Best Service Chris Hein - Strings Compact User guide

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Credits:

Concept, Recording, Editing, Programming:

Chris Hein

Interface-Design:

Scott Kane, Chris Hein

Additional Editing:

Ricarda Hein (Mrs. Melodyne)

Script-Programming :

Günter Hirscher

Produced for Best Service, Munich

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Contents

04 Introduction

05 The Interface Basics-Page

General Controls

06 Basics Meters

Edit-Tabs

06 Basics Articulation select Overview

Body & Room Convolutions

07 Articulation-Presets Overview

08 Articulation-Presets Articulations

Key-Switch Modes Copy / Paste Main controls Speed-Detection

09 Articulation-Presets Volume Control

Dynamic Modes

10 Articulation-Presets Note-Head Designer

11 Articulation-Presets Transient Designer

Attack Controls Noise Legato Mode

12 Legato Settings Legato Details

13 Hot-Keys Hot-Keys Overview

15 Articulation Overview

16 Settings Fader Settings

Release FX Synamic

17 Settings Pitchbend

Ensemble ADSR Micro-Tuner

18 Vibrato LFO-Vibrato

Auto-Vibrato

19 DSPEects

Overview

20 DSPEects

Reverb Delay Chorus

21 DSPEects

Phaser Flanger Compressor

22 DSPEects

Solid G Equalizer Filter

23 Midi-CC list

27 The Producer

28 More from Chris Hein

30 The Family of Chris Hein - Horns

14 Hot-Keys Key-Vibrato

Play Last Note Empty

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Chris Hein - Strings Compact

Thank you for buying Chris Hein - Strings Compact

Chris Hein Strings Compact is a huge and extremely versatile String Library featuring 14 Solo Instruments and 14 Ensemble mixes.

Featuring the all instruments and the original samples from the legendary Chris Hein Solo Strings and Ensemble Strings libraries, you get the full expressive range with up to 8 dynamic layers and four dynamic modes.

14 Solo-Strings and 14 Ensemble Mixes. VIOLINS - VIOLAS - CELLOS - CONTRABASSES

The Compact version is focused on nine of the most important articulations.

if you ever need more articulations, there’s a cost-eective upgrade path to the complete version.

The solo instruments are samples with great detail. Up to eight dynamic layers oer a extremly wide

dynamic range. The large variety of instruments lets you layer your solo strings to small ensembles. The programming of each instrument is exactly the same for all instruments. So, just duplicate your

MIDI track, assign a dierent instrument to it and you have a layered ensemble.

The combination of 14 Solo Strings and 14 Ensemble mixes, lets you create almost any string sound combination that you need. From a single Solo Violin, over chamber orchestra to a large symphonic string sound.

This surgically detailed production process has resulted in a warm and rich symphonic string sound.

Two dierent section sizes have been created: „Full“ and „Small“ ensemble.

With 9 articulations and up to eight dynamic layers, the instruments in CH-Strings Compact are sampled with extraordinary detail and programmed with great care. The user-interface holds tons of features on several pages to shape the sound and to adjust the playability to the way you want it. However, if you don‘t feel like editing, just play and explore the pre-programmed Key-Switch presets. Thanks to the clever programming and intuitive user interface, the new and innovative features like

„Note Head Designer“, „Key-Vibrato“ or the „Hot-Keys“ are very easy to use.

I hope you like Chris Hein - Strings Compact. Have fun!

Chris Hein

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Interface

The Basics-Page General Controls

The Edit-Pages

The Basics-Page is good if you have multiple instruments loaded and don‘t need to edit. This page has no edit features. Start playing right away and use the Key-Switch keys ranging from A-1 to A#0 to enter the pre-programmed Articulation-Presets and Hot-Keys. The actual selected articulation is diplayed in white at the bottom right of the screen.

You can enter the 4 edit-pages by clicking one of the edit-tabs at the bottom of each page.

