Guide Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX 1 www.orchestraltools.com
CONTENT I About this Guide 2 II Introduction 3 III Recording and Concept 4 IV Berlin Series 5 1 Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX... 6 Instruments... 8 s... 9 1 Rev. 2 017-10- 2 5 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH
I About this Guide The number of Orchestral Tools is constantly growing and covers all instrumental families of the orchestra, with some collections even branching out into non-orchestral instruments. This Guide describes all contained articulations as well as their technical properties (velocity layers, Round Robins, and many more). This document is a special version of the Guide that only contains features applicable to the collections listed below. You can download the full Guide that applies to all Orchestral Tools collections in our Helpdesk. The following table lists all collections covered by this Guide with their current Capsule version as well as the minimum Kontakt version. Collection Name BBR C Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX Collection 2.1 Capsule 2.5 Kontakt Full 5.5.1+ Important This Guide does not cover the general installation, usage and features of Orchestral Tools collections. These topics are explained step by step in the respective User Guides and Installation Guides, which you can find in your collection's Documentation folder. You can also find them in our Helpdesk. 2 About this Guide
II Introduction Welcome to the Orchestral Tools Guide! Orchestral Tools provides high-quality sampled instruments for composers. Thanks to our Capsule Scripting Framework developed in-house, all Orchestral Tools collections look and work in a very similar way. names, labeling and all technical terms are identical in every collections, so you will find it easy to find your way around. This Guide describes all articulations as well as their technical features and is organized as follows: - The general Se r ie s Ov e r v ie w shows you all available Orchestral Tools Series', which group our collections into broader categories. - Following this is the respective Se r ie s Ov e r v ie w Page of one particular Series, which lists all available collections by name and gives suggestions for expansions options. - Each individual collection then has its own C ol l e ction Ov e r v ie w page, which describes the general content of the collection as well as its most important features at a glance. - This is followed by the Instr ume nts Section, which lists all instruments (or sections) contained in the collection with a short description of tone, scope or other pertinent information. - The Ar ticul ations Section finally lists all articulations in detail along with all their properties. 3 Introduction 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH
III Recording and Concept We are happy to have found a sonic home for our collections at the Teldex Scoring Stage in Berlin. The large recording stage at Teldex looks back on a long tradition of many well known and Grammy award winning recordings. Famous orchestras, like the Berlin Philharmonics and great film composers from the USA and Europe trust and love the wide and clear acoustics of this room. One of the best sounding scoring stages in Europe, this room together with a fantastic complement of legendary microphones catapults our work to a new level of orchestral sampling. The quality of a sampled collection begins with the recording. Every Orchestral Tools collection is recorded at 96khz with state of the art equipment. The full editing and post-production process uses these 96khz recordings without downsampling. We very rarely denoise our recordings and never treat them in any other automated way. If tuning is needed, it is done by ear without resorting to tuning algorithms. Only at the very end, right before the samples are mapped into their instruments, the content is converted to 48khz for best use of resources. Our goal is to provide a set of tools that easily adapts to any workflow and creates a coherent sonic representation of the orchestra. The main way we achieved this is by recording every instrument in its orchestral position. All collections come pre-panned and pre-mixed with their respective volumes balanced. If there are multiple types of the same instrument, they are recorded in slightly different positions, yet still in their general section area. The different snare drums in Berlin Percussion, for example, have been recorded slightly spread over the general "snare drum area" within the percussion section. This allows you to have a very wide and full sound when combining multiple instruments. We deliberately choose to also record non-traditional instruments as belonging to a symphonic setup, like electric guitars and a drumset in our Metropolis Ark Series. Modern media scoring introduces a host of new instruments into the established orchestral lineup and we feel these instruments deserve the same care and precision in fitting them into the symphonic sound as their traditional counterparts. All collections feature a number of microphone positions commonly used in orchestral recording. The position of these microphones is identical in every collection, which means that for example the Tree is much nearer to the string section that it is to the percussion section (because the percussion section is situated at the back of the orchestra). This enabled lively acoustics that come pre-mixed for the respective stage position. The choice of mic positions also depends greatly on the instrument. Some instruments, especially in the percussion section, benefit greatly from a M/S position to enable accurately positioning the sound source. Wherever possible, similar instruments use the same mapping scheme so it is usually possible to transfer MIDI data from one instrument to another easily. This is especially important and useful for percussion. 4 Recording and Concept
