Native Instruments Deep Freq User manual

Manual

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Document authored by: Denis Gökdag
Product Version: 1.0 (05/2010)
Document version: 1.0 (05/2010)
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Table of Contents
1 Welcome to DEEP FREQ 7
2 Installation and Activation 8
2.1 Installing DEEP FREQ 8
2.2 Activating DEEP FREQ 8
3 How to Use a KORE Instrument 10
3.1 Finding a KORE Sound 10
3.2 Loading a KORE Sound 13
3.2.1 Loading a KORE Sound in KORE PLAYER 13
3.2.2 Loading a KORE Sound in KORE 2 14
4 Content Description 17
4.1 About DEEP FREQ 17
4.2 Feature Overview 17
4.3 Included Effect Types 18
4.4 Example Signal Flow Structures 18
4.4.1 Buttbeard 19
4.4.2 Finite Wire 22
4.4.3 De-Facto Chimp 24
5 The Ensembles 26
5.1 Overview 26
5.2 (re)Sonitarium 27
5.2.1 Global Controls 29
5.2.2 Voice 1-4 Controls 29
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5.2.3 LFO 1 & LFO 2 Controls 30
5.2.4 Envelope Follower Controls 30
5.2.5 Output Controls 30
5.3 Plagiarism 31
5.3.1 Synthesis Controls 33
5.3.2 Analysis (and Amplitude) Controls 34
5.3.3 Envelope Follower Controls 34
5.3.4 Output Controls 34
5.3.5 Frequency Maps 34
5.4 Spreadbands 36
5.4.1 Spreadbands (Filter) Controls 37
5.4.2 Satur8 Controls 38
5.4.3 Frequency Modulation Controls 38
5.4.4 Spread Modulation Controls 38
5.4.5 Envelope Follower Controls 39
5.4.6 LFO Controls 39
5.4.7 Output Controls 39
5.5 Modul8 40
5.5.1 Global Controls 42
5.5.2 Parameter Controls 42
5.5.3 Output Controls 43
5.5.4 Level Patterns 44
5.5.5 Pan Patterns 45
6 Using DEEP FREQ 46
6.1 Basics 46
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6.2 About Levels 46
6.3 Controls Mapping 47
6.4 Sound Variations 48
7 Credits 50
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1 Welcome to DEEP FREQ
Thank you very much for purchasing DEEP FREQ. DEEP FREQ is a KORE Instrument
that…
This manual will help you get started with DEEP FREQ. If you want to start immediately,
proceed to section ↑2, Installation and Activation. Please read that chapter carefully and
fully, as it explains all the steps required to integrate DEEP FREQ into KORE 2 / KORE
PLAYER. Following the Installation chapter is an explanation of the general usage of KORE
Sounds within KORE 2 / KORE PLAYER in chapter ↑3, How to Use a KORE Instrument.
If you are already familiar with KORE 2 / KORE PLAYER, this will be straightforward, but
it might be worth a look nonetheless. Finally, chapters ↑4, Content Description, ↑5, The
Ensembles and ↑6, Using DEEP FREQ of this manual add some more details regarding
the specific content and usage of DEEP FREQ.
And now, let’s get started…
Welcome to DEEP FREQ
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2 Installation and Activation
The following section explains how to install and activate DEEP FREQ. Although this proc
ess is pretty much straightforward, please take a minute to read these instructions as it
might prevent common problems.
2.1 Installing DEEP FREQ
After downloading a KORE Instrument, unzip the compressed archive you received from
Native Instruments. It contains the installer application.
!Please install KORE 2 or KORE PLAYER before installing this KORE Instrument! Other
wise, Paranormal Spectrums will not work properly.
To install DEEP FREQ, double-click the installer application and follow the instructions on
the screen. The installer application automatically places the new KORE Sound content
files into the folders that KORE 2 / KORE PLAYER expects them to be in. In the course of
the installation procedure, the installer application asks you to specify another folder for
additional files.
2.2 Activating DEEP FREQ
When installation is finished, start the Service Center, which was installed with KORE 2 /
KORE PLAYER. It will connect your computer to the Internet and activate your DEEP
FREQ installation.
!Activation of KORE Instruments is optional. However, it will give you access to free up
dates.
!If your computer is not connected to the Internet, please consult the separate Setup
Guide, which is included with your KORE 2 / KORE PLAYER package. It explains the off
line activation procedure and contains detailed information about using the Service Cen
ter. It is also a reference if you experience problems with the activation process.
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In order to activate your copy of DEEP FREQ, you have to perform the following steps with
in the Service Center:
1. Log in: Enter your Native Instruments user account name and password on the initial
page. This is the same account information you used in the Native Instruments Online
Shop when buying your KORE Instrument and for other Native Instruments product
activations.
2. Select products: The Service Center detects all NI products on your computer that
have not yet been activated and lists them. You can activate multiple products at
once.
3. Activate: After proceeding to the next page, the Service Center connects to the Native
Instruments server and activates your products.
4. Download updates: When the server has confirmed the activation, the Service Center
automatically displays the Update Manager with a list of all available updates for your
installed products. Please make sure that you always use the latest version of your
Native Instruments products to ensure proper functioning.
Downloading updates is optional. After activation is complete, you can always quit the
SERVICE CENTER. Now, you are ready to use DEEP FREQ. Please start KORE 2 / KORE
PLAYER in stand-alone mode. This will trigger the database update process automatically
and integrate new KORE Sounds into KORE 2’s / KORE PLAYER’s database.
Installation and Activation
Activating DEEP FREQ
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3 How to Use a KORE Instrument
The following sections will give you a brief overview over some basic operations: you will
learn how to search for sounds you have in mind and how to load and play KORE Sounds.
For details on these topics, please read the KORE 2 / KORE PLAYER manual.
3.1 Finding a KORE Sound
All DEEP FREQ KORE Sounds are directly integrated into KORE 2’s / KORE PLAYER’s da
tabase. They will show up in the Browser’s Search Results list alongside all the other
sounds matching specific search criteria.
Searching for Sounds by Attribute
You can select a combination of Attributes in the Browser. The Sounds that match the At
tributes’ criteria will show up in the Search Results list. To do so:
• Click on the Attributes in the Browser. You can select multiple Attributes from an At
tribute set by holding [Ctrl] (on Windows) or [Cmd] (on Mac) while clicking.
Fig. 3.1 KORE PLAYER’s Browser (left) with a combination of Instrument Attributes selected, and the corre
sponding results in the Search Results list (right).
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Searching for Sounds by Instrument
!KORE 2 users: if the Soundpack column is not visible in the Attributes List, right-click on
the Attributes List header and select the Soundpack entry in the upcoming context menu.
To restrict your search results to a specific Instrument’s sounds:
• Select the desired Instrument in the Soundpack column of the Attributes List. The
Search Results list shows the entire content of this particular pack.
Fig. 3.2 KORE PLAYER Browser (left) and Search Results list (right) with MASCHINE Drum Selection high
lighted.
Searching for Sounds via Full Text Search
There is another way to restrict your search results to your specific pack’s sounds:
• Enter the KORE Instrument’s name into the Quick Search field of the Browser, or
even just a part of the name—for example, “paranormal.” The corresponding KORE
Sounds automatically appear in the Search Results List.
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Finding a KORE Sound
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Fig. 3.3 The Quick Search field above the Search Results list.
Sorting Results by Instrument Bank Name
If you don’t want to limit the results to a specific KORE Instrument, but do want to have
the display grouped by Instruments, you can sort the list by Instrument bank names. To do
so:
• Right-click the Search Results List’s header row and activate the Bank entry in the
upcoming context menu. This will show each KORE Sound’s bank name in a new col
umn of the Search Results List. Now click the Bank column’s header to sort the list
according to this specification.
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Finding a KORE Sound
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Fig. 3.4 The search results sorted by Instrument bank name.
3.2 Loading a KORE Sound
3.2.1 Loading a KORE Sound in KORE PLAYER
To load a KORE Sound in KORE PLAYER:
• Double-click its entry in the Search Results list. Alternatively, you can drag it onto
KORE PLAYER’s Global Controller. Both actions replace the currently loaded KORE
Sound—if it is the first KORE Sound you load after start-up, it will replace an “emp
ty” KORE Sound.
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Loading a KORE Sound
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Fig. 3.5 Dragging a KORE Sound onto the Global Controller.
When a KORE Sound is loaded, its Control Page is mapped onto the Global Controller.
This preassigned Control Page gives you access to the KORE Sound’s most important pa
rameters. The exact buttons and knobs assignments on the Control Page are specific to
each KORE Sound, as well as the number of Control Pages. With the Global Controller, you
also have immediate control over the KORE Sound’s Variations. Please refer to the KORE
PLAYER manual for details about Control Pages and Sound Variations.
%If you use KORE PLAYER as a plug-in in a host environment, you can save the positions/
states set on the eight knobs and eight buttons of the Control Page; saving the host’s
project saves all settings of all incorporated plug-ins and also all changes made to a
KORE Sound loaded.
3.2.2 Loading a KORE Sound in KORE 2
To load a KORE Sound in KORE 2:
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Loading a KORE Sound
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• Double-click its entry in the Search Results list. Alternatively, you can drag it onto
KORE 2’s Global Controller. Both actions replace the currently loaded KORE Sound—
if it is the first KORE Sound you load after start-up, it will replace an “empty” KORE
Sound.
Fig. 3.6 Dragging a KORE Sound onto the Global Controller.
%If you want to place the KORE Sound into a specific Channel Insert within the Edit Area
(instead of loading the KORE Sound into the focused one), you can also drag it directly
onto the Sound Matrix.
When loaded, the KORE Sound will automatically be displayed, so that its Control Pages
are directly mapped onto the Global Controller. If you are using the KORE 2 Controller, the
mappings stored in the Control Pages are reflected in the Controller. Via the preassigned
User Page, you have access to a KORE Sound’s most important parameters: The exact but
ton and knob assignments on the User Page are specific to each KORE Sound. With the
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Loading a KORE Sound
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Global Controller, you also have immediate control over a KORE Sound’s Variations (the
different “shapes” of a KORE Sound, which can be selected via A to H in the Sound Varia
tion grid).
