SC Conservatoire User Guide
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1. SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE The instrument chosen for our library was a copy of a harpsichord originally made by Paul Taskin in 1762 and later enlarged by Jean Goermanns in 1780 The original instrument is housed in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments and the copy used for the sample library was made by Michael Johnson in 1996 The original instrument is one of the most copied 18th century harpsichords Michael Johnson s copy is highly regarded as a faithful reproduction The instrument has two keyboard manuals and uses three sets of strings two at normal 8 foot pitch using pitch terminology from the organ world and one at 4 foot pitch an octave higher There is also a buff stop on one of the 8 foot sets of strings which by applying a small pad of soft leather to each string gives the notes a softer edge much like a lute 17m CENTURY FLEMISH HARPSICHORD www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE The instrument chosen for the collection was a copy of a harpsichord made by Johannes Ruckers made in 1637 The original housed in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments has one keyboard manual with two sets of 8 foot pitch strings and a buff stop The copy used for the sample library was made in 2000 by Michael Johnson ITT TTT Generally speaking 17thn century2. primarily an outdoor instrument was the timpani Used at first for ceremonial occasions with trumpets by the 18th century the timpani found a new home in the orchestra The drums are smaller compared to their modern counterparts they use calf skin drum heads and are tuned to different notes without the aid of pedals SUNIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE HURDY GURDY A typical hurdy gurdy of the mid Renaissance era featured three drones strings two melody strings and a further higher drone string used for rhythm The strings are of gut Due to the prominence of the Hurdy Gurdy tradition in France unbroken for centuries many instrument and performance terms are taken from the French The instrument used for the sample library is a copy of a sixteenth century original in the Gemeentemuseum The Hague and is typical of those of the late Renaissance The three drone strings are e G1 drone gros bourdon e C2 drone petit bourdon e G2 drone mouche The fourth string the rhythm drone is pitched at C3 This string Known as the trompette features a buzzing bridge chien literally dog which creates a harsh sound when the player increases pressure on the wheel Traditionally the player would play turn the wheel to the tempo of the music using his wrist to effect a rhythm whilst turning the wheel A small peg set in the instrument s tailpiece tyrant is used to control the sensitivity of the buzzi
3. harpsichords are smaller and significantly shorter than those of the 18tn century The compass of the instrument was less than later instruments and the bass register less resonant www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE PLUCKED STRINGS Among the first instruments ever designed constructed and discussed were those of the plucked strings family by simply tightening a string between two fixed points to produce a note we get a rudimentary harp or lyre both of these instruments are mentioned in Classical Greek writings and the Bible During the Renaissance and Baroque periods innovation in instrument making techniques gave rise to the lute and guitar families where strings were placed close to the body of the instrument to use a resonant sound box to amplify the sound and to enable the player to stop the strings One of the defining features of plucked stringed instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque period is the use of sets of strings or courses much like the 12 string guitar of today The two strings were sometimes tuned an octave apart giving the instruments a rich resonant sound when played www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE BAROQUE GUITAR A typical instrument has five courses of which either four or five were double strung making a total of nine or ten strings T
4. open fourth G1 C2 G2 layout the two Chanterelle strings which are tuned in unison at G3 And the Trompette string which is a higher C or can be Tuned Up to D The knobs to the left of each of these strings sets allow you to fine tune the volume of the string sets The Buzz Key coloured green allows you to trigger the chien buzzing bridge noise which is used for rhythmic accents in Hurdy Gurdy playing The Buzz Key is velocity sensitive The other keys are not generally velocity sensitive since the Hurdy Gurdy itself isn t although you can add velocity sensitivity to the Chanterelles if you like on the Options page By default the entire instrument is playing with a G C drone which makes it fine for certain keys but difficult to play in other keys On the Options page you can use the Transpose knob to move the entire instrument up or down in pitch if you want to tune it to other keys In the middle section of the page you have control over the Key Noise which is the clatter made by the wooden key mechanism that stops the Chanterelle strings at different notes There are also knobs for the Stereo Width Body and Brightness EQ and the Room reverb SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE SUPPORT lf you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product please feel free to contact us You can either email us at customerservices soniccouture com or we have a support foru
