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1. Colour 3 Resonances 4 Lid 5 Tone 6 Dynamic 7 Repedalling 8 Halfpedal 9 Silent Key 10 Una Corda F 12VOICE MANAGEMENT EL 100 Voices T 2 E 32 e 13 TUNING Basic Pitch o Stretch Presets 3 e Lets you choose different kind of piano presets for different kinds of music styles Style Presets or effect sounds Playing with Pads and Warped Pianos Changes the tone colour or timbre from soft to hard by readjusting the sample mapping It s a dynamic way of mapping while balancing the volume differences between softer and harder samples As a result of turning the Colour knob to the right you will hear the piano sound harder crisper and with more attack Turning it to the left it will sound warmer softer and with less attack Pressing the sustain pedal on a piano raises all the dampers at once enabling all strings to resonate sympathetically This adds a much fuller and deeper sound to the note The Resonances knob adjusts the volume of these string resonances when the sustain pedal is down The lid of a grand piano reflects the higher frequencies from the soundboard while the lower frequencies radiate in all directions Closing the lid leads to a duller sound as the high frequencies cannot radiate as effectively You can choose between open half open and closed lid Reveals additional tone parameters page 8 Compresses or expands the piano s dynamic range while keeping th2. a filter curve Filter Morph Morphs the filter curve from a horizontal line into the chosen form Cutoff Knob Controls the filter s cutoff frequency Resonance Controls the filter s resonance frequency Ghost Mode Plays only the piano resonances 22 RESONANCE 23GHOST MODE S OFF 0 Random Warp 24 Mutator Select a Mutator from the Select Mutator menu and your audio signal will be completely transformed via impulse response technology 25 Volume Controls the Alterizer s output gain 26 Original Allows some of the original audio signal pass through the Alterizer unaltered WARP MACHINE PAD MACHINE 24 MUTATOR 26 ORIGINAL Android Sphere w DEGRADER d B 0046 SPIRITUALIZER 25 VOLUME LAEN f 9 ALTERIZER TIME TRAVELLER ote Reset Warp Bypass Warp 10 Random Warp TIME TRAVELLER Delay Unit 27 Time Controls the delay time between 5 ms and 2 5 sec 28 Send Controls how much of the audio signal is sent to the Time Traveller 29 Damping Controls the low pass filter on the delay 30 Pan Allows you to create ping pong delays the delays will jump from one side of the stereo panorama to the other 31 Feedback Controls the feedback intensity more feedback means more delay M There are 3 basic buttons for all Warp edit pages 32 Reset Warp Resets all Warp engines 33 Bypass Warp Bypasses the Warp Machine without losing any of your adjustments 34 Random Warp Pus
3. GALAXY PIANOS Quickstart DYNAMIC ORRO RESONANCES LISTENING POSITION EP Te Ei Audience d YOICE MANAGEMENT ISO Voices e TUNING ID Qc Git j j erman Baby Grand GALAXYINSTRUMENTS Guide TT O P 0 08 MAN Aux z verour E SPACE SEND SIZE Transpose Fine Tune Basic Pitch Dez Service Quickstart Manual for Galaxy Pianos P us pon cm 1 oo 2 Jp EE y m 3 USER REES 6 VELOCITY EDITOR e ceeineridetiequisstenemdtnirdiies mte iere eee 8 cds 9 WELCOME Thank you for buying a virtual piano from the Galaxy Piano line This quickstart guide will lead you through the installation process and will show you the basics of the Galaxy Piano user interface For more information use the info field in the Kontakt 4 library tab or go to www galaxypianos com jn Galaxy Piano Models Currently Galaxy Pianos presents four pianos the first three being part of the GALAXY II Grand Piano Collection All pianos are also available in the reduced Download Edition GALAXY STEINWAY A handpicked STEINWAY D concert grand recorded at Galaxy Studios both in stereo and 5 1 Surround VIENNA GRAND A huge and powerful BOSENDORFER 290 1920 GERMAN BABY GRAND A75 year old VINTAGE BL THNER with a beautiful intimate tone GALAXY VINTAGE D Bauer Studios Vintage Steinway D from 1920 used in dozens of legendary Jaz
