KEPLER

SPITFIRE AUDIO

KEPLER

SPITFIRE KEPLER ORCHESTRA USER MANUAL

C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S

Thank you for purchasing Spitfire Kepler Orchestra. A collection of innovative orchestral tools recorded in the crisp, dry acoustic of Air Studio One, Kepler Orchestra is presented in our interactive Systems Grid -- an articulation mapping tool based on our hugely popular Evo Grid technology. The grid layout enables you to write and create complex polyrhythms with ease, giving you ultimate control, while also doing the hard work for you. Inspired by the great American systems composers of the late 20th century such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich & John Adams, Kepler Orchestra is your new secret weapon for creating ultra-realistic, dynamic polyrhythmic scores.

Explore an astronomical range of unique orchestral sounds, articulations and playing styles reminiscent of planetary motion, plus our Warped section for epic, space-inspired synthesised sounds, to expand your sonic universe.

Quick Specs

? ~18,300 Samples (48k recorded at 96k) ? 37.4 GB disk space required ? 38 GB disk space required during install ? NKS Ready ? Compatible with Native Instruments hardware ? Free Kontakt Player Included ? Intuitive GUI with inline help ? Multiple signals (Close, Ambient, Wide, Mid, and Mix)

Table Of Contents

CONGRATULATIONS

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WELCOME

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DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING

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REGISTERING WITH KONTAKT PLAYER

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FOLDER STRUCTURE

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THE SYSTEMS GRID

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THE MERCURY SYNTH

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APPENDIX A - RECOMMENDED TECH SPECS 12

APPENDIX B - KONTAKT vs. KONTAKT PLAYER 12

APPENDIX C1 - ARTICULATION LIST

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APPENDIX F - FAQS & TROUBLESHOOTING

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WELCOME

AN ORCHESTRAL ODYSSEY

A full orchestra made up of 40 strings, 13 woodwinds and 19 brass, recorded as separate ensembles in the crisp, vibrant acoustic of Studio One at the legendary Air Lyndhurst, where we recorded our popular Bernard Herrmann and Studio Orchestra libraries. All 54 of our unique articulations and playing styles, many never before sampled, have been orchestrated by Ben Foskett, produced by Harry Wilson and expertly recorded by renowned engineer Fiona Cruickshank through the famous custom Neve console via legendary Montserrat preamps. With multiple microphone positions (Close, Ambient, Mid & Wide), a Full Mix option created by Fiona Cruickshank, the library is presented in our sophisticated Systems Grid, giving you ultimate controllability and endless inspiration. We have also created 259 Snapshots -- a wide selection of starting points with pre-programmed rhythms and sounds that work instantly, for that extra element of surprise and inspiration. Both detailed and epic, and designed to work perfectly alongside our existing orchestral ranges, Kepler Orchestra is for anyone exploring the cutting edge of modern orchestration, looking to create sophisticated scores for film, TV and games.

THE SYSTEMS GRID

Together with a wide range of innovative and nuanced articulations (from repeated notes, to doppler effects, swells, shards and pulsing movements), our sophisticated Systems Grid, based on our hugely successful Evo Grid technology, has solved a common problem for composers -- it allows you to create realistic sounding, complex interlocking polyrhythms -- the simultaneous combination of contrasting rhythms -- that are impossible to successfully produce using traditional samples. Use the sounds dry for precise detail and to create the impression of vast movement and speed, or add your favourite reverb to create epic and atmospheric soundscapes.

Inspired by this concept, composer and Spitfire Audio co-founder Paul Thomson had the vision of sampling a set of innovative and versatile orchestral articulations and playing styles, cyclical in nature, with the aim of enabling composers to score ultra-realistic repeated notes and complex polyrhythms using samples.

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician, famous for his three laws of planetary motion. Knowledge of these laws, especially the area law, provided the foundation for Sir Isaac Newton's famous law of gravitation. Kepler was convinced "that the geometrical things have provided the Creator with the model for decorating the whole world". In Harmony, he attempted to explain the proportions of the natural world--particularly the astronomical and astrological aspects--in terms of music. The central set of "harmonies" was the musica universalis or "music of the spheres", which had been studied by Pythagoras, Ptolemy and many others before him.

