PolyKB II player User Manual - XILS-lab
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1. Rename a VV Ss Backing none none S TECON PA DroneZone LG Export Bank Cool K PA Galaxy Pad JRM Import Bank Dance gt SDS Solaris JRM Default K SQ Midnight Express LUF Sort By gt DownTempo K Electro K HZ se Fadiory Electronica K ml More Sounds Elektro gt Upgrade to the full version Epic gt i x FM Rock p Import Bank allows you to browse your hard drives to select a file and imports a PolyKB II bank These two choices are not available for the second sort menu More Sounds Will open in your web browser if you computer is connected to the internet a page on our site where you can find some additional sound resources for the PolyKB II player and listen to some audio demos and examples of these soundsets 6 PolyKB Il player description The PolyKB II player is a simplified version of the PolyKB II It can play all the PolyKB II presets but only a few parameters can be adjusted 8 user selectable slots are available Clicking on these slots opens a drop down menu where you can select the PolyKB II parameter you want to adjust see below Then turn the knob to tweak this parameter to the desired value These settings can t be saved in a dedicated preset but are automatically saved in your music application project ADSAi Altack ADSA2 Decay Delay DryWat _ Filter Frequency Fiter Resonance Osc2 Lavel PolyKBII Player 10 List of the PolyKB II parameters available2. Envelope 1 Amp Attack Decay Sustain Release Envelope 2 Filter Attack Decay Sustain Release e Filter Frequency Resonance Drive Keyb Amount Envelope Amount Oscillator 1 Tune Wave Oscillator 2 Tune Wave Level e Delay Dry Wet e Chorus Dry Wet e Phaser Dry Wet e Glide 6 1 1 Main level and keyboard settings 2 NER VOCES STEREO OUTPUTS The knob Outputs controls the general output level of the PolyKB TUNE This knob control the global pitch of the PolyKB II player STEREO This switch enables or disables the DynMYX voice spacing effect NBR VOICES The available number of voices can be set thanks to the menu displayed on the right of the OUPUTS knob This number form 1 to 16 is useful to limit the CPU usage when long decay or release is needed Please note that this number also determines and affects the settings of the PolyMYX and DynaMY X tools and can therefore affect the Stereo Scene and or the PolyMyx Modulation Matrix features ll 6 2 Arpeggiator The PolyKB II player features a simple but very powerful arpeggiator When on this module reads the note hold on the keyboard and instead playing them at the same time it will play each note after the other There are three modes available Up the notes are played from the lower to the higher Down the note are played from the higher to the lower and Up Down for which they are played backward and forward If none of these there modes
3. RoundBass Ltz BA RoundBass LtZ BA Subwobble Ltz RA Suhwnhhle 1 F7 Ifthe second criteria was Author you could browse all L arPesoiator basses per Sound Designer Note We have also provided different Init Patches which can be seen as a good basis to begin to design new presets All these presets can be found in the Tutorial style 4 2 Toolbar eee ee e ama ma l T TT Type F Init PRESET K init One_Osc g OPTIONS Click on the PRESET arrow to show the available presets in the current sorted group Please note that selecting a new preset will erase any changes you have made to those settings Click on the sort arrow button to display the current sorted group and to choose the preset within it You can sort presets by Author Feeling Type Style Bank or Projects Please note that the PolyKB II player will display presets by instruments categories Type by default Click on the sorting label over the sorted group name to sort your preset according to your preferences N A Please note that the PolyKB II player powerful Preset management is fully detailed in chapter 5 of this manual 4 3 Adjusting the instruments parameters Knobs switches On the PolyKB II player the user assignable sound parameters are controlled using Knobs To adjust the parameters of the PolyKB II player with the mouse you have two axes horizontal and vertical which will give the same results To increase a parameters value cl
4. are selected then the notes are played in a random order The cycle can also play through another octave before restarting when the Oct switch is selected Selecting the Polyphonic mode allows chord to be played according to a specific sequence modified easily by the user ON POLY GET L areesoiaror d ON enable or disable the arpeggiator Poly enable the polyphonic mode Up play notes ascending mode Down play notes descending mode Oct enable octave cycles before restart CLOCK set the clock of the arpeggiator and the sequencer when programmed I the launched preset M SYNC Enable disable the synchronization of the clock to the music application tempo _12 6 3 Virtual keyboard The PolyKB II player s keyboard lets you play notes that are sent to synthesizer The keyboard also highlights the MIDI note information that the PolyKB receives To the left of the keyboard are two dedicated wheels one for the modulation and the other for the pitch bend The output of the modulation wheel and details of which modules it modulates are set in the modulation section of the PolyKB The pitch bend wheel is directly connected to the keyboard follow circuits and modifies the pitch they calculate when connected to the oscillators The pitch bend range can be set from one semi tone to four octaves in the output section 6 4 Effects modules DELAY CHORUS PHASER EG The four PolyKB II effects modules are included in th
