SC Konkrete User Guide Combined
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1. KONSI c Tz USER GUIDE 4 SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE CONTENTS INSTALLATION ADD ON PACKS INSTALLATION INTRODUCTION USING KONKRETE THE INSTRUMENT PANEL GLITCH MACHINE THE MIXER PANEL THE BEAT SHIFTER SUPPORT E U L A SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE INSTALLATION This library requires Kontakt 5 1 or later If you do not own Kontakt 5 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 open the Browser on the left the folder Icon at the top KONTAKT Browse 2 In the Libraries tab at the top of the Browser go to Add Library Libraries Database M C Add Library Instr Nau 3 Click and use the dialogue window to navigate to and point Kontakt to the location of the Soniccouture Konkrete gt Library folder see picture on next page This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the Service Center www soniccouture com email Support soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE wa mv l Bilibaw QO J Documentation r CT Instruments r CT Maschine Presets Konkrete nicnt J Samples r 7 Beat Shifter Patterns r Library 4 If Kontakt asks you to Activate the library the NI Service Center program will launch and you will need your serial number t2. SONICCOUTUrE Ki EDIT KEY SELECT BY MIDI EDITALLKEVS SOLO LAST NOTE EPEE LATCH ON OFF RANDOMISE MODCC g v TRIGGER _ coMPRESSOR THRESH ATTACK e e Beat Shifter Selecting the Instrument tab above gives access to the main editing controls of Konkrete This is where you can adjust the sound of each drum within a kit There are a lot of controls available so well look at each section independently starting from the top left WWW soniccouture com email support Osoniccouture com SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE SAMPLE SECTION Here you ll find the sample selection and display and some editing options EDIT KEY B SELECT BY MIDI IR EDIT ALL KEYS E SOLO LAST NOTE Focus MAP D1 BASS KICK 1 i Reser Beside the waveform display the blue area shows you the current Edit mode and the MIDI Note and Name of the currently selected sample The Note and Name of the sample is a drop down menu which you can use to change the current selection Or if SELECT BY MIDI is turned on the last note played will be displayed and selected for editing On the right of this section you have some other options SELECT BY MIDI can be turned on or off as needed EDIT ALL KEYS will change the edit mode so that when you make a change on the panel it affects ALL the sounds in the drum kit This is handy if you want to say set the velocity response
3. SUPPORI If 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 support soniccouture com or we have a support forum within the KVR Audio community which can be found here Soniccouture Support Forum We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry within 12 hours but do bear in mind the differences in time zones so please be patient SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE E U L A END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT PREFACE This End User License Agreement EULA is a legal agreement between you and Soniccouture LTD for the Soniccouture product accompanying this EULA which includes computer software and may include associated media printed materials and online or electronic documentation Software By installing copying or using the software you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA you may not use the software The software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties The software is licensed not sold Soniccouture Ltd grants the Owner of a Soniccouture product the right to create finished musical works and performances using the sounds and software that comprise the Soniccouture product The making of sample libraries in anv form commercial or otherwise using Soniccouture audio or software be thev sin
4. FTS it moves your programmed beat to other positions on the grid thus altering and evolving the beat based on what you started with The STEP SIZE tells the generator how far to shift if a shift is to happen If STEP is set to 1 then a note can only shift one grid position at a time If it s set to 2 then if a note shifts it will shift two grid positions etc Note that if you set STEP SIZE to even numbers your beat will evolve in more naturally rhythmic ways than if you set STEP SIZE to odd numbers The DIRECTION tells the generator in which direction to shift the beats if a beat is to be shifted When it s in the middle default the chance of a hit moving to the left or to the right ie earlier or later in the bar is equal so beats can move in either direction If the DIRECTION is set all the way to the right then beats will ONLY move to the right later and if set all the way to the left beats will only move to the left Note that hits will wrap from the end of the bar to the beginning or from the beginning to the end if moved beyond the beat LENGTH The last fader VEL introduces random alterations to the velocity of each hit This is in addition to the velocity set by the table The last menu for pattern number 6 has one extra item available after all the drum hits GLITCH TRIGGER GLITCH TRIGGER Lus jA ENERGIE NEN IO NN NTC TUNE o W TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL This row is then used to trigger
