Native Instruments Alicia's Key USER MANUAL

USER MANUAL

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Manual written by Ryan Rainer

Document Version: 1.0 (01/2010)

Product Version: 1.0 (01/2010)

Special thanks to the Beta Test Team, who were invaluable not just in tracking down bugs, but in making this a better product.

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Table Of Content

1	Introduction......................................................................................................................			5
	1.1	About Alicia’s Piano.................................................................................................		5
	1.2	About KONTAKT / KONTAKT PLAYER..........................................................................		6
2	Getting Started..................................................................................................................			8
		2.2.1	Choosing a Preset..............................................................................	8
		2.2.2	Setting the Ambience.........................................................................	8
		2.2.3	More Authentic Sound........................................................................	8
3	Interface and Operation.....................................................................................................			9
	3.1	Basic Controls.........................................................................................................		9
		3.1.1	Knobs .............................................................................................	9
		3.1.2	Sliders ...........................................................................................	10
		3.1.3	Buttons...........................................................................................	10
		3.1.4	Drop-Down Menus............................................................................	10
		3.1.5	Click Menus.....................................................................................	10
		3.1.6	Numericals......................................................................................	10
	3.2	The Performance View...........................................................................................		11
	3.3	Choosing and saving Presets..................................................................................		11
	3.4	Settings................................................................................................................		12
		3.4.1	The Room Tab.................................................................................	12
		3.4.2	The Keys Tab...................................................................................	13
		3.4.3	The Pedal Tab..................................................................................	15
		3.4.4	The Resonance Tab..........................................................................	15
		3.4.5	The Noise Tab..................................................................................	17
4	Credits............................................................................................................................			18

ALICIA’S KEYS User Manual – IV

1 Introduction

The sound of Alicia Keys’ favorite composer piano, recorded in her own studio, Oven Studios on Long Island, New York, is now available to you as ALICIA’S KEYS.

By using premium vintage microphones and preamps and carefully analyzing Alicia’s playing we have successfully produced the very warm, soulful and inspiring sound of Alicia’s piano

– and it’s fun to play!

The virtual piano has been tailored to reflect the style and sound aesthetics of Alicia Keys to an extent as it has never been done before for another artist. It was recorded with her original gear, and all aspects of recording and sampling technique were designed in close collaboration with Alicia. The result is a piano completely true to the original instrument with the sound and feeling of Alicia’s artistic personality.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy ALICIA’S KEYS.

– Your Native Instruments Team

1.1 About Alicia’s Piano

Fully redesigned at the turn of the millennium, today’s C Series grands benefit from a host of recent Yamaha advances. The piano samples used to create ALICIA’S KEYS originate from Alicia Keys’ own studio piano, the Yamaha C3 Neo. This grand piano is one of only three of it’s kind in the world today.

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1.2 About KONTAKT / KONTAKT PLAYER

ALICIA’S KEYS is an Instrument powered by KONTAKT; you will, therefore, have to have KONTAKT or the free KONTAKT PLAYER installed on your computer in order to use ALICIA’S KEYS. Refer to the KONTAKT / KONTAKT PLAYER documentation to learn how to load and confiigure KONTAKT Instruments.

ALICIA’S KEYS loaded in KONTAKT PLAYER

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