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1. with 8 Gig or above memory Mac OS 10 6 1 Snow Leopard However we have made the module work satisfactorily on a Mac Mini 2 4 GHz anda MacBook Pro 2 4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo DRIVES Firewire USBII or eSata 7200rpm Ask your dealer for drives that are suitable for AV use We always recom mend as small a drive as possible as the platter will be smaller and the seek time less The library will eventually take up 25 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 0 1ms vs 6 9ms of what standard drives can offer we are certain you will be able to reduce your samplers pre load page 24 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 DAWs As always make sure youre 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 load in tim2. you go ANY further please check you are using the ABSOLUTE latest version of 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 theres 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 face KMS KONTAKT Memory Server q Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GB RAM Please refer to the user manual for further information Inter Engin Handi Load mport accessible RAM for memory server 7 2 GB Database Memory Seruer mode Memory e Automatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the server MID Manual Instrument preload buffer size O Querride Instrument s preload size You ll have to restart this instance of Kontakt to feel it s benefits Another reason your system may be struggling is that vou re using too many mics live for the spec of your machine Try cutting the mics as detailed on the front panel to see if this cures your problem If it does dont 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 i
3. ANALOGUE SVNTHESIZER FOUNDRV FEATURING THE FLIGHT CH 1 PYLONS SPITFIRE l l ik d Welcome Thanks for being part of the Spitfire Audio project We ve tried to make this as brief and interesting as possible but we also understand that reading manuals is a bore so stick this next to your loo and give it a read whenever you can About Spitfire 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 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 To record performances and parts thereof not scientifically created samples To capture the timbre of a world class set of players but also to record the room they were playing in In 2013 Spitfire embraced their eclectic past as drum and bass heads successful producers and program mers to produce a range of definitive instruments and tools recorded in smaller spaces to provide tools for a wider variety of uses and users eager to experience the Spitfire Way About Analogue Foundry Pylons Ever had that feeling that the track you re working on just sounds too nice Ever had A amp amp R man a director producer say nice tra
4. LIO PYLONS Fri Super Mono 5 l i 2 l PAGE 6 THE FRONT PANEL SYNTH Although these sound excellent out of the box we ve also given you an easy to use and ingenious front panel 1 Lo amp Hi Pass Filters LPF Low HPF Hi Adjust the graph on the LPF to chop off the top end HPF to chop off the bottom So if you want to reduce your fizzing synth sound to a muted sub tone drag the LPF graph from right to left 2 Wobble Amount Three modulator windows that give you wobble or sometimes WAB WAB WAB Adjust the AMT to effect the amount of WAB WAB 3 Wobble Frequency Adjust graph to change the frequency or speed of your wobbles For tempo syncd modulators this will tune coarsely to provide you with 8th triplet 16th etc etc 4 A D S R Attack Decay Sustain Release envelope These knobs will adjust the shape of the sound from a volume point of view Adjust attack to make the sound come thudding in or gradually fade in Adjust release to make the sound go from a sharp end or off to a gradual decay For an 808 style bass pull up one of the subbier sounds and pull the attack all the way to the right The release to about mid way to taste and play some short notes 5 FX Parameter Display We ve pre loaded a selection of FX Activate by clicking FX icons along this bar 6 Portamento Glide On Off Toggle Click this to make the sound monophonic so you only can play one note at a time and to activate the p
5. ad the mics conversely turning the fader back up will reload SIGNALS Right Ctrl click on mics to change Kontakt channel output assignment Dry Via a pristine signal chain neve pre amps and Cranesong AD converters Saturated Via a not so Pristine set of heads and analogue processors including the rather un pleasantly wonderful Culture Vulture e Circuit Bent Via and array of rarerified guitar pedals and not so rare but excellent Mooger Foogers g Spiring Reverb A beautifully maintained true spring Why do analogue synths sound so so just right through these ROUTING SURROUND USE Right click on the mic names to adjust the output of the mics This will also allow for surround use A simple Quad setup would be to route the T out of your L amp R and the A to your Ls amp Rs Some people like a little bit of close in the C but we feel that live signal should be left clear away from your dialogue track PAGE 08 A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOTS It is our hope that you keep in touch with us to let us know how youre getting on with our products how youre finding it and if we were to consider looking at areas in the future what youd 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 A couple of commoniv asked questions e This library really 1501 behaving how Id expect OK so were now officiallv blue in the face But before