5. Glitch Machine instead of triggering a kev Only row 6 has this option And note that if you use BEAT MACHINE to trigger Glitch Machine it s best if Glitch Machine is NOT in LATCH mode You can use it in LATCH mode if you want to of course but the results are far less predictable than when in LATCH SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE At the bottom of the BEAT SHIFTER there are some overall controls ACTIVE LATCH W W FReeze Revert SAVEPATTERN Host AO Y ire IMI LOAD PATTERN These switches are as follows ACTIVE LATCH FREEZE REVERT STORE SAVE LOAD HOST LENGTH SPEED duplicates the main ON OFF control of BEAT SHIFTER if triggering BEAT SHIFTER with MIDI this lets you choose Latched or Unlatched behaviour sets all TRAVEL to zero ie freezes the pattern as it is stops it evolving This is nice if you suddenly hear a pattern you like The FREEZE Key below FREEZE allows you to assign a MIDI note to activate FREEZE remotely sets the pattern to how it was the last time you hit STORE stores the current state of the pattern saves the pattern to disk so you can share it with other kits loads a pattern from disk There are two ways to load a pattern If you LOAD with ALT Option held down the pattern will load WITHOUT changing the notes assigned to each row This is useful if you want to try other patterns using the sounds you have already set up If HOST is selected then t
6. N INSERT 3 G SERIES EQ or LOW PASS FILTER 24 INSERT 4 LIMITER or CABINET EMULATION SUNIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE When activated click in the insert block area to bring up the edit knobs in the upper section above the mixer channels OUTPUT ROUTING Below each fader there is a drop down where vou can select which of Kontakt s VST outputs you want to route the audio too The Output at the bottom is set to Default bv default which means the output of the bus will be the same output as that set in the instrument itself ie the output chosen underneath the title of the kit on the main instrument bar All available virtual outputs will show in this menu if vou need more outputs configure this in Kontakt s options menu CHANNEL CONTROLS MUTE SOLO AND PAN are available to each channel SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE BEAT SHIFTER Ghost Kit 3 a A 1 SONICCOUTUrE TU c Iz BEAT SHIFTER Cere sn E um u IK e e TUNE LEVEL TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL B1 SNAREA ira sn TO oe e e TUNE LEVEL TRAVEL STEP SIZE B DIRECTION VEL F 1 HAT 1 i yere sn Po ee e e TUNE LEVEL TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL J Deere Doo TT oe TUNE LEVEL TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION GLITCH TRIGGER mure _ soto TUNE LEVEL Neg a SPEEL W TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL acTivE Freeze ReveRT SAVEPATTERN Host LATCH ao Y E STORE L
7. OAD PATTERN Beat Shifter Instrument The Beat Shifter is selected with the leftmost tab This is a generative drum sequencer with some unique features The Beat Shifter is turned ON with the blue switch at the top left by it s name and PLAY is enabled with the transport control at the bottom right There are six tracks that have identical controls Firstly using the drop down menu on the left you can choose which sound in the current kit you want to trigger with that row here set to C 1 KICK 2 The table allows you to draw notes at varying velocities which will be triggered by the cursor as it moves across the screen On the far right you can adjust the TUNE and LEVEL of that sound On the left you can also SOLO or MUTE that track if you like So far pretty straight step sequencer Where things get interesting are with the four small sliders along the bottom of the track which are labelled TRAVEL STEP SIZE DIRECTION and VEL These introduce changes to the pattern when it s repeating juture com email supp SUNIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE ITE oa 2 2 96 TRAVEL E STEP SIZE DIRECTION VEL TRAVEL controls the chance of travel or likelihood of any hit in that pattern moving When it s at zero all the wav left the pattern hits stav exactiv as you drew it The further right or higher the chance of TRAVEL the more likely it is that each hit will shift when it repeats When the pattern SHI
