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1. 1 OVERVIEW default with a selection of easy to use parameters Page 7 2 EXPERT he familiar Spithre GUI with deeper tweaking parameters Page 13 3 THE OSTINATUM Our ingenious rhythm computer Page 16 PAGE 08 ARTICULATIONS Dhol CC ARTICULATION STANZA On the right of the diagram above you will see a line of musical notes These actually denote key articula tions display the current articulation playing and act as switches between them alongside their associated 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 an articulation that isn t loaded the front panel will alert you Click on the chip to load unload NJ Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar WINEM 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 is 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 15 displayed in the yellow sidebar the left You can also select different articulations by hitting key switches you can do this whilst2. J 3 d KEY 8 1 1 VEL 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 he 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 PAGE 17 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 gt Ost 1 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 he next eight solo each individual track respectively When you press them everything but t
3. do an Transpose Welcome to mic mixing control with perspective mics and different CC mapped microphone technologies Ro 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 C Close mics placed as close to the instrument as is comfortable for Inder to bare This gives the purest driest sound Co Coles Two traditional BBC ribbon mics placed as a Blumlein pair for a broader more 3D sound As these are figure of eight thay contain more of the room around them Ro Room A set of condenser mics placed further away from the instruments These are not am bient mics as the room has little of these We like to call these perspective or depth mics that should only really be used in conjuction with the other mics Used as the Ls Rs feeds for a 5 0 instrument these mics brilliantly place you right in the room with Inder It is surprising how little of these you need to give instant depth to the recording 414 The oft sneered at AKG 414 is also a brilliant m
4. 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 15 only available in full cog patches REMOVE ALL NOTE TWEAKS This removes all custom changes you have made with the Cog PAGE 21 COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOTS This Is a manual to accompany 1 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 is our hope that you keep in touch with us to let us know how you re getting on how you re using this library 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
5. y 8 y J gether as opposed to using one hand as a resonator They are used traditional Aboriginal ceremonies to accompany the didgeridoo Dhol term for different types of large cylindrical or barrel drum of South Asia are usually made of wood with two heads unusual feature of many dhol is that they are played with the treble head to the left struck by the hand or a light stick heavier stick danka daunko often curved is used for beating the right bass head which is larger and of thicker skin pitch may be lowered by interior tuning load of resin another stick substance or combination of the two The drums are usually played standing supported hori zontally or diagonally before the player by a shoulder strap as the leading drum in outdoor music together with struck metal idiophones or other drums such as kettle drums Some dhol such as those of Rajasthan however are played on the ground by a seated player with the hands A prominent feature of some dhol traditions is the use of thump strokes knee elbow etc in virtuoso playing Dholak Double headed cylindrical or barrel drums of South Asia They are of medium size and have been described as cylindrical drums but they often taper at the ends he name is a diminutive of dhol but this drum is of a distinct type with its own historical roots North Indian dholak East Central Adivasi Dholki and the Sri Lankan Dolak
6. 59 LJ 1 THE COG An awesome tool for fine tuning and tweaking your patches See page 21 2 KEYBOARD SHIMMIER This shifts your bank of keyswitches left or right to suit your needs pref erences Or 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 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 ls 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 21 The default controller channel is 32 but this can be changed by right CTRL clicking on the padlock PAGE 20 ADVANCED STUFF THE PUNCH COG As we record our samples l
7. 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 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 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 DAWs 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 ona 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 routing system For more advice and information about s
8. a very unique and unusual way LAYOUT The general rule is all normal hits are on white keys starting at C2 All slides pitch rises are on black keys starting at C 2 All rolls and single RR phrases are chromatic from C1 to the upper limit of B1 Long rolls looping are on AO and if there is a second one BO LOOPS Although this 15 predominantly a virtual instrument library We have recorded a selection of bonus loops offered up asa guide to the type of patterns that sound great on this selection of drums They re available beat sync d to your host DAW and we have done natural versions with timing as was played orginally and Q d versions which we have quantised to suitable swings for use on more electronic compositions GROOVES We have meticulously cut up our favorite loops from the natural selection above and have created groove templates for your DAW s quantize list to give Inder s feel to any number of Instruments from this and other libraries The Bhangra grooves particulalry valuable as the feel 15 quite complicated with different PAGE 06 THE NEW OVERVIEW PANEL MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS IT PRODUCER gt INDER DFINGER PERCUSSIONIST gt lt PANEL SWITCHER ARTICULATIONS PAGE 07 PANEL SWITCHER This toggles between the three different views available scraped perc MI 2 3
