SC Vibraphone User Guide
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1. Nl 1 ix o YAMAHA SONICCOUTUTE VIBRAPHONE SUBEN p SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE CONTENTS INSTALLATION ABOUT THE VIBRAPHONE VIBRAPHONE SPECS THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT PANEL PERFORMANCE PANEL EFFECTS PANEL EXTRA SCRIPTS SUPPORT E U L A SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE INSTALLATION 1 Put the SC Vibraphone folder somewhere safe on your system C drive or main Macintosh Hard Drive You can move the library folder to a separate HD after you have authorized it If you do not own Kontakt 5 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 WATCH TUTORIAL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE 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 Sc Vibraphone gt Library folder This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the Service Center 4 If Kontakt asks you to Activate the library the NI Service Center program will launch and you will need your serial number to authorize Vibraphone 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 our2. SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE The Owner may not transfer modify rent lease loan resell distribute network electronically transmit or merge the Software DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY The software is provided as is and without warranty of any kind The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the software and documentation remains with user To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law Soniccouture further disclaims all warranties either express or implied including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with regard to the software and any accompanying hardware To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in no event shall Soniccouture be liable for any consequential incidental direct indirect special punitive or other damages whatsoever including without limitation damages for loss of business profits business interruption loss of business information or other pecuniary loss arising out of this EULA or the use of or inability to use the software even if Soniccouture has been advised of the possibility of such damages
3. 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 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 games 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
4. ADVANCED EASY simply means octave based and ADVANCED means non octave based EASY looks like this 0 0 0 Kontakt 5 KONTAKT c Gamelan Vibe 4 e Tune Output st 1 M O Mos 100 Purge 0 00 Midi Ch A 1 M y 449 82 MB li Xenharmonium wuwu 3 subset on black keys fro Easy 25 Co Bali Pelog Semar 2 Mode 1 Simple C semi Input Adjust D semi Shift o Output Adjust F se Fcents Min 2 F semi F cents 68 G Transpost G semi G cents 10 semi cents 46 e Fine Tune semi Rit cents 1 0 B cents 1 VIBRAPHONE SONICCOUTUTE Vibe Microtuning Performance Instrument Effects You can see in the middle there is a semitone and cent offset for each key class C to B Where is says C Root in the upper left above is a transposition menu for the microtuning so you can move this to any other root key On the right where it says Bali Pelog Semar above is a menu with some interesting tuning presets This is all essentially taken from an earlier script of ours called Distemper On the left the controls from top to bottom are Active turn this script on or off Easy Easy or Advanced mode we are in Easy mode right now Mode 1 Simple Mode 2 tries to manage scripted note offs release samples Depending on the library this has had some success but occasionally doesn t work Mode 1 is safer and doesn t try to tune release sam
5. All controls can be reset to their default value by command clicking control clicking in Windows on the knob The Envelope drop down to the right of the word ENVELOPE lets you choose the FILTER EG in case you want to edit the Filter Envelope You have the same Attack Decay Sustain and Release controls for the Filter Envelope as you do for the Amplitude Envelope Filter Envelope Depth is controlled in the Filter section next SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE FILTER The FILTER section has an on off switch beside the word FILTER and then five knobs that allow you to quickly adjust the CUTOFF RESONANCE VELOCITY ENVELOPE DEPTH and High Pass Filter HPF Again all these knobs can be automated Note that both the VELocity and ENVelope knobs are bipolar so can add or subtract from the basic CUTOFF setting STEREO SECTION The STEREO section has just two controls the knob that controls the Stereo Width of the signal nominal is at 12 o clock and the FLIP button below that reverses the stereo image By default the Vibraphone is in Audience perspective but if you FLIP the stereo image you can be in Player perspective TREMOLO SECTION The TREMOLO has a small switch to enable and disable tremolo beside the title TREMOLO But to the right you ll also find a menu that allows you to choose between NATURAL and FANS LAYERING NATURAL is where you want this menu to be if you want the Vibrapho
6. PUT drive the ATTACK and SUSTAIN of the sound and the OUTPUT level LIMITER Finally you have the option to use a LIMITER at the end of the effects chain which you can enable or disable with the small LED switch You can also control the INPUT gain to the LIMITER using the knob SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE EXTRA SCRIPTS The intrepid amongst you may have noticed two extra scripts that appear in a couple of the Vibraphone Sound Design presets These offer some extra functionality that you re free to explore or ignore as you like You can SAVE these scripts if you like making them available to any preset or you can simply adjust the presets we ve included with altered settings in these scripts to make your own presets that take advantage of them All setting in the scripts are saved along with either an Instrument saved using them or with a script preset PHRASER PHRASER is a script that originally appeared in our Scriptorium product It has been updated for Vibraphone use here OOO Kontakt 5 KONTAKT Phraser Vibraphone Output st 1 it Voices O 100 Midi Ch A 1 0 Memory 449 82 MB Recall Phrase PHRASER Save Phrase Record Phrase Rec Key 95 Rand Vel Auto Play e Record Mute 5 ry Speed 1716 e Shift A Start e Length 0 st am 100 EE VIBRAPHONE SONICCOUTUrE Phraser Performance Instrument Effects Pitch Mod The principle concept is that yo