A closer look at our innovative articulations:

DOPPLERS - The Doppler Effect is the change in frequency

of a wave in relation to an observer, for example, what you hear when an ambulance passes by. We have recreated this by bending short notes down by a semitone, so they sound like they are shooting past you.

SHARDS - Our shards grid is based on particle swarms, reminis-

cent of shards of light, or the light you see flashing out of an accretion disk. The result is swells of sound that change dramatically in dynamic until they stop.

MOMENTUM - Our momentum grid is based on light wave

theory -- notes that increase and decrease in both speed and dynamic, from pulsing to accelerating.

Although similar to our Evo Grid, our highly interactive Systems Grid is much more of an articulation mapping tool. Instead of using the pegs to create different textures, they are split by time divisions (duplet, triplet, quintuplet and septuplet time), tempo locked to your DAW and allowing you to quickly create sophisticated combinations of different rhythms. We have also solved the problem of rebowing, a secondary feature which is almost impossible to recreate with samples when writing complex orchestrations. As with our Evolutions libraries, you can pan and tweak each sound using the FX panel on the right hand side.

This is not a phrase library, or a series of evolutions -- it is a set of detailed and sophisticated articulations and raw materials, designed to give you the power to create your own complex, nuanced phrases with ease and control. Kepler Orchestra can however interpret your music and play it in ways you never expected.

WARPED - The Warped section contains thirty contrasting

sounds to add an extra layer of cosmic depth and atmosphere to your polyrhythmic compositions. Each of these sounds was produced using the organic sample content from the library, designed to add unique depth, texture and atmosphere to any composition. Some samples were made using granular synthesis, while others were pumped through outboard gear, distressors, saturations, guitar FX and pedals to create something completely new and original. Presented in our Mercury synth, all of the controls are assignable to your control surface, giving you the immediate ability to make our sounds your own.

BEHIND THE SAMPLES

The great systems composers of the 20th century, such as Riley, Reich, Glass & Adams, have had a huge influence on modern music, inspiring composers and artists the world over, from Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream to Sufjan Stevens, Nils Frahm and Cliff Martinez. Systems music at its core is based on repeated sounds with contrasting rhythmic subdivisions that move in and out of sync, reminiscent of planetary motion -- each planet on its own journey, but working together in perfect harmony.

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DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING

Thank you for buying Kepler Orchestra. If you are a total newbie to this kind of thing you can get up to speed here:

First though, grab the `Spitfire Audio App' from this link: this app will enable you to download the library

THE SPITFIRE AUDIO APP

When you launch the app you will be prompted to login using the same details you use at our site. Then you'll see the page pictured below:

TABS the default tab is My Products, which shows all of the libraries on your Spitfire Account. Downloads will show currently downloading products and Preferences allows you to set default locations and behavours as described on the next page.

FILTERS clicking these filters will quickly display products you've yet to install, those already installed, and any available updates. Clicking again will remove the filter.

SEARCH and SORT allow you to quickly navigate through your collection and arrange your collection either by size or name.

LIBRARY All libraries and plugins in your collection will appear with their artwork on the My Products tab. Clicking this artwork will open the product page. This is a great place to find information such as system requirements and insructions as well as where to find Reset and Repair options.

INSTALL/UPDATE buttons allow you to quickly start a download directly from the My Products tab, instead of clicking through to the Library. Next to the button the size of the download is shown, you will need twice as much available space to allow the download to unzip correctly.

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If this is your first time using the Spitfire Audio App for a download you may wish to first navigate to the Preferences tab and make sure that the Default Content location is set to the location where you wish to download your libraries and that the VST2 install location is set to the folder where your DAW epxects to find VST files. Here you can also enable Auto Login to save time in future.

Once you are happy with your preferences, simply click the Install button, either directly on My Products tab, or by clicking on the library image you wish to install and then clicking the install button on the page that appears. Clicking either of these will prompt you for a location, the default content location in your preferences will be suggested but you can select any suitable location.

Once you are happy with the location click Download.

After clicking download you will be directed to the Downloads tab where you can watch the progress if you like. You can of course leave the Downloads tab and start other downloads but at this point you should leave the Spitfire App open until the download completes. As this is a Kontakt player library, once it is downloaded you will need to activate it by following the steps on the next page.

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