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1. LOAD SAVE Load or Save from to the currently active Rhythm People can share their rhythms or back them up this way 4 Control With Keyswitches Control with Keyswitches C1 When this is on keyswitches are added to the keyboard allowing the user to remotely control the Dropdown menu They can turn off the rhythm matrix or change to any of the 8 rhythms 5 Speed Mulitplyer BSpeed Multiplier x 1 This allows you to set a speed multiplier for the currently active rhythm For example at Speed multiplier x 1 Would play a hit every beat At x 2 it would play two every beat and so on 6 Transport Shows you where you are within your pattern 7 Hit Toggles on and off and illuminates where in the bar pattern you want a hit Once you click on the next will ap pear above 8 Volume Bar Adjusts the velocity of the Hit it sits above Drag the bar all the way to the right for 127 the left for 0 14 SURROUND USE If you are lucky enough to work in 5 1 you will be delighted by how Albion works in this respect and with the number of mic combinations theres a number of different ways of doing it The basic principal is to load in several instances of the same patch routed to the same MIDI channel with dif ferent mics selected and each instance routed to a different out or panning selection on your surround panner Each and all microphone samples have been edited to sample accuracy together so provided you give each insta2. KONTAKT Files Libraries Llatabase C Add Library 3 Navigate to the library folder for example the Spitfire Percussion Library folder that contains your li brary s Instruments and Samples folders and also has the info nkx file 4 Now you have added the library to the Service Centre and you will be prompted to open the application to enter your Serial Number 5 Open the Service Centre application and enter the Serial Number this is in the format XXXXX XXXXX AXXXX XXXXX XAXXXX is the same number you used to download your library 6 Restart Kontakt and your library is authorised 7 Blow the dust off your ModWheel and enjoy GETTING STARTED If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the basics of patch or instrument loading multi management outputting and MIDI routing detailed in the Kontakt user manual and Native Instruments website http www native instruments com en products producer kontakt 4 page 975 If you are an established Kontakt user please make sure you have ABSOLUTELY the latest version of it down loaded via the NI service centre Albion simply wont work on any previous versions We cannot describe the multitude of painful symptoms you will experience if you dont do this needless to say one thing is certain KONTAKT WILL NOT LET YOU KNOW YOU CANT PLAY ALBION ON YOUR OLDER ITERATION You ll just think were a bunch of jerks and
3. and expression from the front panel e Customisable velocity mapping map the dynamics to your individual workstation setup Improvements to instruments such as double handed timpani mapping simulation of dampened bells glocks celeste etc e The RHYTHM MATRIX A whole new way of building your arrangements and sequences Round Robins are a method of recording a number of performances of the same sample so that when playing repeated notes in fast succession you dont get machine gunning a rapid repeat of the same sample that gives the game away immediately System Requirements KONTAKT Percussion is bundled with a Kontakt Player so if you do not use or own a full version of Kontakt not to worry However if you ever want to do some deep editing other than the extensive set of customisable tools provided on our unique front panel Making the leap to Kontakt is something wed wholeheartedly sup port If you are an existing user of Kontakt please make sure you have the absolute latest version 98 of all enquiries to our support dept are cured by the upgrade This is a cutting edge library and it simply wont work on anything but the latest version RECOMMENDED SPEC The better your computer the better the performance of Percussion But not to worry if youre not specd 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 were confident thi
4. have sold you a DOA VI So please click on the service centre and wait for that progress bar to finish to save brain curdle SPITFIRE PERCUSSION THE JOBY BURGESS SESSIONS WELCOME TO THE SPITFIRE ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE When you start playing these patches you will be triggering one of the greatest players playing the finest instruments in one of the greatest recording studios in the world Produced by successful film composers and orchestrators through a selection of unique vin tage mics via world class Neve mic pres and analogue Neve desk and finally via head of the class prism AD converters into the 96k 24bit digital format from which these 48k samples are derived London is a very special place a unique melting pot of not only cultures but of artistic industries In one town we have 120 theatres with 80 orchestra pits 5 world class symphony orchestras an embarrassment of chamber groups dozens of concert halls from the Royal Albert right down to the recently opened Kings Place two major opera houses a beleaguered but buzzing pop industry a vibrant jazz circuit a TV output that has global reach some of the finest film technicians and facilities houses in the world Ringed by a number of world class film studio facilities London has the highest concentration of orchestral recording facility s outside Los Angeles All this filters into the panoply of experience and demand placed on our musicians Whats more we have 4 of the gr
