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1. Herde a oj o 8 _ 45 32 33 41 Me 79 8095 196 tl ADVANCED STUFF ARTICULATION SELECTION LAYERING To layer sounds within the articulation set simply SHIFT click on your next articulation Rather than in troducing a multitude of more confusing layered articulation options the front panel shows and edits only the most recently layered articulation TRIGGERING For triggering options CTRL or COMMAND click on the articulation icon 400 Purge UR i 0 00 ces OF 400 Purge 0 010 ory 37 36 Spiccato Enabled How would you like to trigger this articulation Activate this articulation when velocity 5 isbetween 64 and 127 v 9 Legato intervals only range range channel of playing Reset 9 Ignore if purged Group Global T By CC By KS Val By Speed By CC Range This will allow you to use a single controller channel to switch between artics This allows you to fine tune on your MIDI event list or to use a midi controller fader or indeed button with a single range assigned to select your desired artic Our default setting is guided by our UACC protocol see page 25 By KS The default setting BML ts scripted so It won t switch mid note but wait til the next not on event before switching This means you re able to play the key switch say whilst playing a long note and have it switch to
2. Holding down ALT MENU PC MAC and clicking an articulation with this shortcut above it will toggle the trigger between enabled and disabled It s a handy way to quickly turn off legato speed velocity switching if the user doesn t want it TRIGGER PANEL 9 Legato intervals only Reset Ignore if purged Group Global T Reset will clear the trigger for this articulation allowing you to set it to a different type or disable it per manently Legato intervals only will only activate this trigger if the notes played are legato intervals Ignore if purged means that this trigger will only occur if the articulation is not purged Group allows you to group together triggers When set the trigger only occurs when an articulation in the same group is currently active For example use this if you wanted to set up speed triggers on legato articulations but don t want them to trigger if you have staccatos marc shorts selected ADVANCED STUFF SIDE BAR OPTIONS Wil 1 THE COG awesome tool for fine tuning and tweaking your patches See page 18 2 KEYBOARD SHIMMIER This shifts your bank of keyswitches left or right to suit your needs pref erences or performance 3 KEYSWITCH TO CC SELECTOR Use this to assign a CC controller to act as articulation key switcher Click on and you ll be prompted to move the controller you wish to use in order for the instrument to learn how you d
3. In its use we only have one recommendation Whilst Sable will work in a pad like ensembles unison tutti fashion where it will start sounding quite big it will really come into its own when you imagine each section as a different voice By writing truly contrapuntal music you will find Sable takes you to beautiful pastures fresh and new Before putting the keys in the ignition just a quick word on musicians Without them we wouldn t have this library Its designed to help us all write better music for them to play To hire smaller bands and have them play material that is appropriate to their size To encourage people who have never written strings to dive in with confidence We are not here to do away with musicians we wouldn t pay them a volun tary royalty from sales if we were So whenever you can please go live even if its one or two players A single double tracked violin on the top line can make all the difference so even if the budget doesn t permit ask your producer or director to see what they can find down the back of the sofa CONTENTS SPECIFICAHONS LETS GET STARTED 6 THE OVERVIEW PANEL THE PANEL SWITCHER ARTICULATIONS 9 MICS amp MIXES 11 THE EXPERT PANEL 13 GENERAL CONTROLS 14 EXPRESSION CONTROLS 15 ADVANCED MIXER 16 ADVANCED POLYPHONIC LEGATO 17 ADVANCED ARTICULATIONS 18 ADVANCED SIDE BAR 20 ADVANCED THE COG 21 UACC 22 A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS 28 A QUICK THANK YOU 24 SPECIFICATIONS KON