9. 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 I 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 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 PAGE 22 APPENDIX DRUM RESEARCH We wanted to learn as much about these drums as possible so Jess McLeish and Cicely Balston did some research for us Ankle Bells These strings of small bells are traditionally tied around the ankles to draw attention to the rhythmical movement of the feet in I
10. religious ceremonies to invoke the Gods and the sound Om the universal name of the Lord and to focus the mind Spinning Burma These are small 13cm flat almost triangular gongs with a string at the top By holding the string and striking the corner with a beater the gong starts to spin and creates a pulsating tone Tabla Tabla are a pair of small tuned hand played drums Typically the smaller right hand drum sometimes called the daya is made from wood and the left lower drum baya made from metal or clay They are used across many styles of music in North and Central India Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as to accompany Kathak The head of the tabla is predominantly made up of two membranes typically made of goat skin The upper layer is cut away to leave an outer ring These membranes are attached to a four ply leather hoop to protect the skins from the wooden frame A long leather strap at taches the two heads and 15 laced together Underneath the lacing are two wooden blocks that when hammered down can raise the pitch In the centre of the main exposed skin of the is a round hardened tuning paste the syahi This is applied in 5 or more concentric layers left to dry in between each application The paste is said to be predominantly made of glue and iron oxide ash and once it Is dried and the drum head stretched it gives a bright sonorous and pitched tone The paste is about 8 cm across on the baya head and is placed ecce
11. 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 16 A brief guide to these articulations is displayed overleaf PAGE 09 INSTRUMENT amp ARTICULATION LIST Ankle Bells Wet Australian Clave Wet Bell Bird Spinner Bull Roar Claves Dancing Bells Wet Dhol Dholak Double Splash Dual Vibra Slap Duff Finger Cymbal dry amp wet Flexitone dry amp wet Frog Spinner Gogo Gogo Wet Hand Cymbal dry amp wet Large Damaru Large Gong dry amp amp wet Madka Nakrah Prayer Bells Large dry amp wet Prayer Bells Small dry amp wet Rattle Small Damaru Small Damaru With Bells Spinning Burma dry amp wet Taad Damaru Tabla Temple Bell Vibraslap 1 amp amp 2 dry amp wet Vibratone dry amp wet Water Rattle 1 Water Rattle 2 Wood amp amp Bell Rattle Zhils dry amp wet LAYOUT the general rule is all normal hits are on white keys starting at 2 All slides Pitch rises are on black keys starting at C 2 All rolls and single RR phrases are chro matic from C1 to the upper limit of B1 Long rolls looping on and if there is a second one SEE APPENDIX PAGE 23 FOR DRUM RESEARCH PAGE 10 MIC MIX A P OPTIONS MICROPHONE MIX SETTINGS s 12 do Purge MI
12. Dual Vibraslap A vibraslap Is an Instrument made of U shaped piece of wire with a wooden ball at one end and a hollow wooden box with metal teeth attached inside When the ball is struck the vibrations pass along the wire and rattle the teeth A dual vibraslap has two hollow wooden boxes attached to the one piece of wire Duff Daff Round single headed frame drum connected with Muslim cultures In varying forms it is found in West Asia the Caucasus the Iranian plateau Central Asia and south eastern Europe The drum is used in a wide variety of settings folk music art music entertain ment and dance music and Sufi religious rituals Finger Cymbal Small cymbals played in pairs one on the thumb and the other on either the index or middle finger They have been known since antiquity and are still used chiefly by dancers in the Islamic world In orchestral usage they should not be confused with jingles Flexitone Flexatone A modern instrument for special effects consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in handle A wooden knob mounted on a strip of spring steel lies on each side of the metal sheet The player shakes the instrument with a trembling movement which causes the beaters to strike the sides of the metal sheet An eerie tremolo is thus produced and the pitch altered by variable pressure on the sheet of metal Gogo Agogo An agogo is a single or multiple bell now used throughout the world but wi
13. INDER GOLDFINGER 774 TABLA gt DROL gt MADKA DUFF gt TEMPLE BELLS DAMARU gt gt CYMBALS GOGO ZHILS PERCUSSIONIST WELCOME Thanks for purchasing Inder Goldfinger Percussion We strongly urge you to read this manual as our ingenious GUI is packed with features not found yet in some of our other products With particular attention to the Front Panel page which is designed lov ingly 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 and enormously un tamable sounding libraries Spitfire set about redefining the way samples were created Our alm 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 replicate them by using the same facilities signal chain techniques and musical technical talent We record per formances and parts thereof not scientihcally created samples and importantly we record the room they play in If you 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 lots of ro