6. ck good composition it just needs to be more edgy Herein may lie the solution Back in Christian Hensons dance days working with the likes of LTJ Bukem and the Freestylers a term was coined to describe how to best f k up a beautiful sonic landscape that had maybe got a bit flowery or in telligent An escape route for anything sounding too Chesney would often be just sling a couple of pylons on the track and it will be fne Christian has teamed up here with top production duo The Flight Lana Del Ray Bjork Orbital Rufus Wainwright to create a definitive collection of phrases squeaks bleeps hits and FX from their enormous selection of classic vintage synths With each instrument they have discussed and defined what that synth does best Recorded in Super Mono via the most pristine Neve line amps and Cranesong AD converters the team has created a number of parallel mono signals that can be switched in and out or mixed and assigned to different outputs These include dry saturated circuit bent and a live and temperamental classic spring reverb signal path With a selection of specially selected in the box mono amp gt stereo effects modulation and filters to warp the signal further In this release release of 3 1 GB lossless compressed from over 6GB of raw WAV files from over 3800 sam ples synthesisers featured include classic Juno 60 JX3P MS10 ProOne SEM and a Moog Arranged into like minded men
7. es and will allow your DAW to do what it does best sort out all your note ons and note offs PAGE 3 CONTENTS INSTALLATION amp GETTING STARTED THE FRONT PANEL SUPER MONO A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS 06 08 09 INSTALLATION Because youre reading this manual we can presume you have successfully downloaded this 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 youre installed GETTING STARTED Before opening Kontakt please make sure you have THE LATEST VERSION OF KONTAKT 4 2 4 OR 5 IN STALLED 95 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 this module via the FILE browser pane If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the basics of patch or instrument loading multi management outputting and MIDI routing detailed in the Kontakt user manual provided with your copy of Kontakt or in the documentation folder of your Kontakt file PAGE 5 SYNTH FRONT PANEL Juno 60 Booms i Tune Output st 1 Voices OF 128 Purge 0 00 SPITFIRE zi Midi Ch 1 g Memory 2 09 AL IS THE Liu PRODUCER PORTFO
8. n Logic Studio Some DAWS ahem Logic only use one core of your computer when recording but will use more when playing back so again try recording with just one mic then dial in others once vou re happy If youre still suffering may we suggest you try and manage your pre load buffer Kontakt pre loads some sam ples 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 relv or your drives If vou 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 youre happy with PAGE 09 A QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank everyone involved in making this library especially to the Flight for let ting us raid their synth cupboard and minds for everything you hear here It goes without saving that were forever thankful to be part of Blake Robinson Joe Rubel Sebastian Truman Toby Warren Jess McCleish and Stanley Gabriel s lives Most of all wed like to thank the amazing support and loyalty of our user base our Facebook friends and eve ryone on VI Control We are in the same boat as all of you Were not software developers by trade so appreciate your honest
9. ortamento glide function 7 Portamento Glide Amount Now that your Glide toggle is on hold one key down and whilst holding press another Because you re in monophonic mode the sound will transition from the first pitch you depressed to the second this fader controls the time this transition takes 8 Yoke X amp Y FX Selector The yoke 10 is a dual FX controller that adjusts your FX parameters in real time for fantastic sequenc ing options Y vertical controller X horizontal Scroll down to select which FX you wish to control 9 Yoke X amp Y FX Parameter Selector Determines which parameter from your selected FX you wish to map to the X or Y yoke controller You can also alter the FX parameters further and map them direct to the Yoke controller right ctrl click by accessing the additional FX parameter Bar Command Right Click on the FX Icon youd like to acces addi tional parameters for to Yoke PAGE 07 SUP ONO Welcome to wonderful world of Super Mono Stemming with no St sil These are three independent but sample and phase aligned signal paths that can be clicked in and out for use mixed and assigned to different outputs If you ve used Spitfire products before they very much work like microphone selectors Use the chip icons beneath the faders to load unload different microphones and the faders above to tweak the bal ance of them Turning a fader all the way down will also unlo
10. u patches PAGE 2 Svstem Requirements KONTAKT this library requires the full version of Kontakt to run it will not work in the Kontakt Player please make sure you have the absolute latest version of either Kontakt 4 or Kontakt 5 98 of all enquiries to our support dept are cured by the upgrade This is a cutting edge library and it simply wont work on anything but the latest versions RECOMMENDED SPEC The better your computer the better the performance of Harp REDUX But not to worry if you re not specd up to the hilt programs are provided with a set of parameters that enable you to tone back the CPU de mands of any given patch But moving forward were 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 capable your computer will be to deal with some of the amazing but complicated scripts we ve written PGs We recommend an i5 or i7 Quad or 8 Core machine with 8 Gig or above memory Vista 64 or Windows 7 However it will work with SP2 Pentium or Athlon XP 1 4GHz 1Gig RAM MACs We recommend a Mac Pro Intel Based Dual Quad or 8 Core machine
11. y in paying your way to be a part of our family and not distributing this illegally But more importantiv if you have any ideas or criticism please let us know directly via our website or helpdesk and in a constructive manner You never know you just may have thought of something that we hadnt considered Indeed it is through all the wonderful feedback we ve had regarding the harp that we have been able to present the new redux version and we hope to continue improving our libraries into the future 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 COPYRIGHT SPITFIRE AUDIO LLP 2013 www spitfireaudio com
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