4. E P P e y P you with the tools you need to write detailed and focussed string parts that have a personality and style that represents your personality that expresses your creative will and provides you with fresh pastures of experimentation Spitfire presents SABLE The complete Sable band will feature 4 x 1st Violins 3 x 2nd Violins totally different players seated in their correct positions 3 x Violas 3 x Cellos and 3 x Basses A band that provides you with ultimate detail and clarity A library where you can hear every player Where each player has been hand picked for their individuality and the rarity of their instrument This range will move people not with scale but the beauty of what you re inspired to write when playing it Want to go bigger Well our plan all along was that Albion would provide the perfect backdrop for Sable when needing larger scale Arrange an Albion part and duplicate with an instance of Sable we have even designed some instrument group presets so you can do this automatically and slowly dial it in to add that beautiful edge to your arrangements see page 18 Sable 4 features our Sable band playing more extended articulations With the clarity in sound of this band but also the breadth of Sampling the depth the length of the Articulation list We hope that this ushers in a new era of meticulous string writing and the promotion of smaller bands into the forefront of people s imagination
5. your DAW for more responsive less laggy control Dial back on playback for greater realism INTENSITY CC 15 This is a great way to vary and humanise the legato articulations Dial it all the way up for a more pronounced emotional start to each note dial it back for a more transparent transition RELEASE CC 17 Dial all the way for slow passages when using long articulations it helps blur the transition in a natural and musical Way Dial back for more focus and detail TIGHTNESS CC 518 We proudly cut our samples from the true beginning of the note as the bow engages the string and the rosin begins to weave it s net effect of this is laggy and sometimes very small inconsistencies in timing Which we love It Sounds real But it s not to everyone s taste This ingenious device allows you to tighten and loosen to your heart s content An excellent use of this is to dial it all the way to the right in order to lay your part in Once you re happy adjust to taste and put a negative delay in the track 4 of your DAW which is the same amount as the Tightness setting EXPRESSION CC711 Displays the overall instrument volume 0 100 Remember you can also trim your instrument volume with CC 7 ADVANCED STUFF MIXERMENU CLICK ON THESE ICONS FORIDEEPER MIX CONTROL 1 VELOCITY RESPONSE Pick from 4 different velocity curves to suit your controller 2 CLOSE MIC PAN COLLAPSER The close mics are a stereo mix
6. and this collapser allows you to refine how the stereo image is handled All our musicians are recorded in situ ie where they would be seated on a standard scoring session giving you a fantastic spectral spread when putting all the elements together which helps define the detail This pan ning tool helps you to manage and tweak this to your own tastes needs STEREO WIDTH Allows you to control how far the stereo image reaches All the way to the right would be like having your two pan pots panned hard All the way to the left would be like having both pots centre STEREO PAN Then allows you to control where in the pan field the centre of this image is placed 3 MCROPHONE MIX TO ARTICULATION LINKER The small notation symbol locks the microphone mix or tweak you ve made to the articulation selected This means if you want to boost any perceived inconsistencies in volume between say pizzicato and col legno you can Or indeed if you want to roll off some of the hall ambience for a short versus the long ar ticulations this is how to fine tune 4 MIXER PRESETS A new way to transfer mixer settings between patches or save and load presets to disk AUTOMATING MIXER FADERS Each mixer fader has a dedicated To change this to suit your MIDI controller or surface simply right click on PC or command click on Mac on the fader itself to learn the new controller ROUTING MIC MIXES route each mic ixer channel to unique Kontakt c
7. like to select articulations 4 ARTICULATION LOCKER We all like to select articulations and use our templates in different ways Many composers like to have a single articulation loaded to each instance of an instrument for exam ple So its worth locking off the articulation switching once you ve selected one so you don t have sounds disappearing from slaves way off in your machine rooms Unlocked Artic Is the standard setting select articulations via the front panel or associated keyswitch Locked Artic This locks your articulation so it doesn t change either via front panel or keyswitch Locked Keyswitch This locks your articulation via keyswitch but you re free to switch via the front panel Locked to UACC This is a new standard being developed by Spitfire and detailed on page 25 The default controller channel is 32 but this can be changed by right CTRL clicking on the padlock ADVANCED STUFF THE PUNCH As we record our samples like you would a film score we actively encourage our musicians to make every note sound different To play with the flair that would be expected from them on a score shoot We like tuning imperfections little squeeks the odd breath of a human We like our pizzicatos loose and for the odd rub between players when playing transitions However much we apply our exacting taste principals onto our range we re never going to meet with every one s preferred quality bar or needs and expecta
