SC Geosonics User Guide
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1. SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS CONTENTS INSTALLATION ABOUT CHRIS WATSON ABOUT GEOSONICS GEOSONICS CREDITS THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENT PANEL OPTIONS PANEL EFFECTS PANEL SUPPORT E U L A SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE INSTALLATION 1 Put the SC Geosonics 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 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 Geosonics 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 Geosonics 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 Geosonics Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Service Center You will find your serial number in2. and PREFERENCES JAMMER Jammer is a generative arpeggiator that uses the currently held notes to create new patterns In order to hear Jammer you must have the ACTIVE switch turned on on this tab and at least one of the JAM switches turned on in the Instrument panel The JAM switches on the Instrument panel allow you to select which elements follow the jammer and which do not Jammer offers controls for RATE The speed of the arpeggios based on tempo note values TIMING Randomization of the timing VELOCITY Randomization of velocity based on played input NOTE Randomization of the notes based on those held down OCTAVE Randomization of the Octave MOD Use the ModWheel to increase or decrease the velocity www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE To the right you will find a keyboard that allows you to limit the pitches selected by the Jammer This can be set to any of the scales available in the PRESETS menu or you can use LEARN to play in the notes you want to use DOUBLE NOTES will create two notes at each strike of the Jammer PREFERENCES JAMMFA PREFERENCES EN A gt AT OCHRIS WATSON Elfeots REDUCE NOTE BUILDUP This will limit the polyphony of each key to prevent note buildup if either Jammer or the sustain pedal is used We recommend keeping it ON unless you have a special reason to turn it off LPF KEY FOLLOW Chooses whether or not the Lo
3. 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 SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE E U L A END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT PREFACE This End User License Agreement EULA is a legal agreement between vou and Soniccouture LTD for the Soniccouture product accompanving this EULA which includes computer software and mav include associated media printed materials and online or electronic documentation Software Bv installing copving 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
4. 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 GEOSONICS USER GUIDE ABOUT CHRIS WATSON Chris Watson is one of the world s leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena Born in 1953 in Sheffield Watson was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire during the 1970 s and early 1980 s His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals habitats and atmospheres from around the world As a freelance composer and recordist for Film TV amp Radio Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with sound design in post production www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE His television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough Life series including The Life of Birds which won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound in 1996 More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with David Attenborough on the BBC s series Frozen Planet which won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound 2012 Watson has recorded and featured in
5. you can reduce the BIT depth or the sample RATE of the sound LIMITER Finally you have the option to use a LIMITER at the end of the insert effects chain which you can enable or disable with the small switch You can also control the INPUT gain to the LIMITER using the knob SPACE EFFECTS The SPACE tab gives you control over the convolution reverb There is a drop down menu at the top and vou ll see there are three categories of SPACE effects to select from REVERB SPACES These are SCs own IRs of natural reverb spaces SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE GEOSONIC SPACES These are IRS made from Chris s original material which results in more experimental reverb type effects EFFECT SPACES These are IRs made by SC that are more experimental in nature You can also select ALL SPACES in which case the lower menu will display all IR options at once Within the SPACES editor you can adjust the following SIZE The size of the impulse response DELAY Predelay before the convolution effect HPF A High Pass Filter LPF A Low Pass Filter ACTIVE Turns the Reverb on or off ECONOMY Uses the IR at half its original sample rate to save CPU REVERSE Reverses the IR for a special effect SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS 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
