User manual CAME VRDK2

[. . . ] Hollywood, CA 90028 USA 1-323-957-6969 voice 1-323-957-6966 fax For questions about licensing of products: licensing@eastwestsounds. Com For more general information about products: info@eastwestsounds. Welcome 2 About EastWest 3 Producer: Doug Rogers 4 Producer: Nick Phoenix 5 Producer: Thomas Bergersen 6 Sound Engineer: Shawn Murphy 7 Credits 8 How to Use This and the Other Manuals 8 Using the Adobe Acrobat Features 8 The Master Navigation Document 9 Online Documentation and Other Resources Click on this text to open the Master Navigation Document 1 EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP VRDK2 Welcome About EastWest EastWest (www. Com) has been dedicated to perpetual innovation and uncompromising quality, setting the industry standard as the most critically acclaimed producer of Sample CDs and Virtual (software) Instruments. [. . . ] The several instrument types use different approaches to achieve the natural sound of a run. Repetition Runs Script This type of instrument uses a script to determine: • whether the run is moving upward or downward and, therefore, direction of the slur • the time interval between notes (to determine whether the notes should play legato) The instrument then plays the appropriate sample to create the correct effect for each note. When playing upward, there’s a slur from the lower note, When playing downward, there’s a slur from the higher note. For the first note in a run, or after a gap, there’s no slur. The behavior described in the last paragraph simulates the natural sound of a run on an acoustic instrument, and is the result of running a script in PLAY. If, for any reason, you want a different pattern of when to play the upward and downward samples in this instrument, take the following steps: • Turn off the script in this instrument by clicking on the Other button in the Player view, as shown in the image at the left of the button turned on. Chapter 4: Instruments, Articulations, and Keyswitches 50 EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP VRDK2 • Invoke MIDI Control Code 14 on the MIDI channel for this instrument (using a slider on a control surface or an envelope in a sequencer). € Set CC 14 to a value of 66–127 when you want to force the playback of downward samples • Set CC 14 to a value of exactly 65 to force the playback of repetition samples (neither upward no downward) • Set CC 14 to a value of 0–64 to force the playback of upward samples. The notes in this instrument do not respond to MIDI velocity; that is, changing the velocity on any given note will not affect how loudly it is played. Instead, use the “Expression” control code (CC 11) to set the loudness of the notes in the run. Note that all samples in this patch are “repetitions, ” that is, the sound of a single note being played multiple times in quick succession (similar to a tremolo). When PLAY runs as a plug-in, it asks the host for the current tempo. When it runs in standalone mode, the tempo is set in the Engine Tempo Sync control, which you can find by opening the Main Menu, selecting Current Instrument, and then opening the Advanced Properties dialog. Neither of these tremolo instruments responds to the MIDI Velocity parameter. Instead, you need to use CC 11 to change the loudness. This approach permits a continuous change in both dynamics and timbre in the middle of notes instead of having a fixed timbre set at the beginning of each note. This is done because long-held passages—including the possibility of crescendo or decrescendo—are characteristic of tremolo writing. all 5 orchestral sections include both Tremolo and Measured Tremolo. Trills A trill is the rapid alternation between 2 notes either a half tone or a whole tone apart. On a string instrument, the two notes are played on the same string. Chapter 4: Instruments, Articulations, and Keyswitches 52 EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP VRDK2 All the string sections (except the Basses) include an instrument that allows the user to select between a half tone trill and a whole tone trill with a keyswitch: Play C0 in advance of the trill to get a half tone trill, or C#0 to get a whole tone trill. The Trill instrument for the Basses includes only a half tone trill. [. . . ] This approach gives you a ability to spread out your audio outputs any way you want (up to the maximum number of outputs your system can handle). Note that when run as a plug-in, each instance of PLAY has its own set of outputs. That means that if the staccato celli and the pizzicato violins are running in separate instances of PLAY and they are both assigned to outputs “3-4” they will end up in separate audio tracks in the sequencer. If Using Only One Microphone Position It is certainly possible to create a piece with only a single microphone position. [. . . ]