroit Underground Records' KERO. The 184MB sample pack features an insane collection of bits and beats straight from KERO’s vaults which you can use freely in your own music productions!. Just login and download for free.

In addition to the samples, Twisted Tools has included some kits for Battery as well as two custom patches for KYMA! The KYMA patches were created by KYMA inventor and President of Symbolic Sound Corp., Carla Scaletti.

'Here is a collection of loops/samples taken from my Logic tracks that I have been working on for the past year. All samples made with Kyma Pacarana, Machinedrum, Virus TI, Monomachine, Nord3 and Monome. I hope you can make something interesting with them, Enjoy.'

Kero
[http://www.detroitunderground.net/]
[http://www.djkero.com]

This Kyma Sound lets you randomly access any of Kero’s twisted loops, processing the mid and side differently. Just roll the dice!”
Carla Scaletti
[http://www.symbolicsound.com/]

Kero's Bits & Beats Features:

184MB of royalty free oneshots and loops
16bit/44.1khz samples
Battery Kits
Kyma Kits by Carla Scaletti (KYMA Inventor and President of Symbolic Sound Corp.

Price: FREE

Availability: June 1st, 2011

Web: http://twistedtools.com/shop/samplepacks/free/kero/

Audio: http://twistedtools.com/shop/samplepacks/free/kero#Audio

Artist Quotes:

'Unique set of sounds from an amazing artist that can really come in handy… its great not to hear a bunch of same old redundant sounds I hear everywhere else… GOOD WORK!'
Drumcell -Droid Records / CLR

'Kero’s new sample collection, is a unique set of loops, bass-lines, DSP skeletal sequences and textures, that will surely inspire.'
Richard Devine – Schematic/Warp/Detund™

'Raw and uncompromising; frenetic and gritty, as complex and multilayered as the streets of Detroit.'
Carla Scaletti – President of Symbolic Sound Crop/Inventor KYMA

'Impeccable deep thick bass, drum loops, and hits, all in one-a collection of variety into elektro, drum & bass, new tech, miminalist, and more. A must have!'
K-HAND (Acacia, Gorsch, Kerohand USA)"

Strings for Rapture (Ode to the End of the World)

Strings for Rapture (Ode to the End of the World) from bar|none on Vimeo.

"This is a bit of noodling with a KYMA sound designed by Edmund Eagan for the Continuum that I adapted for the Eigenharp.

As you can hear, it has a lot of per note expression. Each key controls, velocity, pitch, timbre (reresonation of the strings), volume. phase, pick sound mix using roll, yaw, pressure, velocity of the keys, each key sending all this information INDEPENDENTLY!

There is a bit of bowed cello added which comes in only when I use the strip controller, everything else is one KYMA sound.

I'd like to extend my appreciation to Geert Bevin who designed the new MIDI configuration options for EigenD and made this connection possible. And of course to Edmund Eagan for this amazing sound, and to Symbolic Sound for KYMA."

Trent Reznor under Kyma control

YouTube Uploaded by thecoilnet on Mar 17, 2011

"Demoing Symbolic Sounds Kyma control app for the iPad"

Details and one more video on the coil.

Kyma Control - Symbolic Sound Corporation
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4 Serge and Kyma tracks via cebec

familiar vending by cebec