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1. Biase DIE WELCOME Thanks for purchasing BML Mural Volume 1 The first of our definitive deeply sampled symphonic string range A new gold standard in orchestral sampling We strongly urge you to read this manual as the BML range is packed with features not found yet in some of our other products With particular attention to the Front Panel page 7 which is designed lovingly to help you get the most out of these samples and to make them your own About Spitfire Audio Spitfire was formed in 2008 by a group of successful British composers as a means of producing the tools they needed for their busy work schedules Sick of dry humourless ugly unrealistic enormously untam able sounding libraries Spitfire set about redefining the way samples were created Our aim is to reproduce the conditions of top movie recording sessions and approach sampling as if we were recording a film score one note at a time We don t imitate how film scores are recorded we repli cate them by using the same facilities signal chain techniques and musical amp technical talent We record performances and parts thereof not scientifically created samples and importantly we record the room they play in If you are wanting perfectly tuned normalised or dry samples you have probably come to the wrong place For here you may find the odd string squeak a fruity note and lots and lot2. Best used with short articulations this ever evolving device that can offer instant chaotic inspiration be used to create scientifically designed rhythms ostinati and arpeggiated sequences to shimmering tremolando effects SETTINGS LOAD SAVE Allows you to store your preciously made Ostinati MODE Selects how the Ostinatum will interpret your playing Ostinatum will sequence a maximum of 10 notes one for each of your fingers It needs to arrange them into a note order 1 10 and this determines how it does that OFF The default postion Ostinatum remains dormant ORDER PRESSED This will organise the notes in the order you pressed them ASCENDING From bottom to top DESCENDING From top to bottom CONTROL KEYSWITCHES Allows you to set up a section of the keyboard that controls the state of the ostinatum These keyswitch let you turn it off or set the Mode SOLO KEYSWITCHES Allows you to dedicate a section of the keyboard to keyswitches that solo each ostinatum track The first KS turns all tracks on the following KS solo each individual track CHORD MODE This ignores any note order and simply plays everything polyphonically great for measured trem style effects This is a real time note order display So with Ascending mode activated a c major triad played from middle C up will show up 12 C4 2 3 G4 These note numbered assignments are processed in the THE RHYTHM COMPUTER MOTE zc
3. Robins With No Skip As above but this plays a pair but doesn t move ahead by 2 so that RR isn t halved So if you press a note it would play RR1 RR2 then RR2 RR3 then RR3 RR4 ROUND ROBINS This refers to the number of round robins multiple recordings of the same notes that cycle around as you repeatedly play a note your instrument uses the number can be dragged up and down 1 8 to save you memory RESET FROM FO This enables you to control the round robin cycle so it sounds identical every time you play toggle on amp play the key selected default FO to reset RESET ON TRANSPORT As above but resets every time you press play Genius SHORT ARTICULATIONS RT This new option allows you to toggle whether staccato tenuto marcato notes have a release trigger that plays on release This lets you tighten up staccatos or end marcatos tenutos earlier than they were recorded EXPRESSION CONTROLS Mural comes with a fantastic new selection of expression controls Dial these CC s into your midi controller for an infinate choice of emotional and human responses DYNAMICS CC71 This slider displays and controls which dynamic layer is live Also con trolled via the modulation wheel VIBRATO CCZ21 This mixes between vobrato and non or senza vibrato SPEED CC 16 Controls legato interval speed Great to use when playing the lines into your DAW for more responsive less laggy control Dial back on playback for greater
4. for your canon Before putting the keys in the ignition just a quick word on musicians Without them we wouldn t have this library Its designed to help us all write better music for them to play To hire smaller bands and have them play material that is appropriate to their size To encourage people who have never written for brass to dive in with confidence We are not here to do away with musicians we wouldn t pay them a voluntary royalty from sales if we were So whenever you can please go live even if its one or two play ers single solo horn on the top line can make all the difference so even if the budget doesn t permit ask your producer or director to see what they can find down the back of the sofa CONTENTS SPECIFICATIONS LETS STARTED 6 THE OVERVIEW PANEL 7 THE PANEL SWITCHER ARTICULATIONS 9 MICS amp MIXES 11 THE EXPERT PANEL 13 GENERAL CONTROLS 14 EXPRESSION CONTROLS 5 ADVANCED MIXER 16 ADVANCED POLYPHONIC LEGATO 17 ADVANCED ARTICULATIONS 18 ADVANCED SIDE BAR 20 ADVANCED THE COG 21 THE OSTINATUM 22 UACC 25 TROUBLESHOOTS 26 SPECIFICATIONS KONTAKT BML is NOT a Kontakt Player library so you WILL need a full version Kontakt to run it PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF EITHER KONTAKT 4 2 4 OR 5 INSTALLED Be cause this module doesn t authorise through the NI Service Centre and is personally watermarked you will be able to install on all the machines you own Owning a full