5. make a continous note or set of notes These articulations would benifit from you sending it some CC1 modulation wheel data to cross fade between the different dynamic layers SWELL As with rolls but with a finite length starting very quiet and building to it s final release BRUSHED Instead of being hit the instrument is brushed where a beater soft or hard a brush stick or indeed a finger or hand is wiped accross the instrument BOWED Where the instrument is bowed usually the side to make it resonate usually to quite haunting effects CHOKED Where the sustain of an instrument is stopped abruplty a choked cymbal will be hit with a beater in one hand and instantly choked buy the percussionist grabbing the cymbal with his other hand to stop it from ringing out THE FRONT PANEL EN SPITFIRE impani v4 Outwut st 1 In Voices O Midi ch A 1 g Memory 111 81 MB Purge Unused Roundrobinx e Transp s 0 r C1 mapped vel haseton transport er A Unlockedartic UN rones PER CUSSION JOB BURGES 1EDUX 7a 14 13 Ip ok i Tune Purge H 0 00 m 2 gt Als vol T P n Exp Custom vel Timpani hits 10 Te 16 D 10 THE FRONT PANEL KEY This manual presumes that you have already used Kontakt If the main Kontakt window is unfamiliar to you please con sult your Kontakt manual
6. offering remote possibilities for those unable to make it to our shores JOBY BURGESS One of Britains most diverse percussionists Joby is best known for his virtuosic often lissom performances daring collaborations extensive education work and regularly appears throughout the UK Europe and beyond Joby commits much of his time to three chamber music projects Powerplant New Noise and Ensemble Bash of which he is either the artistic or co artistic director Founded in 1999 his duo New Noise with oboist Janey Miller has given well in excess of two hun dred performances whilst creating an entirely new repertoire and founding its own record label NNL In 2001 Joby joined Britain s leading percussion quartet Ensemble Bash replacing founding father Richard Benjafield The group has since gone onto tour and record extensively with drumming legend Stewart Copeland and during 2005 was in residence at the VCA Melbourne Australia Earlier that year Joby founded the multimedia collective Powerplant a collaboration with sound designer Matthew Fairclough and visual artist Kathy Hinde In 2006 07 Powerplant was awarded a major ITEM Arts Council Research Grant hosted by the Founda tion for Art amp Creative Technology in Liverpool and they regularly appear with the Elysian Quartet performing Joby s remixes of classic German pioneering pop masters Kraftwerk Dedicated to the development of the percussion repertoire often in combination with
7. or the Native Instruments site They explain it better than we ever could http www native instruments com en products producer kontakt player 1 Front Panel Edit amp Rhythm Matrix toggles These tags toggle you between the 2 main pages of the front panel 2 Articulations This is your articulation menu Highlight your choice of articulation and observe description to the right 2a If you havent got the articulation loaded you will be prompted when you send it some note on information 2a Current Articulation This is will name the current articulation being played 3 Articulation Load Cut Buttons Use these to purge articulations from memory Click on this toggle to reload 4 Voices amp Max The left numeral refers to how many voices are currently being processed in the Kontakt engine Max Refers to the maximum number of voices assigned to this instance of Kontakt If you re experiencing dropouts clicks or crackles you may want to have a look at these two numbers 5 Samples Load Status Again if youre hearing clicks or crackles or if your sample is cutting out erratically check that the righter most bar is illuminated This signals that all the samples for your patch are fully loaded 6 Mic Controllers One of the most exciting aspects of Spitfires range C lose T ree amp A mbient mics Above these letters are the mic cut buttons that dial the mic signals in or out this will unload or load the samples needed to k