6. and Water Wind Wires Each recording from Chris was then used to make a single Geosonics instrument these can be found in the Original Recordings Presets folder in the library Each instrument also contains specially created pitched sample material for the purpose of blending with the natural recordings in order to create musical soundscapes that can be played as instruments SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE These instruments were the starting point for the sound design process in the Geosonics project ABOUT THE RECORDINGS We spoke with Chris at length over Skype about the various recording processes used in the Geosonics archive We believe it is much better to hear Chris describe the recordings than for us to write about them so we have made four videos which you can view on our Youtube channel INTERVIEW VIDEOS Swamp Ice and Water Wind Wires www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE GEOSONICS CREDITS All recordings Chris Watson Touch Additional audio data by Soniccouture Sound library programmed by lan Boddy Andy Wheddon Biomechanoid Martin Walker amp Soniccouture GUI Images Iceberg Mic in icescape desert dunes acacia tree swamp mic in steam Chris Watson Wire images 1 2 Wired Lab www wiredlab org SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS TIP You can hover your mouse over any cont
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8. etriggering well ambience There are also two drop down menus in FOCUS mode that allow you to choose the PITCHED 1 and PITCHED 2 waveforms SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE GENERAL CONTROLS ON THE INSTRUMENT TAB The following controls on the Instrument panel are the same whether or not the instrument is in Focus mode They generally work on the last sound selected If you are in Focus mode this will be the tab that is currently selected NATURAL PITCHED 1 or PITCHED 2 If you re in non Focus mode it will usually be the last key you played On the left we have the basic controls for PITCH PAN WIDTH and START time There is a small knob to route Velocity to Pitch to the left of the PITCH knob The PITCH knob itself works on semitones unless ALT Option is held down and then it works on cents To the right of that is the FILTER section VEL Velocity to LPF Cutoff Frequency CUTOFF LPF Cutoff Frequency RES LPF Resonance FOLLOW Envelope follower to LPF Cutoff Frequency NOT key follow ENV 1 Amount of Filter Envelope to LPF Cutoff Frequency ENV 2 Amount of Filter Envelope to HPF Cutoff Frequency HPF HPF Cutoff Frequency At the lower left there are the ENVELOPE controls with the standard ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE controls These can be set independently for the AMP envelope or the Filter Envelope FEG using the small menu at the top right There is a VELocity control for both the Ampli
9. extent of international and local copyright law Use of original sounds or samples from this product as cues or triggers in electronic console online games is not covered by this license Special license for this usage can be negotiated with Soniccouture LTD 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 SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE a composer or where the Owner has two non concurrent sites of work for example a studio desktop and a laptop for live performance 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 regar
10. many BBC Radio productions including The Ice Mountain The Reed Bed Jules Verne s Volcano The Ditch The Listeners and The Wire which won him the Broadcasting Press Guild s Broadcaster of The Year Award 2012 His music is regularly featured on the BBC Radio 3 programme Late Junction www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE ABOUT GEOSONICS lt r Geosonics was first conceived as an idea when we heard a documentary about the wire recording art installations www wiredlab org taking place in New South Wales Australia Chris Watson featured on this programme and we were captivated by the sounds and the concept of these huge expanses of landscape producing micro sound along wires There was no way we could produce these recordings ourselves so that meant we had to try and contact Chris We had been fans of his for a long time and this seemed a great opportunity to work with him Contacting Chris is not always easy it takes time because generally he is away in the Arctic or the Sahara when you want to to talk to him But over a period of a year to 18 months we collaborated with Chris and he spent some time going through his archives to supply us with interesting recordings for the project As we worked with Chris selecting material from his archives the idea evolved to select material according to 4 distinct environments Swamp Ice