5. or indeed to make best use of your system resources MURAL VOLUME 1 ALLIN ONES Split into CORE DECORATIVE and LEGATO Load these to get the full BML experience ECONOMICAL BRUSHES A collection of less stressful system wise instruments INDIVIDUAL BRUSHES For the template heads out there Each articulation loaded into it s own soli tary instrument with keyswitches articulations locked OTHER BRUSHES Which includes overlays for Albion BML Flutes Loegria Sable Solo Strings This is also where the time machine short notes brushes and the punch cog brushes THE NEW OVERVIEW PANEL MIC MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS V1 Core palette vol2 1 Output st 1 IP Voices OF Plax 400 Purge ridna 6 Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 10 34 ME EE MANUFACTURED IN GREAT HRITAIM PANEL SWITCHER ARTICULATIONS B M L car PAGE 7 THE BRITISH MODULAR LIBRARY PANEL SWITCHER This toggles between the three different views available in BML101 1 OVERVIEW The default GUI with a selection of easy to use parameters Page 7 2 EXPERT The familiar Spithre GUI with deeper tweaking parameters Page 13 3 THE OSTINATUM Our ingenious and inspiring rhythm sequencer Page 22 ARTICULATIONS ARTICULATION STANZA On the right of the diagram above you will see a line of musical notes These actually denote key articula t
6. realism INTENSITY CC 15 This is a great way to vary and humanise the legato articulations Dial it all the way up for a more pronounced emotional start to each note dial it back for a more transparent transition RELEASE CC 17 Dial all the way for slow passages when using long articulations it helps blur the transition in a natural and musical Way Dial back for more focus and detail TIGHTNESS CC 518 We proudly cut our samples from the true beginning of the note as the bow engages the string and the rosin begins to weave it s net effect of this is laggy and sometimes very small inconsistencies in timing Which we love It Sounds real But it s not to everyone s taste This ingenious device allows you to tighten and loosen to your heart s content An excellent use of this is to dial it all the way to the right in order to lay your part in Once you re happy adjust to taste and put a negative delay in the track 4 of your DAW which is the same amount as the Tightness setting EXPRESSION CC711 Displays the overall instrument volume 0 100 Remember you can also trim your instrument volume with CC 7 ADVANCED STUFF MIXER MENU CLICK ON THESE ICONS FORIDEEPER MIX CONTROL 1 VELOCITY RESPONSE Pick from 4 different velocity curves to suit your controller 2 CLOSE MIC PAN COLLAPSER The close mics are a stereo mix and this collapser allows you to refine how the stereo image is handled All
7. ultimate sound of the band the hall and are the default mic position that loads in with each patch A Ambient A set of condenser mics placed high up in the gallery away from the band This mic position gives a mas sive amount of stereo spread and room sound over the band Great mixed in with the other mics but also ideal fed to your Ls amp Rs speaker sends for true surround information O Outriggers a set of vintage mics placed wide apart to the left and right of the tree These give a similar balance of room and band but with a broader stereo spread The effect of this mic is somewhere between the tree and ambient mics L Leader microphone placed closer to the leader for that slightly more traditional perspective This is recorded at the same time as the rest of the band so there is spill But for the larger instruments where the body produces more sound to eclpise the other players this spill is minimal so these mics can be used as an excellent mockup tool for solos EXTENDED ARRAY FORTHCOMING ST Stereo Mic These are totally different mics in a totally different position to the tree closer to ground level and have a more direct and immediate sound than the tree G Gallery mics three mics at the very furthest point from the band way up in the gallery A true representation of Aur Studios amazing ambience CR Close ribbons Placed next to the standard close mics but using a rarefied selection of vintage ribbon mi
8. version of Kontakt will afford you the luxury of being able to edit and revise the patches to your particular preference Remember we pride ourselves in making truly esoteric tools so if there s a sample you don t like you can change it for another with relative ease check out the new Punch Cog on page 15 to see how you can easily do this RECOMMENDED SPEC The better your computer the better the performance of any Spitfire module But not to worry if you re not spec d up to the hilt All programs are provided with a set of parameters that enable you to tone back the CPU demands of any given patch But moving forward we re confident this module will keep your computer busy for many years to come We recommend a combination of high processor speeds a good chunk of memory and a devoted 7200rpm eSata USBII Thunderbolt or Firewire audio drive The more memory you have the less demand placed on your drive and having a totally devoted drive gives you the chance to load less into memory and reduce load times The higher the speed of your CPU the more ca pable your computer will be to deal with some of the amazing but complicated scripts we ve written PCs We recommend Windows 7 latest Service Pack 32 64 Bit Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2 GB RAM 4 GB recommended MACs We recommend Mac OS X 10 6 10 7 or 10 8 latest update Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 4 GB recom mended DRIVES Firewire USBII or eSata 7200rpm Ask y