Show/Hide Values

You can show or hide the values of the functions with the button on the top right of each page. However, as soon as you touch a function, the value

is displayed even if „hide values“ is selected

General Controls

1 Solo/Mute 2 Tune - (CC09) 3 Panorama - (CC10) 4 Volume - (CC07) 5 Level indicator

Saving Changes

CH-Strings Compact has many features to

customize the instrument to t you demands.

To save the settings you have made, use the Files menu from the Kontakt top-menu.

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Basics

Meters / Body & Room

Control

Click the „Control“ button to display some of the major controls. Several meters indicate the status of the following functions:

Dynamic Mode - Shows the selected dynamic mode. Change it in the articulation preset page Layer - Indicates the dynamic layer of the the last note played. Velocity - Shows the velocity of the the last note played. X-Fade - Shows the state of the X-Fade position. This graphic also works as a slider. Vibrato - Adjust the vibrato intensitiy. Vib. Speed - Adjust the vibrato speed.

Body and Room

CH-Strings Compact contains 40 fantastic, built-in convolution reverbs, as well as 23 very short impulse responsed to design the body of the instrument. The combination of two convolution reverbs lets you design the body and the room individually.

Controls for Body and Room

On/O- Switches the Convolution Reverb on and o.

Presets - Choose from 40 specially-designed Impulse Responses. Volume - Adjusts the amount of the Convolution Reverb. Delay - Sets the pre-delay time before the reverb starts.

Edit-Tabs

Four tabs at the bottom of the interface let you enter the edit modes.

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Articulation-Presets

Overview

You will probably spend most of your time with Chris Hein - Strings Compact in the Articulation-Presets Page. Everything you see on this Articulation-Presets Page is stored on one single Key-Switch.

Each setting of the functions on this page can be dierent for each and every of the 14 key switch

keys. The only exceptions are the Blending and Ensemble controls, which are set for the whole instrument.

The key-switch concept allows you to customize the instruments in every detail to suit your needs. Let’s say you want to play chords with the sustain articulation and then you want to play a solo line using the legato-mode. All you have to do is copy the articulation-preset, paste it to another keyswitch preset and change the legato setting from polyphon to legato. Now, switching from polyphon to legato playing is done by just pressing one key-switch.

The same process works for all other functions on this page. For example, you can assign dierent articulations to dierent keys, enabling you to change articulations on the y. Or you can design a bunch of dierent settings for only the sustains, enabling you to alter the behavior of the instrument.

It’s important to understand that all functions on this page are valid only for the selected key-switch. If you want to make changes for other articulations, you will have to change every articulation you

plan to use. The only exception is the setting for„Blending“ and „Ensemble“ which applies for the

whole instrument. The key-switch presets are located in the lower area of your keyboard, from A -1 to A #1. Key-switches are displayed in green. Hot-keys are displayed in red.

There are several ways to select a key-switch preset:

- Hit the keys on your keyboard.

- Click the keys on the on screen keyboard in the interface.

- Use the fader „KS-Key“ or control it with an external hardware midi-controller (CC06 by default) It s up to you to change articulations in your DAW via Midi CC or by using midi notes.

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Articulation-Presets

Articulations, KS-Mode, Copy/Paste, Main controls, Speed-Detection

Let’s start to customize your key-switch presets. The rst step

is to assign the KS-preset as a key-switch or as a hot-key.

Key-Switches hold dierent articulations to be played on your keyboard. Hot-Keys are special keys that don’t change the overall articulation, but can add aditional eects

like playing key-based vibrato, or work as repetition keys. Let’s call these guys KS and HK.

Articulations

Lets start building a key-switch preset. Select an articulation from the drop down menu on top of the keyboard graphics to be assigned to the selected KS-preset.

Click the “Overview” button to see and edit an overview of all

loaded articulation-presets and Hot-Keys.

KS-Key lets you change the key-switch presets via MIDI-CC. (CC 06 by default)

Right click to assign any CC and use a hardware fader to control the articulations.

