Interruptor NIGHT FLIGHT User manual

NIGHT FLIGHT
analogue string ensemble
VSTi for Windows
Version 1.0
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Table of Contents
1 Introdu tion.......................................................................4
1.1 What is an analogue string ensemble?............................................4
1.2 Features.....................................................................................5
2 System Requirements.........................................................6
3 Li ense.............................................................................6
4 Demo Version....................................................................6
5 Installation........................................................................6
6 General Operation..............................................................7
6.1 Control Ba k-lighting....................................................................7
6.2 Manual Entry of Values.................................................................7
6.3 Fine Adjustment of a Control.........................................................7
6.4 Midi Learn...................................................................................7
6.5 Signal Flow Diagram.....................................................................8
7 Control Referen e...............................................................9
7.1 Main Panel..................................................................................9
7.2 Sub Control Panels.....................................................................10
7.2.1 OSC+SYSTEM Panel..............................................................10
7.2.2 VCA Panel...........................................................................12
7.2.3 ENSEMBLE Panel..................................................................13
7.2.4 LFO+FILTER Panel................................................................15
7.2.5 EQUALIZER Panel.................................................................17
7.2.6 PHASER+DELAY Panel...........................................................18
8 Program History...............................................................19
9 Credits............................................................................19
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1 Introduction
“Night Flight” is a VSTi plug-in for the Windows platform emulating
a lass of keyboards popular in the mid-seventies to early eighties
whi h were known as string ma hines or string ensembles.
1.1 What is an analogue string ensemble?
Many moons before the widespread arrival of polyphoni
synthesizers in 1981 nifty engineers at Eminent Orgelbouw B.V. in
the Netherlands dis overed that their
Orbitone system, an ele troni ir uitry
built to affordably mimi the sound of a
Leslie abinet for home organists, ould
be easily modified to reate a stunning
new sound yet unheard from an organ.
They introdu ed it as a feature to their
1972 model “Eminent 310 unique” under
the name “string ensemble”. Honestly
speaking it's sound hardly resembles
anything like a real string ensemble,
whi h however does not take away
anything from the qualities these unique syntheti timbres have in
their own right. The sound had great appeal with musi ians,
parti ularly after Eminent in luded a modifi ation of the on ept
into a portable keyboard named the
Solina string ensemble whi h was later
re-branded as Arp String Ensemble for
the US market. At the same time other
ompanies like Crumar, Logan, Roland,
Oberheim and Korg also released
string ma hines following the same
ar hite ture ombining organ-style
divide-down os illators with an ensem-
ble effe t.
String ma hines have been widely used in Pop, Ro k, Funk, Reggae,
Soul, and Dis o musi throughout the seventies and up to the early
eighties when they were popular with New Wave a ts.
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Image 1: Eminent 310 unique
Image 2: Arp/Solina String Ensemble

1.2 Features
“Night Flight” does not use any samples. It is based on an
emulation of the ensemble effe t first used by Eminent / Solina
ba k in 1972 and an organ-like sound generation (o tave divider).
You will also find a number of features inspired by other string
ma hines like the 3 band equalizer from the Crumar Performer or
the Envelope Filter on the very rare ARP String Synthesizer. Besides
the learly laid out main panel there are 6 sub panels giving a ess
to a large number of under-the-hood parameters like filter and
amplifier modulations, ADSR, LFO, keyboard split points, equalizer
automation and two additional simultaneous ensemble effe ts for
even thi ker pad sounds. Finally there is an onboard effe t se tion
providing the typi al phasing and delay effe ts whi h are essential
for some of the best known string ma hine timbres.
•3 Os illators (8 waveforms, pulse width ontrol)
•Up to three simultaneous ensemble effe ts modelled on the
eminent/solina ar hite ture. Full a ess to the internal
parameters of the ensemble effe ts.
•Optional divide-down mode featuring organ style phase-lo ked
o taves
•3-Band Equalizer: Ea h band an be onfigured and
automated via the LFO
•Filter: 5 modes (LP2, LP4, BP, HP2, HP4), resonan e, utoff
modulation via ADSR envelope, LFO, velo ity or keyfollow
•Amplifier se tion:
- Atta k and Release. De ay and Sustain are available as
under-the-hood parameters.
- For ea h os illator a simple organ envelope an be sele ted
as an alternative to the ADSR envelope.
•1 LFO routable to pit h (vibrato), Filter utoff or equalizer
automation. Optional note syn .