IV Berlin Series The Berlin Series is Orchestral Tools' ongoing journey to harnessing the sound of the Teldex Scoring stage in an all-purpose orchestral sample collection. Every major section of the orchestra is represented by one Main Collection, which contains all essentials instruments and articulations and forms the backbone of any symphonic piece. These collections are expanded and continued by special expansion collections, which add additional instruments or playing techniques. The following table lists all Berlin Series Collections currently released - underlined names jump to a description of its content and unique features. You can download a version of this Guide that applies to all released Collections on our Helpdesk. When you load any Berlin Series patch inside Kontakt, the instrument slot will show an icon representing the orchestral section as shown below. Berlin Orchestra Inspire Berlin Orchestra Inspire Berlin Woodwinds Berlin Brass Berlin Percussion Berlin Strings Main Collection Additional Instruments Soloists I Soloists II SFX Main Collection Additional Instruments Muted Brass Horn SFX Main Collection The Timpani Main Collection Special Bows I Special Bows II First Chairs SFX 5 Berlin Series 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH
4.1 Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX Berlin Brass represents our vision of symphonic brass sampling. This series is currently in active production. Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX marks Orchestral Tools first foray into the exciting world of orchestral brass sampling. We have recorded four french horns at our favourite scoring stage - the Teldex Studio in Berlin. The sound of the french horn forms an important part of film music: Not only does the instrument lend itself beautifully to sweeping melodic lines as well as providing a harmonic backbone to the orchestration, but also french horns come to shine in the effects department. Under the hands (and lung capacity) of a skilled player, the instrument is capable of an almost infinite number of interesting effects. For Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX, we took a 4 horn section and recorded them in position both with tutti articulations, as well as each instrument individually. The result is a never before-seen flexibility in creating horn arrangements. Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX gives you a quality set of standard articulations, but the real focus of the collection lies on effects. Our innovative cluster builder allows you to assign the articulation for each horn separately without the need for multiple tracks. Automatic voice detection makes playing a breeze. All divisi articulations have been recorded in place for each horn. We hope you will be as blown away as we were when we heard the different approaches of each player to the same articulation. Using the divisi articulations, you in effect get four unique takes of each articulation - it is like four solo horn libraries in one. Plus they blend beautifully. And then there s the tutti stuff. Last but not least, we took greatest care to make our piano really piano and our fortissimo really fortissimo. Sampled brass tends to hold back. This won t happen here! These instrumentalists gave it all they got and now you have the fruit of their labour right under your fingers. We hope you find this collection inspiring and useful for your work. Let the FX begin! Instrumentation and Recording Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX features four french horns played both as a tutti section as well as individually. The patches are organised inside the Instruments folder in Divisi and Tutti subfolders with Single patches containing a single articulation and Multi patches providing access to all articulations in one single patch. The Tutti folder contains all tutti articulations, with one articulation per patch. The Divisi folder contains the Cluster Builder and Random Staccato patches, with the four individual instruments controllable inside the patch. It also contains four subfolders for the four instruments with the articulations separated (again one articulation per patch). All instruments are subtly different instruments played by different musicians, not just additional recording passes and have been recorded in orchestral seating position including panning. You have free choice between three microphone positions, Close, Mid and Room, the latter being a splendidly lofty Decca Tree with M50s. All instruments within a section are different instruments played by different musicians, not just additional recording passes. 6 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX
These microphone positions are switchable in the GUI and can be controlled via MIDI CC. Additionally, all core articulations have been recorded with multiple velocity layers for realistic dynamics. All samples have their natural panning. 7 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH
4.1.1 Instruments The French Horns in Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX bring extensively sampled French Horn SFX to your compositions. This section briefly explains the individual instruments and points out usage scenarios and expansion options. Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX consists of two areas: French Horn Ensemble FX, which are recorded with the full 4 Horn Ensemble, and the individual Horns 1-4 with their assorted articulations as well as the FX Builders. French Horn Ensemble a4 The French Horn Ensemble FX contain standard articulations like Sustain and Staccato to allow easy blending with the other articulations in Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX and also other brass collections like Berlin Brass. Then there is a broad range of FX recorded with the full section including Rips in different intervals, Flutter-tongue, Atonal Figures, Glissandi, and even nice Doppler Effect patches. A special multi with three interval layers of flickering notes is also available for the Horn Ensemble. Solo Horns I-IV Each of the four horns that make up the section has been recorded in its seating position with five standard articulations. These are available in two special FX Builder patches: A Cluster Builder that lets you build custom "divisi" clusters with independent tuning and articulations for each horn, and the Cluster Builder Staccato that plays random staccati, again with customizable ranges. 8 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX
4.1.2 s All Orchestral Tools collections focus on providing a versatile pallet of articulations to help you shape your sound. This section lists all articulations contained in Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX. All Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX Patches have ORTS, AB and Tree mic positions. As such these positions are not listed in the tables below. s Legend Symbol Name Description R Range The playable range of the instrument. L Layers Lists the number and musical dynamics of velocity layers the instrument uses. T Transition Range The interval range of recorded legato transitions. S Transition Styles If multiple legato styles are present, these are listed here by name V Vibrato Layers The number and type of vibrato layers M Microphone Positions Any special mic positions that deviate from the collection standard. TM Time Machine Denotes a patch that uses TimeMachine for tempo-sync. + Time M achine Patche s All patches marked with a "+" (plus sign) also exist as a TimeMachine patch. These patches allow you to adjust the length of the sample to your liking. For more Information refer to the User Guide. French Horn Ensemble a4 01. Horn Ensemble Sustains R: B0-D#4 L: 3 (p, mf, ff) + 02. Horn Ensemble Staccato R: B0-D#4 L: 2 (p, f) RR: 3 + 03. Horn Ensemble Trills R: B0-D#4 L: 2 (p, f) HT Trill + 04. Horn Ensemble Fluttertongue R: G#1-D#4 + 05. Horn Ensemble Rips Short R: G#1-D#4 RR: 2 + 06. Horn Ensemble Rips Long R: G#1-C4 RR: 2 + 07. Horn Ensemble Rips 3rd R: G#1-A#3 + 08. Horn Ensemble Rips Tritone R: G#1-A#3 + 9 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH
09. Horn Ensemble Rising Figure R: G2-D3 + 10. Horn Ensemble Atonal Risers R: G2-A4 + 11. Horn Ensemble Atonal Falls Short R: C1-G#2 RR: 2 + 12. Horn Ensemble Atonal Falls Long R: C1-G#2 RR: 2 + 13. Horn Ensemble Glissandi Oct Short R: G#1-E3 + 14. Horn Ensemble Glissandi Oct Long R: G#1-E3 + 15. Horn Ensemble Doppler Short R: B1-E4 RR: 2 + 16. Horn Ensemble Doppler Long R: B1-E4 RR: 2 + Horn Ensemble SFX Multi - Horn Ensemble SFX Flicker Multi Three Flicker Intervals over the whole instrument range French Horn Individual Builders 01. Horns Divisi Cluster Builder 4 individual Horns with all articulations (see below) with pitch control. 02. Horns Divisi Cluster Builder Stacc 4 individual random staccato Horns with pitch and speed control. French Horn I 01. Horn I Sustains 02. Horn I Stopped Sustains R: G1-D#4 L: 2 (pp, mf) + 03. Horn I Trills 04. Horn I Fluttertongue R: B0-D#4 + 05. Horn I Bendings Horn I Multi - French Horn II 01. Horn II Sustains 02. Horn II Stopped Sustains R: G1-D#4 L: 2 (pp, mf) + 03. Horn II Trills 10 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX
04. Horn II Fluttertongue R: B0-D#4 + 05. Horn II Bendings Horn II Multi - French Horn III 01. Horn III Sustains 02. Horn III Stopped Sustains R: G1-D#4 L: 2 (pp, mf) + 03. Horn III Trills 04. Horn III Fluttertongue R: B0-D#4 + 05. Horn III Bendings Horn III Multi - French Horn IV 01. Horn IV Sustains 02. Horn IV Stopped Sustains R: G1-D#4 L: 2 (pp, mf) + 03. Horn IV Trills 04. Horn IV Fluttertongue R: B0-D#4 + 05. Horn IV Bendings Horn IV Multi - 11 Berlin Series Berlin Brass - French Horn SFX 2017 Orchestral Tools Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH