Summary of Contents for Spitfire ORCHESTRAL GRAND PIANO
- Page 1 OR C H E ST R AL GRAND PIANO S P I T F I R E U S E R M A N U A L V 1 . 0 V 1 . 1...
- Page 2 About Spitfire: Spitfire was formed in 2008 by a group of successful British composers as a means of producing the tools they needed for their busy work schedules. Sick of dry, humourless, ugly, unrealistic, enormously untamable sound- ing libraries, Spitfire set about redefining the way samples were created.
- Page 3 The library will eventually take up 5-6 Gig on your hard drive. If using several large libraries, or a number of Spitfire modules from the same machine, we really recommend having your samples distributed over a number of drives.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS: INSTALLATION GETTING STARTED THE FRONT PANEL SURROUND USE AFAQs... -
Page 5: Installation
INSTALLATION Because you’re reading this manual, we can presume you have successfully downloaded The Orchestral Grand Piano. Included in your download email are some detailed installation instructions, please follow these care- fully before going any further. We’ll see you back here, when you’re installed! GETTING STARTED If you have never used Kontakt before we wholeheartedly recommend your familiarise yourself with the basics of patch (or instrument) loading, multi management, outputting and MIDI routing detailed in the Kontakt... -
Page 6: The Front Panel
THE FRONT PANEL... - Page 7 6. Mic Controllers One of the most exciting aspects of the Spitfire range. C(lose) T(ree) A(mbient) & O(utboard) mics. Above these letters are the mic cut buttons that dial the mic signals in or out, this will unload or load the sam- ples needed to keep your system lean.
- Page 8 7. Close Mics Stereo Width Controller: This control appears when you have the close mics activated. It controls the pan width of the matched pair used in this signal. We’ d recommend reducing the width if you’re wanting a “placed” orchestral sound, combined with the pan pot (below).
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Page 9: Surround Use
SURROUND USE: If you are lucky enough to work in 5.1 you will be delighted by how the piano works in this respect and with the number of mic combinations, there’s a number of different ways of doing it. The basic principal is to load in several instances of the same patch routed to the same MIDI channel with dif- ferent mics selected and each instance routed to a different out, or panning selection on your surround panner. -
Page 10: Afaqs
AFAQs (Anticipated FAQs) Our first comment is to remind everyone that this is a manual to accompany v1.0 of a totally new line for Spit- fire. With a totally new set of samples, scripts, and UI. We have used our experience as busy film composers to deliver something that we’... - Page 11 ( http://www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfire-labs-intro ) or the many fine piano libraries out there. With this piano we’re doing what we do best at Spitfire and that is orchestral. Hence the orchestral grand piano.
- Page 12 A QUICK THANKS Christian & Paul would like to thank Dominic Kelly, Alison Burton and the whole of the Air Studios team. To Jake Jackson for making everything sound so marvellous, and the remarkable talents, immense intellect and invention of Andrew Blaney, Blake Robinson and Stu Kennedy. Most of all we would like to thank the amazing support and loyalty of our user-base, our Facebook friends and everyone at VI Control.
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