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SONICCOUTURE
GLASS / WORKS
CONTENTS :
• INSTALLATION
• A LITTLE ABOUT THOMAS BLOCH
THE GLASSWORKS INSTRUMENTS :
• LE CRISTAL
• THE GLASS ARMONICA
• CLOUD CHAMBER BOWLS
• THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS
• CLOUD CHAMBER BOWLS
• BOWED CHAMBER BOWLS
• GLASS ARMONICA
• LE CRISTAL BASCHET
• LE CRISTAL SFX
• SUPPORT
• E.U.L.A
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INSTALLATION
If you do not own Kontakt 5, you will need to download and install the free
Kontakt 5 player which you can do here ; Kontakt Player Download Link
TO ADD THE LIBRARY AND AUTHORIZE IN KONTAKT
1. Start Kontakt or Kontakt Player in standalone mode (ie. not as a plug-in).
Then open the Browser on the left (the folder Icon at the top).
2. In the Libraries tab at the top of the Browser click "Add Library"
3. Click and use the dialogue window to navigate to and point Kontakt to the
location of the ‘Library’ folder ( inside the main Soniccouture Glassworks
folder). This will add it to the Kontakt Library list AND to the NI Service
Center.
4. When Kontakt asks you to Activate the library, the NI Service Center
program will launch and you will need your serial number to authorize
Glassworks.
If Kontakt doesn't ask you to authorize, you can force it to by clicking the
little "Activate" button in the upper right corner of our Glassworks Library
logo, in the Browser/Libraries list. It will then prompt you to launch the
Service Center.
(You will find your serial number in the email you were sent when you
purchased. If for some reason you haven't received this yet, you can run your
library in demo mode until it arrives.)
After authorization, you should restart Kontakt.
TROUBLE SHOOTING
If you get error messages or other problems when authorizing, there are a
number of solutions on our FAQ page at soniccouture.com
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ABOUT THOMAS BLOCH
Thomas Bloch is a classical musician specializing in rare instruments . When
beginning to research Glass / Works, we found that his name was ubiquitous
in every line of enquiry. We quickly realised we had to talk to him, and once
contact was made, we arranged to visit him in his studio between his many
tours.
In a suburb of Paris, down a quiet street in the freezing January weather , we
found Thomas. A very charming and quiet man with the most incredible
collection of exotic instruments - their rarity matched only by his virtuosity
when playing them.
In Thomas’ studio, everywhere you look there is memorabilia from his long
and fascinating musical career. Photographs, CDs, concert programmes,
movie posters. Among the exhaustive list he has worked with are :
Radiohead, Gorrilaz, John Cage, Tom Waits, Milos Foreman and many more.
Soniccouture would like to thank Thomas for allowing us to record his
instruments and for his hospitality in Paris.
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LE CRISTAL
Surely one of the strangest instruments most of us will ever lay eyes on, Le
Cristal, or The Cristal Baschet was designed in 1952 by Bernard and
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François Baschet. It consists of about 4 octaves of chromatically tuned
glass rods, which are rubbed with wet fingers.
The vibration of the glass is passed to a heavy block of metal, which itself is
tuned and in fact determines the final pitch. The entire mechanism is
amplified by a large steel plate, called the “flame”. There are also three
small fiberglass cones that amplify the higher frequencies.
The glass rods connected to the tuned metal blocks ( top of picture )
Tuned metal blocks behind the Flame
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Playing the Cristal Baschet is in fact surprisingly easy - at least, it is easier to
produce a decent note than one might imagine. Simply dipping one’s fingers
in the waterbowl and stroking a glass rod immediately produces a sound,
and it is quite intuitive to build up the oscillations in the rod to produce
louder tones.
Reflections in the Flame
The Cristal Baschet was created in 1952 by the French instrument makers
and artists Bernard and Francois Baschet. The Baschet brothers specialize
in creating sculptures that can be "played" to produce music. They also
invented the inflatable guitar and the aluminum piano, and created an
"educational instrumentarium" for exposing young people to musical
concepts. The instruments are still in production - see their website here :
http://www.structuresonore.eu/
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THE GLASS ARMONICA
The glass armonica, also known as the glass harmonica, bowl organ,
hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica (derived from "harmonia", the
Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series
of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by
means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction
idiophones ). Because its sounding portion is made of glass, the glass
harmonica is a crystallophone. The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger
Water causes limescale build-up on the Armonica
around the rim of a wine goblet to produce tones is documented back to
Renaissance times; Galileo considered the phenomenon in his Two New
Sciences.
