Audio Feedback Loops in Digital: Cybernetic Music in Symbolic Sound Kyma 7 | Simon Hutchinson

Building some feedback loops in the digital domain using Symbolic Sound's Kyma 7.
In audio feedback loops, the output of the system is fed back into an input. We're probably most familiar with this when we put a microphone in front of a speaker and we get the "howling" sound. Here, though, I'm intentionally building digital feedback loops in order to explore the sonic possibilities of these rather unpredictable systems.
In order to keep my feedback loop interesting, though, I need to keep it from dying away to silence, or blowing up into white noise. By considering the different processes we apply to the audio in the loop (are they adding spectral complexity or removing it?), we can try to make feedback patches that are dynamic and interesting over time.
0:00 The Continuum of Spectral Complexity
3:13 Staring with an Sine Wave in Kyma
4:45 Delay with Feedback
5:49 Building Feedback Loops Manually
8:40 Ring-Modulating the Feedback
11:20 Gain and Saturation
14:22 Exploring the Sound
16:16 Filter Bank
19:05 Jamming with the Patch
22:18 Thinking about Control
23:25 Performing the Sound
26:34 Feedback Loop with Reverb
28:10 Making it into IDM with the Chopper
29:22 So What? Next Steps
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[@MsYablonsky]

When I first saw this video I was avidly consuming every Kyma related content to decide if I coukd justify the purchase of a system.
Now that I got one I cant wait to go through your tutorials?
Thanks for this

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thanks for watching! Glad to hear it. My Kyma playlist is still relatively short (th-cam.com/play/PL7w4cOVVxL6HKGAY2WXAqZRW4ocsAb8DA.html&si=34Qd4AzOQMctA99o), but you should also check out SpectralEvolver's intro videos too: th-cam.com/video/oXclgZ0LUAA/w-d-xo.html

[@MsYablonsky]

great

[@kostiantynbogomazov6621]

so happy I found this channel, great tutorial and explanation!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thanks! Welcome!

[@smuff73]

Brilliant as always!!

[@SimonHutchinson]

You're too kind! Thanks!

[@dzir]

Thank you for this!

[@PufftasticJames4]

Hey, I love your tutorials on Kyma. Y'know Ben Burtt is an avid Kyma user and he used it for the robot vocal effects in WALL-E. I would love to see how you would do EVE's vocoder effect.

[@rhialto39]

Any chance you'd consider including links to the actual sound files? I'd love to be able to download it and tinker with them in Kyma (because I'm lazy, obviously).

[@SimonHutchinson]

It's a fair question. I generally don't post files for a few reasons, but perhaps the most compelling reason is that these videos are, in part, for my students, and I want to be able to encourage them to build things themselves (at least most of the time).
...but, even a more pragmatic reason: I don't generally hold on to the files after I'm done!

[@Tobi-oi3uf]

Noice

[@user-mu1in6el5p]

Thanks for the tut. This sounds awful 😂