4. Warp Random Warp en lege C i 12 Sharpness Reduces the sample rate adding a DEGRADER sharp sounding touch 13 Hacker A bitcrusher which results in a very The Degrader features all tools needed to distorted and cut off sound distort and deform your audio signal 14 PS Range Defines the pitch range in half tones 15 PS Time Defines the time it takes the pitching 10 Roughness For adding noise and distortion process to reach the next halftone 11 R Colour For warming the distortion 16 Detuning Detunes every key in a random way WARP MACHINE PAD MACHINE 10 ROUGHNESS 2 SHARPNESS 13 HACKER 14 WA 16 DETUNING Miz N as CM 5 Le Em 4 2 2 r No Detuning 096 0 0 SPIRITUALIZER 1 ROUGHNESS 15 PITCH SHIFT COLOUR TIME Iz N IAEN KL i PRESET TIME TRAVELLER 0 100m Presets ALTERIZER is Di Zare OJ Reset Warp Bypass Warp Random Warp E e dei wt we SPIRITUALIZER Global Multimode Filter Filter Modulation and Resonance Effects 19 20 17 Madness Creates metallic and flange sounds 18 Presets Madness Presets 21 22 23 WARP MACHINE 17 oNEss 20 FILTER 21 CUTOFF v K Los Les gt e Ge ET DEGRADER B 2 Ki 096 0 0 PAD MACHINE SPIRITUALIZER The Joker 18 Lowpass 19 ALTERIZER TIME TRAVELLER E i eg Ba Vio OJ d Reset Warp Bypass Warp m tntage A ALTERIZER Complete morph in one click tool Filter Menu Chooses
5. an intelligent EQ 38 Low Keys Changes the volume of the keys below middle C The lower the key the stronger the effect 39 Compression Controls the amount of compression combining several parameters and depending on the chosen compression preset A compressor besides controlling the dynamic range changes a sound s envelope and in this way the sound itself Galaxy Pianos compressor is more of a sound tool than a dynamic tool which especially serves well in a pop or rock music context 40 Comp Type For choosing your desired compression type with different ratio attack and release settings 41 Tone To go back to the main tone page 4 VELOCITY EDITOR Galaxy Pianos feature a special Velocity Editor for customizing the velocity response to your key board and your way of playing You enter it by clicking on the Velocity button within the Anatomy Menu The graph shows the current velocity curve The horizontal axis represents the incoming velocity and the vertical axis the corresponding output velocity after modification in the velocity editor j En tage UF 1 Preset Choose between different velocity curve presets You can also store and recall user presets 2 Type Choose between Allround Curve and Shift Curve Allround Curve can be bent and minimum and maximum velocities can be changed Shift Curve offers two more controls Shift In and Shift Out see below With these controls you can se
6. e overall volume constant Enables repedalling if the sustain pedal is depressed during note release the remaining sound sustains see also page 9 Enables the use of a continuous sustain pedal for half pedalling On a piano you can decide how far the dampers are lifted from the strings by controlling how far down you press the pedal This affects the release time and the amount of resonance When the Halfpedal button is unchecked a continuous sustain pedal is transformed into an on off switch For half pedalling you need a special continuous sustain pedal which outputs midi values from 1 127 instead of an on off command Enables the silent key function very low key velocities result in no sound Loads the una corda samples which are triggered when pressing the left pedal Pressing the so called una corda or soft pedal shifts all the keys slightly to the right so that the hammer strikes fewer strings When fewer strings are struck this creates a more hollow timbre see also page 9 11 12 13 14 15 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Listening Position The samples in Galaxy Pianos are panned with the low notes on the left and the high notes on the right which corresponds to the listening position of the player Using the Listening Position button swaps left and right Voice Management Defines the maximum number of playable vo
7. e the installation 2 Then you ll see the license agreement Please read it carefully You are only allowed to continue the installation if you agree to the terms To do so click the checkbox below the textbox and click next 3 The next screen just gives you an overview about what will be installed There is nothing really important here so just click next 4 On the next screen you may choose the instal lation folder for the Vintage D library Make sure that you install the library on a fast drive that has enough free space 5 Click the change button to change the installa tion path and click the next button when you are satisfied Ve tage Dp Installing Galaxy Vintage D Introduction 6 License 6 Destination Select 6 Installation Type Installing Galaxy Vintage D Library Part 2 Installation Summary Writing files 0 complete Go Back Continue Dr Best Service Galaxy Vintage D InstallAware Wizard Welcome to the Best Service Galaxy Vintage D Setup Note After installation do not move or rename the application or the installation directory of the application Otherwise you will not be able to run update installers POWERED BY KONTAKT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY DI To continue click Next Dr Best Service Galaxy Vintage D Install4ware Wizard Custom Setup Choose the program features you would like to install Click on an icon in the list below to change how a feature
