The Coil - Remnants Free Sample Library

"Remnants is a free sample pack of 40 hi-tech sci-fi sounds processed through DSP algorithms and rendered in 24bit/48khz WAV format. As imprints of a machine apocalypse, residue ofcyber machines in disrepair, these sounds range from glitchy machine bits to ghostly vocal traces and evolving rhythmic artifacts intended for complex sound and music projects requiring a dark futuristic aesthetic."

The sample set features sounds from Kyma, Analog Solutions Leipzig and various studio recordings tweaked through DSP. You can find it here: http://thecoil.net/products/remnants.

Symbolic Sound Kyma Capybara 320 System with Firewire

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Perfect Circuit Audio

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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"

Similar to Tuvan

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."

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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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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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.

Richard Lainhart - Performances and Releases Featuring Buchla & Kyma

Posting this here vs. C as this is an opportunity for people to see a Buchla or Kyma in a live setting. Search for Richard Lainhart in the Google search box on the right for what you can expect. Note performances are different than lectures and of course the venue (setting) will have an impact.

See http://www.otownmedia.com/he/he.html for links and additional info.

"Performances:

Monday, July 18: I'll be performing my Electronic Music Foundation-commissioned work Threshold for electric guitar, Kyma, and New York environmental sounds as part of the World Listening Day celebrations at New York University, Steinhardt Education Building, 35 West 4th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10012. In collaboration with the Electronic Music Foundation and the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology, NYU's Music Technology Program will present a program of compositions and field recordings based on the sounds of New York City, in honor of world renowned composer and acoustic ecologist R. Murray Shafer's 78th birthday. The NYU events will take place from 4:15PM to 9PM. For more information, go here: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/2011/7/18/268503/world_listening_day

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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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4 Serge and Kyma tracks via cebec

familiar vending by cebec

Onda Kyma Hybrid Instruments Demo

OndaDemo-BowedCrystal-HydroGuitar-PluckDrum-SteelHarp by micahfrank
"A quick demo from the upcoming Onda library I’m developing. Onda is a collection of fictitious instruments physically modeled in Kyma. This showcases hybrid instruments Bowed Crystal, Guitar with a water-like resonator, a tuned drum with “plucking” characteristics and a steel drum/harp sorta thingy."
via Micah Frank

Symbolic Sound Kyma Capybara 320 Sound Design

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"Kyma Capybara-320 Basic Configuration (4 processors) + 4-channel audio I/O unit + Firewire + drivers + software

This unit + software was originally purchased for over $4400 (!!) (all receipts included) by its first owner with an extra 4 channel IO card, 2 DSP cards, rack mount kit and quiet fan.

The Kyma Capybara system can be used in many ways:
1-For sound design, complex sounds can be designed and assigned to multiple channels, synched to a timeline, like a score.
2-The unit can be controlled just like a MIDI synth, via the built in MIDI interface. Many types of synthesis are included, such as virtual analog, FM, physical modeling and a many more not available anywhere else.
3-Sounds can also be controlled in realtime using other interfaces such as a stylus tablet."

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Symbolic Sound Pacarana Synthesizer Kyma

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"The Pacarana by Symbolic Sound running Kyma software.

This is a world class, unparalleled sound design workstation used in most major Sound Design Houses on films and games such as Star Wars, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Quake II, Mirror's Edge, etc.."

Kyma Outbreak new

YouTube via cray56 | January 17, 2011 |

"Alien communication"

Kyma and Max. The constant down pour

YouTube via cray56 | January 12, 2011 |

"Symbolic Sound KYMA,Max 4 ive"

KYMA Outbreak

YouTube via cray56 | January 07, 2011 |

"Symbolic Sound KYMA"

DSP Card For Symbolic Sound Kyma Capybara 320

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"2 (two) dsp cards available for the Symbolic Sound Kyma Capybara 320 system. Each card adds 2 DSP's to your system."

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Buchla 296e Inspired - on Symbolic Sound's Kyma

Buchla 296e Inspired from bar|none on Vimeo.

"Buchla 296e inspired patch written in KYMA.

Here's the real deal vimeo.com/​17214189

I posted on the Kyma forum wondering if Kyma could simulate this and some members stepped up, particularly "Keph" (aka Ben) who created and fine-tuned this patch written in Kyma as a simulation of what the Buchla module is doing. He kinda went crazy and added all sorts of additional controls.

This is essentially 2x16 band modal filters that are animated across a stereo A/B buss. Independent animation of frequency amplitude and bandwidth (q) of each band.

This is one drum loop through this filter dry, no other effects."