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TUBE DRUM CONTENTS : INSTALLATION ABOUT THE TUBE DRUM INSTRUMENTS SUPPORT E.U.L.A
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INSTALLATION 1. NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT 2 OR 3 Copy the entire “SC Tube Drum” folder to anywhere you like on your hard drive. Make sure you keep that folder structure as it is, so that the Kontakt instruments can find their samples. (If you don’t need the EXS24 instruments or the Kontakt 2 version etc, you can erase those respective folders… never erase the Samples folder ).
2. EXS24 Move the included EXS24/SamplerInstruments/ SC Tube Drum folder to your real Sampler Instruments folder, which is located here: user/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments Keep a copy of the included “Samples” folder somewhere on your hard drive. This folder has all the sample data that the EXS24 instruments need, so keep it somewhere safe.
3. ABLETON LIVE Double click the included “Tube Drum.alp” file, and this will launch an installer program to install Tube Drum into your Live Library.
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ABOUT THE TUBE DRUM Inspired by the Blue Man group, we decided to build a PVC pipe thwacker thing... a "Tube Drum" .. technically known as a "plosive aerophone" . Starting with a very long 20 foot (6 metre) pipe (that's a 57 Hz fundamental, for those without a calculator)... we thwacked, and we sampled and we sawed... we thwacked again, and we sawed again -- we went back to the hardware store a few times -- until one last little piece (6 inches / 16 cm) gave us the high C6. This gave us the five octave completely multi-sampled 63 note Tube Drum. We didn't actually keep every pipe length, so we don't have a 63 note rack of pipes to take a photo of. It would have been a bit big for the studio anyway. We cut and re-used the same pipes, sampling as they got shorter. This instrument uses 63 different pipes, multi-sampled and round-robined with our usual levels of 'mustn't-hear-the-same-sample-twice' neurosis. There are enough velocities to give it some dynamics, and it is very dynamic. You can hit these things with your hands, but the sound is very soft that way. To get the full BlueMan Group THWACK you need to use plastic bats, or shoes, ping-pong paddles, etc. We found we got the best THWACK from a plastic sun-tan-lotion applicator. In any case, we provide both the full Paddle thwack version, and the soft Palm thwup version. The soft flesh version www.soniccouture.com
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might be appropriate for some applications, it has a kind of Udu-like, gentle quality to it.
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INSTRUMENTS GENERAL INFO All 63 pipe lengths were sampled at 44.1kHz / 24 bit. Two articulations were sampled: palm and paddle hits. Up to 10 velocity layers are used in the instruments and there are three round robin layers for each note. The range of the instrument is 63 keys, from A#0 to C6.
KONTAKT Instruments : • Tube Drum Paddle • Tube Drum Palm • Tube Drum KS (Kontakt 3 only)
THE KONTAKT FRONT PANEL - JAMMER PAGE
The first page of the front panel is the KSP Jammer, which is a performance tool for exploring the Tube Drum in real time. It’s similar to an arpeggiator in that notes you hold down will be played automatically, but which note will be triggered is randomly selected from those you hold down. The controls of the Jammer are as follows: Jam ON enables or disables the Jammer effect. When the Jammer is ON, all throughput of MIDI is disabled, you only hear the output of the Jammer. www.soniccouture.com
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Time is a drop down menu that allows you to choose the repeat speed. This will always sync to the tempo of Kontakt or your host sequencer. Double Hits will trigger two notes on each repetition, as if you are playing with both hands simultaneously. MW Vel is a depth setting that allows you to add or subtract velocity using the Modulation Wheel. This will affect notes already held down so you can make swells or fades while the Jammer is already rolling. The Randomize section allows you to introduce randomicity to the notes as they are being generated. Randomize Velocity will add or subtract a random amount of velocity for each note, up to a maximum that you set. This is always in relation to the last played velocity you triggered with your keyboard or sequencer. Randomize Note will add or subtract a random value for the MIDI note, which can be useful especially using the zoned Instruments. Randomize Octave will randomly add an octave or more (maximum 3) to the generated notes. Note that Octave only introduces added octaves, not subtractions. Randomize Timing is best used very subtly if you want to introduce a bit of “human error” into the timing. At higher settings it’s a bit avant-garde. If you want to record the output of the Jammer into a MIDI track, you need to turn on “Send MIDI to outside world” in Kontakts Options page, under the Audio Engine tab. In the “choose options” drop down, you can turn on “script generated notes”, and Kontakt will then send Jammer’s notes out. You then need to assign a MIDI track to record these notes as you play the Jammer. Be careful you don’t route the generated MIDI thru your sequencer back into Kontakt again, or you’ll get complete confusion and the universe might turn inside out.
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THE KONTAKT FRONT PANEL - TWEAK PAGE
The Tweak Page gives you quick access to a variety of Kontakt’s internal sound shaping tools. Although we have provided very straight and clean Instruments, you can of course quickly make something less natural using the filters and envelopes. If you Command-click (Ctrl-click in Windows) any knob, it will jump back to our “default” position, which is generally the place for the most natural sound. The control knobs provided are: •Low Pass Filter Cutoff •Resonance •Filter EG Amount •Filter EG Attack •Filter EG Decay •Amp EG Attack •Amp EG Release •High Pass Filter (static) •Delay Send •Pipe Send (convolution with a general pipe sample) THE KONTAKT FRONT PANEL - JAMMER & TWEAK CONTROL
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Tweak & Jammer MIDI control panels
The two MIDI Control pages allow you to assign MIDI controllers to the knobs of the Jammer and the Tweak Page. This is useful if you have a hardware controller, or want to sequence changes to those parameters.
EXS24 After installing copying the SC Tube Drum folder to your Sampler Instruments folder : ( user/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments ) when you next launch Logic, there will be two new Instruments available in the EXS24 drop down menu : • Tube Drum Paddle • Tube Drum Palm.
The first time you load a Tube Drum Instrument in EXS24, your Mac may take a moment to find the waveforms it needs. After that, it will remember the location and load much more quickly.
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ABLETON LIVE After installing Tube Drum to your Live Library, you will find the Tube Drum Instrument Racks in the Instrument Racks/Soniccouture folder. The two racks are • Tube Drum Paddle • Tube Drum Palm.
There are 8 knobs giving you realtime control of The Tube Drum: Arp and Speed controls affect an arpeggiator, which can be used to create random patterns when you hold down a chord. The Attack and Decay knobs affect the envelope of the resulting sound, which can be interesting for special effects. Obviously the default position of these is best for a natural instrument sound. Autopan pans the instrument back and forth in sync with Live’s tempo. The Filter type, Cutoff and Reso are useful if you want to make the sound more synthetic or turn it into something quite different.
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