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Sonic Couture DDR Toy Piano User Guide for Kontakt & EXS24
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SONICCOUTURE
DDR TOY PIANOCONTENTS :
INSTALLATION
INTRODUCTION
INSTRUMENTS
SUPPORT
E.U.L.A
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INSTALLATIONTO UNPACK THE DOWNLOADED RAR FILES
Double-click the SC DDR Toy Piano.RAR
file to extract the data.
If your computer is unable to extract the RAR file, please get Stuffit
Expander for Mac, or WinRAR for Windows, which are both free.
RAR files are highly compressed, so allow for quicker downloading than
other archive formats.
KONTAKT ( 3.5 OR LATER )
Copy the entire “SC DDR Toy Piano” folder anywhere you like on your hard
drive. Make sure you keep that folder structure as it is, so that the Kontakt
instruments can find their samples. (If you don’t need the EXS24 instruments
you can erase that folder… never erase the Samples folder ).
LOGIC EXS241. Move the included EXS Instrument file (.exs) called “SC DDR Toy Piano”
to your Sampler Instruments folder, which is located here:
user/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments
The first time you load either an Instrument, your Mac may take a moment to
find the waveforms it needs. After that, it will remember and load much
more quickly.
N.B. Keep a copy of the included “Samples” folder somewhere on your hard
drive. This folder has all the sample data that the EXS24 instruments need,
so keep it somewhere safe.
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ABLETON LIVEDouble click the included “SC-DDR-Toy-Piano.alp” file, and this will launch
an installer program to install the product into your Live Library.
You will the find three presets in your Live library, one in Instrument Racks,
one in Simpler, and one in Sampler (if you have Sampler).
Requires Live 8.2.2 or later.
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INTRODUCTION
We don’t know much about this particular instrument’s history - a friend of
Soniccouture, Tom Heywood, who runs Normal Bias studios in Berlin, found
it in one of the city’s many flea markets. It was sold to him by a vendor who
specialises in DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) era collectibles. It is
a child’s toy piano, made of plastic.
It has a wonderfully clanky, bell like tone with very loud, distinctive key-off
sounds as the keys disengage. The instrument was recorded with a spaced
stereo pair of vintage Neumann mics, in Normal Bias Studios, Berlin in
August 2011.
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INSTRUMENTSKONTAKT INSTRUMENTS
Inside the SC DDR Toy Piano folder you’ll find a Kontakt folder with some preset Instruments. You can load these into Kontakt by dragging them in, or else by using the “Load” menu.
NB. You need a fully authorized version of Kontakt to use this library, it will not work in the free Kontakt Player without timing out. Nor can you “Add Library” with the DDR Toy Piano, since it is not a Kontakt Player encoded library.
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THE KONTAKT FRONT PANELS
The DDR Toy Piano instrument contains two front panel tabs: Instrument, and Effects. Note that you can hover your mouse over any control to get Info about it’s function if you have the Kontakt Info pane activated.
THE INSTRUMENT PANEL
The Instrument Tab is where you can adjust the KEY-OFF level, adjust ATTACK and RELEASE times, as well as adjust the low-pass filters CUTOFF frequency and RESonance.
THE EFFECTS PANEL
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The Effect tab offers some controls over the effects section in Kontakt. Here you have control over:
Phaser - switches the phasing effect on and off.Speed - adjusts the speed of the phase effectFeedback - controls the amount of feedback signal in the phase effect.Compression - the threshold control of the built-in compressorSaturate - a soft distortion effect, like tape saturationStereo - artificial width of stereo image (the DDR Toy Piano is naturally mono)Delay - Kontakt’s built in delay send level.Reverb - which includes a level knob and a pull down menu of some of our favourite Soniccouture convolution presets.
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EXS24 INSTRUMENT
After installing the DDR Toy Piano instrument (page 3 of this guide), you should see a preset appear in your EXS24 menu next time you launch Logic:
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ABLETON LIVE INSTRUMENT RACK
After installing the DDR Toy Piano instrument you will find the following Instrument Rack in your Live library:
You have controls for FM distortion and decay on the first two macros. Reverb on the third macro. Key-off level on the fourth macro.
The bottom row of macros are all related to the filter, and control the filter FREQuency, RESonance, TYPE, and Filter Envelope Depth.
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SUPPORTIf you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product,
please feel free to contact us. You can either email us at :
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
bear in mind the differences in time zones, so please be patient.
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EULAEND USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
PREFACE: This End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement
between you and Soniccouture LTD for the Soniccouture product
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create finished musical works and performances using the sounds and
software that comprise the 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 FORBIDDEN without express
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