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1. Enjoy discovering the world of LUMINA QUICK INSTALLATION For experienced Kontakt users these are summarized steps to install LUMINA 1 INSTALL DOWNLOAD VERSION Download LUMINA using the ProjectSAM Downloader for or Windows USB VERSION Copy LUMINA from the USB stick to a hard drive II ADD LIBRARY Add LUMINA to Kontakt Player using the Add Library button CHALLENGE RESPONSE USB VERSION ONLY Enter your challenge code at www projectsam com My Account IV ACTIVATE Click the Activate button in Kontakt and activate LUMINA using your product serial number DETAILED INSTALLATION DOWNLOAD This chapter helps you install the DOWNLOADABLE version of LUMINA DOWNLOAD LIBRARY 1 Download the ProjectSAM Downloader application for Mac or Windows 2 Launch the application 3 Enter your ProjectSAM account username and your LUMINA product serial number Your product serial number can be found in the order confirmation e mail as well as in your ProjectSAM account at www projectsam com My Account 4 Click Download 5 Select a destination for the Lumina Library folder This is the folder that you will later add to Kontakt Player The folder can be on any hard drive and inside any subfolder 6 Click Choose 7 Your download will start LUMINA is over 38 GB in size so downloading will take at least a number of hours depending on your internet speed and our server load The downloader auto2. REFERENCE MANUAL ta M THI OLU MEIN THE 1 A PROJECTSAM cinematic sampling REFERENCE MANUAL LUMINA PROJECTSAM cinematic sampling INTRODUCTION QUICK INSTALLATION DETAILED INSTALLATION DOWNLOAD DETAILED INSTALLATION USB LUMINA S STRUCTURE STORIES TEXTURES amp GESTURES PLAYABLE INSTRUMENTS LEGATO SOLOISTS DYSTOPIA TIME STRETCH ENABLED LUMINA S MICROPHONES 11 11 12 12 13 14 A MAP OF LUMINA GLOBAL TAB ELEMENTS TAB ADVANCED TAB CONTACT PROJECTSAM LUMINA CREDITS 16 16 19 20 23 24 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing With SYMPHOBIA and SYMPH audiences around the world LUMINA third volume in the SYMPHOBIA series OBIA 2 ProjectSAM explored the heavier side of orchestra to help you thrill directors and And now a new story unfolds Featuring full orchestra choir smaller ensembles and a wide range of guest instruments LUMINA dives into the world of fantasy mystery and animation third volume the SYMPHOB greatly expanding your musical palette Based on more recordings than ever before this A series is ProjectSAM s most ambitious release yet This reference manual will help you install the library and covers the most important elements to get you started But as with any of our libraries actually us ng it is the best way to explore its possibilities
3. in using your Native Instruments account or create a new account if you do not have one LUMINA will be listed on the Activation tab Copy paste your LUMINA product serial number into the provided text fields Click Activate LUMINA is now activated Restart Kontakt for the activation to take effect Important note Activation is done using the Native Instruments Service Center application Please note that you have to log in to the Service Center using your Native Instruments account This is a different account than your ProjectSAM website account DETAILED INSTALLATION USB This chapter helps you install the boxed USB version of LUMINA COPY LIBRARY LUMINA is stored on a high speed USB stick While technically the library can be run directly from the stick we do highly recommend to only use the stick only as backup and to copy the library to a hard drive 1 2 Insert the LUMINA USB stick Copy the entire Lumina Library folder to a location on your computer The folder can be on any hard drive and inside any subfolder INSTALL KONTAKT PLAYER 5 If you do not have Kontakt 5 or Kontakt Player 5 installed you will find installers for the and Windows version of Kontakt Player 5 in the Kontakt Player folder on the USB stick Follow the on screen instructions to install Kontakt Player 5 III ADD LIBRARY TO KONTAKT 1 2 4 5 6 Launch Kontakt Player 5 Go to the Libraries tab top left
4. this for example to have more control over note releases or to add your own reverb you can disable release trails Release trail volume sets the volume of the release trail samples its default middle position the volume of the release trail matches that of the main sample Release trail length in certain situations you may want to have the realism of natural note endings but with a shorter reverberation tail after the note This control allows you to set the length of the recorded reverberation tail Release trails are not available for all instruments 4 ROUND ROBIN When you repeat a note the recorded takes for that note can be used in a round robin cycle a b c a b c and so on This avoids the robotic repetition you would get when the same sample is repeated over and over The effect is especially clear with short notes which is why these notes have been recorded two three or even four times If you turn off round robin only the first take will be used Reset key MIDI key assigned as bypass reset trigger for the round robin cycle When the key is pressed the round robin cycle is reset to the first take While the key is being held down round robin is temporarily turned off To change the round robin reset key click on the MIDI note which will start flashing You can now press a new key on your MIDI controller Please note that the reset key cannot be within the playable range of the instrument nor can it be any
