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1. MANUFACTURED IN GREAT BRITATLN BY FLUTE CONSORT A 7 d n ae sei aes Meta ir t Fe oe m i WELCOME Thanks for purchasing BML Flute Consort The first of our definitive deeply sampled and detailed wind range 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 With particular attention to the Front Panel page 7 which is designed lovingly to help you get the most out of these samples and to make them your own 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 and enormously un tamable sounding libraries Spitfire set about 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 replicate them by using the same facilities signal chain techniques and musical amp technical talent We record per formances 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 r2. 94 Double tonguing con sord 124 Rips con sord 95 Triple tonguing con sord 125 Falls con sord 96 Quad tonguing con sord A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOTS This is a manual to 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 an eye on your in box and our site for new additions to the BML range and others and of course our site A 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 trus
3. 22 Legato con sord 23 Legato SUL lowest string 24 Legato half section 25 Legato half section con sord 26 Legato sul pont 27 Legato fast run if separate patch 28 Legato flautando 29 Legato harmonics CONTINUED CONTINUED 41 Spiccato strings only 42 Shorts spiccato 43 Staccato 44 Staccato dig 45 Spiccato con sord 46 Feathered spiccato 47 Staccatissimo 48 Tenuto shorts 49 Marcato shorts 50 Combined shorts via velocity with dyn on MW 51 Staccatissimo con sord 52 Tenuto shorts con sord 53 Marcato shorts con sord 54 Combined shorts via velocity with dyn on MW con sord 55 Staccatissimo con sord ALT 56 Tenuto shorts con sord ALT 97 Marcato shorts con sord ALT 58 Combined shorts via velocity with dyn on MW con sord ALT 61 Pizzicato 62 Pizz Bartok 63 Col legno battuto 71 Trills min 2 72 Trills maj 2nd 73 Trills min 3rd 74 Trills maj 3rd 7 Trills perf 4th 81 Trems unmeasured 111 FX 1 82 Trems unmeasured con sord 112 FX 2 83 Trems unmeasured sul pont 113 FX 3 84 Trems unmeasured con sord sul pont 114 FX 4 85 Trems measured 180 bpm 115 DS 86 Trems measured 150 bpm 116 6 87 Trems measured 120 bpm 117 FX7 88 rems measured TM 180 bpm time machine 118 FX 8 89 Trems measured TM 150 bpm time machine 119 EX9 90 Trems measured TM 120 bpm time machine 120 91 Double tonguing 121 Disco falls 92 Iriple tonguing 122 Rips 93 Quad tonguing 123 Falls
4. are seated exactly in situ so combine the a2 patches with the solo ones for a slightly larger section whilst maintaining spectral integrity Volume one features a selection of the most commonly asked for articulations presented with a simple out of the box ease of use and the BML UI Learn one Spitfire GUI learn them all Combined with the majesty of the hall at Air that signal chain that 2 tape Jake Jackson s mastery of the room and the mixes and a beautifully programmed instrument that Just works we re sure you ll agree you ve just laid your hands on something truly special 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 for brass to dive in with confidence We are not here to do away with musicians we wouldn t pay them a voluntary royalty from sales if we were So whenever you can please go live even if its one or two play ers single solo horn 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 SPECIFICATIONS 5 LETS GET STARTED 6 THE OVERVIEW PANEL 7 THE PANEL SWITCHER 8 THE ARTICULATIONS 9 MICS amp MIXES 1 EXPRESSION 12 THE EXPERT PANEL 1
5. click on Mac on the fader itself to learn the new controller ROUTING MIC MIXES To route each mic ixer channel to unique Kontakt channels 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 ARTICULATION SELECTION LAYERING To layer sounds within the articulation set simply SHIFT click on your next articulation Rather than introducing 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 Voices O 400 Purge Was lt Voices 0 400 Purge a ZI LE qb Memory 33 40 MB E 1 8 Memory 27 23 MB M E em E dl raf Long Hollow Enabled Long Hollow E How would you like to trigger this articulation n p Ec ec By CC By KS By Vel By MIDI By Speed range range channel of playing L mL n Activate 7 this articulation when playing between O and 250 ms apart 9 Legato intervals only Reset Ignore if purged Group Global By CC Range This will allow you to us
6. could specify that fast legato should be activated if the time between playing each interval is between O and 250ms pictured above Fully config urable to suit the user s playing style and needs and can be deactivated by unchecking Enabled or 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 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 lgnore if purged Group Global 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 ma
7. 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 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 0 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 c
