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Summary of Contents for SPITFIRE AUDIO PLUCKED PIANO
- Page 1 PLUCKED P I A N O S P I T F I R E U S E R M A N U A L...
- Page 2 Welcome. Thanks for being part of the Spitfire Audio project. We’ve tried to make this as brief and interesting as possible but we also understand that reading manuals is a bore, so stick this next to your loo and give it a read whenever you can.
- Page 3 RECOMMENDED SPEC: The better your computer, the better the performance of the Plucked Piano. But not to worry if you’re not spec’ d up to the hilt. All programs are provided with a set of parameters that enable you to tone back the CPU de- mands of any given patch.
- Page 4 CONTENTS: INSTALLATION & GETTING STARTED THE FRONT PANEL MERCURY SYNTH A QUICK THANKS...
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Page 5: Getting Started
INSTALLATION Because you’re reading this manual, we can presume you have successfully downloaded Plucked Piano. In- cluded in your download email are some detailed installation instructions, please follow these carefully before going any further. We’ll see you back here when you’re installed! GETTING STARTED Before opening Kontakt please make sure you have THE LATEST VERSION OF KONTAKT 4.2.4 OR 5 IN-... -
Page 6: The Front Panel
THE FRONT PANEL GENERAL CONTROLS MIC/ MIX POSITIONS EXPRESSION CONTROLS PA G E 6... - Page 7 ARTICULATIONS AND ADVANCED STAVE RAM CHIPS - The chips beneath the articulations denote load status of the articulations. If you play an articulation that isn’t loaded the front panel will alert you. Click on the memory chip to load. Make sure Kontakt displays the instrument load status as pictured. If the left hand bar is illuminated and red it’s in a queue and hasn’t started loading yet, if the middle bar is lit and yellow the instrument is still loading up.
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Page 8: General Controls
GENERAL CONTROLS OPTIONS PRESETS - This allows you to load predetermined sets of articulations, affectionately called “Brush Sets”, quickly and easily to optimise your system speedily for essential articulations, or to start building templates using empty “shells”. PURGE UNUSED - This control keeps unloading any samples you are not using to keep your memory usage as low as possible. - Page 9 MICROPHONE/ MIX SETTINGS Welcome to the wonderful world of Air Studios and the mixes of our chief engineer Jake Jackson. Use the blobs beneath the faders to load/unload different microphones and the faders above to tweak the balance of them. Turning a fader all the way down will also unload the mics, conversely turning the fader back up will reload.
- Page 10 PLUCKED PIANO MERCURY SYNTH...
- Page 11 THE PLUCKED PIANO MERCURY SYNTH Although these sound excellent out of the box, we’ve also given you an easy to use and ingenious front panel. 1. Lo & Hi Pass Filters LPF = Low, HPF = Hi. For some, a counter intuitive industry standard in titling. Adjust the graph on the LPF to chop off the top end, HPF to chop off the bottom.
- Page 12 A QUICK THANKS Christian & Paul would like to thank the cabal of genius assembled herein. To Dominic Kelly and the sear- ing talents of the English Session Orchestra, to Alison Burton and the whole of the Air-Studios team. To Jake Jackson for wrangling and controlling this beast.
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