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SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE

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Page 1: ...SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com...

Page 2: ...ONDES CONTENTS INSTALLATION THE ONDES MARTENOT THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS REALTIME CONTROL SUPPORT E U L A SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE www soniccouture com email customerservices soniccouture com...

Page 3: ...to the location of the Soniccouture Ondes Ondes Library folder 4 This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the Service Center 5 Kontakt then asks you to Activate the library the NI Service...

Page 4: ...rice Martenot in 1928 More about its background can be found on Wikipedia The instrument produces sound using oscillators as with a conventional analogue synthesiser but it is its methods of control w...

Page 5: ...the keyboard is being played In fact when the Ondes is switched to ring mode au ruban the ring becomes the sole method of determining pitch a very skillful technique particularly so when you consider...

Page 6: ...ither the ring or the keyboard to produce the melody THE VIBRATO KEYBOARD The final unique control trick that the Ondes has up its sleeve is the keyboard vibrato To those familiar with MIDI keyboards...

Page 7: ...d off quite a bit D2 This speaker has springs stretched across the inside panel and is the reverb unit of the three It has a knob on the back which is used to adjust the decay time of the springs from...

Page 8: ...d to add sparkly highlights to staccato passages THOMAS LINE OUT Most Ondes do not have a direct output fortunately for us and you Thomas Bloch had his modified with such a facility This means we were...

Page 9: ...the original instrument these switches turn on and off either the loudspeaker routings or the various oscillators that the Ondes Martenot provides for different timbres In our instrument these switch...

Page 10: ...eur or loudspeaker This loudspeaker has a spring reverb built into it D1 The main diffuseur or loudspeaker which is a large normal speaker Line A line out signal not processed through any of the louds...

Page 11: ...ded to sound like a string instrument g Petit gambe A similar timbre to Gambe but with less overtones S Souffle A noise generator approximately pink noise T Tutti This is a switch that turns on everyt...

Page 12: ...creating new sounds they can be very useful ADSR DIALS At the bottom of the panel on the right there are four dials that give you control over the envelope A D S R Attack Decay Sustain Release In fact...

Page 13: ...a dynamic filter not available on the Ondes Martenot itself with Cutoff Resonance and Envelope Depth EG controls along the top dials FEG You will also notice that there is now a FEG switch which swit...

Page 14: ...faders left on the main panel provide the send levels to each of these speakers The Line fader provides a totally dry direct output IMPORTANT Switching the speaker faders so that they show a RED hand...

Page 15: ...case of speaker D2 which functions like a spring reverb there are a variety of different time settings to choose from as well ranging from short to very long AMP DECAY CONTROLS AMP This is the return...

Page 16: ...ersion you are always in 12dB filter mode And in addition to Cutoff Resonance and EG depth you also now have control over the Velocity and LFO depth to the filter The knobs in the middle of the right...

Page 17: ...altime control you want to try to manage either in realtime or in sequencer editing The SETUP button in the top middle of our panel launches this window On the left of the Performance Setup window you...

Page 18: ...e depth of the controller And for all controllers there are three curves you can choose from that affect the response of that controller linear and exponential concave and convex The second important...

Page 19: ...set to any note on your keyboard Essentially this just stops that note from sounding The purpose of this is if you want to use one hand to control Aftertouch and not have that key interfere with the m...

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Page 21: ...s soniccouture com or we have a support forum within the KVR Audio community which can be found here Soniccouture Support Forum We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry within 12 hours but do...

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