Realivox Ladies pdf manual
Contents
1. the engine plays the sample a half step lower then pitch shifts it up a half step to keep it in tune This is useful not only to brighten darken a singer s timbre or make them sound younger older but it also enables us to double or triple a singer using different samples We ll get into more detail on that when we discuss the Voices buttons at the bottom as well as the Mixer page Poly Repeat Phrase Vowel i J Shaft Shif KEYSWITCHES Repeat Lets suppose you want to play a legato phrase but you need to play the same note twice in a row With legato you need to overlap but how can you overlap on the same note That s what this key is for Press the B2 key and it will repeat the last note you played Vowel This turns on Vowel legato explained below Phrase This turns on Phrase formerly called Consonant legato Poly Selects Polyphonic legato Legato Off To disable legato with keyswitches simply press any two of the keyswitches at the same time This will turn off all legato modes Shift There may be times where you prefer an alternate sample With this switch the adjacent lower sample is played and pitch shifted up a half step giving an alternate sample This is often called neighbor borrowing Shift Same thing but selects a sample from above and pitches it down Articulation Keyswitches All the other keyswitches are available for storing phrases which yo2. J Realivox Ladies cg Pim e j a _ _ U Documentation Realivox The Ladies nicnt Resource Container nkc M Resource Container nkr Samples o m gt b E Realivox Ladies gt No need to re register or Remove and Add Library Simply swap the nicnt file restart Kontakt and the artwork will change The Realivox Ladies nicnt files are identical except for the artwork Pitch Mod BE ETITI THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD To make this keyboard appear or disappear click the Keyb button at the top of the Kontakt interface Yellow Keys COto A1 These are the phrase keyswitches Red Key B1 is the repeat key which repeats whatever is the last note you played Teal greenish Keys These indicate which keys are using stretched samples for whichever singer is loaded into slot 1 the main singer Each singer has around a two and a half octave range but we figure you might want to play notes outside their natural ranges so we give you that ability We mark keys with the teal keys so you ll Know which ranges might sound less natural Blue Keys The natural range of the main singer Realivox Ladies Breaths e Tune Output st 1 ih Voices I 3 0 00 DO SSA Midi Ch A 1 co FO Exhales C1 Ab6 Inhales Pitch Mod I TINE REALIVOX BREATHS It can be helpful to add breaths in a vocal performance to add
3. Also note that Voice 1 cannot be turned off Timbre This selects what the tone is for each voice It s the same as Voice Shift on the Main Page Normal is normal Then there are 12 progressively brighter settings and 12 progressively darker settings If you re familiar with the concept of neighbor borrowing that s what this is For instance with Bright 1 the engine plays the sample a half step lower then pitch shifts it up a half step to keep it in tune This is useful not only to brighten darken a singer s timbre or make them sound younger older but it also enables us to double or triple a singer using different samples Singer Click on either the name or on the pictures to choose which singer Note that the microphone picture means no singer is selected Volume These control how loud a voice willbe You know volume Pan These knobs control the panning from left to right Offest Delay When you re stacking voices together you often don t want them to all play perfectly in time with each other so we include the delay offset Knobs so the timings can be more loose The delay times are in milliseconds Tune You can detune each voice up to 50 cents flat or sharp This will make ensembles sound more realistic Load Button Yes know already explained the Load button but I m describing it again because somebody is going to send me a tech support email asking how come they when they se
4. not enough room for a long phrase To clear a keyswitch press the little x symbol next to it Load Button Depending on the status of the instrument when you start when you select new articulations the samples for those articulations might not be loaded If not then click this button to load the samples required Note that the Load button also empties any unneeded samples Purge Button You may want to completely empty the memory The Purge button will do that However note that the Load button also empties all unneeded samples when it is pressed so the Purge button will usually be unnecessary Ladies Ladies All Tune Ap Output I lp Voices 0 Mas 128 0 00 LS t Midi Ch A 1 Memory 1 43 GB A 7 Attack Release settings for MENYE GRAPHICS Rubu ATTACKS RELEASES Vowel Attack 24 Vowel Release MA OCTAVE Mm Attack 20 Mm Release MA SHIFT Normal B Attack I D Attack I F Attack 5 VIBRATO 5 Bom Release N H Attack K Attack gt 6r La Attack 22 Legato Keyswitch La Legato 49 Behavior Speed Amp Pitch M Attack 20 R Attack 28 DELAY REVERB S Attack 30 Sh Attack 48 59 28 59 32 T Attack 5 W Attack 41 Time Amount Time Amount Y Attack 43 Main Page Mixer Articulations Settings THE SETTINGS PAGE Attacks and Releases With these sliders you can adjust the attack and release settings for various consonants and vowels For instance you can soften the b or
