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1. Presets Roundrobin x 8 Dynamics i HOW SHOULD WE TWEAK C5 RR1 7 Et Purge unused Resetfrom CO Vibrato 0 757 E Gry ib Transpose 0 O Reset on transport Speed Fi x om HF CCimappedvel Neighbouring zones Expression D REMOVE SMF THESE ADJUST ADJUST SAMPLE ALL MOTE RR AELEASE START TWEAKS 5 EN CCALC fo fle CC aT 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 REMOVE ALL NOTE TWEAKS This removes all custom changes you have made with the Cog M car 302 PAGE 15 THE BRITISH MODULAR LIBRARY UNIVERSAL ARTICULATION gt CONTROLLER CHANNEL ANH 7 7 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 switching across2. mento Changes note on same string without re bowing These use both dynamic controllers and vibrato SEE EXPRESSION CONTROLS page 10 LONGS Marked Dolce which is a warm soft tone without excessive amounts of vibrato These use both dynamic controllers and vibrato SEE EXPRESSION CONTROLS page 10 CON SORD LONGS We concentrated hard to make these soft but still warm When using mutes with smaller sections it is so easy for the sound to become thin sterile and lifeless These use both dynamic controllers and vibrato SEE EXPRESSION CONTROLS page 10 ARTIFICIAL HARMONICS By resting a finger lightly on a string a fourth above the pitch it is being played at a harmonic tone is formed The resulting sound is 2 octaves above the pitch being played It is an unusual technique and requires a huge amount of skill we have decided to keep the samples with all the unusual artefacts and tuning imperfections you would get intact We believe this is what gives these techniques their character SPICCATO Marked light unlike other libraries we wanted the spiccato to be pretty to the ear not just a thunderous assault These are very short tight and bright notes As with all shorts these dynamic ranges are controlled via velocity STACCATO Slightly longer short notes SORD SHORTS Marked brushed C Sord stands for Con Sordino which is with the practise mutes engaged to give a brighter softer and quieter sound The
3. and provide you with all sorts of surprising syncopated accents NOW HIT PLAY ON YOUR DAW AND ENJOY THE PUNCH COG Available on Instruments saved in the Punch Cog folder 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 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 Load in a Punch Cog instrument and switch to the articulation you were using Play until you find the Round Robin you don t like and then stop Observe the pictured cog bottom left of the front panel Ul and click on it to get this dialogue BML 303 Sable Violins 1 IJE BML EE st Voices OF Mas 400 Purge 301 a na Fd OPTIONS ROUND ROBIN amp LEGATO CONTROLLERS Z ie 4 oa
4. 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 articulations this is how to fine tune CLOSE MIC PAN COLLAPSER To the right of the above is a selector that opens the mic 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 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 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 ADVANCED ARTICULATION SELECTION Polyphonic legato Latch with Vel 64 127 For those of you who want to tweak your articulation selection further To create set ups that closely integrate with notation software or indeed performance patches that react to the way you play this deep editor may be for you It s accessed by holding CMD or CTRL on PC and clicking the articulation icon Can be closed by clicking the X to the bottom right of the UI LATCH TOGGLE Swi
5. 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 Marcato shorts con sord ALT 5 58 Combined shorts via velocity with dyn on MW con sord ALT 61 Pizzicato 62 Pizz Bartok 63 Col legno battuto 7 Trills min 06 72 Trills maj 2nd 73 Trills min 3rd 74 Trills maj 3rd 75 Trills perf 4th 81 Trems unmeasured 111 FX 1 82 Trems unmeasured con sord 112 FX2 83 Trems unmeasured sul pont 113 FX 3 84 Trems unmeasured con sord sul pont 114 FX4 85 Trems measured 180 bpm 115 FX5 86 Trems measured 150 bpm 116 FX 6 8 Trems measured 120 bpm 117 EX 7 88 Trems measured TM 180 bpm time machine 118 FX 8 89 Trems measured TM 150 bpm time machine 119 FX9 90 Trems measured TM 120 bpm time machine 120 91 Double tonguing 121 Disco falls 92 Triple tonguing 122 Rips 93 Quad tonguing 123 Falls 94 Doub
6. 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 This is a great way of making Sable sound bigger Pull two of the same patches into the same Kontakt multi leave one as is then with the second transpose 3 on the UI and then course tune down by 3 on the front panel Play together and hey presto double the players CC1 MAPPED VEL OCITY Click this to have velocity controlled dynamics for the shorts for instance mapped to CCI as it is with the longs ROUND ROBINS amp LEGATO 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 NO EXTRA FUNCTIONALITY NEIGHBOURING ZONES Next to this lies a pop down menu with some amazing new functions No extra Functionality the standard default where round robins are used as
