eighth nerve: news from the kyma community
CHAMPAIGN, IL—April 6, 2006—Symbolic Sound Corporation announces that Kyma X.32 (released on 13 March 2006) is a Universal Binary that runs on the new Intel-based Macs as well as on
PowerPC?-based Macs and Intel-based PCs running Windows.
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CHAMPAIGN, IL—February 14, 2006—Symbolic Sound Corporation has developed a new technique for morphing, warping, and synthesizing sound in the Kyma sound design environment. The
Tau and its accompanying graphic editor provide tools for creating natural sounding multi-way audio morphs, insane transmogrifications, and mysterious synthesized effects.
Listen to some examples here.
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CHAMPAIGN, IL—December 31, 2004—Symbolic Sound today announced that Kyma X.1™, the next major update to the world’s most advanced sound design environment, is now shipping. Kyma X.1 delivers its enhancements in threes: support for using a Wacom pen and tablet as a
3 dimensional control surface,
3 new kinds of oscillators, modules for turning presets into a
3 dimensional parameter subspace, plus other enhancements and improvements to the Kyma X sound design
Here is a video demonstration of the pen tablet in use with Kyma (requires
Quicktime 6):
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CHAMPAIGN, IL—January 3, 2005—The editors of
Electronic Musician magazine have just named Kyma X, the
best sound design workstation and one of the
25 Hottest New Products of the Year. Kyma has won this honor twice before (once for Kyma 4.5 in 1998 and again in 2001 for Kyma.5).
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15 January 2004 — Kyma X™, the next major release of the world’s most advanced sound design environment, is now shipping. Kyma X delivers over 70 new breakthrough features including an elegant new look, an all-new 432 page book of never-before-revealed Kyma secrets, an editor where Kyma users can create their own Tools and add them to the Tools menu, and substantial changes in the underlying structure that make it possible for Kyma to run under Mac OS X and Windows XP and 2000 (while still maintaining compatibility with OS 9, Win 98, and Win ME.
15 January 2004 — Dateline 1995: Sun launches JAVA, America Online introduces Internet access, Netscape goes public, Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 1.0, Apple introduces the PowerMac 7200, and Symbolic Sound Corporation (founded in 1989) goes public with its first website.
Flash forward to 2004: a radical redesign, easier to navigate and search, secure online order forms, a minimalist aesthetic, easier to update, enhancements to the online community and technical support. More and better informational content. Progress is good.
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15 January 2004 — Kyma users now have an additional method for tapping into the amazing collective expertise of the Kyma community.
kyma•tweaky may look like a normal web site...but it allows members to edit pages and add content using a web browser.
kyma•tweaky is a
TWikiSite (pronounced twee-kee site), a web-based collaboration platform where geographically distributed colleagues can work together to build a knowledge base on a topic of mutual interest.
Kyma users can download "patches" contributed by their colleagues, browse lists of tips and advice, post their upcoming concerts or other projects to the events calendar, and pose/answer questions on sound design, acoustics, or the meaning of life.
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