7. Vibraphone Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Service Center You will find your serial 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 VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE ABOUT VIBRAPHONE Essentially a mechanised 20th Century variation on the classic idiophone such as the Xylophone or Marimba the vibraphone adds a constant modulation to its resonator tubes by the use of motorised fans These fans or discs cover the top of the resonator tube and spin in unison allowing full or partial function of the resonator tube depending on which point of the cycle the motor is in The resulting tone is a type of tremolo effect very wobbly indeed due to all resonators modulating together and thus aggregating the effect on the decaying notes Instruments that use this kind of global modulation the Hammond C3 leslie is a similar example are traditionally impossible to sample amp model realistically because if you record a single note with the tremolo active it will be completely out of sync with all subsequent notes you record Previous attempts to sample the vibraphone usually resorted to sampling the instrument with the motor tremolo switched off then approximating the effect later using filters modulated by
8. an LFO Soniccouture Vibraphone takes a new approach by sampling the entire instrument twice Once with the fans closed once with them fully open both times completely static the motor switched off www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE Once we have the full vibraphone sound in both states fans closed and fans open we can then simply crossfade between them using a simple LFO This gives not only the authentic detailed timbre but also full control over the speed of the tremolo another essential element of the instrument missing from previous renderings VIBRAPHONE SPECS amp CREDITS Yamaha YV 3910M Professional Gold 3 864 samples 24 bit 96 khz stereo sampling 15 GB library 8 GB on disk with Kontakt NCW compression e 3 5 octaves 41 notes from C2 to F5 e 23 velocity levels with intelligent round robin mapping e Sustain and Non sustain articulations e Modeled tremolo response of spinning resonator fans Recorded at Real World Studios Bath England January 2013 by Ed Al Shakarchi amp James Thompson Percussionist Harriet Riley above Edited By Ed Al Shakarchi Scripting amp GUI Design by Dan Powell amp James Thompson www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT Note that you can hover your mouse over any control in Vibraphone to get Info about its function i
9. ear Hertz difference between the two signals is constant Thus the perceived beating is constant regardless of which pitch you play This is something we stole from Balinese gamelan tradition but regularly enjoy sprinkled on other dishes as well SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE THE PERFORMANCE PANEL Selecting the Performance tab provides access to the preferences and performance options of the Vibraphone instrument 0 0 0 Kontakt 5 KONTAKT SC Vibraphone Init gt Tune Output st 1 It Voices 100 Purge 0 00 Midi Ch A 1 v Memory 449 82 MB VIBRAPHONE Performance Instrument Effects Pitch Mod MAMA VELOCITY SETUP The left half of the window is dedicated to the velocity response of the instrument You can set a Velocity LIMIT LOW and LIMIT HIGH if you need You can adjust the CURVE to suit your playing style and you can also adjust the curve shape with a small drop down menu to the right of the word CURVE HUMANISE At the top right there are two knobs to adjust the randomisation of VELOCITY and TIMING This is useful if you have a quantized MIDI file and www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE want to introduce a bit of randomness to the velocity or timing response of the instrument On the bottom right there are some options which can be turned on or off POLYPHONY GUARD This switch turns on our intelligent pol
10. f you have the Kontakt Info pane activated THE INSTRUMENT PANEL Selecting the Instrument tab provides access to the main controls of the Vibraphone instrument 0 0 0 Kontakt 5 KONTAKT SC Vibraphone Init Output st 1 M t Voices O 100 Purge R 1 449 82 MB ENVELOPE FILTER 1 VEL CUTOFF RES VIBRAPHONE Performance Instrument Effects Pitch Mod AMMALATA www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE ENVELOPE SECTION On the left there s the ENVELOPE section with controls for Attack Decay Sustain and Release of the Amplitude envelope by default Note that the Release time can be set independently for PEDAL UP and PEDAL DOWN PEDAL UP and DOWN can be switched with the graphic below the Envelope section or with the Sustain Pedal CC 64 if enabled in the Options page PEDAL UP and DOWN in fact switches sample sets the Vibraphone sounds quite different with the sustain pedal in either position so we sampled it in both positions The sustain pedal behaviour is slightly different from a Piano so you may prefer not to use our default sustain pedal to pedal setting in the Options page If you right Click on the Pedal Switch or any of these knobs Kontakt allows you to assign your own controller to that function So if you d prefer to use a different controller for the Pedal switch this is the way to do it
