SC Broken Wurli User Guide
Contents
1. SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE SONICCOUTURE BROKEN WURLI CONTENTS INSTALLATION SAMPLING THE BROKEN WURLI THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT THE PRESETS SUPPORT E U LA SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE INSTALLATION 1 Unzip the download file OR copy the SC Broken Wurli folder from the DVD Put this somewhere safe on your system C drive or main Macintosh Hard Drive You can move the library folder to a separate HD after you have authorized it If you do not own Kontakt 4 or 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 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 Broken Wurli Library folder inside the main 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 Broken Wurli 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 Broken Wurli Library logo in the Browser Libraries list It will then prompt you to launch the Servi2. of sampled output noise for the instrument Note that this only triggers once and stays active while notes are being played The release time of the noise can be adjusted on the options page The level of the noise can be adjusted unnaturally high for use with sound design style sounds THE OPTIONS PANEL Broken Wurli gt o pune Output st 1 7 Voices 9 lax y 0 00 inns a iv 5 B Midi Ch A 1 NOISE EG oe il 7 Options Instrument Effects Pitch Mod a TIETEET T This panel contains various options for setting up the Wurli KEY OFF LEVEL Adjusts the level of the key release note off samples NOISE EG RELEASE Adjusts the amount of the time the background noise continues after the note has finished www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE VELOCITY SETUP Here you can adjust both the SENSITIVITY of the volume response and the CURVE the graphic display shows the relative volume of each of the 127 velocity steps as you turn the knob lf you prefer to hear more of the louder samples without playing very hard turn the knob to the right On the other hand if you like to hear more of the soft samples and only the hard ones if you really hammer the keyboard then turn the knob to the left MEMORY MANAGEMENT Because Broken Wurli uses a large number of samples it is quite RAM memory hungry If your system is low on RAM o
3. IALS These 3 large dials control each channel of the Wurli set the levels for the broken speaker line out and the good speaker here www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE EDIT PANEL Clicking the small EDIT text in the centre of the screen will reveal some extra controls As shown in the above screengrab a PAN and HPF high pass filter knob is revealed for each Wurli channel The knobs can be hidden again by clicking Close TREMOLO FILTER ENVELOPE AND NOISE At the bottom of the panel are the reaming controls TREMOLO This matches the vibrato setting of the Wurlitzer 200A adjusting the depth of a sine shaped LFO which modulates the volume of the instrument FILTER A 12db lowpass filter with resonance RES envelope depth FEG and velocity sensitivity VEL The filter is always on simply turn the FREQ knob fully clockwise to bypass its effect ENVELOPE Adjusts the amplitude envelope of the sound AT Attack how quickly the sound begins DEC Decay how quickly the sound decays to its sustain elevel SUS Sustain the level at which the sound will sustain when a key is held REL Release the amount of time the sound will continue after the key is released FEG Switch switches from the Amp EG to a modulation envelope for the filter SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE NOISE Adjusts the level
4. SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli 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 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 Broken Wurli 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 any form commercial or otherwise us
5. air of vintage 1970s AKG 414s one on each speaker to record the warmth and low end Then an SM57 for that dynamic mic sound and finally we settled on a Sennheiser e600 series dynamic mic for a further contrasting character A DPA 4000 series omni was also recorded but not used in the final mixdown The mics were paired with some esoteric 1970s preamps by Neumann and Siemens The line out signal was also recorded simultaneously giving 3 distinct sounding channels for the Wurlitzer This flexibility of sound combined with the 3 round robin alternate sample layers and the 9 velocity layers make this the most solid realistic sounding sampled electric piano we ve ever heard www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE BROKEN WURLI LIBRARY SPECS 24 Bit 44 1khz mono sampling 8 5 GB core library 4 GB with NCW compression 8 192 samples 3 round robin layers 9 velocity layers Release samples Shiny metal knobs SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS Note that you can hover your mouse over any control on the 3 Broken Wurli panels to get Info about its function if you have the Kontakt Info pane activated THE INSTRUMENT PANEL FILTER al j l G 6 G en dn dn Cy an Options Instrument Effects Pitch Mod ahaaa gE Selecting the Instrument tab above gives access to the main controls of the Broken Wurli MAIN D
6. ce 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 demo mode until it arrives N B After authorization you should restart Kontakt SONIC SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE SAMPLING THE BROKEN WURLI Why did we sample a Broken Wurlitzer 200A electric piano Well we were asking around producers we know to see if anyone had any junky but cool sounding old keyboards Neil Davidge producer for Massive Attack said erm have an old Wurlizer piano with a dodgy distorting speaker that sounds great So we borrowed it and he was right it did sound really great The left hand speaker just breaks up and sounds absolutely savage while the right hand speaker does the expected clean but lo fi sound We wanted to sample it although realising that sampling would never capture the full effect of a large number of notes all building up in the speaker distortion at once So we conducted some experiments with just recording single notes with a microphone and it still sounded very cool giving the iconic Wurlizter tone some real drive and bite www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE as AZ Se is VERE Oey NA B a To make sure the full glory of the speaker distortion was fully captured 4 different mics were used in the studio A p