5. realistic Ladies Ladies All Ty Output st 1 v amp Voices O Mas 128 St Midi Ch A 1 Memory 1 43 GB ji ja D Poly Legato Release Window Poly Repeat i iy Phrase b hS La Vowel as i j ua Main Page Articulations Expression We intentionally disabled velocity with Realivox Why Because most people don t play very evenly so the volumes jump all over the place making Realivox sound bad You don t want Realivox to sound bad do you Me neither So we disabled velocity so that performances will be smooth But what if you want some notes to be quite or louder than others Well that s what the Expression knob is for Of course you won t want to be clicking on this knob with your mouse so you ll want to assign it to a controller like a foot pedal or mod wheel or slider on your keyboard Here s how you do it First right click on the Expression knob A menu will drop down and you will select Learn MIDI CC Automation Then jiggle the knob or footpads or whatever device you want to control Expression and Realivox will then always accept that controller for Expression If you change your mind later you can disable it be right clicking the Expression knob again and selecting Disable One thing keep in mind Expression is much more than just volume As you lower the knob it not only lowers the volume but we also incorporated some filteri
6. to the realism That s what this instrument is for There are 7 exhale breaths in the low octave then five and a half octaves of inhale breaths The lowest notes are long inhales the upper notes are short inhales OKAY NOW START SINGING Be sure to visit us at www realitone com for news and updates Happy singing
7. REALIVOX LADIES MANUAL Congratulations on your purchase of Realivox Ladies There are five different singers you can use by themselves or in combination with each other We ve tried to make this instrument as easy as possible to use so let s get started Ladies Ladies All Tune aren Output st 1 v i Voices O Mas 128 0 00 cSt Midi Ch A 1 Memory 1 43 GB v N eN Poly Legato Release Window Poly Repeat ts li Phrase Do ce Vowel i a Main Page Articulations THE MAIN PAGE Singer When you load Realivox the screen that opens is the Main Page Want to hear the different singers Simply click the button menu in the middle of the GUI under the word Singer Or you can click the picture and drag your mouse up and down Either way selects the singer Articulation Now to decide what articulation she should sing you can either click one of the words on the keyboard graphic to the left or you can click the space under the word Articulation and select from that menu You can also press one of the keyswitches on your keyboard We ll explain that a little later promise Timbre This determines the timbre of a singer Normal is normal Then there are 12 progressively brighter settings and 12 progressively darker settings If you re familiar with the concept of neighbor borrowing that s what this is For instance with Bright 1
8. So with this button which is on the Settings Page we give you the choice between the new graphics which we call Ruby or the original graphics 7 y Ladies Ladies All 4 gt e Tune AD Output st 1 wt Yoices OF Mas 128 Purge 0 00 ra Ai Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 1 43 GB M Kja Zirbicilahie nr A fA R E A Y X j i A he A Capraision Jn i a ae if A if i Pr 4 i a Slow Z Jinger Legato Poly Legato Julie Speed PONY Release Window tm Yimbre Normal KY rg i X i Main Page Articulations Settings If you have the Kontakt Player version of Realivox Ladies then the Ladies can appear in your sidebar Libraries tab You can also make the artwork of the Ladies Library entry match your chosen graphics KONTAKT KONTAKT Files Libraries Database Monitor odules Aute i Files Libraries Database Monitor Modules Auto C Add Library C Add Library Realiuox The Ladies Ta Fei Realivox The Ladies f7 REALIVOX LF or H Realivox adies Py Tie The Ladies Instruments Multis i Instruments Multis Realivox Blue Realivox Blue 4 o REALIVOX 4 _ REALIVOX y BLUE BLUE Instruments y Instruments To change the graphics in the Library tab simply switch the Realivox The Ladies nicnt file If you do not have the alternate nicnt file which is the nicnt file from before the Version 2 update just email us and we ll send it to you
9. any consonant sounds by using a longer attack Note that the vowels are all effected at the same time So if you create a longer attack for ah that same long attack will be applied to oo and the other vowels as well You can have these attack release changes apply to all singers or to just one singer by making the appropriate selection in the Attack Release Settings for menu Legato Keyswitch Mode Some people prefer for the legato keyswitches to be momentary rather than in latch mode These buttons Momentary and Latch do that Note that these only effect Vowel and Phrase legato modes The Poly legato keyswitch is always latch and does not have a momentary option Octave Shift Wish the Ladies could sing lower Then these switches are for you Vibrato Speed This controls how fast the vibrato will be Vibrato Amp Pitch Vocal vibrato contains both amplitude volume modulation as well as pitch modulation This knob determines how much of each Reverb Self explanatory although it s worth mentioning that the reverb is a simple algorithmic reverb as opposed to convolution so it uses very little CPU resources Delay Also pretty simple although note that the delay is not a sync delay It is designed to create a Space as opposed to sequenced effect Graphics In the original release of Realivox Ladies we had an anime look to our graphics Many people loved the look many hated the look
10. ings page Reverb A knob and switch for the reverb Reverb time can be set on the Settings page Voices Although there is a picture of only one singer on this page you have the option of adding more voices You can have this singer double or triple or quadruple herself Or you can stack other singers to create an ensemble These switches turn these other voices on and off To load these other voices you need to go to the Mixer page Just click the word Mixer towards the bottom right Ladies Ladies All Tune Output st 1 v Ib Voices O Max 0 00 DD cSt Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 1 43 GB v i ala BX ass EN as DOAOAAA Br 2 Dk 12 Dk 12 Dk 12 Dk 12 Main Page Articulations THE MIXER PAGE There are 10 channel strips here so you can have up to 10 singers at once Of course you can load more tracks of Realivox to have as many voices as you want Lets start at the bottom Load Button If you add a new singer that singer s samples might not yet be loaded So after you select a singer or multiple singers click this button to load the samples required Note that the Load button also empties any unneeded samples so if you disable a singer clicking this button will free up any memory that singer may have been using On Off Switches for each voice This turns each voice on Note that a singer needs to also be selected Otherwise you would be activating a singers voice
