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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to
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knowing that he would understand an
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These sections tend to be graphical
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Go ahead and set this up now, so th
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First, Kyma asks you to invest some
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Grammar Kyma “sentences” are co
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A Sound, no matter how complex, can
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Whether you are composing or design
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Data-driven Sound Patterns in exper
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Preproduction The items in the Tool
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♦ The spectrum editor is a two-di
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Sound, Sound File, and Sound Editor
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Help and Information For on-line he
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tem. However, you can drag a Sound
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Delete To remove Sound A from the s
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Whenever you want to make sure that
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Parameters Suppose you wanted to dr
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to replace the old value. § Then u
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Event Values Even though the Generi
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Status Whenever you play a Sound th
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Kyma will make an association betwe
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Scale and Offset 90% of all arithme
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So if you see a parameter field tha
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Automation To prevent a controller
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Single Musical Tones You can also m
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Adjust the fader upwards until you
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III. Synchronizing the Analyses At
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Output MIDI Getting Wired MIDI Note
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Generating MIDI If you want to turn
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Note that if you decide to switch t
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Playing Back Samples from the Capyb
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Scripts OK, now for a verbal explan
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every 256 samples, it outputs the s
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Stereo Placement If a sound source
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Tap Tempo This file contains exampl
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Time Scaling This section is the du
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Timing Clock, MTC When you use Kyma
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faster rate than once per second! D
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Timbre Like an amplitude envelope,
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will output 256 tracks on each fram
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Tuning In Kyma, the smallest change
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Click the Create Example button; Ky
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Group-additive Synthesis In additiv
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Whooshes, Hits, Bys These are some
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You have defined a general stereo l
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Click in a light area to draw a dar
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First, in the Class Description fie
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Now your script should look like th
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Now use a continuous control on the
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Now let’s make a transformation t
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Part III: Exercises Time/frequency
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Creating a Wavetable using the Samp
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Kyma Quick Reference System Prototy
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Working with the Parameter Fields o
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Specifying Units in Parameter Field
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Virtual Control Surface The axes of
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Spectrum Editor Overview Navigating
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Sample File Editor This box indicat
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Prototypes Reference
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ADSR Envelopes & Control Signals Ca
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AnalogSequencer Sequencers Category
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#(!Morph 0 0.25 1) #(!Pan 0 0.5 1)
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Annotation Variables & Annotation C
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ArcTan Math Category The output of
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AudioInput Sampling Category An Aud
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CellularAutomaton Scripts Category
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CenteringMixer Mixing & Panning Cat
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ChannelJoin Mixing & Panning Catego
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Chopper Envelopes & Control Signals
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ContextFreeGrammar Scripts Category
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Crossfade Level, Compression, Expan
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Interpolation When Linear is select
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DiskCache Sampling Category Stores
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DiskRecorder Sampling Category Reco
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DynamicRangeController Level, Compr
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EndTogetherMixer Mixing & Panning C
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FeedbackLoopInput Xtra Category A F
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FFT Spectral Analysis FFT Category
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Feedback The higher the Feedback, t
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FormantBankOscillator Xtra Sources
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FrequencyTracker Tracking Live Inpu
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FunctionGenerator Envelopes & Contr
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GAOscillators Xtra Sources Category
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GenericSource Xtra Sources Category
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To specify a constant duration, no
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GraphicEQ Filters Category This giv
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HighShelvingFilter Filters Category
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IteratedWaveshaper Distortion & Wav
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the samples to be mapped. LoFreq Lo
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LiveSpectralAnalysis Tracking Live
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LowShelvingFilter Filters Category
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Matrix8 Spatializing Category This
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MemoryWriter Sampling Category When
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MIDIFileEcho MIDI Out Category This
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MIDI file). Set Channel to 0 to use
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MIDIOutputController MIDI Out Categ
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MIDIOutputEventInBytes MIDI Out Cat
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Polyphony Number of simultaneous MI
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Mixer Mixing & Panning Category Add
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MultifileDiskPlayer Sampling Catego
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Multisample Sampling Category This
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MultisegmentEnvelope Envelopes & Co
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Noise Xtra Sources Category This ge
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actualFreq := Frequency + (Frequenc
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OscilloscopeDisplay Tracking Live I
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Output8 Spatializing Category This
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Pan Mixing & Panning Category Place
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PeakDetector Tracking Live Input Ca
