Summary of Deep Freq
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Manual.
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Table of contents 1 welcome to deep freq 7 2 installation and activation 8 2.1 installing deep freq 8 2.2 activating deep freq 8 3 how to use a kore instrument 10 3.1 finding a kore sound 10 3.2 loading a kore sound 13 3.2.1 loading a kore sound in kore player 13 3.2.2 loading a kore sound in kore 2...
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5.2.3 lfo 1 & lfo 2 controls 30 5.2.4 envelope follower controls 30 5.2.5 output controls 30 5.3 plagiarism 31 5.3.1 synthesis controls 33 5.3.2 analysis (and amplitude) controls 34 5.3.3 envelope follower controls 34 5.3.4 output controls 34 5.3.5 frequency maps 34 5.4 spreadbands 36 5.4.1 spreadba...
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6.2 about levels 46 6.3 controls mapping 47 6.4 sound variations 48 7 credits 50 table of contents deep freq - manual - 6.
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1 welcome to deep freq thank you very much for purchasing deep freq. Deep freq is a kore instrument that… this manual will help you get started with deep freq. If you want to start immediately, proceed to section ↑2, installation and activation . Please read that chapter carefully and fully, as it e...
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2 installation and activation the following section explains how to install and activate deep freq. Although this proc ess is pretty much straightforward, please take a minute to read these instructions as it might prevent common problems. 2.1 installing deep freq after downloading a kore instrumen...
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In order to activate your copy of deep freq, you have to perform the following steps with in the service center: 1. Log in: enter your native instruments user account name and password on the initial page. This is the same account information you used in the native instruments online shop when buyi...
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3 how to use a kore instrument the following sections will give you a brief overview over some basic operations: you will learn how to search for sounds you have in mind and how to load and play kore sounds. For details on these topics, please read the kore 2 / kore player manual. 3.1 finding a kore...
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Searching for sounds by instrument ! Kore 2 users: if the soundpack column is not visible in the attributes list, right-click on the attributes list header and select the soundpack entry in the upcoming context menu. To restrict your search results to a specific instrument’s sounds: • select the des...
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Fig. 3.3 the quick search field above the search results list. Sorting results by instrument bank name if you don’t want to limit the results to a specific kore instrument, but do want to have the display grouped by instruments, you can sort the list by instrument bank names. To do so: • right-click...
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Fig. 3.4 the search results sorted by instrument bank name. 3.2 loading a kore sound 3.2.1 loading a kore sound in kore player to load a kore sound in kore player: • double-click its entry in the search results list. Alternatively, you can drag it onto kore player’s global controller. Both actions r...
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Fig. 3.5 dragging a kore sound onto the global controller. When a kore sound is loaded, its control page is mapped onto the global controller. This preassigned control page gives you access to the kore sound’s most important pa rameters. The exact buttons and knobs assignments on the control page a...
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• double-click its entry in the search results list. Alternatively, you can drag it onto kore 2’s global controller. Both actions replace the currently loaded kore sound— if it is the first kore sound you load after start-up, it will replace an “empty” kore sound. Fig. 3.6 dragging a kore sound onto...
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Global controller, you also have immediate control over a kore sound’s variations (the different “shapes” of a kore sound, which can be selected via a to h in the sound varia tion grid). % if these terms are completely new to you, chapter 3.1 of the kore 2 manual provides general information, and c...
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4 content description 4.1 about deep freq deep freq [dip frik] is the second kore instrument effects pack by surround sfx, pick ing up where we left off with deep reconstructions. Where deep reconstruc tions focused on re-arranging a signal in time, deep freq is all about warping, bend ing, shift...
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4.3 included effect types as what kind of effect would you declare a four-voice resonator feeding into multiple paral lel busses, each of which contains a different combination of delays, pitch-shifters, fre quency shifters, reverbs, filters, ring-modulators, and each of which feeds back into the ...
