Kyma Control vs SpectrumGen

Kyma Control is the Swiss-army-knife of controllers for the Kyma Sound Design Workstation, providing four of the most popular Kyma controller-modes in one, wireless multi-touch package: a bi-directional mirror of Kyma's Virtual Control Surface, a multi-touch pen/tablet controller, a standard and a Tonnetz keyboard, accelerometer controls, and compass heading for using direction as a control. For use in the studio, on stage, in the lab, at home, or in classroom, Kyma Control frees you from having to sit in front of your laptop; put yourself inside the sound field and perform your Sounds in an expressive, intuitive manner using your hands and gestures. FEATURES • Auto-mapping, bi-directional multi-touch mirroring of Kyma's Virtual Control Surface (VCS) • View and select the active Sounds in a Kyma Multigrid • Pen/tablet surface tracking as many as 11 fingers with color trails to help you track finger position • A keyboard for sending !KeyDown and either continuous or discrete values for !KeyPitch & !KeyTimbre • A Tonnetz pitch-space with configurable vertical and horizontal intervals • Pitches can be rounded to equal tempered pitch, rounded only on !KeyDown and continuously variable after that, or, in Strum-mode, triggered when your finger passes by the key • Trigger or control Sounds with the iPad's accelerometer measurements in the X, Y, Z directions, as well as controls corresponding with Pitch, Roll and Yaw • Compass heading from the iPad's magnetometer tells you which way the iPad is pointing so you can use it for panning and other controls REQUIREMENTS • iPad, iOS 8 or newer • Symbolic Sound Kyma 7 (or newer) with Paca(rana) Sound Computation Engine • WiFi or Ethernet connection to network accessible to the Paca(rana)

SpectrumGen is a spectral synthesizer with a minimalistic pixel interface. It's a bit like the PixelWave, but now you can draw the spectrum of sound! Key features: • it is possible to draw the spectrum and play it at the same time; • export to WAV; • eight predefined timbres; • changeable number of octaves (from 2 to 8); • MIDI keyboard support; • Audiobus and IAA support. Dark colors - low frequencies (bass). Bright colors - high frequencies.