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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TABLE OF CONTENTS INSTALLATION LIBRARY SPECIFICATIONS STUDIO DRUM MACHINES THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT SNAPSHOTS DRUM MACHINE PANEL THE CHANNELS THE PARAMETER PANEL THE MIXER OPTIONS BEAT TOOLS: BEAT SHIFTER BEAT TOOLS: EUCLIDEAN BEATS BEAT TOOLS: POLY BEATS SUPPORT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT...

  • Page 3: Installation

    NOTE: The login for NI Service Center is not the same as your login for the Soniccouture site. You must create an account with Native Instruments if you don’t already have one. RESTART KONTAKT TO COMPLETE AUTHORISATION...

  • Page 4: Library Specifications

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC LIBRARY SPECIFICATIONS • 15 vintage drum machines. All original settings sampled at 5 round robins per hit. • Channels: Dry, Neve 1073, EMI TG12345 Desk compressor, Ampeg Bass Amp, Thermionic Culture Rooster preamp, PA mics HiGH, MID, LOW, State Of The Ark Studio Room mics, Monnow Valley glass room mics, Drum resonance mics, Drum shell rattles •...

  • Page 5: Studio Drum Machines

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC STUDIO DRUM MACHINES The PA setup at Monnow Valley, March 2016 Electro-Acoustic was born from an idea to make a different studio drum instrument - not an acoustic drum VSTi, with thousands of layers and mic channels, sounding totally realistic, but something with a similar spec, focussed toward electronica, hip-hop and pop production.
  • Page 6 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC The PA setup at SOTA Studios, August 2016 This was very much a ‘first experiment’ into the studio drum machines concept. Some of it worked, some of it didn’t. Upon listing to the recordings back in the SC studios, what became clear is that the PA mics themselves were also very interesting indeed, something that hadn’t been part of the original idea.
  • Page 7 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC An additional session at SC studios captured more ‘rattle’ sounds - another drum kit, room rattles, boxes of screws, tins - a selection of small sonic artefacts that could be triggered with drums at a low level to give a real life, organic recording feel. The combination of the channels captured at the two studios made a very exciting set of different colours to work with to create new drum sounds.

  • Page 8: The Kontakt Instrument

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT You can hover your mouse over any control in this library to get information about its function if you have the Kontakt Info pane activated. SNAPSHOTS To access the preset kits,click the ‘camera’ icon at the top of the Kontakt window. From here you can load the snapshot presets and save your own.

  • Page 9: Drum Machine Panel

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC DRUM MACHINE PANEL Clicking on any drum in the main image will show the corresponding panel at the bottom left of the screen. Here you can choose a drum type from a list of 15 different drum machines. DRY: The pure line level signal from the original unit ACCENT: This sets the level of the accent sample where one is available.

  • Page 10: The Channels

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC THE CHANNELS Each of the 11 channel knobs represents a different sampled signal for the selected drum. These can be blended with the dry signal for subtle effects, or used solo or in any combination desired. 1073: Sampled from a vintage Neve 1073 preamp. The signal was overdriven hard, so that it can be blended with other signals to give a variable amount of harmonic distortion effect, or used an extreme sound-design element at higher amounts.
  • Page 11 Each still has 5 round robins per hit, as do all channels in Electro Acoustic, but if you select the ‘full drum kit’ sound in the menu, then this will be the same sound whether you add it to a kick or a snare.

  • Page 12: The Parameter Panel

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC THE PARAMETER PANEL These controls shape the sampled signals on the channel knobs. The pitch, envelope, and velocity response of a drum can be controlled here using the various knobs. A second set of controls featuring high and low pass filters can be accessed by clicking the white squares in the bottom right corner, as shown in the pic sure to the left.

  • Page 13: The Mixer

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC THE MIXER toggle the Mixer panel using the button at the top right of the drum screen. MIXER CHANNELS: Select each mixer channel by clicking on the drum name. Channels can be SOLO’d or MUTED by clicking the red or green squares. Each drum has its own channel strip featuring: EQUALISER: 3band EQ with sweepable midrange.
  • Page 14 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC Activating the reverb will use extra CPU. MASTER CHANNEL Selecting the Master channel brings up 4 different processors, which affect the main stereo output only. Each effect can be selected using the tabs at the bottom, and activated using the white square at the top right. Be aware that each extra processor you activate will increase CPU usage.

  • Page 15: Options

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC OPTIONS Toggle the options panel by switching this button at the top left of the drum screen. Here you can adjust certain settings for each drum. MIDI KEY: edit which key the drum appears on. POLY LIMIT: Because each drum has 11 channels, Electro-Acoustic can quickly use a lot of polyphony.

  • Page 16: Beat Tools: Beat Shifter

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC BEAT TOOLS: BEAT SHIFTER BASIC CONTROLS PLAY: The Beat Shifter is enabled when the play arrow is pressed (bottom centre). If Electro-Acoustic is running within a host DAW, the host transport will control the start and stop of the beat. There are six tracks that have identical controls.
  • Page 17 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC BEAT SHIFTING Where things get interesting are with the five small sliders along the bottom of each track, which are labelled SHIFT, STEP, DIRection, RANDOM, and CHANCE. These introduce changes that evolve the pattern while it’s repeating. SHIFT controls the likelihood of the hits in that track moving shifting to the left or right (earlier or later) in time.
  • Page 18 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC GLOBAL CONTROLS PATTERN MENU FREEZE sets all SHIFT sliders to zero, freezing the pattern as it is, and stops it evolving on the next repeat. This is useful if you suddenly hear a pattern you like, and want to keep it. You can assign a MIDI note below the FREEZE icon to trigger the FREEZE function if you like.

  • Page 19: Beat Tools: Euclidean Beats

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC BEAT TOOLS: EUCLIDEAN BEATS Euclidean Beats are a way of thinking about rhythm that has become popular over the last few years. Essentially the basic idea is to take a number of STEPS (say a bar of 16 steps) and evenly distribute a number of HITS within those steps.
  • Page 20 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRACK CONTROLS There are six tracks each with identical controls. STEPS sets the length of the pattern HITS sets the number of times to strike that drum during those STEPS. You cannot alter how those HITS are distributed within the STEPS, they are always evenly distributed (Euclid’s algorithm).

  • Page 21: Beat Tools: Poly Beats

    ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC BEAT TOOLS: POLY BEATS Poly Beats is a way to divide the bar into arbitrary subdivisions, or polyrhythms. (This is distinct from the polymetric behaviour of Euclid, which loops different tracks after various numbers of steps, but in which the steps are all the same duration. In a polyrhythm the overall pattern length stays constant, and the duration of the steps is adjusted to fit the required steps into that pattern length.
  • Page 22 ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC CONTROLS There are 6 identical tracks. ON / OFF LOCK VELOCITY MENU VEL GRID SIZE DRUM TYPE Drum type and On/Off switch at the far left of each track. On the far right the large knob with the numerical is the divisor. If you set this to 8, you will divide the bar into 8th notes. Note that you are only adjusting the GRID size…...

  • Page 23: Support

    If you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product, please feel free to contact us. You can email us at : support@soniccouture.com We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry within 12 hours. We are based in the UK, so please bear in mind differences in time zones.

  • Page 24: End User License Agreement

    (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of this EULA or the use of or inability to use the software, even if Soniccouture has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

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