AMBIENT GUITAR

8DIO AMBIENT GUITAR

AMBIENT GUITAR
Produced by Gregg Stephens. Co-produced by Troels Folmann.

Welcome to Ambient Guitar.

The Ambient Guitar library is a massive collection of carefully crafted sounds all
derived from a number of different guitars. All source material is comprised of live
guitar with various effects applied real-time and minimal post-production processing.
Contrary to most guitar libraries, the focus of this library is the unrecognizable,
ambient side of the stringed instrument. Beyond the strums, palm-mutes, plucks,
picks, squeals, pinch-harmonics and lightning fast, finger-bleeding leads typically played
on guitars, there lies a dreamy, synthy, rarely heard realm of droning beauty in the
guitar. Of course there is still room for plenty of range within this realm.You'll find
sounds from awe-inspiring beauty to fist-clenching rage, from the eerie unknown to
somber loneliness, from pulse-pounding horror to gentle, soothing harmony. Taking a
small step back from the realm of pure ambience is a select group of bonus post-
apocalyptic-inspired, minimalist phrases. These phrases are all still very ambient in
nature and are meant to work perfectly on top of the purely ambient patches. In
addition we also added some multi-sampled guitar and bass, so you can play your own
melodies on top of the ambiences

1 Note:This product was formerly known as Tonehammer Ambient Guitar

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Ambient Guitar
OVERVIEW

289 Kontakt .nki files

379 samples
2.6GB installed
44.1 kHz stereo PCM wav format (24 bit)
Custom articulation and performance controls

Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 (or later) full retail versions required.

Note: Free Kontakt Player does NOT support this product.

MANUAL INSTALLATION
If you have had any issues using our automatic installer.
Please using the following manual installation procedure.

Use Winrar or UnrarX to un-compress the

“8DIO_ambient_guitar.rar” file into its own folder in
your sample library directory. Make sure to preserve the
included folder structure. This is usually done by
selecting the “extract to'...” option in Winrar or UnrarX
and then creating a directory called
8DIO_ambient_guitar

Here’s a link to winrar for PC:

http://www.win-rar.com/download.html

Here’s a link to UnRarX for OSX:

http://www.unrarx.com/

You should now be able to open and play the .nki files.
Be aware that all of our .nki files are compatible with full
retail versions of Kontakt 3.5 or Kontakt 4 only.

Note: The Free Kontakt Player and any bundled Kontakt

or Kompakt Players that come included with other
software, hardware or built into other sample libraries
won't be able to load this library.You may be able to run
the library for a 30 minute “demo” period, but the full
retail version of Kontakt is required to remove this
restriction. However, since our wave directories are
open, you can translate the patches into whatever format
you like. There are a few conversion utilities available that
can make the translation process much easier.

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This instrument has a variety of special controls that

allow deep realtime performance customization. Not
all instrument presets include all controls listed.
Included controls depend on the specific features
suitable for each preset.

Attack - (CC 74)

This knob controls the sharpness of attack.
Increasing the value causes the sound to attack
more softly.

Swell - (CC 1/Modwheel)

This knob controls the overall volume and intensity
of the sound. This allows realtime volume swelling
and fading.

Release - (CC93)
This controls the release behavior of the sound.
Lower settings cause the sound to be damped and
cut off, while higher settings allow the sound to play
out as long as a note is held down.

Offset - (CC 71)

This allows you to skip ahead and start each sample
farther into the actual wav file. This allows you to
customize exactly which part of the sound you want
to play.

Stepping - (key-switches C-2 - C0)

This allows pitch shifting on the fly. The Stepping
settings will determine how many semitones (100
cents) up or down from normal that the sounds will
play the next time a note is triggered.You can use
the main pitch knob or pitchwheel for realtime pitch
bending.You can go up or down by 24 semitones
with this knob at any time. The pitch control key-
switches override this knob.

Key Switch On/Off Button

This enables/disables the key-switches between C-2
and C0 that shift the pitch up or down. C-1 resets
the pitch to default.

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Random Offset / Fixed Offset Button

This button switches between random offset and fixed

offset sample start. When set to Random Offset, the
starting point of the looping wav file will be randomly
selected with each note on, giving a more organic feel.
When set to Fixed Offset, the start of the sample will
always be triggered from the same spot. Note that in
Fixed Offset mode, the position of the Offset knob
determines where the sample will be triggered from
with each note on. When Fixed Offset is enabled, the
Offset knob defaults to 0. Note also that the default
setting for the Phrases group is Fixed Offset while the
default for all other groups is Random Offset. Note
this is not included in the "Pluck" instrument presets.

EQ Controls

Offset
This allows you to skip ahead and start each sample
farther into the actual wav file. This allows you to
customize exactly which part of the sound you want
to play. Note that when the button above is set to
Random Offset, the Offset Knob will visibly move
around randomly with each note on.

