Vir2 Instruments Q Bedienungsanleitung

USER MANUAL

Produced by Vir2 Instruments

Vir2 Instruments / is an

international team of sound

designers, musicians, and

programmers, who specialize in

creating the world’s most

advanced virtual instrument

libraries. Vir2 is producing the

instruments that shape the

sound of modern music.

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Valencia, CA 91355

Phone: 661.295.0761

Web: www.vir2.com

USER MANUAL

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 Q

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

14 THE FX TAB

15 THE ENVELOPE TAB

16 THE LEGATO TAB

17 THE LAYER CONTROL TAB

17 KEYBOARD MAPPING

19 LOOPS AND CONSTRUCTION KITS MAPPING

10 MORPHSTRUMENTS

17 TECH SUPPORT

17 THE FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT 4

17 LICENSE AGREEMENT

18 CREDITS

CHAPTER 04: WORKING WITH THE INSTRUMENTS

CHAPTER 08: TECH SUPPORT, ETC.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

LIBRARY

In a world...in a land...coming to studios near you: Vir2

Instruments’ Q, a massive sound design and scoring

instruments library designed for the unique needs of

television, ﬁlm, game, and media composers and music

producers who want to add a fresh and previously

unheard dimension to their sonic palette.

Q (as in, cue, or, if you prefer, as in the master spy’s gadget man),

contains almost two thousand patches and 16GB of sample material

including cinematically thunderous drums, percussion, winds, vocals,

ethnic instruments, metallic textures, glass, guitar, toy, ambient

atmospheres, synth landscapes, and trailer-ready eects. The library

includes both playable melodic pitched instruments and

multisampled one-shot percussion and eects. A large collection of

epic percussion loops which automatically sync to tempo and are

playable both whole and by the slice, are also included.

The collection is divided up into twenty-three main category folders:

Ambient Chordal Pads, Cymbals, Gongs, Rolls, and Eects, Drums

and Percussion, Granular Orchestra, Guitars, Hong Kong Cinema,

Horns and Winds, Impacts and Low Drums, Loops and Construction

Kits, Metallic and Glass Melodies, Middle Eastern, Morphstruments,

Multilayer Dreamscapes, Multilayer Drones, Mystery, Pedal Steel

CHAPTER 01

CHAPTER 01 / INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY

Ambiences, Pulp Surfer, Sound Eects, Stylistic Phrases, Tempo

Textures, Toys and Character Keyboards, Voices, and Western.

Q’s easy-to-use interface provides one-click eecting of the library,

including the famed EZRoom convolution, delay, chorus, ﬁlters,

chorusing, ﬂanging, and more. Other advanced functions include a

special legato mode for melodic instruments, and crossfade controls

for multilayered instruments.

While everything in Q is mapped in Kontakt format ready to play

from a MIDI controller, as a bonus many of Q’s one-shot eects

(such as booms, whooshes, metal scrapes and hits, and special

sound eects) are also available on the disc in open 24-bit WAV

format, allowing instant drag-and-drop into a ﬁlm mix.

Q is powered by the industry-leading Kontakt 4 engine. It is

compatible with VST, AudioUnit, and RTAS (Pro Tools 7 & 8) plug-in

formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer,

in addition to standalone use on both an Intel Mac and PC.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For Mac users, Q 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, Q 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 2GB of RAM.

The library requires approximately 9GB of disk space.

INSTALLING

The installation of Q consists of two separate steps: the installation of the

Kontakt engine, and the installation of the Q 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 Q library is approximately 9GB in size, and its installer will prompt you

for the location in which 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

REQUIREMENTS

AND

INSTALLATION

CHAPTER 02

CHAPTER 02 / REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION

drives may give somewhat less optimized performance. We also recommend

7200 or 10,000rpm drives regardless of the interface used.

UPDATING

After installation, please make sure that you are fully updated to the most

recent versions of the three components that make up the Q 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, Q 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 Q on up to two computers simultaneously.

Service Center will guide you through the process for either online (instant)

activation, or oine activation if the computer on which you installed Q

does not have direct access to the internet.

USING

KONTAKT

HOW TO ACCESS THE Q LIBRARY FROM KONTAKT

Q ships as a Kontakt-powered library, and Q 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 Q, can go to their Applications folder (Mac) or Program Files

folder (Windows) to launch Native Instruments > Kontakt.

Users who wish to use Q 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

an Q 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 Q.

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 buer

reasonably low for good latency performance. We recommend 256 samples

CHAPTER 03

CHAPTER 03 / USING KONTAKT

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