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4.4.1 buttbeard fig. 4.1 buttbeard signal flow. Content description example signal flow structures deep freq - manual - 19.
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Fig. 4.2 buttbeard kore controller page. In the buttbeard kore sound, the signal first passes through an instance of the ssfx spreadbands ensemble, where a lfo modulates the spacing between five bandpass filters while the same lfo is inverted and used for modulating the center frequency of the filte...
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Ter and a look-ahead limiter ensure that the results are kept in non-speaker-damaging ter ritory. Now you know why we can’t describe 150 kore sounds: it would take more than 150 pages to do so and anybody bold enough to read all of them would run the risk of a serious brain-meltdown. Content descri...
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4.4.2 finite wire fig. 4.3 finite wire signal flow. Content description example signal flow structures deep freq - manual - 22.
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Fig. 4.4 the finite wire kore controller page. In finite wire, the signal is first passed through a phaser and a granular pitch-shifter/de lay, where the idea is that the resonances of the phaser are transposed in the pitch-shifter, before being fed into an instance of the ssfx (re)sonitarium ensem...
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4.4.3 de-facto chimp fig. 4.5 de-facto chimp signal flow. Content description example signal flow structures deep freq - manual - 24.
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Fig. 4.6 the de-facto chimp kore controller page. This patch starts out with the input signal passing through an instance of the ssfx plagia rism ensemble running in 16 bpf mode. We are then applying a compressor to the filtered signal to get it back into a predictable level range and feed it into ...
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5 the ensembles 5.1 overview the four reaktor ensembles included with deep freq are: 1. (re)sonitarium, a four-voice resonator that allows crossfading between even and odd harmonics per voice. There are two lfos, an envelope follower, a delay and a filter per voice as well as macro controls for fast...
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5.2 (re)sonitarium fig. 5.1 signal flow of (re)sonitarium. The ensembles (re)sonitarium deep freq - manual - 27.
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Fig. 5.2 (re)sonitarium control page. The ssfx (re)sonitarium ensemble consists of four separate resonator voices with a twist: it is possible to crossfade between odd and even numbered harmonics, which gives very interesting and unique results. Additionally, the voices feature a lowpass filter afte...
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The filter cutoff frequency can be offset to allow more harmonics to pass, can resonate and can be modulated. Each voice features modulation options for pitch, odd/even bal ance and panning, as well as a tempo-synced delay to shift the voices against each other in time. Modulations sources provided...
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• wide switches pitch modulation depth between a +- 1 semitone and a +-12 semitone range. • odd/even controls the level balance of odd and even harmonics. • o/e mod: odd/even balance modulation depth. Negative values invert modulation. • o/e mod source selects lfo 1, lfo 2 or env (unipolar envelope ...
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5.3 plagiarism fig. 5.3 ssfx plagiarism signal flow. The ssfx plagiarism circuit synthesizes a signal out of 16 oscillators or bandpass filters, whose amplitudes are derived from the amplitude envelope of the input signal, and whose frequencies are controlled by a look-up table containing various fr...
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We'll call the oscillators/filters "osc" from here on. The input signal is fed into a circuit that analyses its amplitude contour and generates am plitude envelopes for the 16 osc based on that. It can operate in three different modes. • in mode 1, the rectified input signal amplitude is compared a...
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Fig. 5.4 ssfx plagiarism control page. 5.3.1 synthesis controls • mode selects the synthesis mode sine, ring-mod or bpf. • pitch sets the base frequency for the 16 oscillators/filters. Unit is midi note number. The ensembles plagiarism deep freq - manual - 33.
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• rm pitch sets the pitch of the modulator for ring-modulator mode. • frq map selects the frequency map used, and thus defines the pitches/frequencies of the 16 oscillators/filters. You can think of this as a "spectrum selector". See below for details on the frequency maps. • rnd adjusts the amount ...