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The instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin, who called his invention
the "armonica" after the Italian word for harmony. He worked with London
glassblower Charles James to build one, and it had its world premiere in
early 1762, played by Marianne Davies. A modern glass armonica built using
Benjamin Franklin's design.
Thomas Bloch playing the Armonica
On Franklin's treadle operated version 37 bowls were mounted horizontally
on an iron spindle. The whole spindle turned by means of a foot pedal. The
sound was produced by touching the rims of the bowls with moistened
fingers. Rims were painted different colors according to the pitch of the
note. A's were dark blue, B's purple, C's red, D's orange, E's yellow, F's
green, G's blue, and accidentals white. With the Franklin design it is possible
to play ten glasses simultaneously if desired, a technique that is very difficult
if not impossible to execute using upright goblets. Franklin also advocated
the use of a small amount of powdered chalk on the fingers which helped
produce a clear tone in the same way rosin is applied to the bows of string
instruments.
Mozart, CPEl Bach, Beethoven, Donizetti, Richard Strauss, and more than
100 other composers have composed for the glass harmonica.
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Blochs latest, brand new Armonica - untarnished by limescale.
Since it was rediscovered during the 1980s composers began writing for it
again(solo, chamber music, opera, electronic music, popular music): Jan
Erik Mikalsen, Regis Campo, Etienne Rolin, Philippe Sarde, Damon Albarn,
Tom Waits, Michel Redolfi, Cyril Morin, Stefano Giannotti, Thomas Bloch,
Guillaume Connesson...
Thomas Bloch has two Armonicas - he has
recently taken delivery of a stunning new
model, gleaming clear glass unsullied by the
limescale build-up that gives his older
instrument a frosted appearance, like a rare
crystal or stalactite.
As with the Cristal Baschet, it is not hard to
produce a note from the Armonica, but to
witness the virtuoso playing of Bloch is
breathtaking -his fingers dance across the
spinning glass at great speed, producing
spiraling staccato melodies of great beauty.
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CLOUD CHAMBER BOWLS
The Cloud Chamber Bowls are Soniccouture’s recreation of an instrument
built in the 1960s by maverick American composer Harry Partch. It consists
of hanging “bowls” which are sections of 12-gallon glass carboys. Both tops
and bottoms of the carboys are used. Partch had 14 (later 13) bowls hanging
from a large wooden frame he called a “tori”.
The name “Cloud Chamber Bowls” arose from the fact that Partch found the
original carboys at a Radiation Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1950. The
bowls were originally as cloud chambers used in tracing paths of subatomic
particles.
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The pitches of the bowls are basically random, as were Partch’s (“It has
been impossible for me to tune the bowls - I must accept what I get.”).
The varying thickness of the carboys and unpredictable overtone structure
make it pretty much impossible to cut a carboy to an exact pitch.
The Soniccouture Cloud Chamber Bowls were painstakingly cut and drilled
by glass-working artisans, and the substantial wooden frame constructed as
a custom order for the recording of Glass / Works.
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THE KONTAKT
INSTRUMENTS
Although there are three physical instruments we used to create this library,
there are five basic Kontakt instruments with slightly different controls.
These are Cloud Chamber Bowls, Bowed Chamber Bowls, Glass Armonica,
Le Cristal Baschet, and Le Cristal SFX. You’ll find these on the top level of
the Instruments folder when you open the Library in Kontakt’s browser on
the left.
You’ll notice there’s also a folder called Sound Design. This contains
experimental presets in which the instrument is processed to some degree.
If you want a realistic instrument, or want to start creating your own presets
from scratch, it is best to start from one of the five main instruments.
Note that if you are inside a
subfolder, like Sound Design, you
can go back to up a level by
double-clicking on the folder’s title
at the top.
Let’s have a look at the five main instruments.
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CLOUD CHAMBER BOWLS
Soniccouture’s Cloud Chamber Bowls are comprised of 14 different bowls
that were played with soft mallets, and 13 bowls hit with hard mallets (yes,
we broke one). There are 10 velocity levels and three round-robins for each
bowl.
On the main front panel (Instrument tab, above) you can see which mallet is
selected on the left. You can select these by clicking on them, or by using
keyswitches (defined on the Options page, but by default B5 and C6).
At the bottom left of the Instrument panel you have a stereo width knob.