8. CTURE Most users of volume 4 will be familiar with Sable folder structures But these are currently undergoing a revolutionary overhaul For more information on new palettes and combining your Sable library please visit our site and Blake s fantastic blog http blake so blog 11 for more genius concepts THE NEW OVERVIEW PANEL MIC MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS V1 Core palette vol4 Output st IP Voices OF Plax 400 Purge Midi Ch 1 Memory 2 51 PANEL SWITCHER ARTICULATIONS PANEL SWITCHER This toggles between the three different views available in BML101 1 OVERVIEW The default GUI with a selection of easy to use parameters Page 7 2 EXPERT The familiar Spithre GUI with deeper tweaking parameters Page 13 3 THE OSTINATUM Our ingenious and inspiring rhythm sequencer Page 22 ARTICULATIONS ARTICULATION STANZA On the right of the diagram above you will see a line of musical notes These actually denote key articula tions display the current articulation playing and act as switches between them alongside they re associ ated keyswitches We have created a series of presets with different articulations loaded SEE PRESETS IN GENERAL CONTROLS PAGE 14 LOAD TOGGLES The little RAM chips beneath the notes denote load status of the articulations If you play and articulation that isn t loaded the front
9. E uu MW We finallv admit that things have got out of hand here in the world of Virtual instruments Everv single one works differently responds differently to different key switches and controllers and thats just within our own library The UACC pron you ack project is our attempt to unify articulation switching across our entire range and it s one we hope other developers will also adopt It will mean greater integration between your 1 set templates greater encouragement to venture into the darker less visited corners of your col lection and a smoother workflow When selecting Articulation Locked UACC you disable what we believe to be the soon outdated keyswitch method of articulation selection In favour of UACC which defaults to channel 432 change this by right clicking the CC slider next to the padlock This then gives you the option of using a MIDI controller to select articulations based on the list below We recommend a switch based controller or an iPad app Alternatively simply dial in event or automation data on your DAW The latter will give you the ability of always being on the correct articulation even if you haven t rolled your sequence back before the midi event This list is a work in progress and we look to users and other developers to finalise it Go to here for the latest version http spithre webassets s3 amazonaws com pdfs UAC Cv2spec pdf COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOTS This is a manual to
10. MANUFACTURED IN B L GREAT BRITAIN BV wie FB THE BRITISH MODULAR LIBRARY Ls dud l e e 5 V wa a A n RP da eed amp e008 Pay oF rary eeereer CHOP ORO NAA 4 22 tow A AT sa F AS ta Kr A b tor ta aud VIVERET A pat Sy A Py Kal ks 7 7 eo dist f 2 WELCOME Thanks for purchasing BML Sable Volume 4 The fourth of our definitive deeply sampled chamber string range A new gold standard in orchestral sampling We strongly urge you to read this manual as the BML range is packed with features not found yet in some of our other products We have conveniently introduced a new to the manual Blakes Pages written by our scripting genius Blake Robinson these discuss basic new features alongside some deeper features that we re very excited about These are from his blog on http blake so and better describe these fea tures than we ever could Please view these in the separately bundled pdf or at http blake so blog 11 About Spitfire Audio Spitfire was formed in 2008 by a group of successful British composers as a means of producing the tools they needed for their busy work schedules Sick of dry humourless ugly unrealistic enormously untam able sounding libraries Spitfire set abo