8. ater THE EFFECTS SECTION IO EFFECTS DELAY 1 DELAY 2 91 9 a Here you can set the sends for each drum there are two reverb sends SPACE 1 and SPACE 2 and two delay sends DELAY 1 and DELAY 2 The EFFECTS block must be turned ON for any drum to send to those effects using the blue switch at the top left You can modulate the first three sends with Velocity The EFFECTS themselves are set up on the Mixer page ROUTING Finally you can route each drum to any of the four busses On the Mixer page each BUS has a selection of insert effects available and can then routed to any of Kontakts virtual outputs SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE MIXER PANEL Leipzig Kit s e Tune Output st 1 Voices O jH 32 Purge 0 00 C3 Midi Ch A 1 emoru 2 84 MB ala dx SONICCOUTUFE KINS ETZ IM sPACE 1 MIXER esi CCC SIZE DELAY Ses ETCTSSI NE IEEE Bosco z MI IEEE G EOQ xd G EQ har G EQ v G EO T ma a em 13 IM DELAY 2 EZTAI u TIME DAMP F BACK TEMI Beat Shifter Instrument Selecting the Mixer tab displays the four bus mixer within Konkrete You can use this page to setup both send effects and insert effects as well as route the Kontakt outputs if you want to mix in your host software 1 SEND EFFECT MODULES SPACE 1 and SPACE 2 SPACE 1 SIZE DELAY e e The two SPACE processors are convolution based e
9. electing BROWSE on the Maschine hardware selecting Instrument with the FILTER knob with BANK Konkrete and then selecting Konkrete 1 2 or 3 kits from the TYPE sub menu All the Konkrete kits are visible on Maschine s right hand LCD screen and can be loaded by pressing the LOAD button on the top right hand side of Maschine SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE INIRODUCTION ri h E qe AL BF Konkrete is the latest evolution of a product line that dates back to the early days of Soniccouture Conceived as a collection of drum kits which would offer new drum and percussion sounds Konkrete 1 2006 was very successful and its sounds went on to become well loved by its users Konkrete 2 followed in 2007 and was equally popular Now a sophisticated new Kontakt instrument has been created and 41 new kits A huge range of audio experimentation has gone into their creation Sledgehammers Buchla synths childrens playgrounds broken soviet drum machines chinese zithers circuit bent samplers and a 9ft grand piano to name a few WWW soniccouture com email supportQQsoniccouture com SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE USING KONKRETE Note that you can hover your mouse over any control in Konkrete to get Info about its function if you have the Kontakt Info pane activated THE INSTRUMENT PANEL Leipzig Kit s e Tune Output st 1 I Voice O Ma 32 0 00 iCh A 1 g Memory 2 84 MB
10. f the faders have a yellow V or purple L at the bottom this is a switch to allow you to view either the Velocity modulation depth or the LFO depth if both are available for that parameter The START time for example cannot be modulated by the LFO so there is only the Velocity modulation fader available for start time THE LOFI CONTROLS IO Lo Fi On the left of the second row the first block is for the LOFI effect The blue switch at the top of the block turns this on or off for each drum sound You have control over the SAMPLE RATE and the BITS Depth for each sound and can modulate either of these with both Velocity and the LFO SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE FILTER CONTROLS IO FILTER The next block contains the filter controls which can also be turned on or off with the blue switch at the top of the block There is a knob for CUTOFF and RESONANCE both of which can be modulated by Velocity and the LFO You can change the filter type using the switches at the right of the filter block in which there is a choice of Low Pass Filter LPF Band Pass Filter BPF and High Pass Filter HPF THE ENVELOPE AND LFO CONTROLS gogog On the right of the second row is the ENVELOPE and LFO block This section contains controls for three envelopes AMPlitude Filter FEG and PITCH envelope as well as the LFO controls You can choose which controls you re seeing with the switches at the far
11. ffects that feature a wide variety of different impulse response types METALTAIL WWW soniccouture com email supportOsoniccouture com SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE SPACE 1 features effects that are mainly textural designed to add a different timbral edge to the drum sounds SPACE 2 features more conventional reverb effects and some longer special fx type reverb tails By activating each of the 3 buttons in the side panel you can control the following SPACE parameters SIZE PREDELAY HPF LPF OUTPUT DELAY MODULES There are two delay modules these are fairly standard delay lines as you will have found in many other audio tools over your years of experience You have control over TIME DAMPING PANNING amp the OUTPUT level You can switch SYNC on or off using the dropdown when on the delay Will sync to the tempo of your host DAW SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE MIXER MODULE MIXER EDIT INSERT 1 TRANSIENT eee 6 LIMITEH BUS 1 Default BUS 2 Default BUS 3 Default BUS 4 Default OUTPUT n LIMITER LLI e UU M 5 e PAN PAN The MIXER is a fully featured 4 channel stereo mixer with 4 inserts per channel INSERTS Each insert block can feature one from a choice of two different effects Each block has different effects available to it INSERT 1 BUS COMPRESSOR or TRANSIENT MASTER INSERT 2 TAPE SATURATION or DISTORTIO