5. Click Add Library Browse to the Lumina Library folder that you copied to your computer earlier and double click it You now see the contents of the Lumina Library folder Click Choose Kontakt may ask you for your administrator password LUMINA is now added to your list of Kontakt libraries 10 IV CHALLENGE RESPONSE Your LUMINA box contains a challenge code This code needs to be entered in the challenge response system at www projectsam com to retrieve your actual LUMINA product serial number The product serial number is needed to activate the library NANA Go to www projectsam com My Account Log in using your ProjectSAM account username and password or create a new account if you do not have one yet Click the red challenge code button at the top of the page Enter your challenge code into the text field and click get your serial number Your LUMINA product serial number is now displayed and safely stored in your ProjectSAM account It has also been sent to you in an e mail V ACTIVATE After you have added the library to Kontakt LUMINA must be activated using your product serial number Until you activate LUMINA the library will run in demo mode and stop working after a certain amount of time I 2 naar Click the Activate button in the LUMINA image Kontakt may ask you for your administrator password The Native Instruments Service Center application will now launch Service Center requires a
6. Native Instruments account Please note that this is a different account from the ProjectSAM account you have at www projectsam com Log in using your Native Instruments account or create a new account if you do not have one LUMINA will be listed on the Activation tab Copy paste your LUMINA product serial number into the provided text fields Click Activate LUMINA is now activated Restart Kontakt for the activation to take effect Important note Activation is done using the Native Instruments Service Center application Please note that you have to log in to the Service Center using your Native Instruments account This is a different account than your ProjectSAM website account LUMINA S STRUCTURE The recordings for LUMINA range from large playable orchestrations such as orchestra and choir performing in octaves to subtle composed phrases played by just piano and harp These different types of samples have been grouped in the following categories which are also the folder names STORIES Stories are the largest components within LUMINA They are thematic combinations of the library s individual instruments In previous libraries Multis were used to accomplish this In LUMINA it is accomplished within single Kontakt instruments offering you full control over each element Using clever keyboard mapping and controller assignments Stories give you numerous musical features on one keyboard all within a single Kontakt tra
7. This frees up memory and lowers voice polyphony When un purged the samples are quickly loaded back into RAM When muted samples remain loaded and ready but are not triggered This does lower voice polyphony but does not free up memory When un muted the samples are instantly available Purging is best when you know you won t use certain elements in a project Muting is best for a live situation where you only want to disable certain elements temporarily CONTROL RESET Click on a control while holding Command Mac or Control Windows to reset it to its default value This works with all volume knobs effect knobs and microphone faders ELEMENTS TAB Mystery Freaky Fair tput st 1 J Purge 0 00 fidi omni 0 Mer 4 MB an T LUMINA stage PROJECTSAM 19 cinematic sampling ELEMENTS LIST The elements list has the same functionality as on the Global tab However on the Elements tab the elements are selectable When selecting an element its controls are shown on the right side of the interface ELEMENT CONTROLS 1 amp 2 Element attack amp release sets the attack and release time for the selected element For very short articulations the release time is identical to the decay time 3 Element reverb send sets the send level of the selected element to the convolution reverb effect Note that if the main reverb volume on the Global tab is turned all the way down the reverb send levels will not seem t
8. ck In this way LUMINA s ensembles solo instruments and textures all take part in a bigger Story 11 Especially when all three microphone channels are loaded Stories require a powerful system with fast hard drive access times On older systems it might be needed to purge one or two mics More information on on this can be found in the chapter A Map of Lumina Since Stories replace Multis altogether LUMINA includes no Multis TEXTURES amp GESTURES LUMINA is packed with superbly orchestrated textures covering the full spectrum of fantasy and mystery With a hint of grand piano harp and percussion these recordings are truly luminous Textures are longer movements often looped ranging anywhere between three and thirty seconds in length Gestures are shorter phrases such as a magical reveal or a suspenseful glissando The Textures amp Gestures folder contains all a tonal effects such as clusters and risers performed by orchestra and choir A lot of the textures and gestures have been recorded 12 in various dynamic layers and orchestrations Make sure to use your MIDI controllers such as the modulation wheel or sustain pedal For example opening up the modulation wheel often reveals a surprising new orchestration LUMINA s dynamic and articulation controllers allow you to change the way perform the different layers PLAYABLE INSTRUMENTS LUMINA solo and guest instruments range from legato woodwinds such as oboe an