5. criteria operation The PolyKB II player is available in the following formats e Mac OSX 10 3 9 and later VST Audio Unit RTAS Pro Tools 7 0 and later e Windows 7 XP and Vista VST RTAS Pro Tools 7 0 and later C CRTAS RAS Tika ASR STE Audio Units Lag Universal Minimum system requirements 1 Gigabyte of RAM and a 2 GHz processor The PolyKB II player is a plug in and is not available as a standalone application Notice The screen resolution must be set at least to 1024 pixels width 3 Installation 3 1 Serial number The PolyKB II player uses a simple serial number based proprietary protection When launching the PolyKB II player for the first time it will ask for this number After submitting you must close and relaunch it once to complete the registration This serial number will never be asked to you again even when installing updates Tip It might however be a good idea to back up this serial number or to print it in case you Should have to reinstall the PolyKB II player ie if you encountered a HD crash for example or have to reinstall your OS 3 2 Windows XP VISTA Windows 7 To install the PolyKB II player on Windows XP Vista or Windows 7 launch the installer file polykb_II_player_win_setup exe Please download the latest version from the XILS lab website Once you have accepted the license agreement you will be asked to select the installation directory and provided with a de
6. you have to do is to select an item in the first sort menu This represents the first and main criteria for the search engine e Author Your name or a Sound Designer name for factory presets e Type Category of the instrument like Keys Leads Basses etc e Style Musical Genre e Feeling Cold warm soft and finally e Project My Song My_Live_ Project e ALL this item is not used for sorting the preset Then these primary results can be filtered according to a second criteria which you can choose in a similar list in the second sort menu Sometimes a picture is better than a lot of text so you ll find below an example where you can find out how to select all the basses designed by a given Sound Designer sa gr T Author Lotuzia PRESET ry BA VelociteeBbee 2 LIZ T SAVE Bank w Author ine F F 9 fo L Menu 1 is usedto RE pI ES SREB SOURCES DESTINATION SELECT tezory of instruments Ype Ea Style The S Sort menu 2 is now WHEEL RST Feeling B used to filter the basses e the Bas a made by a given Sound Close D Design gier ng Style here i i e filtered the g Basses according ta a a Musical Genre Elektro ON POLY or oc ig KE Rock Pop Dance aso ae R Unison On 2 voices VELOCITY Please note that once you ll get familiar with this system you can also perform some operations in a single click by using the Sub Groups to choose a preset I
7. A ETI ee lE L BHA S l F m TT PolyKB ll dudia _15 8 Credits Thanks to the artists and musician who help us a lot during the PolyKB IH development Boele Gerkes Boris d hegenbart matsui Celmar Engel Cliff Douse Drew Neuman Georges Poropat Kevin Lamb Laurent Bourgeon Simon Ball Tim Blake The presets were done by Celmar Engel Cliff Douse Drew Neuman Frank Sieben Georges Poropat Julian Ray Kevin Lamb Kire Lotuzia Luftrum Peter Schelfhout Soundsdivine The Circuit Symphonie Tzadi The graphical user interface was created by Yannick Bonnefoy and Xavier Oudin This manual was written by Xavier Oudin and Laurent Bourgeon and proofread and corrected by Michael Logue The plug in design algorithm and Digital Signal Processing was done by Xavier Oudin 16
8. Designers and embedded in the preset ie original Mod Wheel Aftertouch Envelopes Lfos and Velocity modulations To get you started the PolyKB II Player comes with the same acclaimed 250 hi quality preset library than its big brother Its also fully compatible with our Analog Bags Sounds Add ons as well as with other 3 party sound providers so you can extend the original library at a very affordable price Your custom patches are also saved via your host and projects using custom patches are saved with all your edits The PolyKB II Player is very intuitive to use and the GUI has been especially created to allow you a fast and efficient workflow The following sections of this manual will detail all the functions you ll have to use although most off them are probably self explanatory 2 Features The PolyKB II player offers Same Hi Quality Sound Engine than the PolyKB II Compatible with PolyKB II Add On Soundbanks 8 user selectable parameters can be customized Midi Control Automation of all player parameters including the 8 user selectable parameters Full control of Arpeggio settings Full control of Polyphony Settings On Off toggle for the 4 effects If you want to use an external Delay for example On Off toggle for the Stereo effect Selectable control of effects settings To adapt the FX to the groove of your tracks for example e Advanced Preset Browser which enables you to search a preset with multi
