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HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 2 Thank you very much for choosing Best Service software. Congratulations on your brand-new instrument HORNS OF HELL by Sonuscore. We hope you will enjoy this instrument as much as we do. This manual will help you to get started and explains the features and functions of your new software.
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HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................6 2. INSTRUMENTS ..........................................................................................7 2.2 LIST OF INSTRUMENTS AND ARTICULATIONS OF THE ORCHESTRA FAMILY ................7 2.3 KONTAKT INSTRUMENTS AND MULTIS...........................................................................10 3. Horns of Hell Ensemble .............................
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 5 4.1.1 ARTICULATION SELECTION: ................................................................................................24 4.1.2.MULTI KEYSWITCHES: ..........................................................................................................24 4.1.3 SAMPLE PURGING: ................................................................................................................24 4.1.4 REVERB:.......................................................................
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 6 1. INTRODUCTION Welcome to SONUSCORE’ S HORNS OF HELL This Kontakt instrument is a full multi-sampled orchestral library, that aims to provide you with all basic articulations for every standard section of the symphonic orchestra. As orchestral libraries have grown more and more complex, we approached this instrument with the goal to make it as easy as possible to create good sounding arrangements.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 7 2. INSTRUMENTS 2.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 8 The Orchestra Strings Of Winter Horns Of Hell The Orchestra Complete The Orchestra Complete 2 Marcato X X X X Legato X X X X Muted Staccato X X Muted Sustain X X Muted Marcato X X Flutter Sustain X X Flutter Marcato X X Tongue Staccato X X Staccato X X Sustain X X Marcato X X Flutter Sustain X X Flutter Marcato X X Tongue Staccato X X Tenorhorns Low Brass Staccato X X X X Sustain X X X X Marcato X X X X Evil Brass
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 9 The Orchestra Strings Of Winter Horns Of Hell The Orchestra Complete The Orchestra Complete 2 Marcato X X X Legato X X X Staccato X X X Sustain X X X Marcato X X X X X X Lid Open X X Lid Closed X X Contrabassoon Orchestral Harp Plucked Grand Piano Organ Manual Toccata X X Principal X X Diapason X X Bourdon X X Chorus X X Flute X X Mixture X X Octave X X Flute X X Tutti X X Tutti X X Mixture X X Subbass X X
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 10 The Orchestra Glockenspiel Non Pitched Percussion Strings Of Winter Horns Of Hell X The Orchestra Complete The Orchestra Complete 2 X X (Taikos, Tom Ensemble, Gran Cassa, Tam Tam, Snare Drum, Piatti, Suspended Cymbals) X X X X Timpani (Hits & Rolls) X X X X Tubular Bells X X X X Deep Hits FX (Bonus) X X Male | Female Choir (Bonus) Staccato X X X Sustain X X X X X X Elven Choir (Bonus) Sustain Features Changeable Dynamic CC X X X X X X
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 11 3. HORNS OF HELL ENSEMBLE The Ensemble Engine is the heart of the library. Here you can freely combine multiple instruments with minimal loading times and play them together. You can load up to five instruments into independent slots, which can be transposed and even animated with one of five arpeggiators and envelopes. This instrument was designed to both inspire your original compositions and to also give you quickly what you need to fill out your arrangement. 3.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 12 3.1.1 INSTRUMENT BROWSER: By clicking on an instrument slot, a browser will guide you through the selection of an articulation. To quickly load articulations for the different slots, you can navigate through the slots with the arrows on the bottom of the browser. You can delete the loaded instrument from the current slot by clicking on the »empty slot« button on the bottom right.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 13 Arpeggiator 1-3 can be assigned to short articulations (Staccato, Marcato), while Envelope 1 and 2 can be assigned to sustained articulations (Sustain). An icon on the right indicates if an arpeggiator or envelope is assigned. This icon will light up and move, when the module is active and notes are triggered. For detailed description of the modules see 3.2 Engine Tab. 3.1.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 14 The Preset Browser page contains 30 tags to help you filter all presets by different characteristics and keywords as well as an option to scroll through the filtered selection. To simplify the search the tags are organized into different categories: Library: These tags can be used to search for presets in the context of the various libraries included in HORNS OF HELL . In addition, your own presets are stored under the User Presets tag.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 15 Control. Animated Ensemble Presets are optimized to sound best in the two octaves around middle C, which are marked green on the Kontakt Keyboard Display. 