9. when recording but will use more when playing back so again try recording with Just one mic then dial in others once you re happy If you re still suffering may we suggest you try and manage your pre load buffer Kontakt pre loads some samples into memory so that when you hit a note Kontakt plays it out from RAM whilst addressing the rest of your samples from your hard drive s The slower your drives the more you may want to rely on RAM the faster the drives or smaller RAM available the more you may want to rely or your drives If you re using the latest generation of SSDs you ll find you can radically reduce your pre load buffer Referring to the plate above tick the Instruments Default Pre Load Buffer Size and drag the fader to a setting you re happy with A QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank Dominic Kelly Alison Burton and the whole of the Air Studios team To Jake Jackson for making everything sound so marvellous and the remarkable talents im mense intellect and invention of James Bellamy Stanley Gabriel Andrew Blaney Blake Robinson Stu Kennedy Joe Toby Seb Patrick Cicely Brett and Jess Most of all we would like to thank the amazing support and loyalty of our user base our Facebook friends and everyone at VI Control We are in the same boat as all of you We re not content and software developers by trade so appreciate your honesty in paying your way to be a part of our family and not distributin
10. Kontakt Visit your trusty service centre and we hope this page remains relatively under thumbed e My instrument or patch seems to be playing just bits of sound some keys are missing and there s lots of clicks and crackles Make sure that your patch is fully loaded detailed on the front panel page 8 Some of these are biggies so can take a while But if problems persist make sure Kontakt memory manager is activated Interface KMS KONTAKT Memory Server Engine Handling Ej Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GB RAM Please refer to the user manual for further information Load Import accessible RAM For memory server 7 2 GB Database Memory Seruer mode Memory Automatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the server MIDI O Manual Instrument preload buffer size Instrument s preload size 60 00 kB You ll have to restart this instance of Kontakt to feel it s benefits Another reason your system may be struggling is that you re using too many mics live for the spec of your ma chine Try cutting the mics as detailed on the front panel to see if this cures your problem If it does don t worry you can still use these mics just play in your parts with one active we recommend the T ree and then activate multiple mics and render down eg freeze function in Logic Studio Some DAWS ahem Logic only use one core of your computer
11. STRINGS A real favorite here Longs that change slowly in a tense manner Great for minimal moments where you want to keep your listener engaged ADDITIONAL PATCHES FOR 2nd VIOLINS amp VIOLAS these articulations are available for the 1st violins cellos and basses in Volume 1 ARTIFICIAL HARMONICS By resting a finger lightly on a string a fourth above the pitch it is being played at a harmonic tone is formed The resulting sound is 2 octaves above the pitch being played It is an unusual technique and requires a huge amount of skill we have decided to keep the samples with all the unusual artefacts and tuning imperfections you would get intact We believe this is what gives these techniques their character BARTOK PIZZ Sometimes called SNAP PIZZ Plucked as above but with the string being very much pulled away from the neck to provide a harsh snapping cracking sound These are very much used incidently in music and wouldn t be recommended for repeated phrases FLAUTANDO These are difficult to get right with an orchestra Especially of this size In the wrong hands they can sound thin cold and ugly In the right hands they can be the most inspiring tool for tender soft and understated but deeply moving compositions We achieved these long articulations by offering up the quite complicated instruction on the scores Flautando poco sul tasto warm and harmonic like poco vibrato The players we believe then played with the bow s
12. TICULATION SELECTION LAYERING To layer sounds within the articulation set simply SHIFT click on your next articulation Rather than in troducing a multitude of more confusing layered articulation options the front panel shows and edits only the most recently layered articulation TRIGGERING For triggering options CTRL or COMMAND click on the articulation icon ft Voices D Max 400 Purge gt i Memory 10 34 MB Short 0 5 E Long Sul Tasto Enabled How would you like to trigger this articulation e Activate 7 this articulation with keyswitch p SS Legato intervals only By By KS By Vel By MIDI By Speed e range range channel of playing Reset Ignore if purged Group Global By CC Range This will allow you to use a single controller channel to switch between artics This allows you to fine tune on your MIDI event list or to use a midi controller fader or indeed button with a single range assigned to select your desired artic Our default setting is guided by our UACC protocol see page 25 By KS The default setting BML ts scripted so it won t switch mid note but wait til the next not on event before switching This means you re able to play the key switch say whilst playing a long note and have it switch to a staccato on your next note By Velocity Range his is great for designing intelligent staccato patches that say become staccatis