12. gle hits loops fullv mixed audio clips or scripts is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN without express written agreement of Soniccouture Ltd and violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of international and local copyright law The ownership of all title and copyrights in and to the Software including but not limited to any images photographs animations video audio music text and applets incorporated into the Software is fully asserted by Soniccouture Ltd The Owner may only install and use Soniccouture libraries and software on multiple computers strictly under the following conditions where multiple computers comprise part of a single composition workstation for a composer or where the Owner has two non concurrent sites of work for example a studio desktop and a laptop for live performance The Owner may not transfer modify rent lease loan resell distribute network electronically transmit or merge the Software SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY The software is provided as is and without warranty of any kind The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the software and documentation remains with user To the maximum extent permitted bv applicable law Soniccouture further disclaims all warranties either express or implied including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantabilitv and fitness for a particular purpose with regard to the software and any accompan
13. he start and stop of BEAT SHIFTER will chase the transport of a host sequencer Also if HOST is active you can play notes on the kit while BEAT SHIFTER is on You really only need HOST OFF if you want to program the start and stop of BEAT SHIFTER with MIDI the length of the sequence in steps the duration of each step SUNIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE RECORDING THE MIDI OUTPUT OF THE BEAT SHIFTER If you would like to record the beats coming out of Konkrete for further tweaking or composition in your DAW then this is how to do it 1 In Kontakts options screen go to engine send MIDI to outside world Default Volume for new instrument and volume reset Engine disabled CPU overload protection by killing voices NOTE the amount of max playable voices may decrease substantially if this option is set Multiprocessor support Standalone choose options Send MIDI to outside world GUI keyboard e Interpolation Quality for mixdouwn script generated notes incoming CC s incoming notes 2 Choose Script generated ccs and script generated notes 3 Create a new MIDI track in your DAW 4 Select Kontakt 5 as its MIDI input source 5 Hit play on the Beat Shifter and record in your DAW and you should be recording the Beat Shifter MIDI Hefer to your DAW manual for more details on setting up MIDI channels etc WWW soniccouture com email supportOsoniccouture com SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE
14. o authorize Konkrete You can find your serial number in your Soniccouture account next to the product download 000 Service Center Activate If Kontakt doesn t ask you to authorize you can force it to by clicking the little Activate button in the upper right Activate corner of our Konkrete Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Service Center SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE After Authorization vou should restart Kontakt If you experience any problems you will probably find the answer on our FAQ page INSTALLING KONKRETE MASCHINE KITS NOTE VOU NEED TO HAVE THE KONTAKT KONTAKT PLAVER INSTALLED AND AUTHORISED FIRST FOR THE MASCHINE KITS TO WORK 1 Make sure Maschine and Kontakt are not currentiv open and that Konkrete has already been successfully authorised in Kontakt 2 Navigate to folder Soniccouture Konkrete Maschine Presets Plugins 3 Copy the relevant kit folders named either K1 Kits K2 Kits or Konkrete Kits to the following location on your hard drive MAC Documents Native Instruments Maschine Modules Instruments Plugins PC My Documents Native Instruments Maschine Modules Instruments Plugins 3 Launch Maschine and go to the Maschine Preferences select the User Paths tab and click rescan The Konkrete kits should now be available in the browser under Plug ins The kits can also be accessed by s
15. right In the AMP envelope you have controls for ATTACK HOLD DECAY SUSTAIN and RELEASE The depth of the AMP envelope is always maximum The FEG and PITCH EG has controls for ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE and DEPTH The depth of these second two envelopes can be either positive or negative Some of the Envelope parameters have Velocitv modulation available SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE eleelea The LFO panel displays the controls for the amount of each waveform making up the LFO signal You can mix some SINE and some SAW together for example The last knob in this row controls the speed or RATE of the LFO As with all controls on the Instrument panel parameters can be set individually for each drum sound SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE GLITCH MACHINE IO GLITCH GLOBAL TRIGGER MOD ra MOD SETTINGS e LATCH ON OFF RANDOMISE MOD Of TRIGGER The Glitch Machine is a generator for creating drills or glitches with any drum sound The Glitch Machine is controlled by a GLOBAL TRIGGER which can be switched ON or OFF either by clicking on the title bar of the GLITCH block or by using the MIDI key defined in the TRIGGER box at the bottom right of the block set to BO by default When Glitch Machine is ACTIVE the blue GLOBAL TRIGGER label lights up and any notes that have GLITCH turned on will respond to it Not all notes need to respond to the Glitch Machine at the same