8. switching across our entire range and it s one we hope other developers will also adopt It will mean greater integration between your set templates greater encouragement to venture into the darker less visited corners of your col lection and a smoother workflow When selecting Articulation Locked To UACC you disable what we believe to be the soon outdated keyswitch method of articulation selection In favour of UACC which defaults to channel 32 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 Longs vib xFade CC21 Longs con sord Longs alternate mute Longs sul pont Longs con sord sul pont Longs sul tasto Longs flautando Longs artificial harmonics NO OO NUO JU Longs SUL lowest string 10 Longs sul pont heavy distorted 11 Longs Cuivre brass only 12 Longs vib13 Longs flutter 14 Longs hollow flutes only 15 Longs overblow flutes only 16 Longs overblow flutter flutes only 17 Longs Mariachi if separated off 21 Legato
9. time in the Transport this note is attached to Scroll up and down to select OFFSET Adjust these bars up and down to adjust the velocity levels of each notes this will bring your rhythm sequence to life and provide you with all sorts of surprising syncopated accents OSTINATUM ADVANCED USE With the Ostinatum machine theres a dropdown on the rhythm computer allowing you to switch between and create up to 8 different patterns By default these layer on top of each other but you can also configure them to be solo using either the Ostinatum track options Don t mute this pattern Or using the solo keyswitch option With Solo Keyswitch 9 new customisable keyswitches are added to the keyboard The very first one unmutes all tracks so that they play together The next eight solo each individual track respectively When you press them everything but that keyswitchs track is muted shown yellow on the keyswitch keyboard With this you could programme crazy 16ths on track 1 lazy halves on track 2 and then keyswitch between them in your DAW UNIVERSAL ARTICULATION CONTROLLER CHANNEL UL NAM We finally admit that things have got out of hand here in the world of Virtual instruments Every 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
10. to these articulations is displayed overleaf A BRIEF GUIDE LEFT TO RIGHT LEGATO Monophonic patches that track the intervals you re playing and inserts these transitions be tween the notes Overlap you re notes to instruct the script to perform this task separate the notes to retrigger the tongued sample LEGATO DETACHE As above but where the player has detached the note put a bit of daylight be tween the notes LONG Polyphonic longs Remember to whiggle your mod wheel and play with differing levels of vibrato LONG HOLLOW A more primative sound produced by altering the blowing style These can only be played in a reduced register LONG HARMONIC Alternate fingering to produce notes with harmonics for a slighlty more fragile sound These can only be played in a reduced register LONG FLUTTER The player literally flutters his her tongue whilst blowing to produce a distinctive in uisative sound These can only be played in a reduced register q y DE play 5 LONG OVERBLOWN REST IN SOLO FOR OVERLAYING Blowing the instrument hard to pro duces harsh and bright overtones These can only be played in a reduced register SHORT STACCATISSIMO Very short notes SHORT TENUTO Slightly longer SHORT MARCATO The longest of our shorts SHORT MARCATO SFZ Very loud long shorts SHORT OVERBLOWN REST IN SOLO As with the overblown longs but short MULTITONGUE Like a tremolando a more measured
11. 1 2 Pick from 4 different velocity curves to suit your controller ie 2 CLOSE MIC PAN COLLAPSER The close mics are a stereo mix and this collapser allows you to refine how the stereo image is handled All our musicians are recorded in situ i e 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 panning 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 MICROPHONE 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 CC To change this to suit your MIDI controller or surface simply right click on PC or command
12. 3 GENERAL 14 ADVANCED MIXER 15 ADVANCED ARTICULATIONS 16 ADVANCED SIDE BAR 18 ADVANCED THE COG 19 THE OSTINATUM 20 UACC 23 A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS 25 A QUICK THANK YOU 26 SPECIFICATIONS KONTAKT 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
13. age 13 3 THE OSTINATUM Our ingenious and inspiring rhythm sequencer Page 20 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 their associated 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 an articulation that isn t loaded the front panel will alert you Click on the chip to load unload MESE Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar Purge is illuminated and red it s in a queue and hasn t started loading yet if the middle bar is lit and ml yellow the instrument is 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 16 A brief guide
14. ayed 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 THE OSTINATUM SETTINGS x RHYTHM COMPUTER N Sk Output st 1 di Voices O EETES z b Solo Flute ee TT 4 ccm 0 400 Purge 7 6 Midi Ch A 1 a Me emory 32 40 ME rm 2 m TRANSPORT OSTINATUM FRONT PANEL way let ALBION have all the fun Best used with short articulations this ever evolving device that can offer instant chaotic inspiration be used to create scientifically designed rhythms ostinati and arpeggiated sequences to shimmering tremolando effects SETTINGS TIN ATUM Mode Control Keyswitches CB LOAD SAVE Allows you to store your preciously made Ostinati SoloKeyswitches 280 MODE Selects how the Ostinatum will interpret your playing Ostinatum will sequence a maximum of 10 notes one for each of your fingers It needs to arrange them into a note order 1 10 and this determines how