14. IXER 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 mixer channel to unique Kontakt channels simply click on the Mic acronym Great for putting your ambient mics In the surround for example Also good for track laying 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 PAGE 15 THE OSTINATUM SETTINGS RHYTHM COMPUTER All in ones Part 3 0 Tune Output st 1 Ph Voices OF Mag 32 Purge 4 0 00 3 Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 7 42 MB M h sS PRODUCER gt 3 1 2 PPY PERCUSSIONIST 170037 6 VEL p 4 Aput SIA Duff 1 w 3 gt amp G G 6 6 6 2 TRANSPORI PAGE 16 OSTINATUM FRONT PANEL wy let ALBION have all the fun Best used with short articulations this ever evolving device that can offer instant chaotic inspiration be used to create scientifically designed rhythms osti
15. ately 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 number 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 CC MAPPED VEL OCITY Click this to control note velocity with the Dynamics slider If a user has customised the dynam ics slider that same customised CC will control velocity now EXPRESSION CONTROLS conmmouiens 77 Dynamics EEEE Smaller representation of faders discussed in the new Overview Panel page 12 Expression PAGE 14 ADVANCED STUFF MIXER MENU 2 V PB OPTIONS L 5 55 PTE CLICK ON THESE ICONS FOR DEEPER MIX CONTROL 1 VELOCITY RESPONSE Pick from 4 different velocity curves to suit your controller 2 MICROPHONE 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 3 M
16. dit and revise the patches to your particular preference Remember we pride ourselves in making truly esoteric tools so if there s a sample you dont 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 Spithre module But not to worry 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 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 eSata 7200rpm Ask your dealer for drives that are suitable for AV use
17. election of microphones including the aforementioned hydrophones via Neve mic pre s and Cranesong AD con verters in our new raw honest and dry Kings X studio complex This new studio space has an environment designed to provide recordings full of life and personality but without too much of a signature sound The hope with our Producer Portfolio is to provide programmers producers songwriters and composers with inspiring and exciting building blocks from which you can create your own masterpieces We have also endeavoured to include some phrases and loops to inspire you to put these instruments to their best use PAGE 03 CONTENTS SPECIFICATIONS LETS GET STARTED THE OVERVIEW PANEL THE PANEL SWITCHER THE ARTICULATIONS INSTRUMENT amp ARTICULATIONS MICROPHONE CONTROLS EXPRESSION THE EXPERT PANEL ADVANCED MIXER ADVANCED ARTICULATIONS ADVANCED SIDE BAR ADVANCED THE COG A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS A QUICK THANK YOU PAGE 04 CO N ON 10 11 22 25 SPECIFICATIONS KONTAKT The Producer Portfolio range 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 Because 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 version of Kontakt will afford you the luxury of being able to e
18. ents Immense Intellect and invention of James Bellamy Stanley Gabriel Andrew Blaney Blake Robinson Stu Kennedy Joe loby Seb Cicely 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 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 distributing 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 8 Paul COPYRIGHT SPITFIRE AUDIO LLP 2014 www spitfireaudio com PAGE 25
19. etting up please check our website PAGE 05 LETS GET STARTED Because you re reading this manual we can presume you have successfully downloaded your Spitfire prod uct 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 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 the INDER GOLDFINGER library 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 INDER GOLDFINGER FOLDER STRUCTURE PLAYABLE INSTRUMENTS A large selection of percussion instruments from around the world exhaustively deep sampled with numer ous dynamic layers and round robins with a large microphone array from which to make this library your own Some of the instruments also feature the use of a huge bucket of water to change the timbre and tone of the drama in
20. hat keyswitchs track is muted shown yellow on the keyswitch keyboard With this you could programme crazy 16ths on track 1 lazy halves on track 2 and then keyswitch between them in your DAW PAGE 18 ADVANCED STUFF ARTICULATION SELECTION LAYERING To layer sounds within the articulation set simply SHIFT click on your next articulation Rather than introducing 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 Midi Ch A 1 Memory 23 81 EF 7 ROUNDO CONTROLLERS Enabled 10 Activate this articulation when GC 64 Expression isbetween 64 and 127 IL T Legato intervals only Ignore if purged Group Global 7 By CC Range his 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 23 By KS The default setting This program is seripted so it won t switch mid note but wait til the next note on event before switching This means you re able to play
