Kyma for the Mac

prolly being talked about ages ago but a frienx sent a lonk over and i had a look, ity looks good anyone use it?

http://www.symbolicsound.com/brochure/index.html

[yenorom]

I was thinking about getting one but I'm going to go for a new mac G5 instead. Maybe next year though.

The mp3 demos on the site are worth checking out. later in the year symbolic sound are going to make kyma a plug-in which should be well cool. Kyma has got a very good reputaion for reliability, I've seen reviews on harmony central where people say things like "I haven't had a crash in 4 years", can any one say that about reaktor or max/msp?

The real pisser is that if you get one from the usa you have to pay vat on it when it gets into the uk, thats another £600 on top of the price!

Users I know of are:
Arovane
Richard Devine -Alleamapper has loads of Kyma sounding morphy stuff on it
Autechre - Loads of Confield was done on Kyma apparently
Star Wars - The pod race in Episode 1 and some of the spaceship noises.
The Matrix 1- The mad scream/modem noise when neo takes the pill.

[KaOz]

kyma 5 is cool shit... but i think it still doesnt run under X and dont support asio and shit....

nothing fucks with max

[Ava]

well, max has only ever crashed twice on me , except when i have been using dodgy VSTs.

but Supercollider! never crashes ever unless you overload the CPU with bad loops in your code.

[Ava]

kyma does look fookin good tho... but at $3300 dollars for a bsic system its kinda steep....

i'm waitng for networked shit cheap/free pcs running max in a kinda parallel processing type scenario.