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Summary of Contents for Deep Freq

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Page 4: ...oading a KORE Sound in KORE PLAYER 13 3 2 2 Loading a KORE Sound in KORE 2 14 4 Content Description 17 4 1 About DEEP FREQ 17 4 2 Feature Overview 17 4 3 Included Effect Types 18 4 4 Example Signal Fl...

Page 5: ...aps 34 5 4 Spreadbands 36 5 4 1 Spreadbands Filter Controls 37 5 4 2 Satur8 Controls 38 5 4 3 Frequency Modulation Controls 38 5 4 4 Spread Modulation Controls 38 5 4 5 Envelope Follower Controls 39 5...

Page 6: ...6 2 About Levels 46 6 3 Controls Mapping 47 6 4 Sound Variations 48 7 Credits 50 Table of Contents DEEP FREQ Manual 6...

Page 7: ...REQ into KORE 2 KORE PLAYER Following the Installation chapter is an explanation of the general usage of KORE Sounds within KORE 2 KORE PLAYER in chapter 3 How to Use a KORE Instrument If you are alre...

Page 8: ...Sound content files into the folders that KORE 2 KORE PLAYER expects them to be in In the course of the installation procedure the installer application asks you to specify another folder for additio...

Page 9: ...e the Service Center connects to the Native Instruments server and activates your products 4 Download updates When the server has confirmed the activation the Service Center automatically displays the...

Page 10: ...earch Results list alongside all the other sounds matching specific search criteria Searching for Sounds by Attribute You can select a combination of Attributes in the Browser The Sounds that match th...

Page 11: ...ults list shows the entire content of this particular pack Fig 3 2 KORE PLAYER Browser left and Search Results list right with MASCHINE Drum Selection high lighted Searching for Sounds via Full Text S...

Page 12: ...nstruments you can sort the list by Instrument bank names To do so Right click the Search Results List s header row and activate the Bank entry in the upcoming context menu This will show each KORE So...

Page 13: ...in KORE PLAYER Double click its entry in the Search Results list Alternatively you can drag it onto KORE PLAYER s Global Controller Both actions replace the currently loaded KORE Sound if it is the fi...

Page 14: ...ontroller you also have immediate control over the KORE Sound s Variations Please refer to the KORE PLAYER manual for details about Control Pages and Sound Variations If you use KORE PLAYER as a plug...

Page 15: ...tead of loading the KORE Sound into the focused one you can also drag it directly onto the Sound Matrix When loaded the KORE Sound will automatically be displayed so that its Control Pages are directl...

Page 16: ...Sound which can be selected via A to H in the Sound Varia tion grid If these terms are completely new to you chapter 3 1 of the KORE 2 manual provides general information and chapter 3 1 4 covers the...

Page 17: ...can get by using presets because they al ready sound awesome but if you want to roll your own turning one of the knobs a little way can take you from completely mad to utterly insane processing withi...

Page 18: ...ion So pitch shifters granular delays shifters frequency shifters filters equalizers tone controls ring modulators resonators phasers flangers pseudo resynthesizers oscillating feedback loops FM effec...

Page 19: ...4 4 1 Buttbeard Fig 4 1 Buttbeard signal flow Content Description Example Signal Flow Structures DEEP FREQ Manual 19...

Page 20: ...controlling the amplifier is ac tually two step sequencers being alternatingly switched on and off by a square wave LFO this is done to generate a longer and more complex pattern than possible with j...

Page 21: ...damaging ter ritory Now you know why we can t describe 150 KORE Sounds it would take more than 150 pages to do so and anybody bold enough to read all of them would run the risk of a serious brain mel...

Page 22: ...4 4 2 Finite Wire Fig 4 3 Finite Wire signal flow Content Description Example Signal Flow Structures DEEP FREQ Manual 22...

Page 23: ...ned hard left and hard right with the right voice being delayed by 3 16th notes In this stage harmonics are generated on top of the trans posed granulated phaser resonances We re then feeding this int...

Page 24: ...4 4 3 De Facto Chimp Fig 4 5 De Facto Chimp signal flow Content Description Example Signal Flow Structures DEEP FREQ Manual 24...

Page 25: ...the signal path In the next processing stage the signal is sent to a parallel path consisting of a sequencer controlled gate which is triggered for the duration of a quarter note on the beginning of...

Page 26: ...cked fifths etc 3 Spreadbands consists of five parallel filters in Bandpass mode Their frequencies are defined via the center frequency of the middle band and the Spread parameter which sets the dista...

Page 27: ...5 2 re Sonitarium Fig 5 1 Signal flow of re Sonitarium The Ensembles re Sonitarium DEEP FREQ Manual 27...