8. g position This noise which happens along with the Release Sample is called Hammer Noise Loads and enables pedal noise samples Because the pedals in a grand piano are such strong mechanisms they transfer a lot of energy to the whole piano body and the soundboard resulting in some low frequency resonance When using a continuous sustain pedal the volume of the pedal damper and string noises depends on the speed in which the pedal is pressed Loads and enables damper noise samples The damper pedal raises all dampers from the strings at once when pressed and drops them back on the strings when released Both result in a short damper noise This feature is dynamically playable with a continuous sustain pedal Loads and enables string noise samples When the dampers leave the strings after pressing the damper pedal each damper pulls its corresponding string a little bit resulting in vibration of each string with its resonance frequency Dynamically playable with a continuous sustain pedal Loads and enables overtones After hitting a key the corresponding strings may resonate at their fundamental or overtone frequencies when other strings are triggered These overtones add liveliness to the sound This is also known as Sympathetic String Resonance Widens or narrows the stereo field The mid position corresponds to the stereo width of the original recording left position to mono turning it to the right enhances the stereo widt
9. h Transposes the piano in halftones via MIDI transpose up to three octaves Tunes the piano in cents within 50cents Lets you select the basic pitch also often called Concert Pitch from 436 444 Hz Opens the Velocity Editor On Off for convolution reverb Convolution reverb uses the impulse responses of real acoustic spaces to simulate the acoustics of those rooms These IR s are a bit like the room s fingerprint Convolution reverb is unbeatable in quality and realism when it comes to simulating real acoustic spaces like concert halls churches or studio rooms Selects the Impulse Response file When loading the Galaxy Steinway 5 1 in surround there will be five additional IRs in the presets which are sampled in 5 0 Controls the amount of signal sent to the reverb unit that is the amount of reverb Increases or decreases the virtual size of the chosen room type Controls the amount of pre delay before the actual IR reverb starts Activates or deactivates the Pad Machine Allows you to select the pad preset you want to play Controls the volume of the selected pad sound Opens the Warp Engine Opens an info page about the instrument and its recordings The button toggles between the two pages of the tone menu 35 Warmth Creates a warmer and deeper sound by using an intelligent EQ 36 Punch Increases the instrument s punch by using an intelligent EQ 37 Brilliance Boosts the instruments brilliance by using
10. hing this button gives you a new Warp sound with every click You just push the Random Warp button and listen to what Galaxy comes up with Make sure that your speakers are not turned up too loud because the Random Warp algorithm can generate some loud sounds For more information tutorials trailers support and downloads please visit www galaxypianos com Produced recorded and mixed by Uli Baronowsky Concept by Uli Baronowsky amp Klaus Baetz Scripting by Klaus Baetz Graphics and GUI design by Ingo Hermes Editing Ingo Hermes Uli Baronowsky Recorded at Galaxy Studios Belgium Hansahaus Studios Germany Bauer Studios Germany Piano Technician Andrei Wedel Pianists Gert Kapo Tobias Dehler Special thanks to Mark Joggerst Klaus Genuit Hansahaus Studios Wilfried van Baaren Galaxystudios Eva Bauer Bauerstudios Dan Santucci amp Frank Elting Native Instruments Klaus Kandler amp everbody at Best Service Andrei Wedel Monika amp Lillianna D mer Jennifer Hilgers Henning Hilgers Marianne amp Hans Baetz 11 WWW GALAXYPIANOS COM
