Sonkinetic's Delphi Reference Manual PDF - Alexander Publishing
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<strong>Delphi</strong><br />
Historical Ancient Greek Ensemble<br />
“Tell Me, Oh Muse”<br />
Sonokinetic © 2012
<strong>Delphi</strong><br />
For centuries our modern ‘muse’ has been based on the early Greek arts and theaters<br />
with their music, drama and performances. Sonokinetic found a new goal to capture<br />
this “cradle of music performance art”. We invested in authenticity and reconstructed<br />
sampled instruments in extensive sampling recording sessions. These samples are<br />
based on modern science that interprets these ancient ‘in stone and clay written’<br />
music, songs and chants and how we believe this time-faded art would have sounded.<br />
We teamed up with renowned and ‘Greek classics schooled” Miss Veronica<br />
Iliopoulou who poured her heart and skills in this project. Sonokinetic also invested in<br />
reconstructing some of the long lost instruments thus creating a sample set that was<br />
‘lost in time’ in the truest sense of the word.<br />
What you will find in this collection are a wide range of playable ancient Greek multi<br />
sampled instruments like historical harp (Phorminx chromatic recorded<br />
reconstruction), several size drums (hand and stick played Tympanons), bells and<br />
rattles. “<strong>Delphi</strong>” wouldn’t be a Sonokinetic library if we didn’t feature a dramatic<br />
vocal performance. We’ve created a sample set from Greek vocals that provides you,<br />
the composer, with a unique and inspiring collection of melodies, chants and voice<br />
FX.<br />
“<strong>Delphi</strong>” dives into dramatic Grecian performance too, and covers a broad range of<br />
ancient texts and phrases from Greek Tragedies and Dramas by classical dramatists,<br />
Sophocles and Aeschylus. This unique peek into a forgotten world of poetic power is<br />
a truly inspiring environment to behold. These tools are essential for the<br />
contemporary composer that is looking for that ancient “Mythological” sound.<br />
Treat yourself with “<strong>Delphi</strong>” this and find your most base creative powers recharged<br />
by just listening and enjoying this amazing soundscape of historical human art.<br />
In early 2012 Sonokinetic committed to create a new corner stone in our collection<br />
and capture musical cultural heritage from around the world. We set our focus to<br />
archive unique ancient historical instruments and performances. By extensively<br />
researching historical music we have recreated and reconstructed lost civilization’s<br />
music and sound art in high quality recording sessions. This exhaustive research and<br />
performance capture is now available to you, the composer, in an easy-to-use and<br />
thought-provoking package.<br />
Sticking to our awarded multi sampling / performance capturing concepts and<br />
teaming up with the worlds greatest musicians, recording artist, programmers,<br />
designers and scripters we are proud to present to you:<br />
“<strong>Delphi</strong> Historical Ancient Greek Ensemble”<br />
We wish you the best inspiration and creativity.<br />
Stick around… there’s much more to come.<br />
With warm regards,<br />
The Sonokinetic <strong>Delphi</strong> Production Team
CONTENT<br />
1,3+ GB sample pool, 1500+ samples<br />
Instruments: Krotala Dio (small finger cymbals), Krotala <strong>Delphi</strong> (finger bells),<br />
Megalon Tympanon (Large 30” drum), Tympanon (18” membrane hand drum),<br />
Roptron (ancient tambourine like instrument), Phorminx (Ancient reconstructed harp)<br />
Vocals: Songs: Seikilos Epitaph, Stasimon From Orestis (oldest notated music<br />
anywhere found in the world), Dionysus Chants (Dionysus séances improvisations).<br />
Dramatic performances from Sophocles’s and Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon”,<br />
“Choeforoi”, “Eumenides” and “Electra”. (Theatre performance and cinematic<br />
whispered) and natural breath simulation samples.<br />
Temposynced & ITM based grouping and mapping for all melodic performance<br />
elements. Available for Kontakt 4 Time Machine 2 and Kontakt 5 with Time<br />
Machine Pro<br />
Graphic Phrase length & Harmonic key indicators<br />
3 band EQ adjustment<br />
Custom Impulse Response reverb setting with adjustable size and wet/dry<br />
Sonokinetic <strong>Delphi</strong> designed interface and artwork<br />
Programmed by Son Thomsen<br />
Vocal performances by: Veronica Iliopoulou<br />
Open Kontakt format for complete user customisation<br />
Royalty and copyright free content license<br />
<strong>Delphi</strong> <strong>Reference</strong> document (<strong>PDF</strong>)<br />
Artwork: “<strong>Delphi</strong>” DVD cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa<br />
All files in 44.1 kHz, 24 Bit AIFF format.<br />
Programmed for Kontakt 4.2.4 and Kontakt 5.0.2<br />
Created, performed and produced by Sonokinetic
THE INTERFACE<br />
The main UI for <strong>Delphi</strong> consists of controls for EQ, Envelope & Reverb controls on<br />