13. age valve and ribbon mics to 2 tape through custom Neve Monserrat preamps and Prism convertors at the hall in Air Studios one of the greatest scoring stages in the world With different stereo and 5 1 mixed ver sions from our chief engineer Jake Jackson the library is designed to be scalable for a variety of systems from your laptop on the red eye from NY to LA to your multi slaved rig back at your studio compound 309 VOLUME 2 FUNDAMENTAL ARTICULATIONS After the masterful simplicity of the Albion epic out of the box orchestral ensembles and the finely crafted detail and beauty of the Sable chamber string range Spitfire at last are creating the ultimate symphonic sized detailed string collection as part of their comprehensive British Modular Range Spit fire s long term project to create the greatest sounding deepest sampled and ultimately future proofed living orchestral virtual instruments collection on the planet As with Spitfire s entire BML range Mural features the best musicians working in London today playing rarefied and priceless instruments The English Session Orchestra comprise the finest session musicians on the London scene all of whom have played on the majority of A list movies recorded here a healthy mix of seasoned session players interspersed with international soloists high profile chamber musicians and emerging young talent Recorded by Jake Jackson at Air Studios one of the finest recording
14. ale Pe J 2 ost LENGTH J E i iT NOTE MENU Click these to place a note into the computer at the length you desire Trash removes and scroll down dif ferent pre designed sequences to the right of this The cog allows you further fine tuning and configuration tools LENGTH This displays the note lengths in sequence that you have selected from the Note Menu Drag down here to cre ate rest versions of the note length KEY Under each note you can then select which key displayed in real time in the Transport this note is attached to Scroll up and down to select OFFSET Adjust these bars up and down to adjust the velocity levels of each notes this will bring your rhythm sequence to life and provide you with all sorts of surprising syncopated accents OSTINATUM ADVANCED USE With the Ostinatum machine theres a dropdown on the rhythm computer allowing you to switch between and create up to 8 different patterns By default these layer on top of each other but you can also configure them to be solo using either the Ostinatum track options Don t mute this pattern Or using the solo keyswitch option With Solo Keyswitch 9 new customisable keyswitches are added to the keyboard The very first one unmutes all tracks so that they play together The next eight solo each individual track respectively When you press them everything but that keyswitchs track is muted shown yellow on the keyswitch keyboard Wit
15. bled and disabled It s a handy way to quickly turn off legato speed velocity switching if the user doesn t want it TRIGGER PANEL 9 Legato intervals only Reset Ignore if purged Group Global T Reset will clear the trigger for this articulation allowing you to set it to a different type or disable it per manently Legato intervals only will only activate this trigger if the notes played are legato intervals Ignore if purged means that this trigger will only occur if the articulation is not purged Group allows you to group together triggers When set the trigger only occurs when an articulation in the same group is currently active For example use this if you wanted to set up speed triggers on legato articulations but don t want them to trigger if you have staccatos marc shorts selected ADVANCED STUFF SIDE BAR OPTIONS 1 THE COG An awesome tool for fine tuning and tweaking your patches See page 18 2 KEYBOARD SHIMMIER This shifts your bank of keyswitches left or right to suit your needs pref erences OF performance 3 KEYSWITCH TO CC SELECTOR Use this to assign a CC controller to act as articulation key switcher Click on CC and you ll be prompted to move the controller you wish to use in order for the instrument to learn how you d like to select articulations 4 ARTICULATION LOCKER We all like to select articulations and use our templates in different ways Many
16. composers like to have a single articulation loaded to each instance of an instrument for exam ple So its worth locking off the articulation switching once you ve selected one so you don t have sounds disappearing from slaves way off in your machine rooms Unlocked Artic Is the standard setting select articulations via the front panel or associated keyswitch Locked Artic This locks your articulation so it doesn t change either via front panel or keyswitch Locked Keyswitch This locks your articulation via keyswitch but you re free to switch via the front panel Locked to UACC This is a new standard being developed by Spitfire and detailed on page 25 The default controller channel is 32 but this can be changed by right CTRL clicking on the padlock ADVANCED STUFF THE PUNCH COG As we record our samples like you would a film score we actively encourage our musicians to make every note sound different To play with the flair that would be expected from them on a score shoot We like tuning imperfections little squeeks the odd breath of a human We like our pizzicatos loose and for the odd rub between players when playing transitions However much we apply our exacting taste principals onto our range we re never going to meet with every one s preferred quality bar or needs and expectations of a project So we present to you Blake Robinson s coup de grace A way of punching notes in and out like we used to in the old
