Vir2 Instruments Electri6ity User manual
USER MANUAL
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USER MANUAL
ELECTRI6ITY
ELECTRI6ITY
00 ELECTRI6ITY/
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY
03 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
03 INSTALLING
04 UPDATING
04 AUTHORIZING
05 HOW TO ACCESS THE ELECTRI6ITY
LIBRARY FROM KONTAKT
05 USING KONTAKT IN STANDALONE MODE
07 USING KONTAKT AS A VST PLUG-IN IN CUBASE AND NUENDO
08 USING KONTAKT AS A VST OR AUDIOUNIT PLUG-IN IN ABLETON
LIVE
09 USING KONTAKT AS AN AUDIOUNIT PLUG-IN IN LOGIC PRO,
LOGIC STUDIO, LOGIC EXPRESS, ETC.
10 USING KONTAKT IN GARAGEBAND
11 USING KONTAKT AS AN AUDIOUNIT PLUG-IN IN DIGITAL
PERFORMER
11 USING KONTAKT AS AN RTAS PLUG-IN IN PRO TOOLS
12 USING KONTAKT AS A PLUG-IN IN ANOTHER HOST
CHAPTER 02: REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION
CHAPTER 03: USING KONTAKT
CHAPTER 01
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13 STEP 1 | USER INTERFACE OVERVIEW
15 STEP 2 | ARTICULATIONS
19 STEP 3 | PLAY MODES
20 STEP 4 | PLAYING TECHNIQUES
21 STEP 5 | STRUMMING AND PICKING
22 STEP 6 | RELEASE NOISE
22 STEP 6 | RELEASE NOISE
25 PERFORMANCE PAGE
30 SETTINGS PAGE
44 FAQS
48 CC LIST | PERFORMANCE PAGE
48 CC LIST | SETTINGS PAGE
51 KEYSWITCH LIST | DEFAULT
51 KEYSWITCH LIST | ALTERNATIVE
53 TECH SUPPORT
53 THE FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT 4
53 LICENSE AGREEMENT
54 CREDITS
CHAPTER 04: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 05: DETAILS
CHAPTER 06: FAQS
CHAPTER 08: TECH SUPPORT, ETC.
CHAPTER 07: CC LIST | KEYSWITCH LIST
ELECTRI6ITY
01 ELECTRI6ITY/
INTRODUCTION
TO THE
LIBRARY
CHAPTER 01 / INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY
Thank you for purchasing ELECTRI6ITY, an epic electric
guitar virtual instrument containing the most advanced,
detailed, and versatile collection of electric guitars ever
made in a virtual instrument.
ELECTRI6ITY contains eight of the most famous and
distinguished guitar tones from the history of the
instrument: the Strat, Tele, P90, Les Paul, Rickenbacker,
Danelectro Lipstick, ES335, and L4. More than 24,000
24-bit samples were taken of each guitar.
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Three pickup options (front, rear, and mixed) are available on every
guitar. An impressive amount of samples allow you to play every
articulation on every fret of every string for an absolutely authentic
guitar sound. Downstrokes, upstrokes, seamless velocity layers,
ghost notes, mutes, harmonics, hammer-ons, pullos, slides,
releases, and FX...the sky is the limit with ELECTRI6ITY.
Electri6ity also utilizes the most advanced scripting to date,
including the revolutionary Articulation Morphing Technology
(A.M.T.) and Velocity Morphing Technology (V.M.T.) allowing for the
seamless morphing from dead mute to sustain or from soft to loud.
Advanced string and fretboard positioning is performed by artificial
intelligence which adapts to your playing. Play fluid lines in real time
using the legato engine, play chords using the chord detection
engine which understands almost 2000 dierent chords, easily
double-track, do unison bends, strum, pick, trill, tremolo pick, slide...
all of this is built into the ELECTRI6ITY engine and full editing
control is given over each of these parameters.
All samples in ELECTRI6ITY are recorded clean - a direct input from
the guitar. Use ELECTRI6ITY’S built-in multieects (phaser, flanger,
chorus, reverb, and delay), Screamer module, and amp simulation
(British, Classic, Clean, Jazz, Metal, Modern, and Rock) to make the
sound come alive, or use your own guitar amps or simulators to
multiply the possibilities.
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ELECTRI6ITY
03 ELECTRI6ITY/
REQUIREMENTS
AND
INSTALLATION
CHAPTER 02 / REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
For Mac users, ELECTRI6ITY requires OS 10.5.x or greater, an Intel Core Duo
1.66GHz or higher, a DVD drive, and 4GB of RAM.