This is “natural” in the middle, enhanced to the right, and becomes mono
when fully left.
In the middle of this panel you have the Envelope section. At the very top
the menu allows you to select whether you are editing the Amplitude or the
Filter Envelope. Below this are four knobs for the Attack, Decay, Sustain,
and Release of the selected envelope. Finally, below that is the Velocity
sensitivity control. (Note that for the Amplitude envelope the velocity depth
is unipolar, but for the Filter envelope the velocity depth is bipolar.)
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Finally on the right, you have the Filter section. The filter can be bypassed
completely with the LED at the top right. Below this we have the standard
controls for the Filter Cutoff and Resonance, a High Pass Filter (HPF), and
then Velocity and Envelope depth. The Velocity and Envelope depth are
both bipolar and only affect the low pass filter with resonance (not the HPF).
Tuning
The original pitches of the bowls are basically random, as were Partch’s.
But for ease of use, we have tuned the set chromatically by default. If you
want to hear the bowls in their original tuning, you can change it on the
Options page at the top left where it says Mapping (Chromatic to Original).
Also on this Options tab you can set up your keyswitches, which are B5 and
C6 by default (soft and hard mallets, respectively). You can change these if
you like.
There are other controls in the Options tabs, which vary slightly for each
instrument, but in Cloud Chamber bowls the last one is the Jammer. This is
the panel on the far right of the Options tab.
TIP: With all knobs you can Command-Click ( or Control-click in
Windows) to instantly set a knob back to it’s “default” position.
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THE JAMMER
The Jammer is turned on or off with the LED on the far right of the panel.
The Jammer is a kind of random arpeggiator that chooses from the notes
you hold down at random. Hold a chord down on your keyboard, and
Jammer will randomly play notes from that chord.
The RATE of the Jammer is set with respect to tempo, ie. you can choose
16th notes, or 8th notes, etc. The other controls are as follows:
VEL controls the amount of randomization to the velocity. Jammer takes
the velocity you played the notes in at, but it can vary from this initial value
by a small amount or a lot depending on the setting of VEL.
TIMING randomizes the timing of the Jammer. This is a bit strange, but
sometimes nice in small amounts.
NOTE randomizes the pitch of the notes you are holding down. This can be
especially useful if the PITCH FILTER is on, which we’ll mention in a
moment.
OCTAVE introduces random octave jumps upwards. This can be 0, 1, 2 or
3 octaves.
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MW VEL allows you to adjust the velocity of the Jammer output, while it’s
playing, using the mod wheel. This is bipolar, so you can add or subtract
from the playing velocity without re-playing your input notes.
DOUBLE HITS on the bottom, to the right of the little keyboard, creates two
hits on each repetition. This creates a denser output, or chords, depending
on the situation.
The PITCH FILTER is the little keyboard at the bottom. If
you don’t select anything, or select everything, the
Jammer will output any of the 12 possible pitches.
However, as soon as you select a note, or several notes, the output of the
Jammer will be restricted to those pitches only. So you can fix it to a chord,
or to a scale.
If you click on LEARN, you can play the notes you want the PITCH FILTER to
remember, but don’t forget to switch it off again!
There is also a Preset menu with some popular scales.
TIP: If you want to record the output of the Jammer into a MIDI
track, you need to turn on “Send MIDI to outside world” in
Kontakt’s Options page, under the Audio Engine tab. In the
“choose options” drop down, you can turn on “script generated
notes”, and Kontakt will then send Jammer’s notes out. You then
need to assign a MIDI track to record these notes as you play the
Jammer. Be careful you don’t route the generated MIDI thru your
sequencer back into Kontakt again, or you’ll get complete
confusion and the universe might turn inside out
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EFFECTS
Finally we have the Effects panel, which is the third tab at the bottom of
each instrument. This identical in all the Glass/Works instruments.
The Effects page is divided into four sections; Tape, Phaser, Delay, and
Reverb. Each of these can be bypassed with the LED at the top of each
section. There is also a Limiter at the bottom right, under the Reverb tab
which can be turned on or off with it’s own LED.
TAPE
When the Tape section is activated, you can adjust the DRIVE and WARMTH
of Kontakt’s Tape Saturator algorithm. This is nice for a very subtle
distortion. The COMP is a compressor, which is bypassed when all the way
left, but as you move the knob clockwise lowers the threshold of the
compressor. LO EQ and HI EQ are exactly that, gain controls for a low
frequency and high frequency equalizer, Solid-G EQ in Kontakt.
