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THE POLY ONDES

This  instrument  is  designed  for  even more  control,  taking  us  further  away 
from the original Ondes controls and into creative sound design patches.  

Emulating the original Ondes is wonderful of course, but once we had these 
gorgeous  waves,  we  couldn’t  resist  making  polyphonic  versions  of  the 
instrument  and  adding  more  synthesis  features.  You’ll  find  that  this 
instrument  makes  fantastic  vintage  sounding  pads,  and  sounds  great 
through the 3 speakers.

In this version, 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 half of the panel 
control :

Pitch 

  

LFO to pitch.

Rate

   

LFO rate.

Offset

  

LFO deviation between the oscillators. This introduces a slight 

 

 

timing difference if several oscillators are used.

Amp

   

LFO to amplitude.

Detune

 

Detune (the same as the fader in the previous panel)

Width

  

The width of the detune in the stereo field.

Sat

   

Saturation or overdrive.

HPF

   

A high pass filter without resonance.

SONICCOUTURE ONDES USER GUIDE

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Summary of Contents for ONDES

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...

Page 22: ...e Soniccouture product The making of sample libraries in any form commercial or otherwise using Soniccouture audio or software be they single hits loops fully mixed audio clips or scripts is STRICTLY...

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