Page 28: ...twist it is possible to crossfade between odd and even numbered harmonics which gives very interesting and unique results Additionally the voices feature a lowpass filter after the resonator which is...

Page 29: ...by a 4 pole LPF whose cutoff frequency is linked to the Resonator frequency The Brightness parameter adds an offset to the LPF cutoff to allow more harmonics to pass Reso adjusts the resonance of the...

Page 30: ...as source for panning modulation 5 2 3 LFO 1 LFO 2 Controls Shape selects the LFO waveform Rate sets LFO speed in note values if Clock Sync Mode is on Clock Sync activates Clock Sync mode syncing LFO...

Page 31: ...ndpass Filters whose amplitudes are derived from the amplitude envelope of the input signal and whose frequencies are controlled by a look up table containing various frequency maps including the harm...

Page 32: ...nput In mode 2 the input signal is first fed into an Envelope Follower whose output signal directly selects one of the 16 envelopes and triggers it on selection This also means that higher input level...

Page 33: ...control page 5 3 1 Synthesis Controls Mode selects the Synthesis Mode Sine Ring Mod or BPF Pitch sets the base frequency for the 16 Oscillators Filters Unit is MIDI note number The Ensembles Plagiari...

Page 34: ...or Filter gets triggered well sort of Attack sets the attack time of the envelopes Decay sets the decay release time of the envelopes Hold sets the hold time of the envelopes For Mode 1 this also tran...

Page 35: ...ors 1 1 1892 1 3348 1 4983 1 7818 2 2 3784 2 6697 2 9966 3 5636 4 4 7568 5 3394 5 9932 7 1272 8 Map 8 Pentatonic major factors 1 1 1225 1 2599 1 4983 1 6818 2 2 2449 2 5198 2 9966 3 3636 4 4 4898 5 03...

Page 36: ...5 4 Spreadbands Fig 5 5 Spreadbands signal flow The Ensembles Spreadbands DEEP FREQ Manual 36...

Page 37: ...eing spaced one octave apart The lowest and highest bands can be crossfaded from Bandpass to Lowpass and Highpass respectively An Envelope Follow er and an LFO can be used to modulate Center Frequency...

Page 38: ...ut Gain Output gain of the Saturation circuit 5 4 3 Frequency Modulation Controls Frq Mod controls the filter array center frequency modulation amount unit is semi tones LFO ENV blends the modulation...

Page 39: ...go from 1 0 EnvDly delays the Envelope Follower signal used to modulate Frequency Spread unit is 16th notes 5 4 5 Envelope Follower Controls Attack Envelope Follower Attack Time Release Envelope Foll...

Page 40: ...Modul8 Fig 5 7 Modul8 signal flow The SSFX Modul8 ensemble contains three seperate modulation FX circuits which are switched between using the Mode selector switch The Ensembles Modul8 DEEP FREQ Manua...

Page 41: ...spread out and the taps are not faded between Demon mode is a little more complex Here we have a quad synced quadrature oscilla tor that modulates delay times of four four tap delays For example the f...

Page 42: ...ls Parameter Controls Common To All Modes Mod Rate controls the rate of the modulating quadrature Oscillator The value of this fader is scaled with the value of the switch below The Unit of the result...

Page 43: ...ts the delay times of the four delay taps in an incremental way at a Spread value of 50 this translates into 0 50 100 and 150 ms Levels selects a set of values for the output levels of the 4 delay cir...

Page 44: ...5 5 4 Level Patterns Fig 5 9 Demon mode level patterns Gain is 1 at the top 0 in the middle and 1 inverted phase at mini mum The Ensembles Modul8 DEEP FREQ Manual 44...

Page 45: ...5 5 5 Pan Patterns Fig 5 10 Demon mode pan patterns Pan is left at maximum centre at the middle and right at minimum The Ensembles Modul8 DEEP FREQ Manual 45...

Page 46: ...ten there isn t much of a point in mixing the processed and unprocessed signal or in applying the same effect to multiple mix elements as you would do with say a reverb You can of course use them as s...

Page 47: ...le to stick to the exact same map ping We ve also tried to place controls that interact with each other and controls that af fect parameters on the same part of the effect next to each other if that s...

Page 48: ...n two parallel signal paths or control reverb mix amount etc The third knobs from the left of both row 1 and 2 are mapped according to the re quirements of the effect but you ll often find granular or...

Page 49: ...n directly by clicking on it Because of this re sults may vary depending on which Sound Variation you start off with when morphing As there are many modulation rate parameters assigned to the knobs th...

Page 50: ...and Sound Variations by Denis G kdag of Surround SFX Manual by Denis G kdag Special thanks to Tobias Menguser Alexander Stamm Gerald Zollner Christoph Laue and Patryk Korman at NI for their support i...

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