Key-Switch Modes

There are three dierent key-switch options to choose from, which determine exactly when and how the articulation change takes eect:

KS-Permanent: The articulation remains active until another key-switch is pressed. KS-While Hold: The articulation changes only for as long as the key-switch is held

and reverts to the previous articulation as soon as the key-switch is released. KS-Next Note: The articulation changes only for the note following after the key-switch and then reverts to the previous articulation.

Copy - Paste

You can copy and paste a whole KS-Preset. This is useful if you want a variation of an existing preset on another key to instantly switch between them.

Main Controls

Volume sets the volume for each KS-preset individually. To adjust the global

volume, use the volume slider at the top right of the interface.

Pan lets you pan each KS-presets individually from left to right. Transpose lets you transpose the preset (36 semitones maximum) up or down. Speed sets the overall speed of the selected articulation.

Changing the speed of the samples is useful for articulations such as Dynamic Expression or Trill.

But changing the speed for the sustains can also yield some interesting eects. Click the little red

dot to activate the speed-change. Since variable speed needs a lot more RAM, you should activate

“time” only when you need it. The speed change is only available if the dynamic mode is set to „Keyboard“

Ensemble:

You can setup a group of String players here.

Ensemble is a global parameter which aects all articulation presets.

Players: Select 1-5 groups of players to play. Each step doubles the amount of players. Spread: Sets the Stereo-Spread of the Ensemble Sound Detune: De-tunes the Ensembles in cents.

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Articulation-Presets

Volume Control / Dynamic Modes

Dynamic: Usually the dynamic of an instrument is just controlled only by the velocity of your midi

keyboard. CH-Strings Compact oers dierent options to control the dynamic.The details on the

next page may sound a bit technical, but don’t hesitate to just experiment with the settings.

The buttons at the left side let you switch between the four dierent dynamic-modes.

Keyboard - The articulations in CH-Strings Compact have 3-8 dynamic layers. When set to „Keyboard“ these layers are available through the velocity of your midi keyboard. The actual played

dynamic layer and the midi velocity are displayed as numbers from 1-8.

X-Fade - When this is selected, the velocity is controlled via midi Control Change (CC11, Expression, by default). You can also use any other controller by changing the X-Fade CC. Setting the controller to zero plays the lowest velocity layer, moving the controller up fades between the velocity layers, while increasing the value crossfades between the velocity layers until the highest value of 127 is reached.

Key & X-Fade - This is a combination of Keyboard dynamic and X-Fade. Velocity is controlled via keyboard velocity, but you can also use Expression (CC11) to crossfade between the velocity layers. Key & XFade works in an intelligent way. Let’s say you play a note at velocity 100, then you increase Expression (CC11), starting from zero. No change is audible until the controller reaches value 100. From here, Expression takes control of the velocity and lets you change the dynamic even after the note is pressed. Key & XFade is perfect for playing realistic crescendos and decrescendos.

Auto X-Fade - This performs an automatic volume curve relative to the played velocity. When Auto X-Fade is selected, the automatic volume curve starts at the velocity played on the midikeyboard, performing a volume change depending on the settings in the table. You can draw your own volume curve in the table. To edit the curve

in more detail, click the „Edit“

button to enter a fairly big table. The length of the Auto X-Fade curve can be adjusted with the

„Lengths“ fader

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Articulation-Presets

Note-Head Designer

Note Head Designer:

This is a unique function which you probably haven‘t seen in any other virtual instrument before.

“Note Head“ lets you vary the attack and release shape of the sound in a fantastic new and exi- bel way. Activate the Note-Head Designer with the switch on the left side. Use a Midi-Controller (CC2 by default) to control the Note-Heads, or use the fader in the interface. Setting the controller to zero playes the original articulation, as displayed on top of the interface.

Moving the controller up lets you switch through 4 dierent variations of the note-head. These variations are short notes, recorded in 4 dierent length, each with 8 dynamic layers. Short1

has a length of more than a second, as you move up, the Note-Heads get shorter, until Spicc6, which is an ectremly short Spiccato. .