21. ic that sounds like the instrument it s in front of A workhorse mic to give you guys an easy out of the box sound PAGE 11 EXPRESSION CONTROLS As this library IS largely a collection of one shots there are only two main controllers on our overview panel CONTROLLERS UE PARE Dynamics Expression Control Cera wilh moc wheel volume 0 10036 DYNAMICS CC 1 Displays the position of your mod wheel that can be used to control dynamic layers in articulations like rolls and some of the water based material EXPRESSION CC 11 Displays the overall instrument volume 0 100 Remember you can also trim your instrument volume with CCH7 PAGE 12 THE EXPERT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS EXPRESSION CONTROLS All in ones Part 1 eea E Duipul st 1 15 Voices 32 Purge SPITFIRE Midi Ch A 1 Memory 23 81 Ni IH THE UE PRODUCER gt PORTFOLIO INDER GOLDFINGER PERCUSSIONIST V Dhal Q DEFAULT CCs CC Expression 0 100 fade 6 CC21 ARTICULATIONS PAGE 13 OPTIONS AROUND ROBIN Presets Noextrafunctionality Y GENERAL CONTROLS Purgeunused Roundrobin x 9 Transpose 0 Resetfrom co OPTIONS CCmappedvel Reseton transport PRESETS This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affection
22. ike you would a film score we actively encourage our musicians to make every note sound different 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 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 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 8 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 tured cog bottom left of the front panel UI and click on it to get this dialogue IH THE UE ga 1 Tit odo Bi ada C REMOVE SKIP THIS ADJUST ADJUST ALL NOTE RR TUNE CL RELEASE TWEAKS L 0Ce 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
23. nati and arpeggiated sequences to shimmering tremolando effects SETTINGS OSTINATUM Mode Off Control Keyswitches LOAD SAVE Allows you to store your preciously made Ostinati SoloKeyswitches 289 Chord mode 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 TRANSPORT 1 2 3 P 5 B 7 a 10 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 1 C4 2 3 G4 These note numbered assignments are processed in the THE RHYTHM COMPUTER NOTE J J 11 1
24. ndian Classical dancing Different regions of India give them different names they are called Ghungroo in North India and Chilanka in Kerala in South India and they are a common bridal adornment Bird Spinner This Maori musical instrument was originally used as a bird lure It was made by hollowing a gourd drilling holes on either side and attaching a cord by which it could be swung around the head creating a whistling chattering voice that attracted birds Bullroarer An instrument made from a spatulate piece of wood tied to a string which 15 knotted into a hole close to one end To produce sounds the player whiles the blade through the air holding it by the free end of the string In general smaller bullroarers give a high noise when whirled while larger specimens sound low in pitch The speed of rotation and length of the string also affect volume and pitch Claves Concussion idiophones of Cuban origin consisting of two cylindrical hardwood sticks measuring from 20 to 25 cm in length and from 2 5 to cm in diameter In Latin American dance rhythms particularly the rumba the steady and unchangeable beat of the claves constitutes a relentless ostinato Although primarily an instrument of the Latin American dance orchestra claves have been adopted in Western rhythm combinations and by notable composers Australian Clave Also referred to as clapsticks these are essentially the same as cuban claves though they tend to just be struck to P
25. ntrically preventing the drum from having a precisely pitched tone Different frequencies and harmonics of the fundamental of the drum are excited by hitting different points on each layer of each head however often the left hand drum appears to be at the subdominant below the fundamental of the right hand drum Tabla playing is approached essentially through the means of mnemonic syllables translated into a variety of strokes And both drums sit on woven leather or cloth rings with the right hand drum tilted slight outwards while the left hand drum stays horizontal Each head has two basic tone qualities closed or open the latter with dampening or without The open tones are produced by the first index finger with a few exceptions striking along various portions of its length Closed syllables are mostly those struck on the tuning spot Whenever possible the third finger acts as an anchor resting gently on the bottom right hand edge of the tuning spot Vibratone 1 a cylinder of metal with a split in the middle of almost half the length of the tube and a sound hole at the other end It is struck with a rubber mallet and the sound hold can be covered and uncovered with the hand to produce a wah effect PAGE 24 QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank Inder Goldfinger Dominic Kelly Alison Burton and the whole of the Air Studios team lo Jake Jackson for making everything sound so marvellous and the remarkable tal
26. of commonly asked questions e This library really isn t behaving how I 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 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 15 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 15 activated KMS KONTAKT Memory Server Engine 2 Handling 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 seruer 7 2 GB Database Memory Seruer mode Memory Rutornatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically and handle the seruer Manual Samples remain in Memory Server as long as possible Host projects will recall faster provided that samples already loaded into the server Servers are controlled via KMS utility in the OS menu bar Instrument preload buffer size Instrurnent 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 you re using too many