17. cs to add a warm and rounded tone JAKE JACKSON MIXES 3 extraordinary mixes from our chief engineer to save your system resources B Broad a cinematic symphonic mix that allow the hall to really speak out M Medium a more intimate but still very classic version of the mix above F Fine a much more detailed and immediate sound with less hall great for pop EXPRESSION CONTROLS Key controllers for BML right click on a PC or command click on a mac to change which MIDI CC controls them For more details about these and other expressiong controllers go to page 15 THE EXPERT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS EXPRESSION CONTROLS n Tune Output st 1 4 I Vajces 0 400 urge i iin LE 6 Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 10 34 MB CAT No 309 MANUFACTURED IN GREAT BRITAIN Short 0 5 mo attack options no vibrato options P m f ey Cle MT B M L car PAGE 13 THE BRITISH MODULAR LIBRARY GENERAL CONTROLS OPTIONS PRESETS This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affectionately called articulation sets see page 5 quickly and easily to optimise your system quickly for essential articulations or to start building templates using empty shells PURGE UNUSED This control keeps unloading any samples you are not using to keep your memory usage as low as possible TRANSPOSE Toggle this on and tweak the n
18. days A way of customising your library to fit your taste and needs If there is a round robin you don t like or a long note where the tuning is a bit fruity Switch to the articula tion you were using Play until you find the Round Robin you don t like and then stop Observe the pic tured cog bottom left of the front panel Ul and click on it to get this dialogue 2 Output sf Voices O Maz Midi Ch A 1 97 96 HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK C7 RAI H sus h REMOWVE SI P THIS ADJUST ADJUST RE TUHNE Pe OL RELEASE HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK Then your last note played will be displayed if this is correct get tweaking SKIP THIS RR Will simply make it always jump along to the next round robin in the cycle ADJUST TUNE VOL Will adjust the tuning and or volume of the last played note ADJUST RELEASE This will alter the level of the release trigger which will effect the percieved decay of that note SAMPLE START If it feels loose adjust to the right tight adjust to the left NB this is only available in full cog patches REMOVE ALL NOTE TWEAKS This removes all custom changes you have made with the Cog THE OSTINATUM SETTINGS N RHYTHM COMPUTER VI 4 nn Output st 1 ih Voices OF Maos 400 Purge zT au Midi Ch A 1 Memory 97 96 MB Rae TRANSPORT OSTINATUM FRONT PANEL way let ALBION have all the fun
19. e surround for example Also good for tracklaying individual mics for your engineer to control in your final mix sessions For more information regarding Kontakt audio channels amp routing please consult your Kontakt User Manual ADVANCED STUFF PLOYPHONIC LEGATO Polyphonic legato enables you to effectively divisi a single section Or in layman s terms play more than one note with the legato articulations The way BML determines which line is transitioning to which note is via velocity So this is very much a post prod tool which you ll need to tweak to get your orcehstrations how you like them To enable click on the button and adjust the number to how many voices you wish to have 2 8 BML then divides the velocity range 127 by this number to determine which voice is transisting to which Once you ve played your arrangement in maybe by using a longs articulation go into your DAW and normalise all your velocity values Then simply lassoo each voice and alter the velocity to assign it a voice grouping For convenience here s a table of the ranges determined by numbers of voices Polyphony S Range e ee a eae eo ee 2 r n e31 ee eee ee ee ee 7 P Ol LI Gen DEN es Oe SL 2 Mi FER eT MA SIE 26 50 Uk 10 1p2 127 A ae 61 ier 22 42 ea 852105 ade 127 ifa ee ee ie 81 1 iets 45 32 33 S Aes 64 79 80595 oe ADVANCED STUFF AR
20. ession Layer or work with longs from volume 1 to go from cold and haunting to bursting forth with heartfelt angst LONGS SUL PONTICELLO Long articulations played close to the bridge to produce enharmonic distortion which give a spooky unsettling and unstable sound We have recorded 3 different types a traditional sul pont then muted or con sordino then distorted where the actual true pitch of the note starts to break down horrific LONGS SUL TASTO Opposite to sul pont The player plays with the bow further up the fingerboard giving a timid niave and heartbreaking sound MEASURED TREMS Rapid bowing 16 s or semiquavers at two tempi 120bpm and 150 These will lock to your host DAW tempo so select a patch that is closest to your core tempo These have the potential to be a workhorse patch and are massively versatile Great for adding a tense sparkle to static passages amazing in articulating fiendishly difficult fast passages and wonderous for faking runs TRILLS Both major tone and minor semitone rapid unmeasured oscillation between neighbouring notes Great for floral additions shameless John Barry moments and a curiously effective way of faking blurred runs FX As award winning composers and orchestrators you have a team with the finest taste to curate and produce this fine anthology of orchestral effects Arranged on the keyboard in a uniform manner across the sections so you can create great tutti firestorms FX TENSE
21. g this il legally But more importantly if you have any ideas or criticism please let us know directly via our website in a constructive manner You never know you Just may have thought of something that we hadn t considered We want to make our entire range the best there is and we rely on you to help us achieve that With thanks Christian amp Paul CoPYRIGHTTS EAE TP 20 14 www spitfireaudio com