When playing lines like „Baa dap“, a sequence of short and long notes, you would usually use the sustained articulation and just stop the note. However, it makes a huge dierence if the ending of

a short note is a real recording ending, or just a stopped sustained note.

“Stack“ oers a second function of the Note-Head is. When this is checked, the short notes are

layered wth the original articulation. Thanks to the phase-aligned samples, the blending is very smooth.

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Articulation-Presets

Transient Designer, Legato, Portamento

The Transient Designer is a compressor designed to control the attack and

sustain of a sound. Instead of following the amplitude of the sound like a traditional compressor, it follows the general envelope and is thus not as susceptible to changes of input gain.

Attack controls the scaling of the attack portion of the input signal’s volume envelope. Increasing this parameter will add more punch and decreasing it will reduce sharp attacks. Sustain controls the scaling of the sustain portion of the input signal’s volume envelope. Increasing this parameter will add more body to the sound and decreasing it will reduce the sound’s tail.

Legato

Polyphon lets you play polphonic chords, no legato transition is audible. Legato lets you play monophonic lines with a legato transition. Speed controls the length of the legato transition. Legato Long performes a smooth portamento with varialble speed. Speed controls the length of the portamento transition.

Oset controls the starting point of the portamento transition.

CH-Strings Compact has a polyphonic legato. Setting the instrument to Legato does not mean you can only play monophonic lines. All notes played within a certain time range. are recognized as chords, even if if set to Legato.

The combination of „Speed“ and „Oset“ oers a wide range of portamento transition. If oset is set to 0, you‘ll here a string player sliding from the source to the destination note. Moving the Oset fader up, cuts the beginning of the portamento transition, This simulates a string player moving his nger to the next string and perform the slide from there to the destination note. With „Speed“ and „Oset“, any kind of portamento transition is possible.

From a full slide from one note to the other, to a very subtle grace note transition.

Pedal If you have a sustain pedal connected to your midi keyboard, the legato settings allow you

to change the function of the pedal. If set to „Polyphon“ the pedal acts as a regular hold pedal If no pedal is connected, you can use CC 64 to switch between Polyphon, Legato, Legato Long or Glide-Mode.

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Legato Settings

Legato Mode, Legato Details

Legato Mode

When playing a note, holding it and playing another note, the Legato performs a smooth transition between the two notes.

CH-Strings Compact uses an intelligent combination of two dierent real recorded note-transitions and one articial legato engine which additio-

nally performes a smooth blending and pitch change.

We recorded note-transitions at 2 dierent speeds with 2 dynamic layers for each transition.

Every note transition from a halftone to an octave up and down has been recorded.

„Legato“ performs a natural note transition, while „Legato Long“ oers a long portamento. By default the „Long Legato“ is assigned to the sustain pedal. So, simply pressing the sustain pe-

dal while playing ovelapping notes, performs smooth slide from on note to the other. Speed lets you adjust the length of the portamento. Oset lets you adjust the starting point of the portamento.

The combination of Speed and Oset oers a wide range of dierent portamento transitions.

A real string player often does not slide from one note to the other. When e.g. playing an octave, he

would place his nger on the next string, jumping to e.g. a fth and slides from there to the octace. The Oset fader lets you simulate this behavior.

Also small interval grace-notes like a whole or halftones are possible.

You can edit the behavior of the Legato transition in detail in the Legato-Settings Page. by clicking

the „Edit“ button.

Activate legato playing in the Articulation Preset page. Clicking the little icon brings you to the Legato Settings page to edit the details.

Legato Details

The settings for the True Legato Transitions are perfectly set by default. Actually there is no need to change something here except the volume.

Be careful with the True-Legato edits. changes may result in an urealistic behavior of the legato transtion.

While Legato mode is activated, you still can play polyphonic. All notes played within a certain time range are recognizes as a chord. You can adjust the chord detection time in the Legato Edit page in ms.