7. neither too brittle nor too smudgy and loose Mixing the pizzicatos is also highly effective ALBION CINEMATIC BEAUTY amp DETAIL A smaller but still very big sounding compared to Sa ble this range is probably the happiest and closest cousin of Sable These sounds seem to mix together like they were in the same room when they were recorded Iry the two Flautando s together the shorts and mixtures of the Albion Con Sord longs with trems and other Sable longs and it s still Sable but with twice the players Albion II also has a selection of very esoteric instruments and tools ALBION LOW END APOCALYPSE Well if all your missing from Sable are more cellos and basses then it doesn t get bassier or bigger than this Recommended as part of the larger Albion range only we d consider the contrast between these bands to be too great without another one of the Albions to bridge the gap To find out more go to www spithreaudio com 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 and Stu Kennedy Also to our newest members of out team Joe amp Toby we ve got you now were never going to let you go Most of all we would like to thank the amazing support and loyalty
8. 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 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 CJOLP RAG HEL LS RL J D EP OLS www spitfireaudio com
9. 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 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 X 10 6 10 7 or 10 8 latest update Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 4 GB recom mended DRIVES Firewire USBI
10. playing back for ease of use EXPRESSION DEFAULT CC11 Controls the volume of the articulation 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 Right CTRL 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 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 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 Gr
11. they were intended e Neighbouring Zones pulls from neighbouring zones so for an SRR 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 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 EXPRESSION CONTROLS Visual representation of the various expression controllers available to you right ctrl click to reassign learn different controller assignments DYNAMICS DEFAULT CC1 MOD WHEEL Control and xFade the different dynamic layers recorded VIBRATO DEFAULT CC 21 Controls and xFades level of vibrato SPEED DEFAULT CC 16 Controls the speed of legato transitions reduce when playing in expand when
12. with larger sections organised in ensembles Albion integrates seemlessly to add to the Sable head count Within the folder structure of Sable are Albion Overlays load these in alongside your Albion strings and play as one just adjust the volume faders to taste We find a mix of Close and Tree with Sable and Tree amp Outrigger on Albion gives the instant effect of Sable being the front desks the principals Albion the corps So a cue that youve written on Sable that is intense and cerebral but suddenly fades into a large panorama and needs to broaden it s aperture dial in Albion and the hairs will go up on your arm and if it s Albion Ill probably chest and face A cue you ve written on Albion is grand in scale but you re losing the internal movement passing notes answering counterpoint Dial in some Sable and it s like Albion just came into focus Albion HD And finally technique divisi Sable allows you to mix techniques without creating just a smudge of sound Call up the Sable Flautando and gradually bring in an Albion Con Sordino suddenly you have a beautiful pad of wonder that sounds totally organic THE ALBION TRYPTIC ALBION 1 EPIC CINEMATIC ENSEMBLES Large epic strings wood and brass staples alongside thundering cinematic percussion and other fantastic scoring tools Sable spiccatos mixed with the Ostina tum shorts are a particluar high this enables ultra realistic fast shorts passages that are
13. CONTROLS PAGE 9 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 panel will alert you Click on the chip to load unload Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured If the left hand bar 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 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 or indeed press their associ ated key switches you can do this whilst your 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 A brief guide to these articulations is displayed overleaf SIDE BAR DISPLAY AND ADVANCE TOOLS On the left of your articulation stanza is a side bar that displays the name of the articulation youre cur rently playing Beneath it are three options KEYSWITCH SHIMMIER This shimmys the position of all the keyswitches left or right convenient if you re creating your own multi instruments and don t want to hit keyswitches by mistake KEYSWITCH TO CC SELECTOR Use this to assign a CC controller to act as articulation keyswitcher Click on CC and you ll be prompted to move the controller you wish to use in
14. I 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 recommend running your library independently of your DAW either on your host computer e g via Re Wire or ona 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 c
15. MANUFACTURED IN R M GREAT BRITAIN BY THE BRITISH MODULAR LIBRARY 1731 21 Be si WELCOME Thanks for purchasing BML Sable Volume 2 part of the next generation in string sampling We strongly urge you to read this manual as Sable is packed with features not found in 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 enormously untam able 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 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
16. 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 SPECIFICATIONS 5 LETS GET STARTED 6 THE FRONT PANEL 7 THE ARTICULATIONS 8 GENERAL amp EXPRESSION 10 MICS amp MIXES 11 ADVANCED 12 OSTINATUM 13 THE PUNCH COG 15 UACC 16 A COUPLE OF TROUBLESHOOTS 18 USING ALBION WITH SABLE 19 A QUICK THANK YOU 20 SPECIFICATIONS KONTAKT SABLE 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