PHASER
The Phaser gives you control over it’s MIX level, the SPEED of modulation,
the DEPTH of modulation, FEEDBACK and PHASE.
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DELAY
In the Delay section you can control the MIX level, the DAMPING,
FEEDBACK and WIDTH of the delay. If the SYNC button is off, the TIME is
in absolute time (milliseconds), if the SYNC button is on then the TIME is in
16th notes. SYNC is handy if you want your delays to be in time with your
track.
REVERB
In the Reverb section you can control the MIX level, and adjust the SIZE and
HPF (High Pass Filter) of the Reverb. The Reverb uses Kontakt’s
Convolution processor, and we therefore include a selection of our favourite
convolution presets in a menu called REVERB TYPE.
LIMITER
The Limiter is either on or off, and this is at the end of the insert effects
chain. It doesn’t therefore affect the level of the Phaser, Delay, or Reverb as
these are on sends. If you are getting output clipping and the Limiter is on,
please check the levels of the Phaser, Delay, or Reverb MIX.
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BOWED CHAMBER BOWLS
The Bowed Chamber Bowls are the same 13 bowls as used in the Cloud
Chamber Bowl instrument, but played with a cello bow. This resulted in a
haunting sustained tone, as well as some strange harmonics, as we’ll see.
The Instrument panel is largely the same as the Cloud Chamber Bowls, with
identical controls for the Envelope and Filter in the middle and on the right.
(You can read about the Envelope and Filter here.)
The main difference on this Instrument panel is that instead of Articulations,
we have a small LAYERS panel on the bottom left.
LAYERS includes a menu that can be set to Round Robin or Stack Detune.
In Round Robin mode, the instrument plays one note at a time, but cycles
through the five robins we recorded for the Bowed Bowls instrument. In
Stack Detune mode, the instrument plays TWO of those robins at once
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(different ones) and allows you to detune them slightly using the DETUNE
knob. Note that this Knob is not available in Round Robin mode.
Also notice that the knob labeled WIDTH has a slightly different function in
Round Robin mode than in Stack Detune mode. In Round Robin mode, it
functions as a Stereo Enhance knob (with the middle being natural, left
being mono, and right being fully enhanced). In Stack Detune mode, the
Width controls the spread between the two detuned voices.
HARMONICS
One of the unusual things we noticed when bowing the bowls was that each
bowl would occasionally slip into a strange harmonic (we say “strange”,
because the bowls are highly inharmonic, so the overtones are not
predictable like on a guitar or a flute). Being great fans of all things strange,
we sampled these harmonics as well, and you can crossfade into the
harmonics using the Mod Wheel (by default).
If you want to change the controller used to crossfade into the harmonics,
you can do so on the Options tab:
You see the X-FADE CC on the left-most panel. It’s set to 1, the Mod
Wheel, by default, but you can change this to another controller if you like.
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GLISSANDO
Another control panel we find in this Options tab is the Glissando.
This includes a switch to turn it on or off,
the LED on the right, as well as two knobs:
AMOUNT and TIME.
Glissando creates and endless pitch glide
while a note is being held down.... and we
do mean endless! It can go down below
the threshold of hearing or way up into
some very nasty aliasing.
The two controls decide how far to shift the
pitch (AMOUNT), and how quickly to do it
(TIME).
AMOUNT is therefore bipolar. If it’s in the middle, at 12 o’clock, the pitch
won’t move at all, but if it’s slightly to the right the pitch will start to rise, if it’s
slightly to the left the pitch will start to fall.
TIME is unipolar, and the larger the value the slower the pitch will change.
The Bowed Chamber Bowls also includes the Jammer option. You can
read about the Jammer here.
The Effects tab is the same on all instruments, and is described here.
TIP: Remember that all knobs in our Instruments can be
automated, either by MIDI or by host automation. Often the
quickest way to automate a knob is to right-click on it and move
the controller that you want to assign to that knob.
Automating the Glissando can give you some quite bizarre results,
and take your music into horror movie territory.
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GLASS ARMONICA
This Glass Armonica is a recreation of the original Ben Franklin instrument
built by master glassblower Gerhard Finkenbeiner. It consists of 37 nested
bowls that range from F3 to F6, although we’ve mapped this an octave
lower for convenience.