8. tuned or being more of a bang or crash with a less definable pitch centre untuned In fact where possible Joby tunes all of the untuned percussion to the most optimal and complimentary with a set of toms for example temperament The general reason that untuned perc doesnt have a clearly hummable note is that it is playing several at the same time A crash for example has an infinite number of notes overtones and harmonics playing simultaneously hence the chaotic wave forms they print A vibraphone however may settle to resonate a much purer sine wave for example THE ARTICULATIONS Once you have loaded your instrument you will be presented with a line of notation icons These refer to the different articulations different ways techniques and styles of playing a note with any instrument These can be switched via the front panel or via keyswitches There are options for loading and unloading these from memory and there are differ ent lock options if you wish to simply load up one articulation per instance of Kontakt MIDI track channel Common articulations in percussion instruments include HIT Stick bang hit A single note could be quiet could be very loud MUTED Where the instruments ability to resonate is hindered by a hand or beater resting on the drum head or some mechnical device limit ing the instruments sustain or ring ROLL Hitting the drum repeatedly in a random quick and consistent pattern to
9. SION f j HEC U A 1 5 HN eee 5 Control with Keyswitches Speed Multiplier x 1 THE RHYTHM MATRIX A K A Your Orchestrators Next Headache Its great playing stuff in on a keyboard even greater if you re good at playing one But sometimes its fun in spiring and interesting to interface differently with your musical instruments We hope that the rhythm matrix helps you throw up some unexpected results speeds up realising your next minimalist masterpiece or indeed helps you to create megalomaniacal multi patches that present a contrapuntal universe of automated percus sion when you don your tails strike a chord and hit play on your DAW Load up the Matrix click on a few boxes in the matrix hit play on your DAW and play some notes on your keyboard controller KEY 1 Rhythm Pattern Loop Title Shows you the active pattern preset as saved here 2 Pattern Directory Ihe dropdown under Rhythm Matrix picks the currently active rhythm You can program up to 8 of these and then toggle between them either by using this drop down menu or by enabling keyswitch control When this is set to Inactive no rhythm plays When a rhythm is selected pressing a key starts that rhythm for that key 3 Copy Paste Load Save COPY PASTE Copy and paste from to the currently active Rhythm Copy paste works between instruments so you could copy in Timpani and paste in Toms for example
10. am E i E 4 E mr 3 SPIT USER MANUAL c ie E Welcome Thanks for purchasing Joby Burgess Percussion Redux arguably the finest collection of orchestral percussion samples ever assembled With this redux edition we have introduced a raft of revolutionary features so even if youre an existing ace ninja spitfire percussion user this document may have some useful ideas on how to get the best out of this revised edi tion Reading manuals is a bore so stick this next to your loo and give it a read whenever you can About Spitfire 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 untamable 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 record ing a film score one note at a time The player their instrument how they interract with one another and ofcourse the room they re recording in About Spitfire Percussion Percussion was developed as the first commercial release and most ambitious project for Spitfire Audio Having spent 4 years sweating blood and tears over what is arguably one of the worlds best set of bespoke and exclusive orchestral libraries Spitfire rolled its sleeves up to to
11. ble Disable and configure the note that the Round Robin selection starts at eg if its set to F1 F1 will set RR to 1 F 1 to 2 G to 3 etc 12 Reset On Transport An ingenious device that ensures uniform playback every time you run your DAW Click this on and Kontakt will start the round robin cycle from either RR1 or the selected RR from F1 above every time you hit play on your DAW 13 Dynamics Expression Rls Vol A visual front end depiction of your modulation wheel or CC1 input Expression C11 and the volume of the release triggers Mapable to any CC or simply tweak direct fro the UI 14 Neighbour ing Zones This will fake round robins based on neighbouring zones this can be used in conjunction with the true round robins 10 to give you a real variety of samples when playing fast or repetitive phrases 15 Custom Velocity Toggle on off the following 16 Custom Velocity Chart Change the pattern shape of this chart to suit your keyboards weight velocity handling or indeed you playing style Round Robins are a method of recording a number of versions of the same sample so that when playing repeated notes in fast succession you dont get machine gunning a rapid repeat of the same sample that gives the game away immedi ately TUAE THE RHYTHM MATRIX Timpani v4 Output st SPIT FIRE 3 Midi Ch A 1 i Memory 111 81 B RAYTHM MA RIX COPY PASTE Rhythm 1 LOAD SAVE a M JOBY BURGESS PERCUS