11. TAKT BML is NOT a Kontakt Player library so you WILL need a full version Kontakt to run it PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF EITHER KONTAKT 4 2 4 OR 5 INSTALLED Be cause this module doesn t authorise through the NI Service Centre and is personally watermarked you will be able to install on all the machines you own Owning a full version of Kontakt will afford you the luxury of being able to edit and revise the patches to your particular preference Remember we pride ourselves in making truly esoteric tools so if there s a sample you don t like you can change it for another with relative ease check out the new Punch Cog on page 15 to see how you can easily do this RECOMMENDED SPEC The better your computer the better the performance of any Spitfire module But not to worry if you re not spec d up to the hilt All programs are provided with a set of parameters that enable you to tone back the CPU demands of any given patch But moving forward we re confident this module will keep your computer busy for many years to come We recommend a combination of high processor speeds a good chunk of memory and a devoted 7200rpm eSata USBII Thunderbolt or Firewire audio drive The more memory you have the less demand placed on your drive and having a totally devoted drive gives you the chance to load less into memory and reduce load times The higher the speed of your CPU the more ca pable your computer will be to deal with some of the
12. a staccato on your next note By Velocity Range his is great for designing intelligent staccato patches that say become staccatissi mo when you hit the keyboard really hard A second menu will open up giving you options for this function By MIDI Channel Ingeiously turns your single instance of BML into a multi timbral instrument MIDI channel lets the instrument change articulation based on the incoming MIDI channel use pop the instrument Midi Ch to Omni mode in Kontakt The single instance can now be configured to play based on the incoming MIDI channel For example Set staccatos to channel 1 longs to channel 2 legato to channel 3 By Speed Of Playing revolutionary new function that allows you to switch articulations based on the playing speed of your performance When selected it provides options to specify a triggering time range in milliseconds See right hand menu above For example you could specify that fast legato should be activated if the time between playing each interval is between and 250ms pictured above Fully config urable to suit the user s playing style and needs and can be deactivated by unchecking Enabled Cor if not in the artic switching screen simply holding ALT MENU and clicking the articulation icon on the stanza TRIGGERING CONTINUED When an articulation has a trigger assigned to it it shows a little shortcut icon above to let you know that it has been customised
13. accompany v1 0 of a totally new line for Spitfire With a totally new set of samples scripts and Ul We have used our experience as busy film composers to deliver something that we d like It is our hope that you keep in touch with us to let us know how you re getting on how you re using BML how you re finding it and if we were to consider looking at areas in the future what you d like us to look at From this we ll form a consensus and wholeheartedly pledge that we will act upon it wherever possible or practical We ve already recorded new material which will be distributed for free in service updates We do this because even after years of experience it s not always easy to predict how things turn out So we leave space in our budgets to go back and record stuff that may not have worked as well as we like may need expanding upon or to widen the scope of something that s surprised us and we want to make more of Keep eye on your in box and our site for new additions to the BML range and others and of course our site couple of commonly asked questions e This library really isn t behaving how l d expect OK so we re now officially blue in the face But before you go ANY further please check you are using the ABSOLUTE latest version of Kontakt Visit your trusty service centre and we hope this page remains relatively under thumbed My instrument or patch seems to be playing just bits of sound some keys are missing and ther
14. amazing but complicated scripts we ve written PCs We recommend Windows 7 latest Service Pack 32 64 Bit Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2 GB RAM 4 GB recommended MACs We recommend Mac OS X 10 6 10 7 or 10 8 latest update Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 4 GB recom mended DRIVES Firewire USBII or eSata 7200rpm Ask your dealer for drives that are suitable for AV use We always recommend as small a drive as possible as the platter will be smaller and the seek time less Depending on what mic positions and mixes you download the library will eventually take up 20 120 Gig on your hard drive If using several large libraries or a number of Spitfire modules from the same machine we really recommend having your samples distributed over a number of drives Lacie eSata or Quadras 7200rpm we highly recommend Moreover an exciting development lies in the recent arrival of some amazing solid state SSD drives With seek times reduced to a fraction O 1ms vs 6 9ms of what standard drives can offer we are certain you will be able to reduce your sampler s pre load page 15 buffer tenfold meaning you ll be able to load enormous orchestral palettes into a single machine HOST The Kontakt 4 platform should work comfortably on most commonly found platforms and DAWSs As always make sure you re as up to date as you can afford If you re planning on building or adding Spitfire to an already large orchestral palette we recommen