There are separate controls for volume-fade in/out and for tune-fade in/out:

FadeOutOset(ms)Sets the time before the fade starts. FadeOutLength(ms) Sets the length of the fade out. TuneOutOset(ms)Sets the time before the detuning starts. TuneOutLength(ms)Sets the length of the detuning. Tune(c) Sets the amount of detuning in cents.

Slope Spreads the legato time. A higher value results in a shorter legato while playing small intervals like a semitone, and a longer legato when playing larger intervals, like an octave.

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Articulation-Presets

Hot-Keys

The Hot-Keys are special keys which are used to trigger dierent eects and articulations. Each of the 14 keys from A-1 to A#0 can be dened as a Key-Switch or as a Hot-Key Preset.

To assign a Hot-Key to a key on your midi keyboard, select one of the Hot-Key function from the articulation drop down menu.

You can also set a Hot-Key to ‘Repeat Last Note’, which will literally retrigger the last note you played. This is particularly useful for playing fast, legato repetitions which would otherwise not be possible by simply re-playing the same note repeatedly. In addition to repeating or retriggering the previous note played, hotkeys can also be used to modify the note currently playing. For example, a hotkey can be assigned to trigger a trill, which will stop the note and play a realistic trill.

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Articulation-Presets

Hot-Keys

The following functions are available through the Hot-Keys:

Repeat last note: This Hot-Key simply repeates the last note you have played.

This is great for fast repititions. No special controls are needed for this eect.

Key-Vibrato Up/Down: Rather than playing a static vibrato

with the modwheel, this enables you to perform the vibrato manually on a key of your midi keyboard. You can choose

between Vibrato Up or Vibrato Down, which aects volume,

pitch and EQ of the note being heard. A real vibrato, performed by a harmonica instrumentalist, consists of a change in volume and pitch and a frequency change. You can edit all these parameters separately.

Play Trill: Pressing this Hot-Key while a note is being played, blends into the Trill articulation

Minor Trill plays a haltone, major trill triggers a whole tone. Releasing the hot-Key while still holding the right hand note, switches back to the original articula-

tion. This is great to throw in some ornaments on the y.

Play Tremolo: Pressing this Hot-Key while holding a note activates the Tremolo articulation.

The speed can be adjusted.

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Articulation Overview

A list of all selected articulations and Hot-Keys is avalable through the Articulation Overview tab.

You can select from dierent articulations in the drop down menu and you can dene if the preset

should be a Key-Switch (KS) or a Hot-Key (HK).

However, dene the details of the selected articulation in the Articulation-Presets page.

The Articulation Overview page is also handy to unload articulations which you don’t need.

If you only need one or a few articulations, setting the unneeded preset to “Empty” saves a lot of

RAM.

All features in the instrument which require RAM have an on/o switch. Switching features you don‘t need to o can save you a lot of worthy computer performance.

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Settings / DSP FX

Fader Setting, Release-EFX, Dynamic

The functions on the Sound-EFX page work as global parameters for all articulation presets.

Use the buttons in the headline to switch between „Settings“ and „DSP-FX“.

Fader Setting:

Adjust the behavior of your mouse with these controls Most faders in the instrument are horizontally, but if you prefer to control them with a vertical movement of your mouse, you can switch

to „Vertical“. You can also adjust the length of the mouse movement.

Check which settings works best for you.

Release EFX:

The Release EFX work on the release of a note. Play a note, raise the

knob and release the note at any time to hear the selected eect.

Rel1 - Adds a natural release sound. Volume - sets the volume of the release sample Density - sets the amount of release-samples being played. Setting density to 100% means all notes have a release sample. Setting it to 50% means, every second note is played with a release sample.

Round Robin:

Round robin alters the notes automatically.

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Sound EFX

Pitchbend, Ensemble, ADSR, Micro-Tuner

Pitchbend:

You can assign the Pitchbend range separately for Bend Up and Bend Down from 1 to 12 semitones.