15. deas or criticism please let us know directly via our website in a constructive manner You never know you Just may have thought 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 5 1L bP 2907 3 www spitfireaudio com
16. e 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 28 By KS The default setting BML is 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 a staccato on your next note By Velocity Range This 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 MIDI Channel Ingeniously turns your single instance of BML101 into a multi timbral instrument MIDI channel lets the instrument change articulation based on the incoming MIDI channel To 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 A 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
17. e sound with less hall great for pop EXPRESSION CONTROLS Three key controllers for BML101 right click on a PC or command click on a mac to change which MIDI CC controls them CONTROLLERS ere ANTAA N Vibrato wiih the mod eal depth or rate inberval speed Overall instrument volume 0 100993 DYNAMICS CC71 This slider displays and controls which dynamic layer is live Also con trolled via the modulation wheel VIBRATO CC 21 This mixes between vobrato and or senza vibrato SPEED CC 16 Controls legato interval speed Great to use when playing the lines into your DAW for more responsive less laggy control Dial back on playback for greater realism EXPRESSION CC 11 Displays the overall instrument volume 0 100 Remember you can also trim your instrument volume with CC 7 THE EXPERT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS EXPRESSION CONTROLS 28 A b SoloFlute Techniques palette d Ozm Output st 1 i Voices OF 400 Purge 3 Midi Ch A 1 i 33 40 MB m i od E A J ILE Ado DEFAULT CCs Expression 0 100 fade ARTICULATIONS OPTIONS ROUND ROBINS O functionality 7 Roundrobin x 9 Resetfrom co GENERAL CONTROLS OPTIONS Su Shortarticulation RTs PRESETS This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affectionately called a
18. ge 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 101 FLUTE CONSORT THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF OUR BML WOODWINDS PROJECT After a decade of enjoying the delights of enormous sample libraries providing broad brush stroke ap proaches to writing which have successfully dominated film gaming and TV music to a large extent Spit fire are at last proud to present a new set of tools Indeed thse will be the finest of tools you need to write detailed and focused orchestral works that have a personality and style that represents you that expresses your creative will and provides you with fresh pastures of experimentation London woodwind players are considered amongst the best in the world Where film music sessions are concerned it could be argued that you wouldn t want to go anywhere else Woodwinds are so expressive they can be a bugger to sample So our belief is to start with the best and then work as hard as we can to honour the talent we have captured The Flute Consort features three of the finest players in London today one recorded solo two recorded in unison They
19. it does that OFF The default postion Ostinatum remains dormant ORDER PRESSED This will organise the notes in the order you pressed them ASCENDING From bottom to top DESCENDING From top to bottom CONTROL KEYSWITCHES Allows you to set up a section of the keyboard that controls the state of the ostinatum These keyswitch let you turn it off or set the Mode SOLO KEYSWITCHES Allows you to dedicate a section of the keyboard to keyswitches that solo each ostinatum track The first KS turns all tracks on the following KS solo each individual track CHORD MODE This ignores any note order and simply plays everything polyphonically great for measured trem style effects TRANSPORT D 5 This is a real time note order display So with Ascending mode activated major triad played from middle up will show up 1 C4 2 E4 3 G4 These note numbered assignments are processed in the THE RHYTHM COMPUTER KEY 12241 orrser 2 _ NOTE MENU Click these to place a note into the computer at the length you desire Trash removes and scroll down dif ferent pre designed sequences to the right of this The cog allows you further fine tuning and configuration tools LENGTH This displays the note lengths in sequence that you have selected from the Note Menu Drag down here to cre ate rest versions of the note length KEY Under each note you can then select which key displayed in real
20. n 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 manage 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 To 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 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 i
21. odium These are placed to give the ultimate sound of the band the hall and they are the default mic position that loads in with each patch A Ambient A set of condenser mics placed high up in the gallery away from the band This mic position gives a massive 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 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 and immediate sound than the tree G Gallery mics three mics at the very furthest point from the band way up in the gallery A true representation of Air 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 immediat