22. h this you could programme crazy 16ths on track 1 lazy halves on track 2 and then keyswitch between them in your DAW UNIVERSAL ARTICULATION mm ng ed CONTROLLER CHANNEL WE uu MW 44 We finallv admit that things have got out of hand here in the world of Virtual instruments Everv single one works differently responds differently to different key switches and controllers and thats just within our own library The UACC pron you ack project is our attempt to unify articulation switching across our entire range and it s one we hope other developers will also adopt It will mean greater integration between your VI set templates greater encouragement to venture into the darker less visited corners of your col lection and a smoother workflow When selecting Articulation Locked UACC you disable what we believe to be the soon outdated keyswitch method of articulation selection In favour of UACC which defaults to channel 432 change this by right clicking the CC slider next to the padlock This then gives you the option of using a MIDI controller to select articulations based on the list below We recommend a switch based controller or an iPad app Alternatively simply dial in event or automation data on your DAW The latter will give you the ability of always being on the correct articulation even if you haven t rolled your sequence back before the midi event This list is a work in progress and we look to u
23. ions display the current articulation playing and act as switches between them alongside they re associ ated keyswitches We have created a series of presets with different articulations loaded SEE PRESETS IN GENERAL CONTROLS PAGE 14 LOAD TOGGLES The little RAM chips beneath the notes denote load status of the articulations If you play and articulation that isn t loaded the front panel will alert you Click on the chip to load unload UE Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar AU is illuminated and red it s in a queue and hasn t started loading yet if the middle bar is lit and yellow the instrument ts still loading up If you try to play before it s loaded it may not be nice ARTICULATIONS Click on these notes to select the different articulations whatever articulation is live is displayed in the yellow sidebar on the left You can also select different articulations by hitting key switches you can do this whilst you re playing so if you want to say switch from a long articulation to a short hit the key whilst you re playing your last long and the next note will be a short For more advanced selection options turn to page 18 A brief guide to these articulations is displayed overleaf A BRIEF GUIDE LEGATO DETACHE amp PORTAMENTO These are true legato patches where every possible interval within the range we have selected has been recorded They are monopho
24. lightly turned and slightly on the finger board with a measured amount of vibrato But by giving such a panoply of instructions each player interprets it slightly differently And by hearing a number of players playing all slightly differently the warmth and sense of scale is increased so you don t get the thinness often associated with this technique MICROPHONE MIX SETTINGS Welcome to the wonderful world of Air Studios and the mixes of our chief engineer Jake Jackson Use the chips beneath the faders to load unload different microphones and the faders above to tweak the balance of them Turning a fader all the way down will also unload the mics conversely turning the fader back up will reload Left click on the faders to assign CC controllers so you can mix these live for fantastic shifts in the spacial nature of the samples MICROPHONES MIXES Right Ctrl click on the mic letters to change Kontakt channel output assignment STANDARD ARRAY AVAILABLE IN INITIAL RELEASE C Close mics a selection of valve mics placed for optimum focus close to the instruments This mic control is great to add in for added definition and at times a bit of rounding of sound in isolation it can be a way of achieving a more intimate or pop music style sound T Tree This refers to the Decca tree of three mics placed above the conductors podium In the case of Sable 3 priceless vintage Neumann MSOs These are placed to give the
25. ng system For more advice and information about setting up please check our website LETS GET STARTED Because you re reading this manual we can presume you have successfully downloaded your BML product Included in your download email are some detailed installation instructions please follow these carefully before going any further We ll see you back here when you re installed Before opening Kontakt please make sure you have THE LATEST VERSION OF KONTAKT 4 2 4 OR 5 INSTALLED 9576 of all service enquiries relating to spurious or strange behaviour of our wares are solved by installing the most recent version As this is NOT a Kontakt Player Library YOU WILL NOT SEE THE MODULE IN THE LIBRARY PANE Simply navigate to MURAL via the File browser pane If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the ba sics of patch or instrument loading multi management outputting and MIDI routing detailed in the Kon takt user manual provided with your copy of Kontakt or in the documentation folder of your Kontakt file BML MURAL Vol 2 FOLDER STRUCTURE BML is ingeniously designed for you to have everything you need in relatively few patches or instances You basically do most of the sound navigation within these instances But we have built a selection of preset patches or Brush Sets that pre load useful selections of sounds to cut down on the time you need to build your template