12. create the only percussion library you ll ever need to buy Recorded over many months at Air Studios London and produced by film composers for film composers this range offers instant out of the box gratificationl inspiration and awesome sense of reality About Redux Having purposely future proofed this project massively by recording instruments with up to 8 dynamic layers 8 round robins and three mixable mic positions It has actually taken technology a while to catch up with the true potential of this library his Redux version embraces the power memory and voice possibilities of modern technology coupled with many 2 innovations made in Spitfires Albion range to provide a total overhaul of how this library works namely Unified look to bring it in line with other Spitfire releases Ihe same multimic with purging levels you re used to working with in Albion Albion 2 All in one patches giving you all the articulations and playing styles of an instrument in a single keyswitch able patch to optimise templates e Ability to latch articulations to CCs pedals and custom keyswitches to suit your individual workflow Extensive purging options to optimise memory for your individual setups Select how many RR and articulations are active and loaded into memory e Extended Neighbouring zones RR round robin for melodic percussion potentially tripling the RR count Configurable release volumes dynamics
13. d at the Guildhall School of Music amp Drama London Joby Burgess plays Sabian cymbals Artist Classic Marimba and Vibraphone by Adams Percussion and Wernick Musical Instruments Mark VI Xylosynth ORCHESTRAL PERCUSSION An orchestral percussionist is expected to play the most incredible array of instruments across a number of disciplines and physical exertions From a deeply complex and fiddly xylophone part through some pounding timpani to a smashing cymbal We have captured what we consider to be the staples of a thorough and definitive collection By using a world class percussionist not only as our player but advisor We make the lesser known skills of stick selection easy for you by allowing our percussionist to do his job So instead of giving you hundreds of soft medium hard stick selections for each instrument we have let Joby select the best suited to each dynamic layer and pitch centre Just as he would live This is how the timpani sound so bloody brilliant at every level They just sound right out of the box With music for cinema in mind we have done this for every instrument The Marimba which Sound On Sound Magazine called a peach for example is played with a multitude of differing sticks depending on the dynamic and pitch to give you that sound TUNED AND UNTUNED Orchestral percussion is largely divided into tuned and untuned This refers to an instrument having a indentifiable pitch or set of pitches
14. eatest music academys in the world with some of the finest collections of rarefied and priceless antique instruments We believe that sample libraries promote orchestral music in TV and Film soundtracks and on pop records by making the opportu nity of writing it accessible for all It is our aim at Spitfire to promote British musicians and studios the world over By encouraging people to wherever possible to use UK talent by encouraging and inspiring composers to write better orchestral music Whilst we know most if not all composers would use any money they were given to book real players we understand that this is not always possible We feel even with a single player though the production value of your recordings and realisations will always increase ten fold This even more so with percussion which can add that final bit of fire and spice to your piece Percussionists are often the first to go when budgets bite but it is our feeling that they should be the last There interpretation of your rhythms will never cease to amaze and regardless of the amazing versatility of this library a live percussionist will always give you a timbre that perfectly fit your piece So please wherever possible try to keep music live Were proud to say that all of our musicians are paid the highest possible union scale and are paid a twice yearly voluntary royalty based on sales There are details of how to book these guys including Joby online with many of the soloists
15. eep your system lean Above the cut buttons are fader controls that allow you to mix the mic signals to your liking C Close mics a selection of ribbon and 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 podium In the case of Albion 3 priceless vintage Neumann M50s 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 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 see page 23 7 Transpose Unlike the Tune dial this is a course transposition tool that allows you to address different samples from your keyboard We have included this function with the Tune dial in mind Whereby if you dial up the transpose by say 3 and dial down the tune knob by 3 the pitch of your instrument remains at concert but is addressing a different order of samples With this example of its use would be an excellent way of tracking an instrument or part with a du