5. put down their modern instruments in favour of the historical precursors were laughed at by the classical elite Yet once tamed the sheer beauty of sound from these instruments won the hearts of concert goers the conservative musicians and the record buying public The historical instrument movement would not have been possible without the many ingenious instrument makers who patched up the old museum exhibits made copies of the originals and transformed the crumbling relics into living musical instruments The vast majority of today s period instrument performers play on accurate reproductions of original instruments This is a necessary compromise in order to preserve the few remaining originals for future generations With this in mind The Conservatoire Collection uses historical originals as well as modern reproductions made by the most sought after luthiers who remain faithful to the original Today many Conservatoires around the world train young musicians to play historical instruments and equip them with the knowledge of the style and techniques of the time to be able to bring the music of the great masters alive as they may have expected their music to sound Birmingham Conservatoire set up its Early Music Programme in 1991 and has led the field in introducing historical instruments and style to as many young musicians as possible for over 20 years SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE WORKING WITH REPRODUCTIO
6. N INSTRUMENTS j Most of the instruments in the collection are reproductions the originals are simply too old to be played This is not only because they are priceless artifacts but also because over time the materials have degenerated to such an extent that they no longer sound very good The reproduction instruments are generally exact copies of a specific original instrument materials and manufacturing processes are exactly duplicated according to the period of the original Through this painstaking manufacturing process the instrument builder can be sure that the sound is identical to how the original would have sounded in the 16th century www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE j 4 ON 5 E i a a 7 J a N o i N a ji I e mA A S l AN N ty s KEYBOARDS The modern acoustic piano is an instrument which has slowly developed through the last two hundred years arriving at the concert grand piano which we see today Many new inventions the clavichord harpsichord spinet virginals as well as the piano s immediate precursor the fortepiano were popular instruments in their day but which were superseded through unsuitability to the changing circumstances of music making The harpsichord family of keyboard instruments was widely used during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and used for all kinds of music making in c
7. SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE THE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION CONTENTS INSTALLATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION THE INSTRUMENTS THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS SUPPORT E U LA SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE INSTALLATION This Library requires Kontakt 4 2 3 or later If you do not own Kontakt you will need to download and install the free Kontakt player which you can do here Kontakt Player Download Link TO ADD THE LIBRARY AND AUTHORIZE IN KONTAKT 1 In Kontakt or Kontakt Player Standalone Mode Only open the Browser on the left the folder Icon at the top 2 In the Libraries tab at the top of the Browser go to Add Library 3 Click and use the dialogue window to navigate to and point Kontakt to the location of the The Conservatoire Collection gt Library folder This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the Service Center 4 If Kontakt asks you to Activate the library the NI Service Center program will launch and you will need your serial number to authorize Conservatoire If Kontakt doesn t ask you to authorize you can force it to by clicking the little Activate button in the upper right corner of our Conservatoire Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Service Center You will find your serial number in the email you were sent when you purchased If for some reason you haven t received this yet you can run your library in de
8. UIDE _ lt BRIGHT Pos BODY An EQ control for the low mid frequencies BRIGHT An EQ control for high frequencies ROOM Convolution reverb control Here you can select a suitable impulse response from the drop down menu The knob adjusts the send level to the reverb processor To switch reverb OFF click the ROOM button itself INSTRUMENT SPECIFIC CONTROLS ATTACK amp FRET RELEASE English Theorbo Theorbo ATTACK A This gives you control of the overall attack time of the notes as well as seperate control of the release time of the frets and the diapazon This enables you to set different release responses if desired This knob gives you control over where on the fretboard the note will be played Either 4 or 5 positions depending on the instrument In general a passage played in the higher register would be played in a higher hand position and vice versa SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE ARTICULATION Baroque Timpani Here you can select different playing styles for the drums as well as changing the type ARTICULATION of beater used The Keyswitches can be specified on the options page Note that all the timpani hits are double 2 octaves apart to facilitate playing with two hands STRING SETS Harpsichords These are the switches for the various EP a a string sets or stops STRING SETS SAA U 18th Century Frenc