9. d clarinet to a beautifully sampled Celtic harp tin whistle and a full bell tower The Playable Instruments folder contains all playable instruments and ensembles except the legato instruments which have a folder of their own Playable instruments can be solo recordings such as Celtic harp or celesta or ensembles that were recorded performing together such as an ensemble consisting of piano harp and vibraphone Some instruments consist of a single element others offer you a number of elements to choose from The A Map of Lumina chapter further explains the Elements List All recordings of orchestrated chords major minor or otherwise have also been included in the Playable Instruments folder LEGATO SOLOISTS For the instruments in the Legato Soloists folder note to note transitions were recorded for all intervals up and down within one octave This allows for highly realistic monophonic phrases Legato to legato transitions were recorded for all legato soloists In addition to this a number of the legato soloists also offer legato to staccato transitions Just as it is hard to connect long notes in a musical way without the recording of the transition between these notes it is also hard to end a legato phrase at a short note without the recording of the transition to this short note Because a transition to a long note sounds different than a transition to a short note they were recorded as a separate tra
10. e individual mic channels To illustrate in Close position the Direct mic channel is fully open Ambient is closed and Wide is slightly open Half way all three mic channels are partly open In Stage position the Direct mic channel is closed Ambient is fully open and Wide is significantly open As stated in the previous chapter the Wide mic channel can be used on its own but it was designed to be mixed with the Direct and Ambient channels to add a sense of extra space and width to the sound The individual mic channels and microphone cross fader are available on all three tabs GLOBAL EFFECT CONTROLS 8 9 10 amp 11 12 13 amp 14 Reverb sets the convolution reverb main volume The reverb effect is bypassed when the control is turned all the way down lowering CPU usage On the Elements tab reverb send levels can be set per element individually Limiter sets the limiter effect s input gain The limiter effect is bypassed when the control is turned all the way down lowering CPU usage Effect mix mod allows you to apply an effect chain specifically designed for the loaded instrument Effect mix control sets the wet level of the effect chain Effects mod controls the intensity of the effect chain Master EQ applies a certain amount of equalization to the entire instrument The Master EQ s low mid and high gains can be set on the Advanced tab 17 DYNAMICS amp ARTICULATION CONTROLS Many of LUMINA s instruments were sa
11. fer two microphone sets Close and Stage These were actually mixdowns of a number of microphone positions including the Wide microphone setup In LUMINA the recorded microphone positions have been split into three fully separate channels named Direct Ambient and Wide Direct a mix of spot mics close to the instruments Ambient stereo pair located behind the conductor s spot Wide two microphones at the very left and right sides of the orchestra Note about the Wide channel Even though the interface allows you to use the Wide channel on its own it was designed to be mixed with the Direct and Ambient channels to add a sense of extra space and width to the sound 15 16 A MAP OF LUMINA GLOBAL TAB Mystery Freaky Fair st 1 tt 3 256 h 0 00 1 omni 3 B y freaky fair e stage modwheel PROJECTSAM cinematic sampling ELEMENTS LIST 1 Element purge click the light to purge un purge an individual element 2 Mute key MIDI key assigned to instantly mute un mute an individual element 3 Element name 4 Element volume changes the volume of an individual element INDIVIDUAL MIC CHANNELS 5 Individual Direct Ambient and Wide mic channel faders 6 Mic purge click a or w to purge un purge an individual mic channel 7 MICROPHONE CROSS FADER The microphone cross fader allows you to smoothly morph between the Close and Stage preset mixes of the thre
12. matically chooses the server closest to you 8 If your internet connection is interrupted or you wish to quit the ProjectSAM Downloader your download can be resumed at a later time 9 After your download is complete you can safely quit the ProjectSAM Downloader Il INSTALL KONTAKT PLAYER 5 1 If you do not have Kontakt 5 or Kontakt Player 5 installed download the latest version of Kontakt Player 5 for or Windows 2 Follow the on screen instructions to install Kontakt Player 5 III ADD LIBRARY TO KONTAKT 1 Launch Kontakt Player 5 2 Go to the Libraries tab top left 3 Click Add Library 4 5 6 Browse to the downloaded Lumina Library folder and double click it You now see the contents of the Lumina Library folder Click Choose Kontakt may ask you for your administrator password LUMINA is now added to your list of Kontakt libraries IV ACTIVATE After you have added the library to Kontakt LUMINA must be activated using your product serial number Until you activate LUMINA the library will run in demo mode and stop working after a certain amount of time 1 2 Noor Click the Activate button in the LUMINA image Kontakt may ask you for your administrator password The Native Instruments Service Center application will now launch Service Center requires a Native Instruments account Please note that this is a different account from the ProjectSAM account you have at www projectsam com Log