26. nic and rely on you overlapping the notes otherwise the start of the sample will be re triggered In this volume have recorded 2 different legato styles Detache simply means separated stopping the bow on the string deadens the vibrations and thus creates a muted accent and Portamento Changes note on same string without re bowing the bigger the interval the more of a glide or glissandi effect These use both dynamic controllers and vibrato SEE EXPRESSION CONTROLS page 15 SHORTS 0 5 and 1 0 We ve made the mistake of giving shorts names before With volume 1 we have our shortest shorts and called them spic cato to a chorus of what no staccato It is largely a semantic issue as the length and shape of short articulations is somewhat subjective depending on tempi and dynamic But most of all on the desire of the composer and interpretation of the conductor So here s some more shorts slightly longer and slightly longer again Please call them what you will COL LEGNO When orchestrating this always warn your players in advance so they can bring a practise bow or even a pencil Short articulations played with the back of the bow to give a very unique wooden clicking noise If you re doing repetitive or single note patterns like say in the opening of Holst s Mars you may want to engage use neighbouring zones SEE GENERAL CONTROLS LONGS MOLTO VIBRATO Or molto espressivo or appassionata passionate playing with dynmic expr
27. our dealer for drives that are suitable for AV use We always recommend as small a drive as possible as the platter will be smaller and the seek time less Depending on what mic positions and mixes you download the library will eventually take up 20 120 Gig on your hard drive If using several large libraries or a number of Spitfire modules from the same machine we really recommend having your samples distributed over a number of drives Lacie eSata or Quadras 7200rpm we highly recommend Moreover an exciting development lies in the recent arrival of some amazing solid state SSD drives With seek times reduced to a fraction O 1ms vs 6 9ms of what standard drives can offer we are certain you will be able to reduce your sampler s pre load page 15 buffer tenfold meaning you ll be able to load enormous orchestral palettes into a single machine HOST The Kontakt 4 platform should work comfortably on most commonly found platforms and DAWSs As always make sure you re as up to date as you can afford If you re planning on building or adding Spitfire to an already large orchestral palette we recommend running your library independently of your DAW either on your host computer e g via Re Wire or on a slave device e g via Midi or MOL This will assist your loading times and will allow your DAW to do what it does best sort out all your note ons and note offs We heartily endorse Plogue Bidule www plogue com as a virtual rack routi
28. our musicians are recorded in situ ie where they would be seated on a standard scoring session giving you a fantastic spectral spread when putting all the elements together which helps define the detail This pan ning tool helps you to manage and tweak this to your own tastes needs STEREO WIDTH Allows you to control how far the stereo image reaches All the way to the right would be like having your two pan pots panned hard All the way to the left would be like having both pots centre STEREO PAN Then allows you to control where in the pan field the centre of this image is placed 3 MCROPHONE MIX TO ARTICULATION LINKER The small notation symbol locks the microphone mix or tweak you ve made to the articulation selected This means if you want to boost any perceived inconsistencies in volume between say pizzicato and col legno you can Or indeed if you want to roll off some of the hall ambience for a short versus the long ar ticulations this is how to fine tune 4 MIXER PRESETS A new way to transfer mixer settings between patches or save and load presets to disk AUTOMATING MIXER FADERS Each mixer fader has a dedicated CC To change this to suit your MIDI controller or surface simply right click on PC or command click on Mac on the fader itself to learn the new controller ROUTING MIC MIXES To route each mic ixer channel to unique Kontakt channels simply click on the Mic acronym Great for putting your ambient mics in th
29. s of room but put the whole package together write some beautiful music and suddenly this library and our approach will make perfect sense In thanks to using the greatest talent we have available to us in the UK alongside the greatest facilities and technicians Spitfire Audio supports the British music industry by paying the highest rates possible to it s contributors alongside a royalty based on the success of sales So in buying this software you are also sup porting British musicians studios and technicians and we thank you for that About The British Modular Library The British Modular Library is to be a deeply sampled extensive set of tools providing composers with the ability to add fine aspects of extreme detail musical expression beauty and focus to their work To greater understand the instruments your writing for o encourage you to write music that musicians love to play and to get the most out of smaller ensembles and the wealth of timbral colour and character they can add to any project Recorded the SPITFIRE WAY and showcasing the finest musicians in the UK today playing the rarest and most priceless instruments The BML will demonstrate why London is the oft preferred scoring loca tion for composers the world over After many years of development experience Spitfire will present this library with a user interface and set of features unprecedented in any library to date With 7 mic positions recorded at 96k through vint