Dynamic:

Lets you control the Velocity Response of your midi keyboard. Curve - Sets the curve for the Velocity Response. Setting the curve to 0 results in a linear response.

Min - Sets the Minimum velocity.

ADSR:

Attack - Sets the Fade In time for the sound. Decay - Sets the time until the Sustain level is reached. Sustain - Sets the level maintained from the end of the Decay stage

to the start of the Release stage.

Release - Sets the Fade Out time after releasing the key.

Micro-Tuner:

All samples are perfectly tuned to the standard chromatic scale with A at 440Hz. However, real players usually don’t play perfectly in tune. You can edit the tuning in precise detail using the MicroTuner. You can create your own tuning scales by shifting the tuning of each note up or down, or you can use one of the pre-programmed tuning scales based on some of the most famous historical scales.

Tuning Presets:

12 Micro-Tuning preset scales are available. You can build your own tuning scales or use the preprogrammed scales and edit them in order to create your own scales. In addition to the Micro-

Tuning scales, you can ne tune each instrument in its channel strip in the Mixer Page.

Key:

Sets the root key of the scale.

Amount:

Scales the overall amount of detuning.

Other Tuning Methods:

A Master tuning knob for all instruments is available in the header of the virtual instrument on the Play-Page. Hold down the shift key (of your computer keyboard) while turning the on-screen knob

for ne-tuning.

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Vibrato

LFO-Vibrato / Auto-Vibrato

Two types of Vibrato are available. Choose between manual LFO-Vibrato, and Auto-Vibrato. The vibrato type can be set individually for each articulation preset.

Vibrato:

These are the controls for the intelligent LFO-based Vibrato available through CC01 (Modwheel). You can Change the CC from 1 to any other CC.

The following controls are available for LFO-Vibrato: Vibrato - Sets the amount of vibrato. CC - Sets the midi controller to control the vibrato.

(CC1 - Modwheel by default)

Speed - Sets the speed of the volume and pitch change. Volume - Sets the volume of the vibrato. Tune - Sets the degree of pitch change.

Setting tune to 0 performs a tremolo.

EQ - Activates a lter to simulate a realistic hand-damping.

Works best in combination with Volume and Tune.

EQ Frequency - Sets the frequency for the lter. EQ Bandwidth - Sets the bandwidth of the lter frequency. Wave - choose from dierent waveforms to set the vibrato curve.

Auto - Vibrato:

performes an automatic vibrato curve.

Instead of using the Modwheel, you can draw dierent

curves to set the development of the vibrato over time.

The following controls are available for Auto-Vibrato: Preset - Choose from dierent pre-programmed curves Speed - Sets the speed over time. Volume - Sets the volume curve over time. Tune - Sets the amount of detuning over time. EQ - Sets the amount of ltering over time.

Copy - Copy the curve to paste it into another table Paste - inserts a copied curve Clear - Resets the curve to a clear table

Vibrato can also be controlled via the innovative Hot-Key Vibrato (See page 13/14)

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DSP Effects

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DSP Effects

Reverb, Delay, Chorus

Reverb

Preset: Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume: Level of the reverb eect. Pre-Delay: Introduces a short delay between the direct signal and the

reverb trail build-up. This corresponds to the natural reverberation behavior of large rooms, where a short time elapses before the rst reection of a sound wave returns from a wall.

Size: Adjusts the size of the simulated room. This aects the duration

of the reverb trail. Damping: Sets the amount of simulated absorption that takes place in

rooms due to furnishings, people, or acoustic treatments aecting the reection behavior.

Delay

Preset: Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume: Level of the delay eect. Time: The delay time in milliseconds. To synchronize the time to your

host or Master Editor tempo, click on the Speed parameter’s unit display and choose a note length value from the drop-down list. Feedback: Controls the amount of the output signal that’s being fed back into the input of the delay line, thereby creating a series of echoes that gradually fade into silence. Damping: Attenuates high frequencies in the delayed signal. Turning

this control clockwise will increase the damping eect. If you have set

a feedback level, the signal will gradually lose more high frequency content with each repetition.