the left. There are also 3 switches on the UI for selecting different sample groups;<br />
either Vocal, Instruments or Drama.<br />
Phrase Length and Harmonic Key Indication<br />
The length of a song, chant or dramatic read is displayed by a blue light that slides<br />
around the outer rim of the large round stone tablet. It slides from left to right<br />
indicating the position in the phrase that is triggered and played back. At the bottom<br />
of the song and text list there’s a harmonic root key displayed.<br />
Phrase Length Indicator Key Indicator
EQ<br />
Turn EQ controls on / off with the button on the left and hold<br />
the left mouse button to adjust the LOW, MID & HIGH dials to<br />
taste. Default frequencies are 250Hz, 1.4kHz & 7.5kHz. These<br />
can be easily adjusted by opening the Kontakt instrument editor<br />
and changing the frequencies in the Insert Effects panel.<br />
Impulse Response (IR)<br />
<strong>Delphi</strong> comes with a bespoke reverb to simulate a realistic<br />
playing environment. Turn this on / off with the button on the<br />
left. Adjust the start point of the reverb tail with the ‘size’ dial<br />
and the wetness of the reverb with the ‘amount’ dial. You can<br />
further customize or replace the IR within the Kontakt<br />
instrument editor Insert Effects panel.<br />
INTELLIGENT TIME MACHINE (ITM) OVERRIDE<br />
The ITM function syncs samples to half-time or double-time when extreme tempo<br />
values are used. This can also be turned off. Click the red button below the ‘ITM’<br />
graphic from ‘OFF’ to ‘ON’. You may prefer to have the ITM function turned off<br />
when using the new adaptive tempo-syncing functions previously mentioned, so that<br />
the samples do not suddenly switch to half/double-time when manipulating large<br />
tempo changes. When in ITM ‘OFF’ mode you can either select 120 BPM or 90 BPM<br />
of the original recorded tempos.
Keyswitches<br />
<strong>Delphi</strong> provides several colored key switches:<br />
The first colored set (from left to right) are the basic switches that are visible all time:<br />
YELLOW Key switches starting on C0: sample group selector<br />
(Vocals, Instruments or Drama). The active key is colored ‘red’.<br />
In this example the “Vocal” group is selected. These functions<br />
also work by clicking on the interface switches. When activated<br />
in the interface a small blue light will light up.<br />
GREEN Key switches starting from F0 switch between<br />
the different performances. You can also select by clicking<br />
on the text within the interface. When activated in the<br />
selected performance title will glow (See example:<br />
instance for the ‘Drama’ has been loaded)<br />
WHITE Key switches (for Songs & Chants) select the<br />
harmonic root key. In this example performances in “E”<br />
are selected<br />
BLUE Key switches trigger the sample<br />
TOP YELLOW Key switches control breath samples
Historical <strong>Reference</strong> and reconstructions<br />
Krotala <strong>Delphi</strong> & Krotala Dio:<br />
Megalon Tympanon & Tympanon<br />
Phorminx:<br />
Roptron:<br />
Dramas by Sophocles and Aeschylus<br />
Readings from:<br />
Agamemnon, Electra, Choeforoi & Eumenides
Seikilos:<br />
The Seikilos is an ancient sample of a complete composition,<br />
including traditional notation, surviving from the ancient<br />
world. The song and the melody including the text, in the<br />
ancient Greek musical notation, has been found engraved on a<br />
tombstone near Ephesus. The stones have been dated to be<br />
from the first century AD.
Veronica Iliopoulou<br />
THEATRE-Participation as a leader of chorus or as a role in the following Greek dramas:<br />
''ORESTEIA'' by Aeschylus,dir.L.Loizides,New York-off Broadway and USA tour<br />
''PROMETHEUS BOUND'' by Aeschylus,dir.S.Hatzakis,National Theatre of Greece-Hong-<br />
Kong,Germany and China tour<br />
''EUMENIDES'' by Aeschylus,dir.A.Synodinou, Greek tour<br />
''TROJAN WOMEN'' by Euripides,dir.A.Antypas, Greek tour<br />
''IPHIGENEIA EN TAURIS'' by Euripides,dir.St.Tsakiris,Municipal Regional Theatre of Kalamata<br />
''THE PHOENISSAE'' by Euripides,dir.N.Chourmousiades,National Theatre of Northern Greece<br />
''THE FROGS'' by Aristophanes,dir.K.Tsianos,National Theatre of Greece<br />
''PROMETHEUS BOUND'' by Aeschylus,dir.N.Tsakiroglou, Greek tour<br />
''ELECTRA'' by Sophocles,dir.L.Koniordou,National Theatre of Greece-New York Shows Iin Alvin<br />
Aley's theatre<br />
''IKETIDES'' by Euripides,dir.St.Douphexis, Greek tour<br />
DISCOGRAPHY- ''TROJAN WOMEN'' by Euripides,music Heleni Karaindrou-ECM 202<br />
'SAI LEELA'', Indian Religious songs-Bangalore/India 2008<br />
http://www.facebook.com/veronica.iliopoulou
…and a very special thanks to Stellita Loukas, for making the magic possible<br />
For more information check our website:<br />
www.sonokinetic.net<br />
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http://www.facebook.com/sonokinetic.sampling<br />
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All the creative best,<br />
Sonokinetic