11. lues to the currently selected tuning These are details I m not going to explain here Email us if you have a problem with any of those tools On the right in ADVANCED mode you can save and recall presets within the instrument or script export or load SCALE PRESETS to and from disk www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE and export or load the NAMES for those files on disk Names must be seperate since Kontakt cannot include both text and numericals in the same disk file This will be immediately fixed when NI fix that limitation SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE 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 support 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 VIBRAPHONE 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
12. ne to behave in the usual Vibraphone ish way Let s quickly explain how Tremolo works on a Vibraphone and then we can see how this menu opens up some other possibilities when not in the NATURAL position HOW VIBRAPHONE TREMOLO WORKS Vibraphones as you probably know are constructed from aluminum bars suspended by chord and struck with mallets Underneath each bar is a resonator tuned to the pitch of the key it accompanies to enhance the fundamental of that pitch SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE A unique feature of the vibraphone is that at the top of each resonator is a disk or fan These are all mounted along a bar so that the fans can be rotated to either close or open the resonator This slightly changes the timbre since when the fans are VERTICAL the resonator is open and fully enhances the fundamental and when the fans are HORIZONTAL the fans close the resonator dulling the fundamental of each pitch These fans are then connected to a motor that continually turns them on their central axis creating the classic Vibraphone tremolo we all know and love All fans turn in sync so all notes are either deadened or enhanced together independently of when they were struck To recreate this we sampled the entire vibraphone with the fans in horizontal position and again with the fans in vertical position We carefully matched each velocity level so that these were aligned and could be crossfaded back and forth to re c
13. phrase and end of the phrase Start and Length can be quite interesting to automate as you can close down or open a phrase from either end during playback At the bottom you have a small keyboard that functions as a note filter or scale limiter The output of PHRASER will only play notes included on that keyboard If a note is missing the nearest allowable note will play instead There are some common presets for the note filter At the top right you have two menus in which you can Save or Recall up to five phrases All five phrases will be saved with an Instrument or script preset save so you can make sets of these if you like VIBE MICROTUNING VIBE MICROTUNING is a version of Dan s Xenharmonium script which is ever expanding overly complex method of managing microtuning scales and systems within Kontakt Basically it simply allows you to microtune an Instrument It does so in a way that s compatible with many other scripts so works with the DETUNE in Vibraphone It also allows non octave tunings and various tuning calculations to be done in situ so you can experiment with tunings directly What follows is a brief description of the controls in Xenharmonium and what they currently do There are a lot of sub pages for scale calculation which we won t go into here If you re a microtuning fanatic these tools will probably be obvious to you SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE Firstly there are two modes EASY and
14. ples www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE Input Shift shifts incoming MIDI BEFORE the microtuning Min and Max sets the range of notes to allow Transpose shifts MIDI AFTER the microtuning Fine Tune fine tunes the pitch AFTER the microtuning ADVANCED mode looks like this You can see that the middle has changed above it says Harmonic Series which is a tool to generate a harmonic series upon any Root Note at any Pitch The menu that contains the Harmonic Series also can be set to do 0000 Kontakt 5 KONTAKT Overtone Series Vibe m dune Output st 1 Y 0 O 100 Purge 0 00 Midi Ch A 1 MEE Memory 449 82 MB d NA Xenharmonium LULULU S initialize Tuning Notes Cents 000 Edit any note it s the last note played Presets Mode 1 Simple Select Tuning v Input Adjust e Shift Calculate and Manipulate Scales Save Tuning 0 Harmonic Seriese Output Adjust Calculate a Harmonic 6 2 Import Export 68 Current Tuning 4 3 Transpose All Tunings X 12 All Names v VIBRAPHONE SONICCOUTUrE Vibe Microtuning Performance Instrument Effects other things such as Repeat a Range of defined intervals do Equal Division of any number of semitones including an octave obviously repeat a fixed interval think Wendy Carlos calculate Just Intonation based on ratios or do Simple Offsets such as shift a scale or add note or cent va
15. reate the original tremolo effect Ok now since we have these two slightly different versions of the same signal being Soniccouture we couldn t just leave well enough alone we had to mess with it a little bit and see what else might be possible with these extra layers That is why we have the menu to choose between NATURAL and FANS LAYERING TREMOLO SECTION CONT D So NATURAL mode forces our Vibraphone to behave normally the Tremolo is as expected and when TREMOLO is turned off LED switch you hear only one signal the fans vertical signal to best imitate a real Vibraphone with its motor turned off TREMOLO Y FEN DETUNE a HORIZ www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE FANS LAYERED on the other hand lets you choose what you would like to do with each signal e You can turn each layer or off with the square switch beside VERT and HORIZ You can flip both the stereo image or the phase of the vertical set with the two symbol switches beside VERT e You can DETUNE the two pairs using the DETUNE knob which creates a very gamelanesque sound And through all of the above you can still choose whether the TREMOLO itself is on or off and how fast those fans turn Note that the DETUNE is slightly special here as well It s not a fixed pitch detune but a fixed beating detune which means that for each note the detune is unique so that the lin