7. ct is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click To synchronise the RATE to the BPM of your song in the your DAW simply click on the SYNC text CHORUS Thickens the sound with a modulated detuning effect The MIX amount DEPTH and RATE can be varied using the knobs The effect is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE PHASER Another classic modulation effect where the phase of the sound is varied over time to create liquid shifting effects The MIX amount DEPTH and RATE can be varied using the knobs The effect is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click DELAY An effect which creates echoes of the original sound The MIX amount can be varied as can the delay TIME FEEDBACK creates cascading copies of the delay as it feeds back into itself The effect is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click To synchronise the RATE to the BPM of your song in the your DAW simply click on the SYNC text SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE REVERB z T meenen NE This effect is based around Ko
8. ing Soniccouture audio or software be they single hits loops fully 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 SONIC SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE The Owner may not transfer modify rent lease loan resell distribute network electronically transmit or merge the Software 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 by applicable law Soniccouture further disclaims all warranties either express or implied including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular p
9. ntakt s convolution processor and as such can provide both realistic spatial reverberation of natural spaces or more creative FX style textures and effects Choose an impulse response from the drop down menu the top half of the list features natural spaces the lower half are the special effects You can vary the amount of reverb applied using the MIX knob the SIZE knob will increase or reduce the reverb time The effect is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click OUTPUT EFFECTS These feature on the lower half of the effects tab From left to right COMPRESSOR controls the amount of dynamic compression applied to the output Turn fully anti clockwise to bypass CABINET You can select various speaker cabinet models from the drop down menu and adjust the BASS and TREBLE using the knobs The effect SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click EQUALISER 3 band EQ for performing basic equalisation of the LOW MID and HIGH frequency bands You can both cut and boost DISTORTION Tube valve distortion effect Turn the knob from the off position to increase distortion SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE THE PRESETS Included with Broken Wurli are 50 different presets These are divided i
10. nto two folders Electric Piano amp Sound Design As you might imagine the former features different classic keyabord sounds and the latter is composed of more adventurous creative sounds using the Broken Wurli instrument as a synthesiser Electric Piano Presets Best Friend nki Bloody Well Right nki Bloom nki Broken Speaker Filter Keys nki Concertina Wah nki Crunchy Bass EP nki Cushions nki Dirty Ol Bastard nki Do It Again nki Dry Studio nki Funk Wah Thang nki Garage Rehearsal nki Line Out Filter Chorus nki Logical Song nki Mellow Phase nki Pearly Gates nki Scott Clean nki Scott Dirty nki Slow Dirty Wah nki Squashed Line Out nki Stay With Me nki Tweed nki Velochord 1 nki Velochord 2 nki Where It s At nki Xtra Lite RAM Preset nki SONIC SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE Sound Design Presets Keys Basilica nki Keys Black and White nki Keys Buds nki Keys Drops nki Keys Gentle Sea Of Noise nki Keys Headspace nki Keys House of the Witch nki Keys In The Pipe nki Keys Ladybird nki Keys Mellow Johnny nki Keys Oilskin nki Keys SciFi Saloon nki Keys Slide Chords nki Keys Solder Sprinkles nki Keys Tweed Filter nki Lead Lowlands nki Lead Lowlands2 nki Lead Waxy Build Up nki Pad Noise Surface nki Pad Nuages nki Pad Ripped Cone nki Pad WahChord nki Pad Window Frost nki SFX Dry Joint nki SFX Noise Surface nki SONIC
11. r you are using a sound that only uses one set of samples e g line out then you can unload the sets you are not using simply by clicking the LED button next to the name When the button is lit then the samples are loaded When you do this you will see the memory in the main instrument bar reduce or increase accordingly SONIC SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE THE EFFECTS PANEL o Broken Wurli gt pun Output st 1 t Voices 3 Max 5 0 00 Midi Ch A 1 Options Instrument Pitch Mad hahahaha aaah The effects panel is divided into two sections on the top are the send type effects such as reverb delay etc In the lower half of the screen you have output based effects compression cabinet EQ and distortion The top row effect are selected by clicking on the coloured label this brings up that effect s controls AUTO WAH A classic electric piano effect this Auto wah module has variable cutoff FREQUENCY RESONANCE and RATE www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com SONICCOUTURE Broken Wurli USER GUIDE The effect is switched on by the LED button in the top right corner this can be assigned to a MIDI CC for automation simply right click To synchronise the RATE to the BPM of your song in the your DAW simply click on the SYNC text AUTO PAN Similar to AUTO WAH but using an LFO to pan the sound rhythmically The effe
12. urpose with regard to the software and any accompanying hardware To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in no event shall Soniccouture be liable for any consequential incidental direct indirect special punitive or other damages whatsoever including without limitation damages for loss of business profits business interruption loss of business information or other pecuniary loss arising out of this EULA or the use of or inability to use the software even if Soniccouture has been advised of the possibility of such damages
Download Pdf Manuals
Related Search