9. SET P init One_Osc ic OPTIONS 7 In the toolbar you can find two buttons displaying the category name Bank Author Type Style Feeling or Project which open the sort management menus The two first text fields show the current sorting group and the third shows the current preset Clicking on the arrow on the left of the category or preset names opens the corresponding menus 5 2 Preset menu Click the Preset arrow button to open the preset menu Here you can choose and load another preset from the current sort groups into the PolyKB II player PRESET i v BE Celestika T BE Gamelon Bells T BE Harmonic Dust D BE Music Box 01 CE Export Preset The grayed Export Preset function is only available on the full PolyKB II version 5 3 Sort menus The sorting menus are a powerful and unique tool Which will allow you to perform such sophisticated tasks as displaying in the preset list one of the following selections All the Basses of your Sound Library All the Basses tagged with a given musical genre All the Pads made by a given Sound Designers All instruments for a musical genre like Electronica or Funk All instruments that were recently imported in a bank like additional sound sets from Xils Lab or 3 party vendors There are indeed a lot of possibilities and we re confident that you ll find the best way to customize it to your personal needs __ g In order to perform such selections all
10. _A_ xils lab PolyKB II player none Ti Pd T d hh a H Q RT JUA ayer ij mian ig mnn H R a S ec T e X i Typ K Init All K L PRESET K init Ona_Osc OPTIONS Z K 3 OM POLY OCT L S LL S none i none L 2 NER VORCES T S DELAY CHORAL TL j piai 12 I S i c Li i stereo ARPEODIATOR lt u syne PHASER EA k a Pol a L f f HOLD SS E ESE E H sa H EE ae Sa SS lt eS _ H H D w mn mn mnn mnn User Manual www xils lab com Table of contents 6 3 VIRTUAL ERRER 13 13 b d ErTECTS a ican cic ea eee cin A ccd ac nln Lesa evn les ccc acces dee ee cles cc ce ei lal cere 1 Introduction Thank you for choosing the PolyKB II player The PolyKB II player is based on the same uncompromised audio engine than the PolyKB II It s far more than a simple preset player With its ability to customize and simultaneously control up to 23 crucial parameters of the sound in real time its also a real synth These 23 parameters are chosen in a wider list of 33 essential parameters including Filter s cut off resonance and drive all envelope settings Glide time full arpeggio control effects etc But there s more These 23 parameters can also receive full automation via Midi Cc Its rather rare to have to automate in real time more than 23 parameters in addition to all the real time controls already provided by our expert Sound
11. e loaded preset But to be more user friendly four switches are available on the main interface to enable or disable each this these effects _ RC 7 Option menu This menu allows to choosing the global settings These settings are defined for all the instances of the PolyKB Each time an option is changed the related option file is saved 7 1 1 Main In the toolbar the Options button opens a menu for selecting various options for the PolyKB This menu shows the following options settings PolyKB About displays information about the PolyKB II Player version build date and credits Open MIDI settings panel opens a popup where you can assign MIDI controllers for each of the PolyKB s parameters Click on the parameter label to select the parameter you want assign then enter the MIDI controller number from 0 to 127 or switch on the learning switch and send a MIDI command with the correct MIDI controller number The PolyKB will memorize it This setting popup can also be opened by CTRL ALT Apple Left click Mac or CTRL Win ALT Left click Win on the desired PolyKB parameter 7 1 2 Display Display low frequency as BPM allows displaying the low frequency LFO oscillator 2 in low mode clock rate in BPM instead of Hz GUI follows presets When checked this option allows the GUI to follow the presets That means that the special display modules are refreshed following the preset settings Otherwise it keeps the same v
12. fault one Presets and various files like this manual used by the PolyKB II player will be stored in this directory Please note that this location is different from the VST install directory which you will need to specify in the next step of the installer Once the installation directory is specified you will be asked to select the VST plug in directory with a suggested default location Keep this default directory if you do not use the VST version Important notice for Vista or Windows 7 be sure to use a folder owned by the user do not use c program files for instance Otherwise you will have to run your music application with administrator rights The RTAS plug in and its table control management ProTools are directly copied into the following directory C Program Files Common Files DDigidesign DAE Plug Ins 3 3 Mac OSX 10 3 9 and later To install the PolyKB II player on a computer equipped with Mac OSX 10 3 9 or later double click the file polykb_II_player_osx_setup dmg Please download the latest version from the XILS lab website Then launch the install program PolyKB II player pkg and follow the instructions Warning the install program will ask you for your system password The various files of the PolyKB II player will be copied into the following directories Library Application Support Digidesign Plug Ins Library Audio Plug Ins Components Library Audio Plug Ins VST Library Application Support Documenta