15. and immediate sound than the tree Gallery mics three mics at the very furthest point from the band way up in the gallery A true representation of Aur Studios amazing ambience CR Close ribbons Placed next to the standard close mics but using a rarefied selection of vintage ribbon mics to add a warm and rounded tone JAKE JACKSON MIXES 3 extraordinary mixes from our chief engineer to save your system resources B Broad a cinematic symphonic mix that allow the hall to really speak out M Medium a more intimate but still very classic version of the mix above F Fine a much more detailed and immediate sound with less hall great for pop EXPRESSION CONTROLS Key controllers for BML right click on a PC or command click on a mac to change which MIDI CC controls them For more details about these and other expression controllers go to page i d THE EXPERT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS EXPRESSION CONTROLS V1 Decorative palette vol4 Output st In Voices Mas 400 Purge Midi Ch 1 g Memory 3 30 MB GENERAL CONTROLS OPTIONS PRESETS This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affectionately called articulation sets see page 5 quickly and easily to optimise your system quickly for essential articulations or to start building templates using empty shells PURGE UNUSED This control keeps unloading any samples you are not using to keep
16. d running your library independently of your DAW either on your host computer e g via Re Wire or on a slave device e g via Midi or MOL This will assist your loading times and will allow your DAW to do what it does best sort out all your note ons and note offs We heartily endorse Plogue Bidule www plogue com as a virtual rack routing system For more advice and information about setting up please check our website LETS GET STARTED Because you re reading this manual we can presume you have successfully downloaded your BML product Included in your download email are some detailed installation instructions please follow these carefully before going any further We ll see you back here when you re installed Before opening Kontakt please make sure you have THE LATEST VERSION OF KONTAKT 4 2 4 OR 5 INSTALLED 9576 of all service enquiries relating to spurious or strange behaviour of our wares are solved by installing the most recent version As this is NOT a Kontakt Player Library YOU WILL NOT SEE THE MODULE IN THE LIBRARY PANE Simply navigate to MURAL via the File browser pane If vou have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the ba sics of patch or instrument loading multi management outputting and MIDI routing detailed in the Kon takt user manual provided with your copy of Kontakt or in the documentation folder of your Kontakt file BML SABLE Vol 4 FOLDER STRU
17. e s lots of clicks and crackles Make sure that your patch is fully loaded detailed on the front panel page 8 Some of these are biggies so can take a while But if problems persist make sure Kontakt memory manager is activated Interface KMS KONTAKT Mernoru Seruer Engine Handling Ej Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GB RAM Please refer to the user manual for further inforrnation Load Import accessible RAM For memory server 7 2 GB Database Memoru Seruer mode Mernoru Automatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the server MIDI O Manual Instrument preload buffer size 0 Instrument s preload size 60 00 kB You ll have to restart this instance of Kontakt to feel it s benefits Another reason your system may be struggling is that you re using too many mics live for the spec of your ma chine Try cutting the mics as detailed on the front panel to see if this cures your problem If it does don t worry you can still use these mics Just play in your parts with one active we recommend the T ree and then activate multiple mics and render down eg freeze function in Logic Studio Some DAWS ahem Logic only use one core of your computer when recording but will use more when playing back so again try recording with Just one mic then dial in others once you re happy If you re still suffering may we suggest you try and mana