9. f players meant it was not loud enough The tuning of the theorbo is characterized by the octave displacement or re entrant tuning of the uppermost of the uppermost strings thus limiting the upper range of the instrument The courses unlike those of a Renaissance lute or archlute were often single though double stringing was used too Typically theorbos have 14 courses The instrument used for the sample library is a single strung 14 course instrument made by Martin Haycock in 2005 after various seventeenth century Italian originals SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE ENGLISH THEORBO Although there are no surviving original instruments there are several descriptions illustrations and paintings of English theorbos dating from the mid seventeenth century The instrument used for the library was made by Klaus Jacobson in 2005 The English theorbo has much in common with the small 12 course lute from which it developed but it takes elements of the larger Italian theorbo such as the deep body It has 7 stopped courses all double strung and 6 bass courses also all double strung and tuned in octaves It is tuned in G with one re entrant course G2 D8 A2 F2 C2 G1 F E1 D1 C1 B A G The stopped string length is around 80cm and the basses increase gradually in length to 135cm It has therefore a smoother transition in sound between the stopped courses and the lower diapason strings without
10. h Harpsichord 4 registers elower manual 8 eupper manual 8 o4 e8 lower manual buff stop a ae STRING SETS NAA A 2 17th Century Flemish Harpsichord 3 registers 08 e8 Il e8 buff stop SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE THE HURDY GURDY INSTRUMENT TROMPETTE Conoert Hall AAR TAE TEIHEA TIETEN Because there are quite few different controls and because it is perhaps not the most intuitive instrument to translate to a sampled format this instrument requires it s own section The first thing to notice is that nothing happens until you turn the Hurdy Gurdy On with the Play Key C3 by default This sets the wheel turning and any strings that are on will sound You start and stop the instrument with this key The Chanterelles or melody strings are played in the area of the keyboard coloured blue G3 D5 Note that whenever you release a Chanterelle key it returns to it s original open string pitch and keeps sounding Playing the notes against the open string is typical in Hurdy Gurdy technique since the www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE open string is in tune with the drone strings and Hurdy Gurdy s are diatonic instruments ie they play in just one key at a time On the right you can turn on or off any of 6 strings 3 Drone strings tuned in an
11. he strings were of gut The instrument recorded for the sample library is in the French style This five course instrument is a copy of various seventeenth century originals made by Martin Haycock The stringing of the instrument is unusual the five courses correspond with the top strings of modern guitars but they are double strung apart from the top E The D course features two strings pitched an octave apart E3 B2 G2 D3 2 A2 During the early seventeenth century the guitar was primarily used as an accompanying instrument playing for dances or accompanying singers The main playing technique was strumming rasgueado in Spanish and battute or battuto in Italian which took advantage of the doubling stringing to achieve a loud and resonant sound The chords were usually notated by a system called alfabeto where capital letters were used to indicate chord positions very similar to modern guitar tabs SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE THEORBO This late Renaissance development was the ultimate accompanying instrument of the time by adding an extension to the neck thick strings giving low notes were placed alongside the conventional lute meaning a player could play a bass line and give the rhythm The bass strings typically 6 have their own peg box This essential design of instrument proved to be long lasting and it only fell out of favour with performers and composers when the use of ever larger groups o
12. hurch in the court or as a home instrument Indeed most music written during this time was conceived for performance with a keyboard instrument or some other chord instrument accompanying voices and instruments It is the instrument which gives Baroque music its www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE distinctive characteristic sound and instantly places the listener into that sound world Just as a piano might fall into the category of percussion because hammers strike each string a harpsichord might be described as a plucked stringed instrument The sound is produced when a small plectrum attached to a wooden jack plucks each string The keys of the instrument are simple levers at the end of which the jacks rest and so are pushed up when the player depresses the key This simple mechanism or action relies on the weight of the jack to bring the plectrum back down again a simple needle spring stops the strings from being plucked when the key is released and a small cloth damper ensures that the sound from the string stops when the key is released It is thought that the first keyboard instruments using this action were made during the 14th century in Italy Various sizes and shapes of instrument were constructed during the Renaissance and Baroque periods 181 CENTURY FRENCH HARPSICHORD www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com