%If these terms are completely new to you, chapter 3.1 of the KORE 2 manual provides
general information, and chapter 3.1.4 covers the Control Page system and Sound Varia
tions.
How to Use a KORE Instrument
Loading a KORE Sound
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4 Content Description
4.1 About DEEP FREQ
DEEP FREQ [dip frik] is the second KORE Instrument effects pack by Surround SFX, pick
ing up where we left off with DEEP RECONSTRUCTIONS. Where DEEP RECONSTRUC
TIONS focused on re-arranging a signal in time, DEEP FREQ is all about warping, bend
ing, shifting, mangling and other mutilations of sound in terms of frequency. That’s not to
say there isn’t any time-altering stuff going on, there’s lots of that really, but the main ob
ject of DEEP FREQ is frequency. Like it’s cousin, DEEP FREQ is designed to turn your sig
nal into something completely different; no cuddly, friendly, care-bear-type processing in
cluded. It’s also designed to do that with maximum speed and ease, much like you’d use
certain popular outboard effects devices: you can get by, using presets because they al
ready sound awesome, but if you want to roll your own, turning one of the knobs a little
way can take you from completely mad to utterly insane processing within seconds, with
out leaving the realms of usable results. If you have to remix a tune and one track beats
the other for uninspired boringness, if you’re suffering from an acute case of “inspiration
is out for lunch,“ or if you’re simply looking for a particularly unique effect, DEEP FREQ
was designed to sort you out. You’ll surely get the idea by now so let us continue with
some more technical info.
4.2 Feature Overview
DEEP FREQ contains 150 multi-effects patches, created using the GUITAR RIG 4, AB
SYNTH 5 and KORE 2 engines, as well as four REAKTOR ensembles, custom-tailored for
this release. Each of the patches features a unique and very complex signal flow structure,
as well as eight sound variations for a total of 1200 effects.
Content Description
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4.3 Included Effect Types
As what kind of effect would you declare a four-voice resonator feeding into multiple paral
lel busses, each of which contains a different combination of delays, pitch-shifters, fre
quency shifters, reverbs, filters, ring-modulators, and each of which feeds back into the
resonator in varying amounts? The answer is, it’s hard to categorize. The above description
is probably the most concise way of describing what’s going on, and it would sound very
differently for each of the patches.
But while it is difficult to categorize these effects, they have one thing in common: the
focus is on frequency manipulation. So pitch-shifters, granular delays/shifters, frequency-
shifters, filters, equalizers, tone-controls, ring-modulators, resonators, phasers, flangers,
pseudo-resynthesizers, oscillating feedback loops, FM-effects, fuzz-boxes and the like
make up for most of the modules in the signal processing chains. But don’t worry, there
also are many, many delays, reverbs, compressors, tape-echos, reversers, loopers, chorus
es, limiters, cross-faders, auto-panners, tremoloes and such to be found in DEEP FREQ.
We’ll describe some of the DEEP FREQ signal processing structures in the next section.
4.4 Example Signal Flow Structures
Describing the structures of all of the 150 KORE Sounds would be beyond the scope of
this manual, but lets have a look at a few examples in the following sections.
Content Description
Included Effect Types
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4.4.1 Buttbeard
Fig. 4.1 Buttbeard signal flow.
Content Description
Example Signal Flow Structures
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Fig. 4.2 Buttbeard KORE Controller Page.
In the Buttbeard KORE Sound, the signal first passes through an instance of the SSFX
Spreadbands ensemble, where a LFO modulates the spacing between five bandpass filters
while the same LFO is inverted and used for modulating the center frequency of the filter
array. The result of that is that while the center frequency of the array is lowered, the
spacing between bands is increased, so the listener gets the idea that the cutoff frequency
is lowered, while there still is high frequency content audible. To further support this ef
fect, the top band output is crossfaded a little towards high-pass. The signal is then
passed through a Reverb followed by an amplifier/attenuator, which is used to impose a
rhythm onto the signal under step-sequencer control—think “trance gate” (but cool). The
Reverb is used to make the effect more pronounced by making sure that there’s more of a
continuous signal running into the amplifier. The sequencer controlling the amplifier is ac
tually two step-sequencers, being alternatingly switched on and off by a square-wave LFO;
this is done to generate a longer and more complex pattern than possible with just one se
quencer. The output of the amplifier is fed into a phaser, after which the signal path is
multed to two busses, one that carries just the phaser output and one that runs through a
filter and an LFO-controlled granular pitch-shifter. The two busses are fed into a crossfade
module, which is used to switch between the two sources under control of the same
square-wave LFO that is used to switch sequencers. Next, we’re patching that into a delay
used as freezer/looper by modulating feedback amount, input mute and dry/wet mix with a
second square-wave LFO. After sending the result through another delay for a little bit of
tempo-synced echo, a low-shelf EQ is applied to prevent intermodulation distortion in the
following compressor. Another reverb is used to add a little shine to the signal before it
hits the dry/wet mix stage where the original signal is mixed back in. Finally, a low-cut fil
Content Description
Example Signal Flow Structures
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