18. ed eg if you press a note it would play RR1 RR2 then RR3 RRA etc Layer 2x Round Robins With No Skip As above but this plays a pair but doesn t move ahead by 2 so that RR isn t halved So if you press a note it would play RR1 RR2 then RR2 RR3 then RR3 RR4 ROUND ROBINS This refers to the number of round robins multiple recordings of the same notes that cycle around as you repeatedly play a note your instrument uses the number can be dragged up and down 1 8 to save you memory RESET FROM FO This enables you to control the round robin cycle so it sounds identical every time you play toggle on amp play the key selected default FO to reset RESET ON TRANSPORT As above but resets every time you press play Genius SHORT ARTICULATIONS RT This new option allows you to toggle whether staccato tenuto marcato notes have a release trigger that plays on release This lets you tighten up staccatos or end marcatos tenutos earlier than they were recorded EXPRESSION CONTROLS Mural comes with a fantastic new selection of expression controls Dial these CC s into your midi controller for an infinate choice of emotional and human responses DYNAMICS CC71 This slider displays and controls which dynamic layer is live Also con trolled via the modulation wheel VIBRATO CCZ21 This mixes between vobrato and non or senza vibrato SPEED CC 16 Controls legato interval speed Great to use when playing the lines into
19. ge your pre load buffer Kontakt pre loads some samples into memory so that when you hit a note Kontakt plays it out from RAM whilst addressing the rest of your samples from your hard drive s The slower your drives the more you may want to rely on RAM the faster the drives or smaller RAM available the more you may want to rely or your drives If you re using the latest generation of SSDs you ll find you can radically reduce your pre load buffer Referring to the plate above tick the Instruments Default Pre Load Buffer Size and drag the fader to a setting you re happy with A QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank Dominic Kelly Alison Burton and the whole of the Air Studios team Jake Jackson for making everything sound so marvellous and the remarkable talents im mense intellect and invention of James Bellamy Stanley Gabriel Andrew Blaney Blake Robinson Stu Kennedy Joe Toby Seb Patrick Cicely Brett and Jess Most of all we would like to thank the amazing support and loyalty of our user base our Facebook friends and everyone at VI Control We are in the same boat as all of you We re not content and software developers by trade so appreciate your honesty in paying your way to be a part of our family and not distributing this il legally But more importantly if you have any ideas or criticism please let us know directly via our website in a constructive manner You never know you Just may have thought
20. hannels simply click on the Mic acronym Great for putting your ambient mics in the surround for example Also good for tracklaying individual mics for your engineer to control in your final mix sessions For more information regarding Kontakt audio channels amp routing please consult your Kontakt User Manual ADVANCED STUFF PLOYPHONIC LEGATO Polyphonic legato enables you to effectively divisi a single section Or in layman s terms play more than one note with the legato articulations The way BML determines which line is transitioning to which note is via velocity So this is very much a post prod tool which you ll need to tweak to get your orcehstrations how you like them To enable click on the button and adjust the number to how many voices you wish to have 2 8 BML then divides the velocity range 127 by this number to determine which voice is transisting to which Once you ve played your arrangement in maybe by using a longs articulation go into your DAW and normalise all your velocity values Then simply lassoo each voice and alter the velocity to assign it a voice grouping For convenience here s a table of the ranges determined by numbers of voices Polyphony Range e ee a eae eo ee 2 r n e31 ee eee ee ee ee EE SR zn 7 P Ol Gen DEN es Oe SL 2 JESEEOEEDSAZ7 FER Sem SIE 26507 10 Mp2 12717 AP ae 61 22 42 852105 106 127