22. omfortably 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 recommend 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 the FLUTES via the File browser pane If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the ba sics of patch or instrumen
23. oom 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 understand the instruments you re writing for To 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 vinta
24. p 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 IS NOT AVAILABLE TO LEGATO TRANSITIONS This plays the pairs and moves ahead by 2 RR In this mode RR is effectively halved eg if you press a note it would play RR1 RR2 then RR3 RR4 etc e 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 Smaller representation of faders discussed in the new Overview Panel page 2 CLICK ON THESE ICONS FOR DEEPER MIX CONTROL x ie AM 1 VELOCITY RESPONSE m mew yl 4
25. rc shorts selected ADVANCED STUFF SIDE BAR OPTIONS 1 THE COG An awesome tool for fine tuning and tweaking your patches See page 19 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 CC and you ll be prompted to move the controller you wish to use in order for the instrument to learn how you d 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 21 The default controller channel is 32 but this can be changed by right CTRL clicking on the padlock ADVANCED STUFF THE PUNCH COG A
26. rticulation 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 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 customised the dynam ics slider that same customised CC will control velocity now ROUND ROBINS amp LEGATO NO EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY NEIGHBOURING ZONES Next to this lies a pop down menu with some amazing new functions e 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 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 e 2x Round Robin With Skip plays two RR simultaneously so you get a thicker sound it s the equivalent of plopping two notes on to
27. s 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 expectations of a project So we present to you Blake Robinson s coup de grace A way of punching notes in and out like we used to in the old days A 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 b Solo Flute Techniq ues palette Output st 1 di Voices 8 400 3 Midi Ch A 1 MEE Memory 33 40 4 I Presets EL LL au HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK 5 RAI x 27 Purge unusec x bi REMOVE SEIF THIS ADJUST ADJUST ALL HOTE RE RELEASE TWEAKS do man Transpose O CC mapped vel HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK Then your last note played will be displ
28. t 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 FLUTE CONSORT FOLDER STRUCTURE BML is ingeniously designed for you to have everything you need in relatively few patches or instances You basically do most of the sound navigation within these instances However we have built a selection of preset patches or Brush Sets that pre load useful selections of sounds to cut down on the time you need to build your template or indeed to make best use of your system resources SOLO FLUTE AND FLUTE a2 ALLIN ONE Load these to get the full BML experience ECONOMICAL PATCHES A collection of less stressful system wise instruments INDIVIDUAL PATCHES For the template heads out there Each articulation loaded into it s own soli tary instrument with keyswitches articulations locked THE NEW OVERVIEW PANEL MIC MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS uri b SoloFlute Techniques palette Output st 1 IP Voices OF 400 Purge Midi Ch A 1 D Memory 33 40 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 Spitfire GUI with deeper tweaking parameters P
29. toungue flutter DOUBLE TRIPLE AND QUAD ARE TRIGGERED BY MOVING THE MOD WHEEL CC71 TRILL MINOR 2ND No flute library would be complete without these where the player flutters his or her fingers between two notes most commonly in half and whole tones All trills are recorded with a natural start whereby the beginning of the articulation can be heard To cut straight into the trill hit your controller harder TRILL MAJOR 2ND As above but a whole tone dl ka engineer Jake Jackson C MICROPHONE MIX SETTINGS Welcome to the wonderful world of Air Studios and the mixes of our chief 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 definition and at times a bit of rounding of sound in isolation it can be a 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 p
30. ty service centre and we hope this page remains relatively under thumbed e My instrument or patch seems to be playing just bits of sound some keys are missing and there 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 Memory Server Engine Handling Ej Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GB RAM Please refer to the user manual for further information Load Import accessible RAM For memory server 7 2 GB Database Memory Seruer mode Memory Automatic KONTAKT will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the server MIDI O Manual Instrument preload buffer size O Querride 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 whe
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