16. time only notes that have the blue switch turned on at the top left will in fact drill So to clarify the small blue switch at the top left means the drum will respond to glitch machine the large blue GLOBAL TRIGGER shows whether glitch is currently on or off The main controls for the glitch or drill are SPEED DECAY SLIDE and MODULATION As you might guess the SPEED sets the basic speed of the drill the DECAY controls whether it decays in volume the SLIDE introduces a pitch change and the MODULATION lets you adjust all of those things in real time using a controller set on the right as MOD CC by default set to CC1 the Mod Wheel If you click on MOD SETTINGS on the right you can adjust how the MOD CC affects the drill created by Glitch Machine here you ll find four depth controls SPEED PITCH START and VELOCITY So as you bring the MOD CC controller up the SPEED PITCH START TIME and VELOCITY of the drill can be changed while in progress You can also set some randomization to the drill by selecting the RANDOMISE button on the right SONIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE One important setting to understand is the LATCH controller which is the middle button on the right of the Glitch block This affects how the Glitch Machine Global Switch responds to the TRIGGER key it s assigned to B1 If Latch is ON you hit the TRIGGER once to make Glitch active and again to turn it off If Latch is OFF Glitch Machine is ac
17. tive while the TRIGGER key is held down This is partly a matter of personal preference when programming the Glitch Machine in a sequencer but for use with the Beat Machine later on in this guide we ll see it s best turned OFF GLITCH may take a bit of time to understand Try to remember that there is a global switch for the entire kit that activates the Glitch Machine a switch for each drum in the kit to tell it to respond to the global switch and a Modulation that can adjust the glitch in real time while it s active THE EQ SECTION elejo 1 The EQ section gives you access to a three band parametric EQ for each drum sound You select the band on the right and can adjust the FREQuency GAIN and Q of each EQ band The entire block is turned on or off with the blue switch at the top left of the block You can modulate the HIGH band s frequency and gain with velocity SUNIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE COMPRESSOR SECTION IO COMPRESSOR ew ee The Compressor can be turned on or off for any drum in the kit You have control over the THRESHold ATTACK RELease and GAIN of the compressor with the knobs and the ratio with the switches at the right of the block Keep in mind that this compressor works on a single drum oniv if vou want to compress an entire beat or a selection of drums such as a high hat pattern vou should route these to the same BUS and use a compressor on the Mixer page which we ll talk about l
18. to all the sounds identically or else route all sounds to a single bus output etc It can also be slightly dangerous so be careful using EDIT ALL KEYS SOLO LAST NOTE puts the current selection into Solo mode so you don t hear any other sounds while you re editing that sound You can use this to better hear the edits you make to one element within a complex drum beat FOCUS MAP is a special mode in which the selected sample is stretched to cover the entire keyboard You can use this to quickly make any drum sound into a bass line for example RESET will reset the currently selected sample to it s default settings If EDIT ALL KEYS is ON then RESET will reset ALL keys to their default setting so this is quite a powerful tool to be used with caution SUNIC SONICCOUTURE KONKRETE USER GUIDE THE MAIN CONTROLS On the right of the top row we have the basic settings for each drum These include LEVEL PAN PITCH START TIME and SATURATION LEVEL m START SAT Note the small fader to the right of each of these knobs this is the modulation depth of either the Velocity or the LFO When it s in the middle there is no modulation applied to that parameter When it s at the top there is maximum positive modulation and when its at the bottom there is maximum negative modulation Note that vou can reset a single knob or fader to it s init value bv Command Clicking on the control CTRL Click in Windows You ll see some o
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