• I’m a media composer, and my cues take an age to load between cues. - Ha ha, we too wish that some DAWs
handled memory a bit better. Make sure the Kontakt Memory Manager is on (detailed above), and try and cre-
ate a palette from which all your cues derive. But most importantly, if you’re using a lot of our sounds. Try and
run your orchestral palette in the background, either via rewire using Plogue Bidule for example, or indeed
from an entirely different “slave” computer. We’d recommend loading the Brunel Loops into your host however
so you can enjoy the beat-matching. You can beat match in Plogue, using the MIDI Clock To SYNC bidule.
• You keep mentioning “round robins”, what are they? - * Round Robins are a method of recording a number
of versions of the same sample so that when playing repeated notes in fast succession you don’t get “machine
gunning” a rapid repeat of the same sample that gives the game away immediately.
• You keep mentioning “release trigger samples”, what are they? - These are individual samples of the sound
of the release trail the minute the piano keys are lifted and give you the true character of the hall. They are de-
signed to trigger when you lift your key and the level of these can be controlled with the slider provided.
• How do I make this piano work for intimate or quiet cues. - It’s not really designed for this kind of work.
This is a piano that designed to sit within large orchestral arrangements. We would suggest our Felt Piano in
our spitfire labs range as a great intimate piano ( http://www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfire-labs-intro ) or the many
fine piano libraries out there. With this piano we’re doing what we do best at Spitfire and that is orchestral.
Hence the orchestral grand piano.
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