27. om 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 Producer Portfolio Range In answer to repeated requests for drier sounding more manipulatable samples for more non orchestral material and for libraries that are affordable to all Spitfire is excited and proud to launch this new range Recorded by the Spitfire team in a number of smaller but excellent London studios including the new Spitfire HQ in King s Cross and their old favourite the classic vintage studio Air Edel in Marylebone With a useful selection of classic vintage modern broad and room microphones the Producer Portfolio will feature the talents of legendary musicians producers composers and programmers With Spitfire s exist ing orchestral and definitive ranges we re very proud of the impression that the hall at Air studios gives but it s not right for every application With this new range we have recorded in smaller spaces close mid range and room perspectives
28. t is safe to say that his passion both inspires and motivates We have tried many times to capture his essence for a sample library but we were never quite happy After many months of recordings we have finally achieved our goal and are delighted and honoured to introduce the world to Inder s talent and invention We have not set out to create a definitive world collection here we have simply aimed to capture Inder his personality his style of playing and the wonderful collection of instruments he uses as part of his ar moury We don t dare mention terms like world or ethnic within the concept of this library because it is neither and for it to be constrained to such genres would be a massive failure of intention on our part This 15 the heritage experience and invention of one man living and working in the melting pot that is the United Kingdom The library centres around Inder s primary instrument the Tabla but extends way be yond that in a comprehensive collection of drums cymbals and other instruments Also featured in this library are Inder s extensive experiments using water to change the timbre pitch and morph the sounds whilst playing recorded with submerged water mics specially hired in for the occasion Herein lies a comprehensive selection of amazing percussion instruments sampled deeply multiple artic ulations beaters with numerous dynamic layers round robins and mic positions with a beautiful s
29. th origins in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias percussion ensembles agogo may be the oldest samba instrument and was based on West African Yoruba single or double bells The agogo has the highest pitch of any of the bateria instruments PAGE 23 Small Damaru With Bells The damaru is an hourglass shaped variable tension drum Pressure the central cross lacing raises the ten sion across the head and thus raises the pitch Near the centre of the lacing are two loose cords with knots at the end By rotating the drum rapidly in alternating directions the knots strike the heads of the drum Use of the damaru originates with religious ceremonies and it 15 particularly central to the Tibetan chod practice Large Gong A gong is a large disc of hammered metal that is struck with a beater Gong size varies and they are not of definite pitch However smaller gongs resonate with a higher pitch and larger gongs with a lower pitch They are sometimes used in Indian Classical music to mark off spans of musical time cycles Madka Madga This is a sonorous clay pot that is spherical with a narrow mouth at the top It sits on the players lap and can be struck all over with the fingers Sometimes it Is pressed against the players abdomen to dynamically alter the resonance Prayer Bells Large and Small Typically made from brass prayer bells vary greatly in size the larger the bell the lower the pitch They are used in
30. the key switch say whilst playing a long note and have it switch to a staccato on your next note Velocity Range his is great for designing intelligent staccato patches that say become staccatissi mo when you hit the keyboard really hard A second menu will open up giving you options for this function MIDI Channel Ingeniously turns your single instance of scraped percussion into a multi timbral instrument MIDI channel lets the instrument change articulation based on the incoming MIDI channel To use 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 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 PAGE 19 ADVANCED STUFF SIDE BAR OPTIONS Dhol
31. with carefully positioned fine A class mics and pres to give you the raw materials you need to make these sounds your own Other Producer Portfolio Titles Pylons Felt Piano Kitchenware Marimba and much much more to come PAGE 02 INDER GOLDFINGER PERCUSSIONIST Having the opportunity to meet someone like Inder Goldfinger is one of the great pleasures of living in the UK and working in the music Industry here Inder a gentleman from Leeds has helped shape our at titudes towards a genre that beleaguered the music industry in the late 20th century It is through the perseverance of artists like Inder that boundaries have been broken down and constraints removed Inder is largely known for being a founding member of Fun Da Mental for having worked extensively with acts such as lan Brown and for having worked within the Drum Stamp Bass stable of LIJ Bukem and Con rad lt Inder has helped to remind us all that if you live and work in the UK there is a large palette of sounds experiences spiritual influences musical styles and theories to draw from So let s use them was fortunate enough to meet Inder for the first time during an ill fated drum and bass experiment and was instantly struck by how open minded he was He was continually willing to push against the outer edges of the envelope to push against the constraint of expectations and his infectious personality clearly ran through the DNA of his playing I
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