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• map 1: harmonic series, reversed order, factors 16...1 • map 2: odd harmonics 1...15, then even harmonics 2...16 • map 3: stacked fifths, first on basis of the fifth, then on the octave of the fifth, fac tors 1 1.5 2.25 3.375 5.0625 7.5938 11.3906 17.086 25.6289 3 4.5 6.75 10.125 15.1876 22.7812 ...
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5.4 spreadbands fig. 5.5 spreadbands signal flow. The ensembles spreadbands deep freq - manual - 36.
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Fig. 5.6 spreadbands control page. The ssfx spreadbands circuit consists of five parallel filters in bandpass mode. Their fre quencies are defined via the center frequency of the middle band and the "spread" param eter, which sets the distance between adjacent bands in semitones. Thus a spread of ...
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• reson sets the filter resonance for all bands. • spread: frequency spacing between bands in semitones. • ultra adds a second filter stage with high resonance, resulting in a steeper slope and a more "liquid" sound. • stereo band: stereo weighting; a value of "1" will leave all bands of both channe...
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• lfo-env blends the modulation source from pure lfo modulation (=0) via 50/50 mix (= 0.5) to pure envelope follower modulation (= 1). • lfodly delays the lfo signal used to modulate the frequency spread; unit is 16th notes • lfo wide: when "on," the lfo signal is inverted for the right channel, res...
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5.5 modul8 fig. 5.7 modul8 signal flow. The ssfx modul8 ensemble contains three seperate modulation fx circuits which are switched between using the mode selector switch. The ensembles modul8 deep freq - manual - 40
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• the witch mode is based on a four-tap delay, whose delay times are set by the spread control and modulated by a quadrature oscillator. The four taps are then sequentially crossfaded between by a synced sawtooth oscillator, windowed and sent to the feed back and output circuits. In a way this mode...
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Fig. 5.8 modul8 control page. 5.5.1 global controls mode selects witch, zombie or demon mode. 5.5.2 parameter controls parameter controls common to all modes • mod rate controls the rate of the modulating (quadrature) oscillator. The value of this fader is scaled with the value of the switch below. ...
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• mod amt controls the depth of the delay time modulation. The value of this fader is scaled with the value of the switch below. The unit of the result is milliseconds. • mod amt: range selector modulation depth range selector switch. Parameter controls specific to witch mode • spread adjusts the de...
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5.5.4 level patterns fig. 5.9 demon mode level patterns. Gain is 1 at the top, 0 in the middle and -1 (inverted phase) at mini mum. The ensembles modul8 deep freq - manual - 44.
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5.5.5 pan patterns fig. 5.10 demon mode pan patterns. Pan is left at maximum, centre at the middle and right at minimum. The ensembles modul8 deep freq - manual - 45.
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6 using deep freq the following sections will give you a brief overview of how to use deep freq, including how to set it up with your host and how the controls are mapped. 6.1 basics deep freq is a pack of effects, not instruments, so: • make sure you search for effects in the kore / kore player bro...
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• always be careful with monitoring levels, certain input signal / parameter combina tions can be very loud if there is a resonance at a frequency already very pronounced in the input signal • many effects use envelope followers or other level-dependent modulation schemes, so if your input signal h...
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• the buttons typically “belong to” the knob they are above/under, switching some pa rameter in the same effects section that the knob controls; for example you could find a button that switches between bandpass and lowpass filter modes above a knob that adjusts the cutoff frequency of that filter....
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! When dragging the “morph square,” the morphing applies to knobs only. Buttons only get switched when loading a sound variation directly by clicking on it. Because of this, re sults may vary depending on which sound variation you start off with when morphing. ! As there are many modulation rate pa...
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7 credits production: all reaktor ensembles, kore sounds and sound variations by denis gökdag of surround sfx. Manual: by denis gökdag. Special thanks to: tobias menguser, alexander stamm, gerald zollner, christoph laue and patryk korman at ni for their support in making deep freq happen! Credits de...