13. mpled in multiple dynamics performing a variety of articulations playing techniques The dynamics amp articulation controls allow you to assign these different layers to a variety of controllers Dynamics for example can be controlled using the modulation wheel which allows for smooth cross fading while the articulations are switched using velocity The other way around is also possible with the modulation wheel setting the articulation and velocity determining the dynamic layer Dynamics and articulation cannot be assigned to the same controller as this would not make sense Note that the dynamic and or articulation controller is not available for all instruments 18 CHANGING MUTE KEYS To change the mute key of an element click on the MIDI note in the interface which will start flashing You can now press a new key on your MIDI controller Please note that mute keys cannot be within the playable range of the instrument nor can they be the same as the key that is assigned to the round robin reset function PURGING Purging is the unloading of samples from RAM Even though Kontakt generally only stores a small part of each sample in your system s RAM an instrument with many samples such as a legato soloist can still take up a significant amount of memory Purging allows you to selectively load unload elements or microphone positions from RAM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PURGING AND MUTING When purged samples are unloaded from RAM
14. nsitional set Because a legato to staccato transition ends at a short note it always is the end of a phrase Any notes after the legato to staccato note are considered a new phrase Legato to legato phrase may be continued Using LUMINASs articulation controller you can set up how you wish to switch between legato to legato and between legato to staccato By default this is done by velocity ES Legato to staccato always is end of a phrase 13 DYSTOPIA Our popular DYSTOPIA section is back with all new sound design based LUMINA s samples LUMINA s instruments ensembles and textures were processed mangled and tweaked to create new sounds Just as LUMINA focuses on the lighter side of music this volume of DYSTOPIA is a lot less dark than previous ones DYSTOPIA s instruments range from ambient pads and electric guitar scapes to a compact vintage orchestra 14 TIME STRETCH ENABLED LUMINA offers a speed control on the Elements tab allowing you to time stretch the instrument without altering its pitch Since samples must be fully loaded into RAM for time stretching to work the instruments that have the speed control enabled were slightly stripped down and grouped into a dedicated folder named Time stretch Enabled Because the speed control is on the Elements tab the speed of each element can be controlled individually LUMINA S MICROPHONES SYMPHOBIA and SYMPHOBIA 2 of
15. o have any effect 4 Element EQ sets equalization of the selected element only This is a different equalizer than the one used for Master EQ If all three EQ controls are reset to their middle position the element EQ is bypassed lowering CPU usage 5 Pitch sets the playback pitch of the selected element in semitones 6 Speed sets the playback speed of the selected element without altering its pitch using Kontakt s Time Machine Pro effect This control is only available for instruments in the folder Time stretch Enabled Note that samples have to be fully loaded into RAM for Time Machine Pro to work This can be a signification portion of your system s total memory which is why the instruments in the Time stretch Enabled folder are stripped down versions of their bigger brothers ADVANCED TAB Mystery Freaky Fair Tune a k st 1 N Purge 0 00 omni g 2 4 MB B 20 tA SS LUMINA release Neng trails e stage PROJECTSAM cinematic sampling 1 RELEASE TRAILS The natural ending of notes and their resulting reverberation tails were recorded and edited as separate samples These samples called release trails can be triggered when you let go of a key This way the note will end more musically and the reverberation will match the acoustic space of the note itself Without it the sound including the entire concert hall reverberation will abruptly cut off when you let go of a key If you do prefer
16. of the assigned mute keys see Global tab Round robin is not available for all instruments 21 6 MASTER EQ CONTROLS These three controls allow you to set the low mid and high gains of the Master EQ 7 OCTAVER Using the octaver control you can add an octave to all notes you play The position of the control determines the volume of the added octave To turn off the octaver altogether turn the control all the way down 8 MIDI TRANSPOSE Transpose the entire instrument up or down by a certain amount of semitones Note that this is different from changing the pitch see Elements tab 22 CONTACT PROJECTSAM If you have a general question about LUMINA or a technical issue installing or using it please go to www projectsam com My Account log in using your ProjectSAM account username and password and click Technical Support This way all necessary information is sent along with your question Alternatively you can contact ProjectSAM by e mailing support projectsam com 23 24 LUMINA CREDITS ProjectSAM development team Maarten Spruijt Vincent Beijer Marco Deegenaars Joep Sporck and Stijn van Beek Dystopia contributions Robert Dudzic Roel Funcken Joris Holtackers Sleeve design Jeroen Peter Interface design Dickie Chapin Manual design Martijn Lammerts ProjectSAM would like to thank The Steptime team Doug Smith Raphael Rodriguez amp Ryan Richardson Bestservice Germany Time Space Uk Cryp
17. ton Japan Dan Santucci at Native Instruments Dani l Hamburger Herman Witkam Rolf van Kreeveld Jules van Hessen Robert Dudzic Roel Funcken Joris Holtackers Michal Cielecki Torrent Juraj Dobrakov Alex Pfeffer Jorrit Kleijnen Isa McKechnie and our dogs and cat Juno Blestya Derek www projectsam com
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