11. ices This can also be deactivated Tuning Release Samples Hammer Pedal Damper String Overtones Stereo Width Transpose Fine Tune Basic Pitch Velocity Space IR Send Size Pre Delay Pads Pad Presets Pad Volume Warp Info Voice Management administrates the used voices in a musical intelligent way in contrast to the Max Voices adjustment in Kontakt Allows you to select different tunings The default tuning is stretched which is the way the piano was tuned for sampling Stretched tuning accommodates the natural inharmonicity of metal strings This inharmonicity stretches harmonics beyond their theoretical frequencies Solving this dilemma involves some stretching of the higher notes upward and the lower notes downward from their theoretical frequencies The amount of stretching depends on the length of the string thus the size of the piano Loads and enables release samples When hitting a key the damper leaves the string When releasing the key the damper comes down to the string again The energy generated by a loudly vibrating piano string especially by the longer more powerful bass strings can t be stopped by the small felt damper right away So the sound just sort of dies away which takes some time especially in the low strings This is represented by the release samples Loads and enables hammer noise samples When releasing a key the hammer returns to its restin
12. is installed Feature Description d amp 3 Galaxy Vintage D Library sm The factory library that contains all content like instruments and samples Required 5 127 MB Available 104 846 MB Dr Best Service Galaxy Vintage D InstallA4ware Wizard Library Destination Folder p Select folder where setup will install the library call D Install the Galaxy Vintage D Library to D Libraries Galaxy Vintage Di Destination Folder Required Disk Space 5127 MB 6 On the next screen just click next to start the Dt Best Service Galaxy Vintage D InstallAware Wizard instal lation 2 Installing Galaxy intage D The program Features you selected are being configured 7 Th e i n stal ati on Wi t a ke some ti me Please wait while the Best Service Galaxy Vintage D Setup installs Galaxy Vintage D This may take several minutes Status Installing Galaxy Vintage D Library Part 2 BS GIVD Dry Tones Release O01 nl 8 After the Vintage D library has been successfully EZ AL LM alid installed you ll see this screen Completing the Best Service Galaxy Vintage D Setup The Best Service Galaxy Vintage D Setup POWERED BY is now ready to configure Galaxy Vintage D on this computer KONTAKT Click Next to begin configuration SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY Click Back to change settings Dy Click Cancel to exit When the library and the Kontakt Player 4 are installed you ll need to authorize the libra
13. lug in via VST AU or RTAS for Pro Tools 7 amp 8 2 Installation under OS X 1 Insert the Galaxy Vintage D installer DVD and open it in your finder Double click on the file lt Gal axy Vintage D installer Mac gt 2 First the installer will determine if the Vintage D and Kontakt Player 4 can be installed on your computer If your Mac is for instance a Power PC the installer won t start as Kontakt 4 needs an Intel mac 3 The next page will inform you that at the end of the installation large sample files will be installed 4 Next is the software license agreement 5 After agreeing to the license agreement you have to choose a destination for the Galaxy Vintage D Software not the large library files In this dialogue external drives will be unavailable however they can be selected in the next screen 6 Press continue to install the software to the default location 7 After pressing continue you can choose the destination for the large library files which are approximately 5GB If you want to install them to an alternative destination click the folder shared and choose other The library does not have to be on the system disk it can be another internal or an external hard drive But it must be a fast drive because the samples will be streamed from the disk Install Galaxy Vintage D Introduction 6 License amp Destination Select Installation Type Installation e Summary Welcome
14. ry with Native Instrument s Service Center which has been installed together with Kontakt into you ap plication folder In Service Center you will need to enter the serial number which can be found on the library DVD s envelope Service Center also serves for updating the Kontakt 4 software For Library updates please go to www galaxypianos com or directly to the download page using the info button of the library browser After authorizing start Kontakt 4 and go to the Galaxy Il library tab where you now can find your Galaxy le Pianos library Press on instruments load one of GALAXY II the pianos and enjoy Browse Galasy Vintage D Instruments 3 USER INTERFACE Galaxy Vintage D e Tune j 0 001 m ess Output st 1 Midi Ch A 1 TONE COLOUR fm m MEE tb Voices OF Mas 105 Purge f Memory 216 66 MB dE a 54 ANATOMY 24 vevocity I 25 SPACE D IDA EG l 275END 285I7E 14 Release Samples 20s e 6 CH _ C O son AN hard less 15 Hammer Noises teg RESONANCES ARTICULATION 16 Pedal Noises 2046 IQ 9 Pre Delay Deg ij 7 Repedalling 8 5 Halfpedal 17 Damper Noises 20a Joss Cub 26 Silent K E m iii 18 String Noises 2D ae 10 Una Corda r caa m EE 19 Overtones 11 LISTENING POSITION Player 20 Stereo Width D Audience GLOBAL PRESETS 21 Transpose gI 30P ADS WARP Global Preset 1 Global Presets 2