21. ition and at times a bit of rounding of sound in isolation it can be way of achieving a more intimate or pop music style sound T Tree This refers to the Decca tree of three mics placed above the conductors podium In the case of Sable 3 priceless vintage Neumann MSOs These are placed to give the ultimate sound of the band the hall and are the default mic position that loads in with each patch Ambient set of condenser mics placed high up in the gallery away from the band This mic position gives a mas sive amount of stereo spread and room sound over the band Great mixed in with the other mics but also ideal fed to your Ls amp Rs speaker sends for true surround information O Outriggers a set of vintage mics placed wide apart to the left and right of the tree These give a similar balance of room and band but with a broader stereo spread The effect of this mic is somewhere between the tree and ambient mics L Leader microphone placed closer to the leader for that slightly more traditional perspective This is recorded at the same time as the rest of the band so there is spill But for the larger instruments where the body produces more sound to eclpise the other players this spill is minimal so these mics can be used as an excellent mockup tool for solos EXTENDED ARRAY ST Stereo Mic These are totally different mics in a totally different position to the tree closer to ground level and have a more direct
22. of something that we hadn t considered We want to make our entire range the best there is and we rely on you to help us achieve that With thanks Christian amp Paul CoPYRIGHTTS 0 TP 20 14 www spitfireaudio com
23. panel will alert you Click on the chip to load unload UE Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar AU is illuminated and red it s in a queue and hasn t started loading yet if the middle bar is lit and yellow the instrument ts still loading up If you try to play before it s loaded it may not be nice ARTICULATIONS Click on these notes to select the different articulations whatever articulation is live is displayed in the yellow sidebar on the left You can also select different articulations by hitting key switches you can do this whilst you re playing so if you want to say switch from a long articulation to a short hit the key whilst you re playing your last long and the next note will be a short For more advanced selection options turn to page 18 A brief guide to these articulations is displayed overleaf BRIEF GUIDE Long Sul Pont CS Long articulations bowed close to the bridge with practice mutes on for a fantastically haunting and fragle sound Long Sul G Longs played Just on the G string for a fantastically expressive and unique sound Long Sul Tasto One of the most heart breaking and fragile sounds where the bow is placed higher up on the neck closer to the fingers for an amazingly intimate whisper of a tone Tremolo CS From Herrmann s score for Psycho con sordino playing with practice mutes engaged has been adopted by the film world as an effec
24. stand the instruments your writing for encourage you to write music that musicians love to play and to get the most out of smaller ensembles and the wealth of timbral colour and character they can add to any project Recorded the SPITFIRE WAY and showcasing the finest musicians in the UK today playing the rarest and most priceless instruments The BML will demonstrate why London is the oft preferred scoring loca tion for composers the world over After many years of development experience Spitfire will present this library with a user interface and set of features unprecedented in any library to date With 7 mic positions recorded at 96k through vintage valve and ribbon mics to 2 tape through custom Neve Monserrat preamps and Prism convertors at the hall in Air Studios one of the greatest scoring stages in the world With different stereo and 5 1 mixed ver sions from our chief engineer Jake Jackson the library is designed to be scalable for a variety of systems from your laptop on the red eye from NY to LA to your multi slaved rig back at your studio compound THE FAMILY JUST A LITTLE BIGGER After a decade of enjoying the delights of enormous string libraries providing broad brush stroke ap ES 8 8 E oy proaches to writing which have successfully dominated film gaming and music to a large extent Spitfire are at last proud to present a new set of brushes The finest of sable brushes if you will to provide
25. tions of a project 5o we present to you Blake Robinson s coup de way of punching notes in and out like we used to in the old days way of customising your library to fit your taste and needs If there is a round robin you don t like or a long note where the tuning is a bit fruity Switch to the articula tion you were using Play until you find the Round Robin you don t like and then stop Observe the pic tured cog bottom left of the front panel Ul and click on it to get this dialogue V1 Core palette vol4 Output st ip Voices 23 Midi Ch A 1 Memory 2 51 MB W dL HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK D5 RR1 x i X om REMOVE SEIF THIS ADJUST ADJUST ALL RF TUNE CL RELEASE TWEAKS HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK Then your last note played will be displayed if this is correct get tweaking SKIP THIS RR Will simply make it always jump along to the next round robin in the cycle ADJUST TUNE VOL Will adjust the tuning and or volume of the last played note ADJUST RELEASE This will alter the level of the release trigger which will effect the percieved decay of that note SAMPLE START If it feels loose adjust to the right tight adjust to the left NB this is only available in full cog patches REMOVE ALL NOTE TWEAKS This removes all custom changes you have made with the Cog UNIVERSAL ARTICULATION mm ng ed CONTROLLER CHANNEL W