16. t Voices O 100 Purge Midi Ch A 1 M y 449 82 MB LI sat yum BELLY 3 LM HMF BELLY DRIVE VIBRAPHONE Performance Instrument Pitch Mod The effects panel is divided into few sections Along the top you have the EQUALISER and DELAY Below DELAY you have the SPACE section At the bottom you have SATURATION TRANSIENT and LIMITER EQUALISER This is the nice new SSL EQ introduced in Kontakt 5 You can enable or disable it with the LED at the top left There are knobs for each of the four bands frequency and GAIN The bottom and top band can be switched between Shelf and Bell shape DELAY The DELAY effect has controls for MIX TIME in milliseconds PAN and FEEDBACK www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE SPACE This uses Kontakt s built in Convolution processor and offers a wide selection of Reverb spaces that you can choose using the drop down menu You can also disable or enable it with the little LED at the far right You have knobs to control MIX SIZE High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter SATURATION This can be turned on or off with the small LED switch and has one knob for the amount of saturation called DRIVE TRANSIENT This is the Transient Designer that was introduced to Kontakt in version 5 This is really great for adjusting the sound of percussion instruments like Marimba You have control over the IN
17. u can record a series of notes a phrase into a buffer This can then be re triggered by notes you play instead of the notes you play You can retrigger either in real time Manual Play or at a www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE constant rhythmic rate Auto Play The Manual Play or Auto Play switch is in the middle right of the screen The entire script is enabled or disabled with the little switch at the top left beside the word PHRASER A phrase is simply a series of notes without rhythmic or velocity values attached to them You can record this phrase using the Record Phrase button at the top left You can assign a MIDI key to enable Record Phrase if you re really good at this and want to do it on stage NB The PHRASE itself is recorded as an offset from middle C MIDI note 60 For example if you recorded three notes D3 B2 C3 as your phrase this will be stored as 2 1 0 So if you triggered it only with G5 the output would be A5 F 5 G5 This is important to understand since the phrase also exists without key or absolute pitch So when recording a phrase it s a good idea to record it in relation to middle C in a way that makes sense to YOU RECORD MUTE below the Record Phrase button simply stops the sound of your playing during the Record time Again only really useful if you want to use this live In the column to the right of Record yo
18. u will see a RESET button and a Reset Key for triggering the RESET function by MIDI This simply sets the playback cursor to the beginning of your phrase so that the next note you play will start from the beginning To the right of that you have a knob for Random Velocity which introduces a slight randomicity to the velocity you use to trigger the phrase If this is set to 5 and you play a MIDI note of velocity 80 then the output velocity will be from anywhere between 75 and 85 This is especially useful in Auto Play mode To the right of that is the main switch for Auto Play or Manual Play In Manual Play mode each note you play is assigned the next note of the phrase f you play a chord you can force that chord to stay on the same STEP of the phrase by setting the Chord ms parameter large enough to encompass the time it takes you to play a chord Typically that would be about 15 ms or so SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE In Auto Play mode the notes of the phrase are stepped through automatically at the rate set with the Speed knob below the Auto Play switch In this case if you play a chord all the notes will step through the phrase together Below the main controls are four knobs Velocity Shift Start and Length The knobs let you control or automate aspects of the phrase playback Velocity is an offset to the playback velocity Shift is a note shift or transpose Start and Length adjust the beginning of the
19. yphony guard which stops repeated notes from using up too much polyphony Generally we recommend this be kept ON but if you understand what it s doing and can hear the note stealing then you may turn it off Be careful of your CPU drain if you turn this off USE ROUND ROBIN This turns on our Intelligent Round Robin script which will force a new sample to play if you repeat a given note at a given velocity The purpose of this is to reduce the machine gun effect of repeated notes However since this instrument has 23 velocity levels in normal keyboard playing you probably won t need to use Round Robin as you are unlikely to trigger the same sample twice MAP SUSTAIN TO PEDAL Turns on or off Controller 64 sustain pedal as an articulation switch If this is ON then the sustain pedal will switch between the sustained and non sustained sample sets like a real vibraphone But this can be confusing if you re a piano you turn this off then the sustain controller 64 only acts as a sustain pedal and you must switch articulations either with the graphic Pedal switch on the Instrument panel or else by assigning your own controller to that graphic switch LIMIT RANGE AS AUTHENTIC This limits our Vibraphone to respond only within the original range of the Vibraphone C2 to F5 SONIC SONICCOUTURE VIBRAPHONE USER GUIDE THE EFFECTS PANEL 0 0 0 Kontakt 5 KONTAKT SC Vibraphone Init 2121 Output 51 1
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