15. t a spot on the curve after which the curve is bent using the Bend knob 3 Bend Bends the chosen velocity curve 4 Min Velocity Defines the minimum velocity output 5 Max Velocity Defines the maximum velocity output 6 Shift In Shifts the bending point horizontally 7 Shift out Shifts the bending point vertically 8 Main To go back to the main page By clicking on the graph you can draw your own velocity curve 8 9 WARP ENGINE All Galaxy Pianos include the WARP Machine presenting five specially designed FX engines The Warp Machine is accessible via the Warp button in the Pads menu on the main page and includes one edit page for every effect unit In the Global Presets you can find a couple of Warped Piano presets PAD MACHINE 3 Volume Pad volume 4 Cutoff Filter cutoff frequency TP 5 Resonance Filter resonance freq The Pad Machine is an easy to use sample 6 Attack Envelope attack time player for atmospheric pad sounds 7 Release Envelope release time 8 Voices Sets the number of voices per note 1 Preset Pad presets 9 Fatness Pans the voices left and right and 2 Select Pad Selects one of the Pad sample sets detunes them in relation to each other WARP MACHINE PADMACHINE 2 SELECTPAD 4 CUTOFF 6 ATTACK 8 FATNESS DEGRADER LAM NR ME d CS 21 SPIRITUALIZER 9 VOICES ALTERIZER N p E gt AEN 9 PRESET TIME TRAVELLER ET 2 Presets 1 v A Ce ont AUCY Reset Warp Bypass
16. to the Galaxy Vintage D Installer Please note that at the end of the installation the sample content will be installed This may take a few minutes Do not interrupt the installation process until the installation is complete Go Back Continue Install Galaxy Vintage D Introduction License 6 Destination Select amp Installation Type amp Installation e Summary Gy eux i Of Select a Destination Select the volume where you want to install the Galaxy Vintage D software Ki Macintosh HD 149 GB available 297 GB total Installing this software requires 5 0 GB of space You have chosen to install this software on the volume Macintosh HD Introduction 6 License 6 Destination Select Installation Type Installation Summary lge intaga YF Go Back 3 Continue Custom Install on Macintach HN Other Package Name Action Size install 5 0GB 5 0 GB y Users E Macintosh HD Space Required 5 0 GB Remaining 144 GB e The factory library that contains all content like instruments and samples C Go Back C Continue 8 When you get to the next screen press install to begin library installation 9 After about 20 to 30 minutes the installation is finished and will show the final window 3 Installation under Windows 1 After running the setup you ll be greeted by the welcome screen Just click next to continu
17. z Recordings Features Every piano contains more than 2000 samples in 24 Bit Mapped in up to 13 modeled velocity zones for a wide and smooth dynamic range Real sustain resonance and release samples with multiple velocity Real una corda samples soft pedal Adjustable hammer pedal damper and string noises Sympathetic String Resonance with real overtones Sostenuto and redamper pedal functions Halfpedalling when used with continuous sustain pedals Adjustable piano lid Native Instrument s Kontakt Player 4 included Lossless sample compression Direct access to all parameters One button control of tone colour warmth punch brilliance low keys and dynamics Adjustable stereo width and position Flexible and easy to use velocity editor Specially designed compressor for typical pop piano sounds Warp section with five FX machines for extreme sound design High end convolution reverb with many different rooms halls and ambiences Recorded at renowned recording studios 2 INSTALLATION To complete the full installation you need to install the library and the Kontakt Player 4 playback engine The Kontakt installer can be found on the separate installation DVD in your package iis System Requirements e Intel Mac and MAC OS 10 5 Leopard or higher Intel PC with Windows XP Vista 7 e At least 1GB RAM 2GB recommended Approximately 5GB disk space for the Vintage D library 18GB for Galaxy Il e Kontakt 4 runs stand alone or as p
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