SONICCOUTURE XBOW SERIES, User Manual

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Page 2: ...4 THE XBOW GUITARS PROJECT 5 THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS 7 THE JAMMER PANEL 8 A BASIC JAMMER TUTORIAL 11 THE GUITAR PANEL 12 THE OPTIONS MENU 16 THE EFFECTS PANEL 18 MODULAR EFFECTS INSERTS 18 THE SPACE M...

Page 3: ...kt in standalone mode In the Libraries tab click Add Library 2 Navigate to the downloaded product and choose the Library folder 3 When the library graphic loads in Kontakt click Activate 4 The NI Serv...

Page 4: ...ns Bowed Electric with 4 articulations EBow Acoustic EBow Electric 1 EBow Electric 2 Vibrator Acoustic Vibrator Electric Gizmotron Electric 24 bit 48 khz stereo sampling 9 GB library with NCW compress...

Page 5: ...in which both acoustic and electric guitars are played with a violin bow We sampled several articulations like this including playing with the wood of the bow col legno The main violin bow articulati...

Page 6: ...strings You can vary the speed velocity of the wheels on the device itself which we then sampled to create a dynamic crossfade system in the virtual instrument These four techniques have been collecte...

Page 7: ...itle bar Click on the little camera icon and the snapshot menu will appear beneath the instrument title You can choose Snapshot presets for any instrument here Our own presets will appear in a submenu...

Page 8: ...eft enables or disables the Jammer When the Jammer is ON all throughput of MIDI is disabled you only hear the output of the Jammer The five knobs along the top of the Jammer are global controls these...

Page 9: ...the notes you play as well as the note you play OCTAVE add random octave offsets to the pitches created by Jammer This control only ADDS octaves it doesn t subtract octaves TIME add random changes to...

Page 10: ...a drop down menu with some popular scales but you can click on the keyboard directly to allow or disallow any pitch as you like You can also use the MIDI input switch on the left of the keyboard to LE...

Page 11: ...asionally randomly to the input notes Octaves are only added whereas NOTES are added and subtracted Now increase both the NOTE and OCTAVE controls you should hear a pretty random crazy bunch of notes...

Page 12: ...lways contains similar elements The most elaborate instrument is the Bowed Guitar so we ll use that to discuss the controls GUITAR SELECT Click on the ACOUSTIC GUITAR title and you can also select oth...

Page 13: ...t for that guitar no matter which Snapshot you use ARTICULATION FADER In the Bowed Guitar there are four articulations at the top of the main Guitar page ARCO SPICCATO LEGNO and MARCATO You can select...

Page 14: ...mpled both a Mic and a contact Pickup on the guitar on some electric guitars we have sampled the Bridge and Neck pickups simultaneously If this is the case you ll see two level knobs like here on the...

Page 15: ...ASE amplitude envelope controls F ATTACK and F DECAY filter envelope controls VELOCITY velocity to level CUTOFF Filter cutoff frequency FILTER TYPE is changed by clicking on the menu icon RES resonanc...

Page 16: ...pitch bend TOP NOTE in which only the highest note responds LOW NOTE in which only the lowest note responds to pitch bend and HELD NOTE in which any notes now released don t respond to pitch bend You...

Page 17: ...nth edit section to then shape this new attack as you like ROUND ROBINS This is a popular method for increasing the sample variety in a performance and avoiding the machine gun effect sometimes heard...

Page 18: ...ly selected effect appear on the far left and you can choose which effect you re editing with the buttons on the right You can place effect inserts in any order you like which can be very creative Swi...

Page 19: ...IENT CONVOLUTION Note you cannot have the same type of effect in two different blocks if you choose an effect that is already in another effect block the two effects will simply swap positions All eff...

Page 20: ...filters of the reverb The Space processor can be switched ON or OFF using the square switch in the top left EFFECT PRESETS At the bottom of the effect panel you can store effect presets separately fr...

Page 21: ...If you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product please feel free to contact us You can email us at support soniccouture com We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry...

Page 22: ...deo 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 stric...