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PresenceFilter Filters Category Act
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Product Math Category Outputs the p
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When reset is nonzero, it resets th
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QuadOscillator Xtra Sources Categor
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0 (maximum attenuation) !Fader1 (co
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ReverbSection Reverb, Delay, Feedba
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RhythmicCellularAutomaton Scripts C
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RunningMax Math Category Output is
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Sample Sampling Category Plays the
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SampleAndHold Sampling Category A S
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Pan This is the stereo position of
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ScaleAndOffset Math Category The ou
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Controls the level of the SideChain
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SetRange Math Category This maps th
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SingleSideBandRM Frequency & Time S
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SoundCollectionVariable Variables C
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SpectralShape Spectral Sources Cate
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SpectrumFrequencyScale Spectral Mod
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SpectrumLogToLinear Spectral Modifi
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FreqHysteresis Enter a frequency or
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SpectrumOnDisk Spectral Sources Cat
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SqrtMagnitude Math Category This is
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StereoInOutput8 Spatializing Catego
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StereoMix4 Mixing & Panning Categor
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SumOfSines Xtra Sources Category Re
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exact time within the sample where
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smallest array will be used, and an
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every other value of this Sound wil
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Threshold Tracking Live Input Categ
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TimeFrequencyScale Frequency & Time
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TimeOffset Time & Duration Category
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TwoFormantElement Filters Category
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full amplitude use +1.0 or -1.0; an
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VCA Envelopes & Control Signals Cat
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LowCF This is the center frequency
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TimeConstant Controls the reaction
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WarpedTimeIndex Time & Duration Cat
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Compression/Expansion Gain 265 Cros
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Math Difference 245 Math Equality 2
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Spatializing Output8 312 Spatializi
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DiskCache Disk 246 DiskPlayer Sampl
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Mixer Distortion & Waveshaping 298
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SpectrumInRAM Spectral Sources 355
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Menu Operations The menus available
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About the table: ♦ File Descripti
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File menu: Close File menu: Save…
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For more information, see Virtual C
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Edit menu: Undo Edit menu: Cut Edit
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Edit menu: Trim The Trim operation
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♦ Icon Size in Sound Editor Field
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♦ If the file name has a complete
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Time and Time Code Displays The tim
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speeds that may be compatible with
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Even if the selected Sound cannot p
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Info menu: Describe sound Describe
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Tools Menu FFT and the window funct
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Using the Tool Choose Spectral Anal
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If you are unsure which type of fil
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If you hear clipping in the resynth
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The Tool performs an analysis that
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The main page of the Tool contains
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Clicking on Cents Scale brings up t
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This part of the tool reads lines f
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System Prototypes and the Sound Fil
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Creating and Editing Sounds In Kyma
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Clicking the arrow tab on Vocoder1,
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You can adjust the layout of the si
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Double-click a Sound in the signal
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An envelope breakpoint field is use
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Specifying Numbers You specify numb
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Event Values, Virtual Control Surfa
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Event Sources are specified by prec
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By default, Sounds in hot parameter
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Booleans The real-time evaluator ca
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Symbolic Times and Frequencies Use
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Event Value via the MIDI input of t
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Defining a controller type in the g
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Because the compiled Sounds do not
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Display Amplitude Envelopes F10 Joi
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Markers F5 F6 F7 F8 You can use mar
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Exporting, Importing and Post-Proce
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The icon buttons perform actions th
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enter the length of time you want t
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Feedback Typically, you use the Fee
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expands the display in the time dir
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that can be used as waveshapers by
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Internal oo These are used internal
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Windows Pythag These are symmetric
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Variables By introducing variables,
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Playing a Lifted Sound Environments
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Comments Variables Binary messages
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Arithmetic Operations Besides the u
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Booleans Alternatively, you can pla
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Conditionals i := 0. [i 1 s) varIf
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Scripting MIDI Scripts There are tw
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Sequences and Mixes An EventSequenc
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MIDIFileInterpreter Events With a M
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Variables could be rewritten as a l
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As a final illustration, let’s ta
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If you click OK, the program will p
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The next example is called Serial E
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The Class Editor In the course of d
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its range of legal values, its defa
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Organizing the New Classes To keep
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midiFileName any legal MIDI file na
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snd duration: (1.0 / snd frequency
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Suppose you had a ParameterTransfor
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Background Materials Reference Book
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Conferences Journals Magazines IEEE