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Reverb Dry Mix

This knob controls the amount of "dry" or clean"

signal returning from the convolution reverb effect.
This knob is only active when a reverb impulse has
been loaded in the Impulse Select drop-down menu
located to the right of the "wet mix" knob.

Reverb Wet Mix

This knob controls the amount of "wet" signal

returning from the convolution reverb effect. his knob
is only active when a reverb impulse has been loaded
in the Impulse Select drop-down menu located to the
right of the "wet mix" knob.

Low Pass

This knob enables and controls the high-frequency roll

off amount that is applied to the convolution output.
Use this to dull, darken and soften the sound.

Convolution Reverb Impulse Menu

This drop-down menu allows instant access to a

variety of custom convolution impulses that we've
captured in some of our favorite locations or created
using various special techniques.

As soon as you load an impulse from the menu, the

effect is activated and the impulse you've chosen is
loaded into the signal path. Once an impulse has been
loaded, the "Dry mix" and "Wet mix" knobs become
active.

You can disable and bypass the convolution effect

entirely and unload any loaded impulse file at any time
by selecting the "None" option at the top of the list.

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Stereo Width

This knob controls the overall wideness of the stereo

image.

Lo-fi

A "Lo-fi" effect has been preloaded in every preset

(except the Pluck presets in the Phrase category) and
is mapped to the pitch-wheel. In the default, center
position the lo-fi effect is off. Moving the pitch-wheel
down gradually introduces the bit-reduction element
of the lo-fi effect from 16-bit (off, center position)
down to 1-bit. Moving the pitch-wheel up gradually
introduces both the bit-reduction element as well as
the sample-rate reduction element of the lo-fi effect
from 44kHz (off, center position) down to 50Hz.

Filter

A low-pass Filter effect has been preloaded in every

preset and is mapped to the mod-wheel (CC1). In the
down position, the filter is effectively off. Moving the
mod-wheel up gradually reduces the filter's cutoff
frequency, shelving off the higher frequencies.

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Ambient_All_Pluck

This preset includes both the Guitar and Bass Pluck

articulations in one patch. The Bass ranges from C-2
to D#2 and the Guitar ranges from E2 to G8. It
comes preloaded with a select, luscious reverb from
our collection of custom convolutions. Note that the
Attack can be set to 0 on this preset, but will
automatically be set to a minimum of 20 if the Offset
knob is above 0 to prevent audio popping. Also note
that because the Lo-Fi effect is not loaded in this
preset, the pitch-wheel offers the standard 2
semitones of pitch-bend up or down.

Ambient_Bass_Pluck

This preset includes the Bass Pluck articulation. The

Bass ranges from C-2 to G8 and comes preloaded
with a select, luscious reverb from our collection of
custom convolutions. Note that the Attack can be
set to 0 on this preset, but will automatically be set
to a minimum of 20 if the Offset knob is above 0 to
prevent audio popping. Also note that because the
Lo-Fi effect is not loaded in this preset, the pitch-
wheel offers the standard 2 semitones of pitch-bend
up or down.

Ambient_Guitar_Pluck

This preset includes the Guitar Pluck articulation

and ranges from C-2 to G8. It comes preloaded with
a select, luscious reverb from our collection of
custom convolutions. Note that the Attack can be
set to 0 on this preset, but will automatically be set
to a minimum of 20 if the Offset knob is above 0 to
prevent audio popping. Also note that because the
Lo-Fi effect is not loaded in this preset, the pitch-
wheel offers the standard 2 semitones of pitch-bend
up or down.

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Awe

This set of awe-inspired presets is mapped from

C#0-G8, tuned and rooted at E2. They all include all
effects and controls listed above. Random Offset is
set as the default for all of these presets.

Horror

This set of horrific presets is mapped from C#0-G8,

tuned and rooted at E2. They all include all effects
and controls listed above. Random Offset is set as
the default for all of these presets.

Mystery

This set of intriguing presets is mapped from C#0-

G8, tuned and rooted at E2. They all include all
effects and controls listed above. Random Offset is
set as the default for all of these presets.

Phrases

This set of melodic presets is mapped from C#0-G8

and tuned. The High_Phrases set is rooted at D3 and
the Low_Phrases set is rooted at E2. They all include
all effects and controls listed above. Fixed Offset is
set as the default for all of these presets.

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Rage

This set of furious presets is mapped from C#0-G8

and rooted at E2. They all include all effects and
controls listed above. Random Offset is set as the
default for all of these presets.

Sadness

This set of sorrowful presets is mapped from C#0-

G8 and rooted at E2. They all include all effects and
controls listed above. Random Offset is set as the
default for all of these presets.

All_*_Master

Included in each of the six (6) categories is an

untued master patch containing all the presets for
the category each on a single key starting from C1.
They all include all effects and controls listed above.

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We wanna thank you for buying the 8DIO Ambient

Guitar

If you have any questions, concerns, love-letters or

hate mail feel free to send it to

[email protected]

or check our site at www.8dio.com

Love,

Troels Folmann and Mike Peaslee

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