Learning curve is pretty high, but you can choose your own level. It's likea bag of onions. A whole bunch of instruments that you can peel and modifyall the way down to pure assembly code if wanted (nirvana?!). Once you havean instrument it's the easiest thing in the world to run it.
It's a hefty investment , but in return Symbolic sound has the most generousupgrade system I know of. Sure the new G5 is probably faster than currentbasic Kyma platform, but not for long. And when the upgrade happens you willbe able to trade in your old Capybara for a nominal fee, even if you boughtthe Kyma used on ebay! Same goes for software updates (lots of it. at least6 times a year). That's more than you can say about your Mac or PC.
I just finished a score for a movie called "Blind Horizon", where more orless all synth sounds have been created with the MOTM / Kyma rig and Csound.Some stuff augmented with an old Fairlight III (melotron choir and cello).
The movie is a spy thriller with Wal Kilmer and Fay Dhunaway hitting theatersafter Xmas.
You can hear the MOTM growl in all the pads and basses. I also used alotof MOTM for explosive FX hits. Most of the wind sounds are pure MOTM withKyma surround treatment. I'll see if I can figure out how to post stuffon the yahoo group, if so I can through up some sound examples for you tocheck out.
Tobias
Mike Estee wrote:
On Sep 30, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Scott Juskiw wrote:
> At 3:58 PM +0000 2003/09/30, Mike Marsh wrote:
>> The learning is pretty huge, but that's more than half the fun!
>> There are many levels to the beast and you can make new, creative
>> stuff at any of them. From tweaking the existing 1,000 soundsto
>> programming your own primitives in DSP assembly and all pointsin
>> between.
>
> I'm wondering how the Kyma compares to something like the Soundart
> Chameleon in terms of developing custom applications with DSP. I was
> thinking about getting a Chameleon, but if the Kyma can do all that
> and more, hmmmmm......
Different beasts. The Kyma is more comparable to an Eventide Orville
than a Chameleon. The Soundart box is great to play with if you enjoy
DSP programming. There are no fancy GUI tools, no drag and drop wires
to connect up. The DSP on the Soundart box is rather wimpy (56303) by
todays standards, also, you can't pull anything higher than 24/48. The
Kyma on the other hand can basically grow to fit the size of your
pocket book. On the other hand, the cost of the Chameleon is about what
you'll pay in sales tax for a Kyma setup...
--mikes
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