Re: [microsound] Kyma users?

[Alessandro Fogar <sfogar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Another way to go would be SuperCollider by James McCartney, a very very
powerful real time synthesis programming language for the PowerMac.

More info at http://www.audiosynth.com

Cheers

Alessandro Fogar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Knowles" <j.knowles@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] Kyma users?


> At 10:33 AM -0800 1/2/01, Kerry Uchida wrote:
> >
> >
> >Are there any Kyma users out there in the land of [microsound]
> >
> >
> >I've been drooling over this system for a while.
> >
> >Advice?  How does it integrate into your set up...etc.
> >
>
> I dont have it, but a friend of mine does... he took me on a tour a
> month or so ago... very nice system.. the only downside i could see
> is the expense. As it uses DSP cards for processing, if you run out
> of dsp, thats a new card you have to buy and they are not cheap. A
> lot of the funkier demos will not run on the base level system
> (spectral morphs etc..) which, i think, is 4 dsp chips, so that leads
> me to believe you will need to spend some considerable cash to get
> something that really rocks. Other than that though.. it seems
> extremely powerful and i like the look and feel of the environment.
> The other way to go is Max/MSP with native processing which will do a
> lot of what Kyma does, albeit in a slightly less friendly way.
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