Chorus

Preset - Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume - Level of the chorus eect. Depth: Adjusts the range of modulated detuning. Higher values give a

more pronounced chorusing eect.

Speed: Adjusts the LFO speed. To synchronize the speed to your host or Master Editor tempo, click on the Speed parameter’s unit display and choose a note length value from the drop-down list.

Phase: Imparts an LFO phase dierence between the left and the right

stereo channel. This can considerably increase the width of the output signal’s stereo base.

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DSP Effects

Phaser, Flanger, Compressor

Phaser

Preset: Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume: Level of the phaser eect. Depth: The amount of LFO modulation. Higher values cause the pha-

ser eect to sweep over a wider frequency range.

Speed: The LFO modulation speed. To synchronize the speed to your host or Master Editor tempo, click on the Speed control’s unit display and choose a note length value from the drop-down list. Feedback: This control adjusts the emphasis of the peaks and not-

ches that the comb lter eect imparts on the signal.

Flanger

Preset: Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume: Level of the anger eect Depth: The amount of LFO modulation. Higher values cause the an-

ging eect to sweep over a wider range.

Speed: The LFO speed. To synchronize the speed to your host or Master Editor tempo, click on the Speed parameter’s unit display and choose a note length value from the drop-down list. Feedback: Feeds a certain amount of the delayed signal back into the

module’s input, thereby creating a more pronounced eect.

Compressor

Preset - Dierent pre-programmed eects. Volume - Gain of the compressed signal. Threshold - Sets a level threshold above which the Compressor starts

working. Only levels that rise above this threshold will be reduced by the compression; signals that stay below it will be left unprocessed. Attack - Adjusts the time the Compressor will take to reach the full Ratio value after an input signal exceeds the Threshold level. Ratio - Controls the amount of compression, expressed as a ratio of “input level change” against “output level change”. A Ratio of 1:1 means that no compression will be happening. For example, a setting of

4 represents the ratio 4:1, which means for every 4 decibel increase

of amplitude above the threshold, the output will increase by only 1 decibel. Release - Adjusts the time the compressor will take to fall back to noncompression after the input signal falls below the threshold.

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DSP-Effects

Solid G Equalizer, Filter

Solid G Equalizer

The Solid G-EQ is a 4-band parametric EQ

and oers the choice of bell or shelf style

control of the low and high frequency bands.

LF Gain: Adjusts the amount of boost or cut at the LF Frequency. LF Freq: Adjusts the center frequency of the low frequency band at which the boost or cut will

occur.

LF Bell: Toggles the bell shape of the low frequency band. If turned o, the band becomes a shelf. LMF Gain: Adjusts the amount of boost or cut at the LMF Frequency. LMF Freq: Adjusts the center frequency of the low-mid frequency band at which the boost or cut

will occur. LMF Q: Controls the Quality (or Q) of the low-mid frequency band. For most EQs, the higher the quality, the narrower the frequency band, but with this EQ the control is reversed to match the hardware it emulates and becomes a bandwidth control.

HMF Gain: Adjusts the amount of boost or cut at the HMF Frequency. HMF Freq: Adjusts the center frequency of the high-mid frequency band at which the boost or cut

will occur. HMF Q: Controls the Quality (or Q) of the high-mid frequency band. For most EQs, the higher the quality, the narrower the frequency band, but with this EQ the control is reversed to match the hardware it emulates and becomes a bandwidth control.

HF Gain: Adjusts the amount of boost or cut at the HF Frequency. HF Freq: Adjusts the center frequency of the high frequency band at which the boost or cut will

occur.

HF Bell: Toggles the bell shape of the high frequency band. If turned o the band becomes a shelf.

Filter

A high class lter can be used to limit the frequency of the sound.

When a real player uses his hand to shape the sound, its actually the same

eect. The high frequencies are lowered in volume. To achieve this eects you can use the Hand-Damping Hot-Key or use the lter.