30. sers and other developers to finalise it Go to here for the latest version http spithre webassets s3 amazonaws com pdfs UAC Cv2spec pdf A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOTS This is a manual to accompany v1 0 of a totally new line for Spitfire With a totally new set of samples scripts and Ul We have used our experience as busy film composers to deliver something that we d like It is our hope that you keep in touch with us to let us know how you re getting on how you re using BML how you re finding it and if we were to consider looking at areas in the future what you d like us to look at From this we ll form a consensus and wholeheartedly pledge that we will act upon it wherever possible or practical We ve already recorded new material which will be distributed for free in service updates We do this because even after years of experience it s not always easy to predict how things turn out So we leave space in our budgets to go back and record stuff that may not have worked as well as we like may need expanding upon or to widen the scope of something that s surprised us and we want to make more of Keep an eye on your in box and our site for new additions to the BML range and others and of course our site A couple of commonly asked questions e This library really isn t behaving how l d expect OK so we re now officially blue in the face But before you go ANY further please check you are using the ABSOLUTE latest version of
31. si mo when you hit the keyboard really hard A second menu will open up giving you options for this function By MIDI Channel Ingeiously turns your single instance of BML into a multi timbral instrument MIDI channel lets the instrument change articulation based on the incoming MIDI channel To use pop the instrument Midi Ch to Omni mode in Kontakt The single instance can now be configured to play based on the incoming MIDI channel For example Set staccatos to channel 1 longs to channel 2 legato to channel 3 By Speed Of Playing A revolutionary new function that allows you to switch articulations based on the playing speed of your performance When selected it provides options to specify a triggering time range in milliseconds See right hand menu above For example you could specify that fast legato should be activated if the time between playing each interval is between O and 250ms pictured above Fully config urable to suit the user s playing style and needs and can be deactivated by unchecking Enabled or if not in the artic switching screen simply holding ALT MENU and clicking the articulation icon on the stanza TRIGGERING CONTINUED When an articulation has a trigger assigned to it it shows a little shortcut icon above to let you know that it has been customised Holding down ALT MENU PC MAC and clicking an articulation with this shortcut above it will toggle the trigger between ena
32. studios in the world and host to film scores including Gladiator Inception The Batman Trvptic Harry Potter James Bond and countless top selling classical recordings Mural has been recorded through a selection of rarefied microphones via Neve Montserrat pre amps through the world s largest Neve 88R desk onto a finely maintained Studer 2 tape machine the only orchestral library on the market to be recorded first to tape and finally to 96k 24 bit digital via high end Prism AD converters All the players are recorded in situ and mixed carefully with the correct perspective and placing so that they lock together which each and every BML module as if they were all in the same room together when recording This means that when you start putting sections together it simply works No mixing panning or careful manipulation of reverbs is required to create ultra realistic true sounding mockups demos and masters It is designed for ease of use and instant satisfaction with numerous mic positions and essential Jake Jackson mixes to give you options to change the character of the recording and apply the Mural sound to any number of applications Mural offers a grand 60 piece string band 16 14 12 10 8 but is recorded and performed in such a way as to provide you with ultimate detail lt is not an epic sludge of trailer making strings lt is pure in its detail and beauty and is designed to encourage and inspire you to write better orchestral music
33. umber to the right to transpose your instrument Note this is not the same as tuning the instrument will actually offset the samples to the selected pitch A great way to track up BML and make it sound bigger CC MAPPED VEL OCITY Click this to control note velocity with the Dynamics slider If a user has customer the dynamics slider that same customised CC will control velocity now ROUND ROBINS amp LEGATO NO EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY NEIGHBOURING ZONES Next to this lies a pop down menu with some amazing new functions e No extra Functionality Is the standard default where round robins are used as they were intended e Neighbouring Zones pulls from neighbouring zones so for an 8RR instrument you effectively cycle through up to 24 different sounding notes when pressing a key It s still just playing the one RR at a time though giving you more of them In legato mode this also alternates between 3 legato intervals to give a fake round robin e 2x Round Robin With Skip plays two RR simultaneously so you get a thicker sound it s the equivalent of plopping two notes on top of each other in your DAW and it drops the overall volume 6db so that the levels remain the same but it just sounds thicker NB THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE TO LEGATO TRANSITIONS This plays the pairs and moves ahead by 2 RR In this mode RR is effectively halved eg if you press a note it would play RR1 RR2 then RR3 RR4 etc e Layer 2x Round
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