17. eat 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 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 6 extraordinary mixes to save your system resources B Broad a cinematic symphonic mix that allow the hall to really speak out ST amp 5 0 M Medium a more intimate but still very classic version of the mix above ST amp 5 0 F Fine a much more detailed and immediate sound with less hall great for pop ST amp 5 0 ADVANCED STUFF MICROPHONE MIX TO ARTICULATION LINKER Fiicrosmions 84 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 incon sistencies in volume
18. ed to build your template or indeed to make best use of your system resources V2 ValCB ALL IN ONE Load these to get the full SABLE experience ECONOMICAL BRUSHES A collection of less stressful system wise instruments INDIVIDUAL BRUSHES For the template heads out there Each articulation loaded into it s own soli tary instrument with keyswitches articulations locked OTHER BRUSHES Including THE PUNCH COG See page 15 this is a cog enabled all in one TIME MACHINE Two time machine activated patches for shorts ALBION amp SOLO STRINGS OVERLAYS These are ingeniously designed to load up alongside even on the same MIDI channel as their Albion or Solo String cousins so that they can be played and mixed in total unison See page 19 THE FRONT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS MIC MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS Vla BR PT4 AB25 FINAL CANDIDATE Tune Output st 1 fe Voices OF flax 256 0 00 E Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 133 47 MB DEFAULT CCs Expression OAD ARTICULATIONS Leis ARTICULATIONS BRUSH sets ARTICULATION STANZA On the right of the diagram above you will see a line of musical notes These actually denote key articu lations display the current articulation playing and act as switches between them alongside they re as sociated keyswitches We have created a series of Brush Sets with different articulations loaded SEE PRESETS INGENERAL
19. ght hands they can be the most inspiring tool for tender soft and understated but deeply moving com positions We achieved these long articulations by offering up the quite complicated instruction on the scores Flautando poco sul tasto warm and harmonic like poco vibrato The players we believe then played with the bow slightly turned and slightly on the finger board with a measured amount of vibrato But by giving such a panoply of instructions each player interprets it slightly differently And by hearing a number of players playing all slightly differently the warmth and sense of scale is increased so you don t get the thinness often associated with this technique TREMOLANDO A fast short bowed tremolando lots of short and frequent bowing back and forth out of time with each other that produces a beautiful shimmer on top of or an octave above normal longs or in isolation provide tense anticipatory tones TRILL MINOR HALF TONE amp MAJOR WHOLE TONE These long articulations are made by rapidly alternating fingers between the tonic and a semitone half tone above Nice to use as long phrases but also just little frills or ornaments within legato phrases GENERAL CONTROLS OPTIONS PRESETS This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations affectionately called Brush Sets quickly and easily to optimise your system quickly for essential articulations or to start building templates using
20. hrough 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 202 7 C strings volume 2 AT LAST THE SIBLINGS MEET After a decade of enjoying the delights of enormous string libraries providing broad brush stroke ap TH AS 8 8 ely Be proaches to writing which have successfully dominated film gaming and TV music 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 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 will feature 4 x Ist 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
21. le tonguing con sord 124 Rips con 6 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 UI 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 SABLE 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 Sable range and others and of course our site A couple of commonly asked questions e This library really isn t behaving how 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 t
22. om 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 BML SABLE VOL 2 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 95 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 SABLE via the File browser pane you 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 SABLE FOLDER STRUCTURE SABLE 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 But 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 ne
23. order for the instrument to learn how you d like to select articulations 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 example So its worth locking off the articulation switching once you ve selected one so you don t have sounds disap pearing 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 This is a new standard being developed by Spitfire and detailed on page 16 The default controller channel is 32 but this can be changed by right CTRL clicking on the padlock Please also see advanced articulation selection on page 12 for more articulation switching options A BRIEF GUIDE LEGATO These are true legato patches where every possible interval within the range we have selected has been recorded They are monophonic and rely on you overlapping the notes otherwise the start of the sample will be re triggered We have recorded 3 different legato styles Bowed changes note on a bow Fingered Changes note without re bowing and Porta
24. our entire range and it s one we hope other developers will also adopt It will mean greater integration between your VI 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 O OO N 06 Od NE 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 22 Legato
25. 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 17 Sable 2 features our 2nd violins violas and basses playing essential articulations for a full patch list please visit our site A quick note on the 2nd violins this is pretty much a re record of the 15 set of ar ticulations played by a totally different group of players playing totally different instruments in a different part of the room We feel by not offering this nuance in a strings library that we would be severely cutting corners and we hope you enjoy the flavour enhancement and diversity to your recipes 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 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
26. rusty 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 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 Max 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 Manual Instrument preload buffer size 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 I 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
27. s 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 This is a real time note order display So with Ascending mode activated a c major triad played from middle C up will show up 1 C4 2 E4 3 G4 These note numbered assignments are processed in the THE RHYTHM COMPUTER NOTE add IIE ES Ost 1 LENGTH 1 KET OFFSET 2 pe 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 time in the Transport this note is attached to Scroll and down to select So in the sequence pictured a C triad will sound C E C C C C OFFSET Adjust these bars and down adjust the velocity levels of each notes this will bring your rhythm sequence to life
28. se are super softly played short articulations with a very gentle attack that have an almost Baroque like quality Excellent for shimmering ostinatos PIZZ Plucked Pizzicato strings unlike other libraries reproduced here as played Loose We have not artificially snipped these performances These are as varied as world class players play these fiddly articulations We feel the less players you have playing this the better the sound so this patch is an excellent divisi when you divide one section ie the 2nds into playing two parts sounding pizzicato that will brighten and sparkle within thick arrangements of larger sounding libraries BARTOK PIZZ Sometimes called SNAP PIZZ Plucked as above but with the string being very much pulled away from the neck to provide a harsh snappy cracking sound These are very much used incidently in music and wouldn t be recommended for repeated phrases COL LEGNO When orchestrating this always warn your players in advance so they can bring a practise bow or even a pencil Short articulations played with the back of the bow to give a very unique wooden clicking noise If you re doing repetitive or sin gle note patterns like say in the opening of Holst s Mars you may want to engage use neighbouring zones SEE GENERAL CONTROLS overleaf FLAUTANDO These are difficult to get right with an orchestra Especially of this size In the wrong hands they can sound thin cold and ugly In the ri
29. tches this way of selecting the articulation on WITH SELECTOR Selects how you would like to select PARAMETERS Edit these to select a range in which this articulation would be selected Please also see our chapter on UACC page 16 for further options on articulation selection THE OSTINATUM Acces via the icon beneath the spanner SETTINGS BML 303 Sable Violins 1 Output st 1 Voices Mas 400 Purge 2 Midi Ch A 1 Memory 0 85 GB TRANSPORT RHYTHM COMPUTER OSTINATUM FRONT PANEL why let ALBION have all the fun We ve ported this over from the Albion range see page 19 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 LOAD SAVE Allows you to store your preciously made Ostinati 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 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 a section of the keyboard that control
30. 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 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 THE ALBION RANGE Before we leave you we just wanted to bring up use of the Albion range in conjunction with Sable For Sable and Albion are very much close cousins from the same family For those of you who dont know of own or use Albion this is a range of ensembles and tools designed to give composer big and bold sounding cinemtic instruments out of the box An excellent writing and mockup tool with a beautiful broad sound Sable is designed as an ultra detailed ultra fine set of tools and quite rightly won t work for every applica tion There will always be times you many need a bigger brush a spray can even This is where Albion comes in Having been recorded in exactly the way as Sable albeit
31. 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 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 t
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