3.1.5 USER PRESETS: HORNS OF HELL has a simple solution to save, organize and share user presets for the Ensemble Engine.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 16 A User Preset can be saved or edited from the Main Page as well as from the Preset Menu. On both pages this is achieved by clicking on the file icon next to the fire icon and then using the »Save As New« option. This opens the Preset Save dialog, which provides you with the option to make your own tag selection for easier retrieval of the preset in the browser later on. The saving process can then be completed by pressing the Save button.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 17 3.1.6 EXPORT MIDI FUNCTION: In the upper right corner of the Main Tab you can find the Export MIDI icon. This has been a feature often requested and a long time in development. You are now able to export your preset performance to different midi channels within your DAW simply by dragging and dropping the icon into your DAW. To use this feature you can follow these steps. Open up »Horns of Hell.nki«. Choose a preset that you like and record a performance into your DAW.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 18 3.2.1 ARPEGGIATOR: The arpeggiator module consists of two main elements, the general controls and the rhythm stepper. While the general controls help controlling the note repertoire out of the played notes, the rhythm stepper helps arranging them in a recurring rhythmical sequence. General Controls: Arpeggiator On/Off: Turn the entire module on or off. Note Order: Determines the order, in which the played notes will be arpeggiated.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 19 Note Selection: Selects whether or not all played notes should be heard in this particular module. The different options allow to only play the lowest, highest or middle notes of a played chord. This can be used to prevent a muddy bass section and orchestrate chords carefully with multiple instruments. Swing: Gradually add a swing feeling to the arpeggiators pattern Repeat: Repeats every note one or multiple time before moving on to the next one.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 20 3.2.2 ENVELOPE: The Envelope allows you to set a recurring dynamic shape to sustained notes. The centerpiece is the envelope shape, which can be drawn freely by left-clicking and dragging the mouse. By right-clicking and dragging the mouse you can draw a straight line. A number of additional controls allow you to adjust the envelope to suit your needs: Envelope On/Off: Turn the entire module on or off.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 21 3.3 MIXER TAB At the Mixer Tab you can adjust the balance and sound of the different slots and apply master effects. 3.3.1 CHANNEL STRIP: The name of the loaded instrument is displayed on the very top of every small channel strip. Solo/Mute: Listen to a single slot alone, or mute a single slot temporarily. Pan: Moves the instrument from a slot further to the left/right in the stereo field.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 22 Reverb: Sets the send-level to the included convolution reverb. With this control, the amount of reverb on each instrument can be adjusted. If set to -infdB, the master reverb will not affect this slot at all. This way depth and distances in the orchestra can be adjusted. 3.3.2 OUTPUT ROUTING: On the mixer page, there is a dropdown menu below the channel strip of every instrument slot, that assigns specific Kontakt outputs to that particular slot.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 23 3.4 SETTINGS PAGE On the top right of the main page, there is a little icon that leads to the settings page, that provides options for additional customization. 3.4.1 DYNAMIC CONTROLLER In this menu you can choose between three standard MIDI-Controllers (CC1, CC2 and CC11) to control the overall dynamics of the engine. This control is used for scaling the velocity and envelope values of the engine modules and also for direct control of unassigned sustained articulations.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 24 4. SINGLE INSTRUMENTS 4.1 KEYSWITCH INSTRUMENTS The keyswitch instruments are labeled “All Articulations” in the single instruments folders. In these instruments, all articulations can be played in one instance using keyswitches. 4.1.1 ARTICULATION SELECTION: On the lower end of the interface all available articulations are displayed. You can activate an articulation by clicking on it, or by playing the note that is shown above it in the lowest octave (C0-B0). 4.1.2.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 25 4.1.4 REVERB: Turn on/off the convolution reverb with ten high quality impulse responses from different legendary effect processors. You can choose an impulse response in the menu below and adjust the amount of wet signal with the mix-control. 4.1.5 EQUALIZER: Turn on/off the equalizer. This equalizer has two bands with a frequency and Q-factor chosen specifically for each instrument.
HORNS OF HELL – Manual - 26 5. MULTIS The multis combine different presets and settings in multiple instances of the Ensemble Instrument to create huge-sounding instantly playable instruments. They are sorted into the same categories as the presets from the Ensemble Instrument: The Ensemble Colors Multis are full section combinations for quick sketching and layering. Ensemble Rhythms and Animated Ensemble Multis contain rhythms and patterns that will be generated from any played note.
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