There isn’t a huge dynamic range on the Glass Armonica, so we sampled
each note 3 times at two different dynamics, soft and loud. There are 3
round robins of each set.
There are 3 sections to the main Instrument page (Instrument tab, above).
In the middle of this panel you have the Envelope section. At the very top
the menu allows you to select whether you are editing the Amplitude or the
Filter Envelope. Below this are four knobs for the Attack, Decay, Sustain,
and Release of the selected envelope. Below that is the Velocity sensitivity
control. (Note that for the Amplitude envelope the velocity depth is unipolar,
but for the Filter envelope the velocity depth is bipolar.)
On the right, you have the Filter section. The filter can be bypassed
completely with the LED at the top right. Below this we have the standard
controls for the Filter Cutoff and Resonance, a High Pass Filter (HPF), and
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then Velocity and Envelope depth. The Velocity and Envelope depth are
both bipolar and only affect the low pass filter with resonance (not the HPF).
On the left of the Envelope panel you can see a knob labelled KEY OFF.
This allows you to control the level of the key-off, or release samples... the
ringing of the bowls once Thomas fingers were removed. Remember this is
slightly different from the Amplitude Envelope Release, which controls the
release time of the rubbing sound.
Below this you can see a small LAYERS panel near the bottom.
LAYERS includes a menu that can be set to Round Robin or Stack Detune.
In Round Robin mode, the instrument plays one note at a time, but cycles
through the three robins we recorded for the Armonica instrument. In Stack
Detune mode, the instrument plays TWO of those robins at once (different
ones) and allows you to detune them slightly using the DETUNE knob.
Note that this Knob is not available in Round Robin mode.
Also notice that the knob labeled WIDTH has a slightly different function in
Round Robin mode than in Stack Detune mode. In Round Robin mode, it
functions as a Stereo Enhance knob (with the middle being natural, left
being mono, and right being fully enhanced). In Stack Detune mode, the
Width controls the spread between the two detuned voices.
Crossfade or Velocity Control
You can crossfade from the soft sample to the loud sample using Velocity or
a MIDI Controller. Our instruments are generally set to use Velocity by
default, but if you want to use a controller you can set that up on the
Options panel.
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The Glass Armonica Options Tab
At the top left, under the heading DYNAMICS, there is a menu that allows
you to choose between Velocity and Controller. If this is set to Velocity, then
the incoming keyboard velocity is used to crossfade between the loud and
soft Armonica samples. If you change this to Controller, then you can
crossfade these sample sets dynamically. This defaults to the Mod Wheel
(CC 1), but you can change that to any other controller.
Note that this option handles only the crossfading of the two sample sets,
the velocity sensitivity is still active on the Instrument/Envelope panel.
The Glass Armonica Options tab also includes the Glissando control, which
you can read about here, and the Jammer control which you can read about
here.
As with all Glass/Works instruments, the Effects tab is identical, and you can
find the details of that page here.
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LE CRISTAL BASCHET
Le Cristal Baschet consists of about 4 octaves of chromatically tuned glass
rods, which are rubbed with wet fingers. The vibration of the glass is passed
to a heavy block of metal, which itself is tuned and in fact determines the
final pitch. The entire mechanism is amplified by a large steel plate, called
the “flame”. There are also three small fiberglass cones that amplify the
higher frequencies.
Articulations
We sampled each note in many different ways, and for most articulations
were able to get data from C1 to D5, just over 4 octaves. Articulations
include: Sustain, Accent, Soft Mallets, and Hard Mallets. You can select
the articulations on the left of the main panel (shown above) or use
keyswitches to select the articulations.
The default keyswitches are C6 for Sustain, B5 for Accent, A#5 for soft
mallet, and A5 for hard mallet. You can change these in the Options tab.
NB. We also samples a selection of special effect hits, which are in a
seperate instrument called Le Cristal SFX. We’ll discuss that instrument
later.
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Note that in the above panel, to the right of the Articulations there is a
control for WIDTH and for FLAME.
The WIDTH is a stereo width control. The middle (12 o’clock) being natural,
left being mono, and right being fully enhanced.
One of the unique sonic characteristics of the Cristal Baschet is the
resonance of the huge metal FLAME that rings slightly differently for every
note played. To try and approximate this in Kontakt, we took some impulse
responses of the flame hit various ways, and loaded these into a convolution
processor. On this panel you have access to Flame level, and to several
Flame types, which we characterize in the pull-down menu as Low, Mid,
High, and Thin.