For Windows users, ELECTRI6ITY requires Windows XP (SP2, 32-bit),
Windows Vista (32/64 bit), or Windows 7 (32/64 bit), a Pentium or Athlon
1.4GHz or faster, a DVD drive, and 4GB of RAM.
The library requires approximately 27GB of disk space.
Vir2 Instruments strongly recommends more than 4GB of RAM and an 88-
key controller in order to use ELECTRI6ITY to its fullest potential.
INSTALLING
The installation of ELECTRI6ITY is two separate steps: the installation of the
Kontakt engine, and the installation of the ELECTRI6ITY library.
Insert the installation disc into your computer, and you will see the installers
for both components. It doesn’t matter which is installed first. Run each of
the installers and they will guide you through the installation process.
The Kontakt installer will install the Kontakt engine, its standalone
application, all of its plug-in versions, and the Service Center authorizer
program. We recommend the Easy Install and that the install locations for
each component are left at their default settings.
The ELECTRI6ITY library is approximately 27GB in size, and its installer will
prompt you for the location you wish to install it. It can be installed on any
available hard drive. For speed reasons, we recommend it be installed on
internal or eSATA drives. Firewire can also be acceptable. External USB
drives may give somewhat less optimized performance. We also recommend
7200 or 10,000rpm drives regardless of the interface used.
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UPDATING
After installation, please make sure that you are fully updated to the most
recent versions of the three components that make up the ELECTRI6ITY
package: the library (which contains all the patch information and
programming), the engine (which is powered by Kontakt), and the
authorizer (Service Center). It is possible that any of these components
may have a more recent version than shipped in your physical package, so
you should check for updates to each of these three. You can do this by
visiting the vir2.com web site and checking the Support area.
AUTHORIZING
After you’ve completed installation, ELECTRI6ITY will be working in demo
mode, meaning it will only work for 15 minutes at a time. To fully authorize
it, launch Service Center (found in the Applications folder on a Mac, or the
Program Files folder on Windows) and follow its instructions. You will be
prompted to enter your e-mail address and password that make up your
Native Instruments account, or will be given an option to create an account
if you don’t already have one. Once inside the Service Center, it will give
you a list of all the Native Instruments and NI-powered products on your
hard drive and give you the option to activate them. You are allowed to
install and use ELECTRI6ITY on up to two computers simultaneously.
Service Center will guide you through the process for either online (instant)
activation, or oine activation if the computer you installed ELECTRI6ITY
on does not have direct access to the internet.
ELECTRI6ITY
05 ELECTRI6ITY/
USING
KONTAKT
CHAPTER 03 / USING KONTAKT
HOW TO ACCESS THE ELECTRI6ITY LIBRARY FROM KONTAKT
ELECTRI6ITY ships as a Kontakt-powered library, and ELECTRI6ITY is
opened from within Kontakt, which can be run either as a standalone
application, or as a plug-in hosted by any major sequencer on either
Macintosh or Windows platforms. All these versions are installed by the Easy
Install option of the installer.
Users who don’t own a sequencer, or would like to simply boot up and be
able to play ELECTRI6ITY, can go to their Applications folder (Mac) or
Program Files folder (Windows) to launch Native Instruments > Kontakt.
Users who wish to use ELECTRI6ITY for sequencing or recording, or wish to
play it multitimbrally, should use it in plug-in mode within a host sequencer.
Kontakt supports the VST, AudioUnit, and RTAS plug-in formats. Any host
sequencer that supports these plug-in formats properly will be able to use
Kontakt. Instructions vary slightly from sequencer to sequencer, but the
general procedure is to instantiate Kontakt as a virtual instrument plug-in,
then load a ELECTRI6ITY instrument in Kontakt, then route a MIDI track to
Kontakt so it can be triggered and recorded.
The following instructions will help standalone and plug-in users get up and
running quickly with a basic track of ELECTRI6ITY.
USING KONTAKT IN STANDALONE MODE
The standalone Kontakt application can be found in the Applications >
Kontakt 4 folder for Mac users, or Program Files > Native Instruments >
Kontakt 4 for Windows users.
After launching the Kontakt application for the first time, you will be
presented with a dialog box to set up your audio and MIDI settings. Settings
will vary for each user according to the specific setup, but the important
thing is to route the audio to a valid audio device, and to set the buer
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