13. ick and drag the knob to the right or to the top To decrease a parameter value click and drag the knob to the left or to the bottom If you right click on a parameter or if you hold shift while clicking you can adjust the parameter with fine precision the button of the toolbar displays a panel summarizing these shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts In addition we have provided some soft keys combination to perform several very useful tasks Windows e CTRL left click reset parameter to its default value e CTRL right click or CTRL Shift left click initialize the default value of the parameter e Win Alt CTRL click open the MIDI Control panel with the parameter already selected OSX e Apple left click reset parameter to its default value e Apple Shift left click initialise the default value of the parameter e Apple Alt CTRL click open the MIDI Control panel with the parameter already selected Note Other Gui elements and controls like the Led Switches or the dropdown menus will be described in the following sections of this manual when you ll need to use them The switches are simpler just left click to change their state A right click will change the state only while the button is pressed and return to the previous state when it is released When a parameter is chosen thanks to a drop down menu just click on the button or label and select the item 5 Preset Management 5 1 Main Toolbar IR SL a en PRE
14. iew Output level follows presets When checked this option allows the output level to follow the presets That means that the output level is programmed with the value saved in the preset Otherwise it keeps its value Popup On shows a popup window while modifying the value of a knob Popup Over On shows a popup window when the mouse is over a switch Popup Name On the name of the current modified parameter is displayed GUI update low slow refresh rate for the GUI Useful when it is necessary to save CPU power GUI update middle standard refresh rate for GUI GUI update fast fast refresh rate for GUI Useful when it is necessary to precisely follow the sequencer s led for instance _ 14 7 1 3 Misc Init settings from current settings initializes the default values of the PolyKB from the current settings All the new presets will be created from these settings when the init settings choice is selected These parameters will also be used when setting a control to its default value Win CTRL click OSX ALT Apple Click Wheel Incr 0 01 parameter increment of 0 01 when using of the mouse wheel Wheel Incr 0 05 parameter increment of 0 05 when using of the mouse wheel Wheel Incr 0 1 parameter increment of 0 1 when using of the mouse wheel 7 1 4 Upgrade to the full version This link allows you to upgrade to the full PolyKB II version for a full control of its sound and extended capabilities Fi LEC
15. n the picture below the primary sort menu is used to browse the different banks Then in a Factory bank the Style Cinematic is selected and finally the Preset SQ Midnight Express LUF In this example the preset is selected in a single click operation and the presets available in the preset list will be all the Xils Lab presets available in the entire Factory Sound Library Click on the row of the sorting button to open the menu used to manage this sorting group or sub group Here you can directly select and load any preset from any group or subgroup E S Factory Style gt orig Ww m Factory K All gt Ambient K Rename Backing gt ae Delete Factory PA DroneZone LtZ Export Bank Cool gt PA Galaxy Pad JRM Import Bank Dance gt SDS Solaris JRM Default P SQ Midnight Express LUF Sort By gt DownTempo is T v Use Factory c xR S Electronica ml More Sounds Elektro gt Upgrade to the full version Epic gt FM Rock K 5 3 1 Sorting Menu Additional Functions In this menu other actions are also available Use Factory enables or disables the display of factory presets It could be useful after importing new banks Sort By sorts the presets according the bank author project or shows all presets Bank Name Author Name Project Name All Presets The preset menu will show presets of the same category same author same project or same bank le torna Factory K All Ambient
16. tion XILS lab PolyKB II Library Application Support XILS lab PolyKB II users username Library Preferences XILS lab PolyKB II __ oe 4 Quick Start 4 1 Launch Play When you open the PolyKB II player in your host an Init preset is loaded You can directly use this preset a simple one oscillator standard sound which can be seen as a basis for your sound design or load one of the 250 factory presets provided To browse the factory preset library just select a category of instruments using the bank drop down menu at the left of the PolyKB II player Tool Bar See Picture Below You can then use the up and down arrows located at the right of the preset name or open the whole bank list by clicking on the triangle located at the left of the preset name See Picture Below taken from the PolyKB II PRESET gt BA Biggie LtZ is Biggie LtZ v BA Biggie Ltz BA BlorB Sub Ltz BA DiscOo 42 Ltz BA Disco Square LLZ N WHEEL BA FretlessOid 2 LtZ 3 e BA Human League Ltz Click on this triangle to M Click on this triangle to open the E BA Human Leagued Ltz browse all the instruments ad drop down list of basses BA In Your Face LtZ VOICES SELECT SOURCES PH FAY T ee A 8 categories BA Lektronics LtZ BA Lektronics LtZ Y AL mM s ee TT TET T TT B BA MoPhat Mw Ltz a B Note that the second criteria is synced to the first one when s BA Organish LtZ TEOT the same sorting option is specified for both fields BA Rez Funk LtZ BA
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