If you turn the FLAME all the way to zero, then the effect is bypassed,
conserving CPU.
In the middle of this panel you have the Envelope section. At the very top
the menu allows you to select whether you are editing the Amplitude or the
Filter Envelope. Below this are four knobs for the Attack, Decay, Sustain,
and Release of the selected envelope. Below that is the Velocity sensitivity
control. (Note that for the Amplitude envelope the velocity depth is unipolar,
but for the Filter envelope the velocity depth is bipolar.)
On the right, you have the Filter section. The filter can be bypassed
completely with the LED at the top right. Below this we have the standard
controls for the Filter Cutoff and Resonance, a High Pass Filter (HPF), and
then Velocity and Envelope depth. The Velocity and Envelope depth are
both bipolar and only affect the low pass filter with resonance (not the HPF).
Let’s have a look at the Cristal Baschet Options tab.
TIP: If you want to set the Amplitude Release differently for the
Mallet articulations than the Sustain Articulations, you can do it
using ALT or OPTION. When ALT or OPTION is held down, the
Release knob only affects the Mallet articulations. If no control
button is held down, all articulations are set to the same release.
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Le Cristal Baschet Options page.
On the left we see the Keyswitches setup. By default we’ve set this at the
top of a 61 note keyboard, just slightly above the range of the Cristal itself
(which we stretched to G5). You can change the keyswitches however to
anything you like.
Below the Keyswitches there is the SUSTAIN X-FADE control. The Sustain
samples were recorded at two different volumes, soft and loud. Using this
menu you can choose to control that crossfade with Velocity or with a
Controller. We leave it on Velocity by default, but you can change this if you
want to use a continuous controller instead. The Controller you want to use
is set below in the box labelled X-FADE CC.
Note that the SUSTAIN X-FADE only affects the Sustain articulation, and
only controls the crossfading of the sample sets themselves. The velocity
sensitivity on the Instrument page is still functional, no matter which method
you use to crossfade the samples.
Also on the Cristal Options page you can see our Glissando controller, which
is explained in detail here, and our Jammer effect, which is explained here.
As with all Glass/Works instruments, the Effects tab is identical, and you can
find the details of that panel here.
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LE CRISTAL SFX
Le Cristal SFX Instrument Page.
This instrument is a collection of 53 special effects made with the Cristal
Baschet. These are mapped from C1 to E5, each key being a different
special effect.
However, this instrument is slightly different from the other instruments in the
collection in several ways.
Firstly, each key can be edited individually if you like. When EDIT SINGLE
(on the left of the panel) is selected, the last key you played is the only key
that is being edited. So you if you adjust the attack time on C3, you won’t
be changing the attack time on any of the other notes (SFX).
If you turn this off, the text changes to EDIT ALL, and in that case you are
editing all the sounds at once. This is very handy as well of course,
especially if you want to reset everything to a natural starting point
(remember Command/Control Click!).
The other unique thing in this instrument (as opposed to the other
instruments in Glass/Works) is the FOCUS button. When the FOCUS
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button is turned on, the last sound effect you played is spread across the
entire keyboard and centred on middle C.
If you have the Keyboard display enabled, it will turn green, like this:
This helps remind you you’re in FOCUS mode. While in FOCUS mode you
play a single sound effect as if it were an instrument. You can save an
Instrument in FOCUS mode.
Aside from the Envelope and Filter sections on the right of the panel, you
can see this Instrument also has a TUNE knob at the bottom. This of
course controls the PITCH of the sample you’re hearing (or all samples if
EDIT ALL is displayed.)
The WIDTH knob controls the stereo width of the sound effect.
Now let’s have a look at the Options page, which also has another new
feature.
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Le Cristal SFX Options page.
Here you’ll find two buttons on the left, SHUFFLE and RESET.
SHUFFLE randomizes the order in which the sound effects are laid out on
the keyboard. Since each sound effect is basically unrelated to the others,
this can be a fun way to explore and to find new sounds.
RESET simply puts them back to the default order.
Note that if you’re in FOCUS mode (on the Instrument page), you won’t hear
the results of SHUFFLE or RESET, since the instrument is currently still
FOCUSED on a given sample.
This Options page also includes the Jammer effect, which is covered in
detail here.
The Cristal SFX Effects page is identical to the others in the collection and is
covered in detail here. Please note that EDIT ALL and EDIT SINGLE only
affect the Instrument parameters, not those on the Effects page.
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