•Sele table keyboard split points for bass and string footages
•Effe ts se tion:
- phaser (two models) + delay/e ho
- onfigurable effe t routing
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2 ystem Requirements
•WINXP, VISTA, WIN7, WIN8
•A host software (DAW) apable of running VST plug-ins
•This plug-in runs natively on 32bit systems. If you have a
64bit system, it is likely that your DAW provides support for
32 bit plug-ins via a so alled “bridge”. If this is not the ase
you might onsider a quiring a third party bridge instead.
3 License
•By a quiring the full version you are granted the right to use
this software on all of your omputers for as long as you want.
•You are not allowed to sell the software to someone else -
neither on it's own nor as part of a pa kage with other goods
or servi es.
4 Demo Version
•Please install and test the demo version on your system before
buying the full version.
•Demo limitation: A short moment of silen e is inserted on e
every 30 se onds. Otherwise the demo version has the
omplete fun tionality of the full version.
5 Installation
•Copy the dll file from the download ar hive to your VST folder
•Restart your host software (DAW)
•Load the plug-in
Note: In ase of problems please read the following. Upon starting
the plug-in for the first time a number of files are automati ally
extra ted to your VST folder. On Windows versions from VISTA
onwards by default plug-ins are not allowed to write files to your
hard drive. This will typi ally ause an error message from your
DAW reporting missing files. You an fix this issue by hanging the
write permissions for your VST folder as follows:
•Use Windows Explorer to browse to your VST Plugins folder.
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•Right- li k the folder – 'Properties'
•Choose 'Se urity' tab.
•Cli k 'Edit' button (You may need to li k a UAC prompt).
•Sele t user name "Users".
•Ti k options Allow 'Write' and 'Modify'.
•To finish Sele t 'OK' to lose the two dialog boxes.
6 General Operation
6.1 Control Back-lighting
•You an easily see if a ontrol urrently has an influen e on
the sound. Ba k-lighting is swit hed on only if this is the ase.
6.2 Manual Entry of Values
•Below ea h knob/slider the parameter value is displayed as a
number. Instead of moving the ontrol with the mouse you an
manually enter the value via your PC keyboard by li king on
the number, writing the value and then pressing the ENTER
key.
6.3 Fine Adjustment of a Control
•Press the CTRL key while moving any ontrol with the mouse if
you need to make fine adjustments
6.4 Midi Learn
•Ea h ontrol an be automated via MIDI ontrollers.
•To assign a new/different MIDI ontroller right- li k on a
ontrol then hoose "Learn" from the pop-up menu and tweak
the hardware ontroller you want to assign. Alternatively
hoose "Unlearn" or "Edit.." to assign a ontroller from a list.
6.5 ignal Flow Diagram
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7 Control Reference
7.1 Main Panel
O CILLATOR •enable/disable ea h os illator
•set the volume of ea h os illator
VCA •set the main volume
•adjust the atta k and release phase of the
volume envelope
EN EMBLE •enable/disable the ensemble effe t
•set stereo width of the ensemble effe t
LFO •RATE: speed of the Low Frequen y
Os illator
•VIBRATO: sets the amount of pit h
modulation
•DELAY: provides a slow build-up of the
vibrato effe t after a note is pressed
EQUALIZER •Allows to qui kly adjust the low, mid and
high frequen ies. See the equalizer panel
if you want to automate the equalizer via
the LFO or adjust the enter frequen ies
and bandwidths.
PHA ER •enable/disable the phaser effe t
DELAY •enable/disable the delay/e ho effe t
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7.2 ub Control Panels
•Press any of the sub ontrol panel buttons to a ess a sub
ontrol panel
•Press the KEYBOARD button to return to the on-s reen key-
board
7.2.1 O C+ Y TEM Panel
OCT Cli k the OCT button to transpose the pit h of
an os illator by one o tave. Cli k the button
repeatedly to rea h a number of different
o taves. “OCT+0” is the default setting where
the three os illators are spa ed by one o tave
from ea h other.
AD R / ORGN You an sele t the loudness envelope shape for
ea h Os illator:
•AD R: The os illator loudness is following
an ADSR envelope defined by the Atta k
and Release parameters on the main
panel and the De ay and Sustain
parameters on the VCA sub panel.
•ORGN: The os illator is swit hed on and
off immediately when pressing and
releasing a key like on an organ.
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