SPITFIRE PP009 KITCHENWARE
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1. The speed at which it reaches the sustain volume adjust for a slightly spikier sound S ustain The level at which the sustain is help at R elease To shorten the release pull back for shorter releases interesting pianos and percussion type sounds PAGE 09 MICROPHONE SETTINGS E E E Welcome to the wonderful world of the King s Cross Spitfire team Ga Co Ai Use the chip icons 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 turn ing the fader back up will reload MICROPHONES MIXES Right Ctrl click on mics to change Kontakt channel output assignment Ca Cardioid A pickup pattern a closer more direct and A typical close mic Co Condensor A more modern sounding some would say brighter sounding mic Ri Ribbon This is where the fun begins click on this and enjoy the figure of 8 pattern expand the stereo image with its beautiful mellow tones This is great as a mid range mic within your 5 1 pan ning field But also just a wonderful sounding pair of mics in isolation Ro Room A pair of mics placed a distance from the instrument not really as an ambient sig nal but more of a perspective absolutely amazing placed gently in the surrounds to create a true right there in the room with them 3D image SURROUND USE Right clic2. a variety of easily switchable beaters and techniques including finger nail flicks and slaps Arranged in three sections this library features a set of chromatically tuned glasses played by supremo Paul Clarvis a number of different ways different hits flicks bows and rubs The second section features a selec tion of 17 different domestic pieces of glass and enamel ware played struck 5 different ways The third is this same lineup up played with water in to give it a drifting dreamy quality The whole library is recorded with countless round robins a number of dynamic layers where possible and a selection of top quality mics and perspectives Kitchenware Glass is handsomely packaged and meticulously scripted with Spitfires easy to use out of the box interface which includes Albion s very own Ostinatum rhythm computer PAGE 2 System 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 All programs are provided with a set of parameters that enable you to tone back the CPU de
3. aT TRANSPORT PAGE 13 RHYTHM COMPUTER e Tune OSTINATUM FRONT ANEL Why let ALBION have all the fun Weve ported this over from the Albion range 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 O This is a real time note order display So with Ascen
4. SPITFIRE 9 KITCHENWARE GLASS USER MANUAL 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 King s Cross Kitchenware Glass Inspired by legends Steve Reich Kraftwerk Tangerine Dream Brian Eno and the score for Solaris by Cliff Martinez Christian Henson with his brother Joe many moons ago developed in his own noisy flat in S
5. by trade so appreciate your honesty in paying your way to be a part of our family and not distributing this illegally But more importantly 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 2014 www spitfireaudio com
6. ding mode activated a c major triad played from middle C up will show up 1 C4 2 F4 3 G4 These note numbered assignments are processed in the THE RHYTHM COMPUTER rd KEY 1 1 1 OFFSET 5 NOTE MENU Click these to place a note into the computer at the length you desire Trash removes scroll down different 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 create 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 So in the sequence pictured a C triad will sound C E C C C C 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 NOW HIT PLAY ON YOUR DAW AND ENJOY PAGE 14 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 pract
7. his allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affectionately called Brush Sets 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 MAPPED VEL OCITY Click this to have velocity controlled dynamics for the shorts for in stance mapped to as it is with the longs ROUND ROBINS amp LEGATO 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 F7 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 EASY ENVELOPE ENVELOPE A D 8 R An easy way of exploring the true wealth of possibilities within this product A ttack roll up this for a softer attack roll it way up and listen to the beautiful wispy pads you can make D decay
8. ical A couple of commonly asked questions e This library really isnt behaving how Id expect OK so were 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 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 face KMS KONTAKT Memory Server J Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GB RAM ac Please refer to the user manual for further information Inter Engin Handl Load accessible RAM for memory server 7 2 GB Database Memory Server mode Memory O Automatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the seruer MID Manual Instrument preload buffer size O 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 youre 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 do
9. k 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 10 ADVANCED STUFF 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 different articulations you can Or indeed if you want to roll off some of the hall ambience for a shorter more spikey articulations this is how to fine tune CLOSE MIC PAN COLLAPSER To the right of the above is a selector that opens the mic collapser The close mics are a stereo mix and this collapser allows you to refine how the stereo image is handled All 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 different Spitfire modules together which helps define the detail This panning tool helps you to manage and tweak this to your own tastes 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 yo
10. ler 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 youd like to select articulations ARTICULATION LOCK Many composers like to have a single articulation loaded to each instance of an instrument Once you have unloaded all unwanted and have settled to your preferred articula tion click this to lock so you can t accidentally hit keyswitches and suddenly become mute This way of working is particularly vital if using slave computers where not all UIs will be instantly visible to you use this in conjunction with the template builder presets PAGE 7 ARTICULATIONS A GUID 8 LETE 1 beater hand pinch short bong short lang 2 2 4 6 Ta 8 PAUL CLARVIS GLASS ARRAY ARTICULATION 1 A soft vibraphone beater 2 Struck with the hand 3 Nail Pluck 4 Pinch where the rim of the glass is pinched 5 Short bow 6 Long bow 7 Short rub 8 Long rub HOUSEHOLD GLASSWARE AND CERAMICS 1 A soft vibraphone beater 2 A medium vibraphone beater 3 A hard mattel beater 4 A hotrod stick 5 Struck with the hand PAGE 8 AROUND ROBIN amp LEGATO Presets Noextra functionality T GENERAL CONTROLS Transpose 0 Resetiram co OPTIONS Reseton transport PRESETS T
