Ondes User Guide
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1. below www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE The touche d intensit is a large button and is pushed and tapped to produce the tone of the instrument in effect it controls the volume envelope of the instrument Ondists employ a wide range of techniques here from short staccato tapping to long sustained undulating pushes The touche d intensit is controlled with he left hand while the player uses either the ring or the keyboard to produce the melody THE VIBRATO KEYBOARD The final unique control trick that the Ondes has up its sleeve is the keyboard vibrato To those familiar with MIDI keyboards this is similar in concept to aftertouch but the movement is lateral instead of being based on key pressure The entire Ondes keyboard is mounted on metal rails and so slides left and right with the motion of the playing finger producing a very natural vibrato www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE LE DIFFUSEURS The other important aspect of the Ondes sound are the three loudpeakers or diffuseurs which are used to amplify the instrument D1 This is the main loudspeaker and is designed for straight reproduction of the Ondes sound In practice it has a warm tone with the top end rolled off quite a bit D2 This speaker has springs stretched across the inside panel and is the reverb unit of t2. SONICCOUTUrE O N D E 5 SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE ONDES CONTENTS INSTALLATION THE ONDES MARTENOT THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS REALTIME CONTROL SUPPORT E U LA SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE INSTALLATION AFTER UNPACKING THE DOWNLOADED RAR FILE Move the entire Soniccouture Ondes folder to anywhere you like on your hard drive Make sure you keep that folder structure as it is so that the Kontakt instruments can find their samples If you do not own Kontakt you will need to download and install the free Kontakt player which you can do here Kontakt Player Download Link TO ADD THE LIBRARY AND AUTHORIZE IN KONTAKT 1 In Kontakt or Kontakt Player open the Browser on the left the folder Icon at the top 2 In the Libraries tab at the top of the Browser go to Add Library 3 Click and use the dialogue window to navigate to and point Kontakt to the location of the Soniccouture Ondes gt Ondes Library folder 4 This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the Service Center 5 Kontakt then asks you to Activate the library the NI Service Center program will launch and you will need your serial number to authorize the Ondes If Kontakt doesn t ask you to authorize you can force it to by clicking the little Activate button in the upper right corner of our Ondes Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Service Center You will find your se
3. The software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties The software is licensed not sold Soniccouture Ltd grants the Owner of a Soniccouture product the right to create finished musical works and performances using the sounds and software that comprise the Soniccouture product The making of sample libraries in any form commercial or otherwise using Soniccouture audio or software be they single hits loops fully mixed audio clips or scripts is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN without express written agreement of Soniccouture Ltd and violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of international and local copyright law The ownership of all title and copyrights in and to the Software including but not limited to any images photographs animations video audio music text and applets incorporated into the Software is fully asserted by Soniccouture Ltd The Owner may only install and use Soniccouture libraries and software on multiple computers strictly under the following conditions where multiple computers comprise part of a single composition workstation for a composer or where the Owner has two non concurrent sites of work for example a studio desktop and a laptop for live performance SONIC SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE The Owner may not transfer modify rent lease loan resell distribute network electronically transmit or merge the S
4. difference to the dynamics of the Ondes Martenot if you are able to control a few realtime CCs SAVE LOAD SETUP Finally at the bottom left of the Setup screen you will see Save Setup and Load Setup You can load or save a setup separately from the Instrument For example if you have a certain setup you like you can save it and quickly load it back into any other preset SONIC 3 7 1 1 325 SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE SUPPORT If you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product please feel free to contact us You can either email us at customerservices soniccouture com or we have a support forum within the KVR Audio community which can be found here Soniccouture Support Forum We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry within 12 hours but do bear in mind the differences in time zones so please be patient SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE E U L A END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT PREFACE This End User License Agreement EULA is a legal agreement between you and Soniccouture LTD for the Soniccouture product accompanying this EULA which includes computer software and may include associated media printed materials and online or electronic documentation Software By installing copying or using the software you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA you may not use the software
5. first harmonic an octave above the fundamental played by the keyboard This oscillator is a type of pulse wave and very nasal sounding This oscillator is a peak limited triangle wave This oscillator is a sine wave A timbre close to a square wave intended to sound like a string instrument A similar timbre to Gambe but with less overtones A noise generator approximately pink noise This is a switch that turns on everything except the petit Gambe and the Souffle generators The combination of these oscillators is the main method of creating a timbre on the Ondes Martenot There is also a Brightness control on the original instrument which we ve included as a dial at the top labelled Bright SONIC SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE DETUNE WIDE SAT On the right of the panel are three faders that do not exist in the original Ondes Martenot These are Detune Wide and Sat and introduce a detune with width control and a saturation overdrive If you want an authentic Ondes sound these should be left in the OFF position but for creating new sounds they can be very useful At the bottom of the panel on the right there are four dials that give you control over the envelope A D S R Attack Decay Sustain Release In fact the Ondes Martenot has no envelope generator at all and all of the dynamics are controlled in real time by the player more about this later But for ease of use we ve