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15. mo mode until it arrives N B After authorization you should restart Kontakt SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE ABOUT THE COLLECTION EARLY MUSIC amp THE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE FOREWORD BY MARTIN PERKINS Martin Perkins is Early Music Lecturer amp Instrument Curator at Birmingham Conservatoire and was consultant producer for the Conservatoire Collection project Birmingham Conservatoire was founded at the end of the nineteenth century and quickly established itself among the country s leading institutions training generations of young musicians Soon after its inception the Conservatoire established a collection of historical musical instruments receiving antique and rare instruments from benefactors and collectors For much of their life in the Collection these instruments served the staff and students as mere illustrations of music making in a forgotten age But the www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE middle of the last century witnessed a revolution in music making in the classical world as musicians all over Europe quietly plundered the museum cabinets to see for themselves just what these old instruments sounded like Thus began the movement which has variously been called period performance authenticity historically informed or just plain early music The pioneers 60 years ago who
16. ng bridge The last two strings chanterelle s are the melody strings SONIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE stopped with tangents attached to keys activated by the player s left hand This gives the player the ability to play diatonic melodies in C The nature of the hurdy gurdy is one of an all in one melody harmony and rhythm instrument Even without the player consciously playing rhythmically and playing without the melody strings chanterelles or the buzzing trompette ill 7 F drone there is a natural rhythmic fluctuations with each cycle of the wheel To give users of the sample library more functionality we sampled each drone and each combination of drones string separately both with as little fluctuation of the wheel as possible and with the player playing normally in a tempo of 130 bpm The drone strings work best when used together due to the sympathetic resonances produced www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS OVERVIEW In general all the Conservatoire Collection instruments share the same basic structure OPTIONS TAB 05 Baroque Guitar li ru i 4 4 ie N RESPONSI curvi es 2 Ss a TUNING MAND POSITION c MOCC 3 Here you will find instrument specific setup controls not every instrument will have all the following controls only
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18. the change of timbre which characterise the Italian theorbo SUNIC SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE PSALTERY The Psaltery is one of the oldest of all musical instruments mentioned in the Bible and in numerous ancient Greek texts It is a diatonic instrument used to play chords or melodies It is played by plucking the strings with quills one in each hand As the notes are not stopped by the player the long decay time give this instrument an ethereal quality SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE PERCUSSION NAKERS A naker is a small drum of Arabic origin with a metal or wood dome shaped body and animal skin drum head Played in pairs nakers made their way to Europe at the time of the Crusades in the thirteenth century These were small and therefore portable but capable of great dynamic contrast so were used both indoors and for outside music making The two drums were not set to a specific pitch unlike the later typical pair of timpani or kettle drums The instruments used for the collection were copies of the pair in the Montagu collection SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE RENAISSANCE SIDE DRUM This is a medium large drum with a long shell and skins at either end held in place by wooden rings The skins can be tightened and on the lower skin there is a snare mechanism made from two gut strings 18TH CENTURY TIMPANI The successor to the nakers
19. those that are relevant VELOCITY The main knob allows you to adjust the velocity gt volume response if the instrument you can also adjust the curve to suit your playing style controller TUNING The main knob allows you to adjust the root note of the scale Below this you can select specific tunings from a drop down menu www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER GUIDE HAND POSITION This features on the plucked string instruments This allows you to assign a MIDI controller to automate the left HAND POSITION control knob on the instrument tab KEYSWITCHES Here you can specify which key activates an articulation switch if the instrument features any TRANSPOSE Transposes the pitch of the instrument up or downwards INSTRUMENT TAB Y Concert Hal wctrgmert This Tab contains the main controls for each instrument On the right hand side of the interface you will find instrument specific controls if there are any in the centre panel you will find general controls which appear on all the instruments WIDTH This adjusts the stereo width of the samples hard left is mono 120 clock is the natural stereo of the recording KEY OFF Not available for every instrument this controls the volume level of the key release samples www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE CONSERVATOIRE COLLECTION USER G
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