26. tive tool for creating expressive string music without overpowering it s screen presence Here we expand your Sable con sord pallette with som CS tremolandos Tremolo Sul Pont CS As above but with a slightly more haunting tone bowed up near the bridge Legato Sul G As with the longs here sa monophonic legato patch An extraordinary way to interpret your top lines Longs Sul Pont Distorted CB only Played so close to the bridge that the sound starts to collapse and create incredible har monics In addition to this we complete the additional articulations for the CB with Tremo lando Sul Pont Longs Flautando Irills major and minor found for the rest of the band on Sable 1 2 amp 3 MICROPHONE MIX SETTINGS Welcome to the wonderful world of Air Studios and the mixes of our chief engineer Jake Jackson Use the chips beneath the faders to load unload different microphones and the faders above to tweak the balance of them Turning a fader all the way down will also unload the mics conversely turning the fader back up will reload Left click on the faders to assign CC controllers so you can mix these live for fantastic shifts in the spacial nature of the samples MICROPHONES MIXES Right Ctrl click on the mic letters to change Kontakt channel output assignment STANDARD ARRAY C Close mics a selection of valve mics placed for optimum focus close to the instruments This mic control is great to add in for added defin
27. ut redefining the way samples were created Our aim is to reproduce the conditions of top movie recording sessions and approach sampling as if we were recording a film score one note at a time We don t imitate how film scores are recorded we repli cate them by using the same facilities signal chain techniques and musical amp technical talent We record performances and parts thereof not scientifically created samples and importantly we record the room they play in If you are wanting perfectly tuned normalised or dry samples you have probably come to the wrong place For here you may find the odd string squeak a fruity note and lots and lots of room but put the whole package together write some beautiful music and suddenly this library and our approach will make perfect sense In thanks to using the greatest talent we have available to us in the UK alongside the greatest facilities and technicians Spitfire Audio supports the British music industry by paying the highest rates possible to it s contributors alongside a royalty based on the success of sales So in buying this software you are also sup porting British musicians studios and technicians and we thank you for that About The British Modular Library The British Modular Library is to be a deeply sampled extensive set of tools providing composers with the ability to add fine aspects of extreme detail musical expression beauty and focus to their work To greater under
28. your memory usage as low as possible TRANSPOSE Toggle this on and tweak the number to the right to transpose your instrument Note this is not the same as tuning the instrument will actually offset the samples to the selected pitch A great way to track up BML and make it sound bigger CC MAPPED VEL OCITY Click this to control note velocity with the Dynamics slider If a user has customer the dynamics slider that same customised CC will control velocity now ROUND ROBINS amp LEGATO NO EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY NEIGHBOURING ZONES Next to this lies pop down menu with some amazing new functions No extra Functionality Is the standard default where round robins are used as they were intended e Neighbouring Zones pulls from neighbouring zones so for an 8RR instrument you effectively cycle through up to 24 different sounding notes when pressing a key It s still just playing the one RR at a time though giving you more of them In legato mode this also alternates between 3 legato intervals to give a fake round robin 2x Round Robin With Skip plays two RR simultaneously so you get a thicker sound it s the equivalent of plopping two notes on top of each other in your DAW and it drops the overall volume 6db so that the levels remain the same but it just sounds thicker NB THIS I5 NOT AVAILABLE TO LEGATO TRANSITIONS This plays the pairs and moves ahead by 2 RR In this mode RR is effectively halv

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