16. ein To Dominic Kelly for introducing us to Joby to Alison Burton and the whole of the Air Studios team To Jake Jackson for making everything sound so marvellous To Blake Robinson for his genius and remarkable input into this project and ofcourse to Joby Burgess an amazing talent and wealth of advice and enthusiasm Most of all wed like to thank the amazing support and loyalty of our user base our Facebook friends and eve ryone on VI Control We are in the same boat as all of you Were not software developers by trade so appreciate your honesty in pay ing your way to be a part of our family and not distributing this illegally But more importantly if you have any ideas or criticism please let us know directly via our website and in a constructive manner You never know you just may have thought of something that we hadnt considered We want to make our entire range the best there is and we rely on you to help us achieve that With thanks amp PIRE AUDIO LEP 2012 5 1
17. electronics Joby spends much of his time commissioning and recording new music Recent highlights have included premiere performances of major multimedia works from Gabriel Prokofiev and Graham Fitkin releases of Steve Reichs Electric Counterpoint on Signum Peter Maxwell Davies Ave Maris Stella with Gemini on Metier and a retrospective of British electronic music Recovery Discovery for Sound and Music Future plans include cinema performances of sound artist Martin Parkers new opera with vocalist Phil Minton and a UK tour with the new Graham Fitkin Band Joby regularly performs and broadcasts with many of the UKs leading chamber ensembles and in 2003 04 was guest principal per cussionist with the Britten Sinfonia for tours performing music by J S Bach Moondog and Arvo Part with Joanna MacGregor Andy Sheppard and Nitin Sawhney He is also a member of Stephen Deazley s Edinburgh based ensemble Music at the Brewhouse for which Joby was commissioned to arrange A has pop classic Take On Me for the 2008 St Magnus Festival in Orkney In 2004 Joby was appointed professor of percussion and director of percussion ensembles at Junior Trinity College of Music Green wich Each year he is involved in numerous education events for organisations such as Dartington International Summer School Coma and the Percussive Arts Society leading workshops focusing on rhythm composition and improvisation often using West African music as the stimulus Joby studie
18. in cinemas This is as the title suggests an effects track It is for intermittent use albeit these days often used This should never be part of your bass management and should be used in a selective manner If you give them continuous program they ll strip it out as it will interfere with their room tones nice bangs and thuds And with a 60 piece orchestra all sorts of info gets into the sub range if you simply route your mix to it even with instruments play ing in a pitch range well clear of the sub Your C lose signal is a good starting point Route this to a sub bass synthesizer the Waves MaxxBass is a great plug alongside many free plugs bundled with DAWs But the DBX 120A is very much the industry standard and inexpensive bit of outboard kit for this purpose Send your C lose into this but also make sure you noise gate it Judge a point that you feel is a loud peak and set the threshold to that with a nice slow attack and re lease Hey presto you just made friends with a dubbing engineer Oh and dont forget to introduce your Darwin Subs and Easter Island Hits to the LFE 15 AFAQs Anticipated FAQs It is our hope that you keep in touch with us to let us know how youre getting on how youre using Albion how youre finding it and if we were to consider looking at areas in the future what youd like us to look at From this we ll form a consensus and wholeheartedly pledge that we will act upon it
19. nce identical MIDI information or indeed the same channel everything will remain true as recorded If you are concerned that a round robin cycle may be out of sync hit CO on your keyboard controller to reset Heres some suggestions Basic Quad 2 instances Output an instance with T ree to your L amp R A mbient to your Ls amp Rs If you need a slightly less widescreen surround image swap out your A mbient for O utrigger Intermediate 5 0 3 instances Output an instance with T ree to your L amp R A mbient to your Ls amp Rs Bus a slightly smaller amount of Tree into your C alongside a final instance with C lose Business Class 5 0 4 instances Output an instance with T ree to your L amp R A mbient to your Ls amp Rs Bus a slightly smaller amount of Tree into your C alongside your 3rd instance with C lose Use your surround panner to output the O utrigger mics to a point directly between L amp R and Ls amp Rs as pictured Angle 0 0 Diversity 0 00 Sprea d 150 Posh 5 1 4 instances some clever routing It would be easy for us to suggest you simply pull up the LFE fader as found in Logic pictured above on one of your 4 instances Indeed the C lose mic would be a nice focussed signal for this task But your dubbing engineer wont like your for it and 9 times out of 10 hell simply cut all of your LFE tracks You can make his life easier by understanding the much misunderstood roll of the LFE track