6. to try to manage either in realtime or in sequencer editing The SETUP button in the top middle of our panel launches this window Ondes Martenot z Output st 1 Midi Ch A 1 VOLUME PITCH GLIDE SPEED VIBRATO DEPTH On the left of the Performance Setup window you have some menu controls for the type of Mono Mode and Glide of the instrument The glide TIME can be set and it can be set to be either Relative or Absolute the time will vary depending on the interval if in Relative mode On the right however is the MIDI Controller CC assignment matrix and this is where you decide what real time controls you want to use www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE The first of these is VOLUME In the above example this is set to CC11 which we have been using at Soniccouture to control the volume in realtime This works very well if you have some kind of pressure pad or XY controller that you can use with one hand while the other hand plays the keyboard If you had a Breath Controller for example you could change this with the drop down menu to CC 2 and then the volume would be controlled by the breath controller However if you DON T want to manage this in realtime you can change this option to Velocity Then the volume will simply be set by the key velocity of the notes you play and the volume will only be set once per note If you use Velocit
7. he three It has a knob on the back which is used to adjust the decay time of the springs from short to very very long indeed This speaker replaced the original Palme speaker which was unreliable in use This speaker like D3 can be used in varying amounts with D1 or switched off completely SONIC SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE D3 The strangest speaker of the set the D3 resembles a cymbal in a wooden cabinet It produces unsurprisingly a very metallic ringing sound with very little low end It has the most unique character of the three and can be used to add sparkly highlights to staccato passages THOMAS LINE OUT Most Ondes do not have a direct output fortunately for us and you Thomas Bloch had his modified with such a facility This means we were able to record the output of the oscillators directly for use with convolution responses of the three Diffuseurs of which more later SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS ONDES MARTENOT MAIN PANEL The graphical interface of the Soniccouture Ondes Martenot instrument isbased on the tiroir or drawer that the Ondes player uses to control both the timbre and the performance of the instrument The Ondes tiroir or controller drawer You can see there are many switches labelled D3 D2 etc On the original instrument these switches turn on and off either the loudspeaker ro
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9. provided an ADSR if you want to use it www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE At the top right there is a small switch labelled 12dB If you turn this switch on the screen changes and additional controls appear as shown DETUNE WIDE SAT Now we ve engaged a 12dB resonant filter instead of the more gentle Bright control In this mode you have control over a dynamic filter not available on the Ondes Martenot itself with Cutoff Resonance and Envelope Depth EG controls along the top dials You will also notice that there is now a FEG switch which switches the ADSR controls to those of a Filter Envelope By setting the depth using the EG control at the top of the screen you can vary the filter cutoff over time with each note played www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE HE SPEAKER EDIT PAGE p x Ondes Martenot 1 gt e Ub Output 51 1 Voices Max 64 Purge 0 00 Midi Ch A 1 v emory om Si Ny EDIT By clicking on the speaker icon next to the top faders on the main panel you access this the SPEAKER EDIT PAGE This page offers one of the key things to the authentic Ondes sound the three speakers or diffuseurs The three faders left on the main panel provide the send levels to each of these speakers The Line fader provides a totally dry direc
10. rial number in the email you were sent when you purchased If for some reason you haven t received this yet you can run your library in demo mode until it arrives N B After authorization you should restart Kontakt SONIC SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE THE ONDES MARTENOT PLAYING THE ONDES MARTENOT Perhaps one of the most enigmatic musical instruments of all time The Ondes Martenot literally Martenot Waves was invented by Maurice Martenot in 1928 More about its background can be found on Wikipedia The instrument produces sound using oscillators as with a conventional analogue synthesiser but it is its methods of control which give the instrument its unique character above The keyboard and ring controller www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE THE RING CONTROLLER amp TOUCHE D INTENSITE The most famous of the Ondes control methods is the metal ring which is worn on the finger of the right hand Contrary to popular belief there is no ribbon style controller nor is the ring used when the keyboard is being played In fact when the Ondes is switched to ring mode au ruban the ring becomes the sole method of determining pitch a very skillful technique particularly so when you consider that in order to produce any sound at all you must simultaneously manipulate the clear lozenge shaped device known as the touche d intensit