11. lected a singer they can t hear her singing well the reason is that that singer s samples might not yet be loaded So after you select a singer or multiple singers click this button to load the samples required Ladies Ladies All Tune yp Output st 1 i Voices O Max ian QR Midi Ch A 1 g Memory 1 43 GB Oh Wee Moh Way Press key to assign Reset Click X to clear Poly Phrase Vowel 3 Shaft Shift x x x x GEGE BEBE GEBE HEEE XXXXXXXXXXXXX x SEP ER E BEBB Empty Memory ETS Load Samples Articulations THE ARTICULATIONS PAGE This is the page where you can determine what articulations or phrases go onto each keyswitch The process is pretty simple First click the Reset button Then click on whatever articulation syllable you want If you want more than one syllable in your phrase then keep clicking until you have what you want A phrase can have up to 8 syllables You can also select an ending consonant f k m r s or sh The ending consonant ends the phrase In other words no new syllables can come after the ending consonant lf you make a mistake you can backspace using the lt button Or of course you can click the Reset button and start over When you have a syllable or phrase you like you can save it to a keyswitch by clicking on the key you want it saved to You will see the first few letters on the display Obviously there is
12. ng and EQ to make it sound more authentic at lower volumes Cool right However this is an artificial effect so if you re looking for the most natural sound you ll want to stay at 100 most of the time and lower it when needed as opposed to keeping it at a low setting Dynamics for B and D Sounds We disabled velocity for most articulation as just explained However for bah bee boh boo buh dah dee doh doo duh bom and boom we mapped softer samples for velocities 1 50 and harder samples for velocities 51 127 Attack Turning this up to higher values will make a sample start more slowly Note that it only applies to the first syllable of the selected articulation For instance if the articulation is Shoo Bee Doo then the attack knob only effects Shoo To change the attacks of Bee and Doo go to the Settings page Release Turning this up makes the sound decay more slowly after the key is released If the last syllable of the selected articulation ends in a vowel then all vowels will get the release setting Ifthe last syllable is Mm the Mm will get that release setting If the last syllable is Bom or Boom then Bom and Boom will get that release setting Like with Attack these can also be set on the Settings page Delay A knob and switch for the delay This delay is not a sync delay Instead it is more of an ambient effect Delay time can be set on the Sett
13. on Or suppose you play two notes You release them both and within 210 ms of releasing these notes you play fournew notes There will be legato transitions to all four of these notes with the software intelligently deciding which notes go to where Cool right Or suppose you play three notes but this time only release one of those notes playing a new note within 210 milliseconds There will be a legato transition to this new note as the other two notes keep sustaining Cool right The software does all this automatically Poly Legato Release Window Other polyphonic legatos make you set a whole bunch of parameters But our polyphonic legato only requires one knob the Poly Legato Release Window Simple Here s how it works When you play a note and then release it we delay that release by whatever this knob says If new notes get played within that time period we trigger the legato samples If no new notes get played we end the note 210 is short enough to be fairly unnoticeable but enough time so you can easily play new notes before the old ones shut off Legato Speed We sampled true legato intervals with Realivox but sometimes people want a slower legato This knob gives you that option First disable the True button Then experiment with what knob setting gives you the speed you want Note that this Know only works with Vowel legato True This button enables the true sampled legato samples This will sound the most
14. u can define on the Articulations page Simply press one of these keys either on your MIDI keyboard or by clicking this screen keyboard and that phrase articulation will be loaded Poly Legato Release Window LEGATO SECTION In the upper right you ll see three legato options Vowel With Vowel legato mode on then when you play overlapping notes the legato staying on that vowel For instance if the articulation selected is Doo then you will hear Doo 00 00 00 00 Note that in Vowel legato mode you can t pay chords Vowel legato is a monophonic mode Phrase In this mode the legato will move to the next syllable Or keep repeating the same syllable if the phrase has only one syllable Consonants will be heard in this mode So in this situation if the articulation selected is Doo then you will hear Doo doo doo doo doo Note that in Phrase legato mode you can t pay chords Like Vowel legato Phrase legato is a monophonic mode Poly Okay so what if want to have legato but still be able to play chords Poly legato to the rescue Our polyphonic legato works after you release a note then play a new note soon after Within the time set by the Poly Legato Release Window knob For example you play a note you release that note then you play a new note within 210 milliseconds the default setting of releasing the first note The notes will be played with a legato connecti
Download Pdf Manuals
Related Search