20. nt 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 samplers pre load page 24 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 DAWs As always make sure youre as up to date as you can afford If youre 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 load in 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 CONTENTS INSTALLATION GETTING STARTED THE SESSIONS THE FRONT PANEL THE RHYTHM MATRIX SURROUND USE AFAQs 05 06 07 10 13 15 16 INSTALLATION 1 Download the free Kontakt Player application from here and install it http www native instruments com en products producer kontakt player 2 Open the Player or Kontakt 4 full version if you have that and click Add Library in the library browser window
21. plicate sound to make it even larger or more stereo without the two instances phasing Or if you are slightly unhappy with the performance of a particular note we encourage idiosyncrasy and variety between our notes throughout our sample sessions or mix say of a woodwind group at a point in your melody or accompaniment this may be an easy fix without having to get under the bonnet ll 7a CC1 Mapped Velocity Control the note velocity with the mod wheel rather than key velocity Especially handy for riding the mod wheel during a roll 8 Purge Unused This control keeps unloading any samples you are not using to keep your memory usage as low as possible 9 Articulation Lock This pull down lets you modify the way articulations are accessed if for example you wish to have each articu lation on a separate instance of percussion midi channel DAW track you will want to load the articulation you need unload all others then click locked artic so you dont hit a KS by mistake and mute your sound Unlocked artic Articulations can be freely switched with keyswitches or by clicking the icons in the UI Locked artic Articulations cannot be changed at all Locked KS Articulations cannot be changed by the keyswitches but can be changed by clicking the UI icons 10 Round Robin x 8 This refers to the number of round robins your patch uses the number can be dragged up and down 1 8 to save you memory 11 Reset From Ena
22. s 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 re duce load times The higher the speed of your CPU the more capable your computer will be to deal with some of the amazing but complicated scripts we ve written PCs We recommend an i5 or i7 Quad or 8 Core machine with 8 Gig or above memory Vista 64 or Windows 7 However it will work with SP2 Pentium or Athlon XP 1 4GHz 1Gig RAM MACs We recommend a Mac Pro Intel Based Dual Quad or 8 Core machine with 8 Gig or above memory Mac OS 10 6 1 Snow Leopard However we have made the module work satisfactorily on a Mac Mini 2 4 GHz anda MacBook Pro 2 4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo DRIVES Firewire USBII or eSata 7200rpm Ask your dealer for drives that are suitable for AV use We always recom mend as small a drive as possible as the platter will be smaller and the seek time less The library will eventually take up 25 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 developme
23. ssible Host projects will recall faster provided that samples are already loaded inta the server Servers are controlled uia KMS utility in the 05 menu bar Instrument preload buffer size O Querride Instrument s preload size EI You ll have to restart this instance of Kontakt to feel it s benefits Another reason your system may be struggling is that youre using too many mics live for the spec of your machine Try cutting the mics as detailed on the front panel to see if this cures your problem If it does dont 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 If youre still suffering may we suggest you try and manage your pre load buffer Kontakt pre loads some sam ples 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 youre 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 the right to a setting you re happy with 16 A QUICK THANKS Christian amp Paul would like to thank the cabal of genius assembled her
24. wherever possible or practicle Our private library is what we often refer to as a living library that has embraced true legato among and other scripting technologies and will no doubt find new life in experiences we have earned in making Albion We hope that Albion too can enjoy this kind of fluid feedback that will keep our tool sets fresh and vibrant e This library really isn t behaving how I d expect OK so were 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 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 16 Some of these are biggies so can take a while But if problems persist make sure Kontakt memory manager is activated Main Options Interface EMS Memory Server Engine Handling Ej Use Memory Server Initial activation requires restart and at least 4 GE RAM Please refer ta the user manual for further information Load Import accessible RAM For memory server 7 2 GB Database then Mernory Automatic will purge unused samples automatically Audio and handle the seruer Memory Server made O Manual Samples remain in Memory Seruer as long as po
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