11. s is wonderful of course but once we had these gorgeous waves we couldn t resist making polyphonic versions of the instrument and adding more synthesis features You ll find that this instrument makes fantastic vintage sounding pads and sounds great through the 3 speakers In this version you are always in 12dB filter mode And in addition to Cutoff Resonance and EG depth you also now have control over the Velocity and LFO depth to the filter The knobs in the middle of the right half of the panel control Pitch LFO to pitch Rate LFO rate Offset LFO deviation between the oscillators This introduces a slight timing difference if several oscillators are used Amp LFO to amplitude Detune Detune the same as the fader in the previous panel Width The width of the detune in the stereo field Sat Saturation or overdrive HPF A high pass filter without resonance www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE REALTIME CONTROL See Ondes QuickStart MIDI Setup pdf for setup tips Playing a real Ondes is not easy And even if you have many realtime controllers at your fingertips playing our virtual Ondes in real time is almost as difficult as playing the Ondes itself So what we decided to do was to allow you to access all of the things in real time if you wish but also to automate some of them if you prefer How you set this up depends on what level of realtime control you want
12. t s Depth knob This allows you to set whether you are using a single direction or bidirectional pitch controller If you don t want or need to control the vibrato manually with the PITCH controller you can use an LFO for vibrato VIBRATO DEPTH and VIBRATO RATE are the next two MIDI assignments and these control the vibrato LFO Of course an LFO doesn t sound as organic as a manual vibrato so be aware that the more automated your setup the less natural it will sound ATTACK TIME is another way of controlling the envelope if you don t want to use a MIDI CC for Volume If you set ATTACK TIME and VOLUME both to Velocity you can control the attack speed with velocity and this is a little easier to play Make sure you set the Attack on the EG to 9 in this case Lastly at the bottom there is an EXCLUDE KEY This can be set to any note on your keyboard Essentially this just stops that note from sounding The purpose of this is if you want to use one hand to control Aftertouch and not have that key interfere with the melody in your other hand then using Exclude Key gives a key dedicated to aftertouch TEMPLATE INSTRUMENTS We have provided several template Instruments as starting points with different control setups of varying complexity Have a look at these and see what works well for you Definitely consider adding an XY pad or some other control surface to your setup if you don t already have one it makes a huge
13. t output IMPORTANT Switching the speaker faders so that they show a RED handle means that the send is OFF this deactivates the convolution processor and saves processing power Useful to remember if you don t need all 3 speakers www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE MICROPHONE POSITIONS The main function of the Speaker Panel page is to enable you to change mic setups for each speaker There is a choice of CLOSE FAR and ROOM distances Each Mic setup is a stereo pair These positions can be selected from the drop down menu above the picture of each speaker In the case of speaker D2 which functions like a spring reverb there are a variety of different time settings to choose from as well ranging from short to very long AMP DECAY CONTROLS AMP This is the return level of the speaker send Mostly you won t need to use these DECAY This controls the size of the Impulse response At 12 o clock it is the default size You can then reduce it or expand it from there as desired SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE THE POLY ONDES r Ondes Acid 5 Tune Output st 1 v ih Voices 128 Purge 0 00 sc z 9 Midi Ch A 1 emory 29 59 MB om M T MASRAF PANTO 7 This instrument is designed for even more control taking us further away from the original Ondes controls and into creative sound design patches Emulating the original Onde
14. utings or the various oscillators that the Ondes Martenot provides for different timbres In our instrument these switches have been replaced by faders So instead of just being able to turn each switch on or off in our virtual instrument you can adjust the level of each of these You can also turn them precisely on or off by using command control click and alt click www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE The faders on the main part of the panel to the top left are as follows z Ondes Martenot Output st 1 0 Max 64 Midi Ch A 1 29 59 MB DETUNE WIDE on eee es bh URAIN 1 15 Bor D3 The 3rd diffuseur or loudspeaker This is the M tallique speaker which is made from a small gong D2 The 2nd diffuseur or loudspeaker This loudspeaker has a spring reverb built into it D1 The main diffuseur or loudspeaker which is a large normal speaker Line line out signal not processed through any of the loudspeakers Below these are 7 more faders and one switch that control the oscillators www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE The oscillators are as follows 8 Octaviant N Nasillard C Creux O Onde G Gambe g Petit gambe S Souffle T Tutti This is a timbre that reinforces the
15. y for volume you still have the ADSR envelope as well to allow you to shape the dynamics of each note Note that to the right of the Volume Menu there is a curve and then a knob labelled Depth For Volume and Pitch you can control the depth of the controller And for all controllers there are three curves you can choose from that affect the response of that controller linear and exponential concave and convex The second important realtime control is PITCH This can be used for two things depending on the range If it s range is small you can use this for realtime vibrato we ve been using the X axis of an XY pad set to Pitch Bend However if you set this range very wide you can also use a controller to slide the absolute pitch of the instrument a bit like the Ondes ruban Even with a large controller like a ribbon controller however this is very difficult to do it s hard to be precise enough to play a melody using a CC so we generally have used this for vibrato and use the GLIDE to recreate the ruban technique GLIDE SPEED is therefore the next realtime controller If you want to adjust the speed of the glide in realtime this is the assignment to use As you can see from the picture we ve often been using CC1 the Mod Wheel to adjust the glide speed www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE Note that PITCH has a BIPOLAR switch beside i
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