The following controls are avalable: Gain: Adjusts the volume of the lter eect.

Cuto: Sets the frequency.

Resonace: Sets the bandwidth of the lter eect. Type: Choose from dierent colors of the lter.

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MIDI-CC

List of pre-programmed midi controller

The instrument named „MIDI CC“

has pre-assigned MIDI CCs to completely remote control the instrument.

The following controls are used internally by the script and should NOT be used:

16,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,25,26,27,30,34,35,36,112,113,114,117,118, 120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127

General Controls

06 Key-Switch Select 07 Global Volume 10 Global Pan 09 Global Tune 70 ArticulationVolume 71 Articulation Pan 72 Articulation Transpose

73 Articulation Time On/O

74 Articulation Time

Live controls

02 Note Head Selector

116 Note Head On/O

03 Note Head Stack 05 Note Head Keyboard / X-Fade

80 Transient Designer On/O

81 Transient Designer Attack 82 Transient Designer Sustain

Dynamic Modes

11 X-Fade Amount 31 Dynamic Mode Keyboard 32 Dynamic Mode X-Fade 37 Dynamic Mode Key & X-Fade 38 Dynamic Mode Auto X-Fade

Articial-Legato:

51 Articial Legato On/O

Sound EFX

48 Sordino On/O

49 Sordino Frequency

50 Round Robin On/O

Blending

95 Tremolo On/O

96 Tremolo Volume

97 Trill 1 On/O

98 Trill 1 Volume

Release

100 Release1 On/O

101 Release1 Volume

ADSR

109 Attack 110 Decay 111 Sustain 108 Release

Dynamic

76 Curve 77 Minimum 78 Maximum

Ensemble

13 Ensemble Maker Voices 14 Ensemble Maker Spread 15 Ensemble Maker Detune

True-Legato Short:

58 True Legato Short On/O

59 True Legato Short Volume 60 True Legato Short Speed

True-Legato Long:

54 True Legato Long On/O

55 True Legato Long Volume 56 True Legato Long Speed

57 True Legato Long Oset

39 Polyphon / Legato Chord Detection Time

LFO Vibrato

01 Vibrato Amount 65 Vibrato Speed 66 Vibrato Volume 67 Vibrato Tune 68 Vibrato EQ Volume 69 Vibrato EQ Frequency 75 Vibrato EQ Bandw.

Convolution Reverb

46 Body On/O

40 Body Volume 41 Body Delay

42 Room On/O

43 Room Volume 44 Room Delay

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Chris Hein

Recording / Programming

Chris Hein‘s musical career started at the age of 5

with the rst professional Glockenspiel, a present

from his Grandma. From that moment his way as a musician was unstoppable. 4 years later he upgraded to a real piano, later he learned guitar and bass.

Chris Hein has over 30 years of experience with sound samples. By 1986 he had already produced the legendary “Studio-Sample” series for Metra-Sound.

In1985hewasoneoftherstcomputerpioneers,tousetheCommodoreC-64forcomputer music.HisworkforEmagic(theC-Labapplication)attheFrankfurtMusicExhibitionsetthe courseforhissuccessfulworkasasound-arranger.WiththeSX-64,theworld’srstlaptop,

he traveled to various music studios in Europe.

From Atari to Mac, he eventually settled down with the foundation of “Hine-Studio” and created innumerable sounds for CD-Productions, Film & TV music, industrial shows and musicals. The focus of his work has always concentrated on the reproduction of real orchestras

withvirtualinstruments.Thecontractmusicals“AWorldforDeinhard”(1994)andthegreat horse-musical productions “The Enchanted Forrest” (1996),  “Goa” (2000) and “Sudakan” (2010)consistexclusivelyofsamplesounds.Todayhisstudiocontainsanimpressivecollec-

tion of 22 samplers of various types.

In 1997 Chris Hein established the Film & Media production company: “Wizard Media GmbH”.

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