11. rol in Geosonics to cy get Info about its function if you have the Kontakt Info pane activated THE INSTRUMENT PANEL AND FOCUS Most of the presets in Geosonics are in Focus mode which looks like this vs A New Arrival TAS kosta CEOS ONICS EEI M WATION CCOUTUTrE te Note the three tabs along the top Pitched 1 Natural and Pitched 2 If an Instrument is in Focus mode you will be playing one Chris Watson Natural ambience sound often together with one or two pitched waves If you turn Focus mode OFF the instrument panel then looks like this www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE ANew Arrival ku r j 200 el TT CAS WATION St ACCORJ Erect KUNTATT ARA Note that the two Pitched tabs have disappeared and there are a few extra switches available to the Natural sound section at the top The lower part of the panel does not change In non Focus mode each key plays a different slice or view of the current Natural ambience and each can be edited independently If Select By MIDI is on playing a key sets up the editor for that view TRY THIS Play a key then hit the INIT switch in the lower centre of the panel play the same key again and you will hear that sound as Chris originally recorded it WHAT IS FOCUS MODE AND WHY When we first loaded Chris s original sounds into Kontakt we mapped a single ambience across the en
12. tire keyboard Since the ambiences are not generally pitched we decided it was interesting to allow the user to edit the sound differently for each key This un focused preset would then have 127 different variations available all made from the same original recording It s www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE a handy way to explore the possibilities of the current ambience especially if you re not interested in using it for pitched music However if we do want to make a pitched Pad or other sort of instrument from one of the ambiences we enable the FOCUS mode FOCUS takes the last sound played and maps it across the entire keyboard It also loads up two extra tabs for layering pitched waves together with the ambience We found this was a very creative set up so most of the presets included with this library are in this mode Note that you can always take an instrument out of FOCUS mode to get back to the original ambience files CONTROLS SPECIFIC TO NON FOCUS MODE At the top right you ll see the following switches SELECT BY MIDI The last MIDI note sets up the editor for that note We recommend keeping this ON most of the time EDIT ALL Any changes you make will affect ALL keys at once SHUFFLE Randomize the key layout for exploring the preset RESET Reset the key layout CONTROLS SPECIFIC TO FOCUS MODE BACKDROP This turns the ambience wave into a non pitched non r
13. tude and the FEG note that Amplitude velocity is unipolar whereas FEG velocity is bipolar SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE On the lower right is the LFO section There are two LFOs which you can select with the drop down menu LFO 1 can be routed to PITCH or LEVEL LFO 2 can be routed to PAN and FILTER cutoff frequency In the centre there are some switches and a bus routing Any sound can be routed to either FX BUS 1 or FX BUS 2 These effects busses can be set up independently on the Effects tab The other switches in the middle are INIT and MUTATE and JAM if the Jammer is on INIT will reset the current editor to an initialized state This is handy for getting back to a starting point if you are making your own preset MUTATE will randomly change some of the parameters in the current editor Usually this only changes the parameters within about 10 of their current settings but if you hold down SHIFT when you click MUTATE it will randomize the parameters at a more extreme 40 of current state If you hold down ALT when you click MUTATE it will completely randomize the parameters in the current editor SONIC SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE THE OPTIONS PANEL PREFERENCES a rt Pa i ta i O o TEA a SSO C OSONICS 2 ET LCHRIS WATSON SC CCOUTLU s EHeots This panel contains various options for setting up the patch to behave the way you prefer There are two tabs with the Options panel JAMMER
14. w Pass Filter will follow the played note or not MODWHEEL FADES RAISES BY This function allows you to modulate the level of the Pitched or Natural waves with the ModWheel It s a useful real time modulation for Focussed presets PITCH BEND NORMAL www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE If you change this to PITCH BEND GLISSANDO the Pitch Wheel will introduce endless glissando to any held notes THE EFFECTS PANEL The effects panel is divided into three tabs FX BUS 1 and FX BUS 2 contain identical sets of insert effects but can be set independently Routing to these two busses is set on the Instrument panel INSERT EFFECTS CHORUS The standard Kontakt Chorus effect You have control of MIX level DEPTH SPEED and PHASE of the chorus DELAY The DELAY effect has controls for MIX level TIME PAN and FEEDBACK of the Delay SPACE This is the SEND amount to the Space convolution Controls for the convolution itself are on the SPACE tab explained below www soniccouture com email support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE GEOSONICS USER GUIDE SATURATION This effect has one knob to control the amount of saturation named DRIVE PHASER The Phaser section has controls for MIX level DEPTH SPEED and FEEDBACK of the Phaser COMPRESSOR The Compressor section has controls for INPUT Threshold RATIO RELEASE and output GAIN of the Compressor LOFI Here
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