11. 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 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 Quadra
12. nt 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 when recording but will use more when playing back so again try recording with just one mic then dial in others once youre 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 rely or your drives If youre 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 15 A QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank everyone involved in making this library especially to the seminal talents of Blake Robinson Joe Rubel Sebastian Truman Toby Warren Jess McCleish and Stanley Gabriel 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 in the same boat as all of you Were not software developers
13. oho a private library of tapped struck and flicked kitchenware This became a go to resource for Christian in times of trouble and creative dry patches It became much admired by colleagues and fellow composers that Christian who had by this point started working with Paul Thomson decided to record a commercial ver sion in a central London location As the original samples contained too much of the background bucolic atmosphere of soho for modern broader tastes But Paul Joe and Christian decided this was too good to give away and regrettably even though having announced its imminent release a very early iteration of this website sat on it like three greedy sample Gollums They feature heavily in a number of film and shows most notably in Henson s score for The Secret Of Moonacre Experience has since shown that the best way to develop samples is to share Corners arent cut and broader applications are considered So Paul Christian and the Spitfire team freshly unpacked in their new Kings Cross location with ultra quiet recording spaces went back to the drawing board and developed a new Kitch enware range deep sampled with a selection of beaters and mic perspectives To accompany and flatter our amazing selection of Metalware released in 2013 were proud to bring you this volume of 2 2 GB compressed data from over 6 3GB in WAV format and over 3100 samples With up to 3 dynamic layers and 5 round robins per instrument including
14. s 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 1115 vs 6 9ms of what standard drives can offer we are certain you will be able to reduce your sampler s 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 on a slave device e g via Midi or MOL This will assist your load in times 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 ARTICULATION STAVE amp SIDE BAR ARTICULATIONS A QUICK GUIDE GENERAL CONTROLS MICROPHONE MIX SETTINGS ADVANCED STUFF THE PUNCH COG THE OSTINATUM A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 15 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 carefull
15. s illuminated and red it s in a queue and hasnt started loading yet if the middle bar is lit m and yellow the instrument is still loading up ARTICULATIONS Click on these notes to select the different articulations or indeed press their as sociated key switches You can do this whilst your playing so if you want to say switch from a normale articulation to a flageolet hit the key whilst you re playing your last note and the next note will be a flageotlet A brief guide to these articulations is displayed overleaf To save on RAM not all articulations are loaded so make sure when clicking or keyswitching be tween articulations it is loaded This is denoted by the RAM chip beneath the articulation being black If it is greyed out simply click this chip Conversely if you want to save RAM and there is an articulation you dont need click the ram chip to unload it will then become greyed out Soft Beater SIDE BAR DISPLAY AND ADVANCED TOOLS On the left of your articulation stave is a side bar that displays the name of the articulation youre cur rently playing Beneath it are three options KEYSWITCH SHIMMIER This shimmys the position of all the keyswitches left or right by clicking and dragging while holding the mouse button down convenient if you re creating your own multi instruments and dont want to hit keyswitches by mistake KEYSWITCH TO CC SELECTOR Use this to assign a CC control
16. u to control where in the pan field the centre of this image is placed ADVANCED ARTICULATION SELECTION SS SS SSS Ss T j a Latch with Note For those of you who want to tweak your articulation selection further To create set ups that closely integrate with notation software or indeed performance patches that react to the way you play this deep editor may be for you It s accessed by holding CMD or CTRL on PC and clicking the articulation icon Can be closed by clicking the X to the bottom right of the UI LATCH TOGGLE Switches this way of selecting the articulation on WITH SELECTOR Selects how you would like to select PARAMETERS Edit these to select a range in which this articulation would be selected PAGE 11 THE PUNCH COG Available on Instruments saved in the Punch Cog folder 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 However much we apply our exacting taste principals onto our range were never going to meet with everyones preferred quality bar or needs and expectations of a project So we present to you Blake Robinson s coup de grace way of punching notes and out like we used to in the old days A way of customising your librar
17. y 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 the product 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 THE FRONT PANEL MIC MIX POSITIONS 01 Heavy Bowl M 1 1 Midi Ch 1 THE PRODUCER KITCHENWARE Soft Beater GENERAL CONTROLS ARTICULATIONS PAGE 6 EXPRESSION CONTROLS Tune a ee na ee EASY ENVELOPE ARTICULATION STAVE amp SIDE BAR t SOFT HARD ARTICULATION ICONS HERE Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar i
18. y to fit your taste and needs If there is a round robin you don t like where the tuning is a bit fruity Load in a Punch Cog instru ment and switch to the articulation you were using Play until you find the Round Robin you dont like and then stop Observe the pictured cog bottom left of the front panel UI and click on it to get this dialogue Spitfire Audio Harp Redux 074 Output st 1 Voices OF Purge 0 00 6 Midi Ch 1 g Memory 29 15 REMOVE SKIPTHIS ADJUST ADJUST SAMPLE TUNE ALL HOTE OL RELEASE START TWEAKS HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK Then your last note played will be displayed if this is correct get tweak ing REMOVE ALL NOTE TWEAKS This removes all custom changes you have made with the Cog 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 PAGE 12 THE OSTINATUM Acces via the icon beneath the spanner SETTINGS 12 Thin Jug Tuned Output st 1 OF 128 Purge Midi Ch 1 Memory 8 73 MB PRODUCER PORTFOLIO KITCHENWARE Prona METAL Soft Beater
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