Cinematic Metal & Industrial Virtual Instrument

Product Description & Manual

GOTH is a virtual instrument created for use with Native Instruments Kontakt 5. It’s the first VI designed specifically for composers and producers who want to add modern Metal elements to films, movie trailers, television shows, promos, games, and other cinematic-style recording projects.

THE GOTH INTERFACE The default front page of theGOTH Graphic User Interface (GUI) is very easy to use - if you don’t need to customize loop notes or rhythms, you can probably do everything you need to do from this page.

The front-page controls include eight sliders, as follows: DISTORT adds distortion LOW-FI degrades audio quality LIMITER adds dynamics limiting & increases overall volume BASS adds low end TREBLE adds high end REVERB controls reverb amount FEEDBACK controls number of delay-repeats DELAY controls delay amount

There are also two drop-down windows on the front page of the GUI: the upper one is for Reverb and the bottom one for Delay. Click in either window to open up a drop-down menu that allows you to choose one of ten different convolution reverbs, or ten different Delay pre-sets.

Beneath the GOTH logo is the TUNE knob; use this to globally adjust the tuning of all loops in a given loop-player, or all samples in an instrument. Used on guitar and bass, this is an easy way to emulate the huge sound of modern Metal drop-tunings.

In the lower left-hand corner of every loop-playing module is a tab marked, SLICE EDITOR. Click on this button to go to the Slice Editor page. PRODUCT CONTENT GOTH is organized into four sections:

1. MULTI-SAMPLED INSTRUMENTS GOTH features a collection of multi-sampled Metal-style guitars, including mono Lead Guitars, huge double-tracked Stereo Guitars, and double-tracked Power Chord Guitar patches that velocity-switch between short chugs (mutes) and sustained power chords. There is also a killer Metal Bass, several heavy Distortion Basses, Dark andLo-Fi Acoustic Pianos, and a 49-piece (!) Monster Metal Drum Kit. See below for a complete list of all sampled instruments.

2. CONSTRUCTION KIT MULTIS GOTH features 20 extensive Performance Multi patches, each containing five Kontakt Loop-Players: one for guitar loops, one for bass loops, one for drum loops, one for Metal-style vocal effects and one for sound design elements such as drones, atmospheres, industrial rhythm loops, and cinematic impacts and risers.

All guitar and bass loops were written and performed in the key of E, making it easy for users to mix and match loops from other Performance Kits, if desired. Using the TUNE button on the GOTH interface, you can also easily de-tune the guitar and bass loops to lower keys such as Eb, D, and C, which are commonly used in many modern style of Metal.

All Construction Kit loops are color-coded for easy reference, as follows: LIGHT BLUE noise loops and one-shots ORANGE Metal-style vocal effects RED drum loops GREEN bass loops VIOLET guitar loops BLACK no loop or sample (empty)

All the loop material has been organized so that it is easy for the user to find related guitar, bass, and drum loops that are intended to work together, as follows: • Each group of related drum, bass, and guitar loops is mapped in the same octave, starting from C1 and ending at C5… • Each instrument type is mapped to the same note or notes in each octave; for example, the drum loops are always mapped to C, the bass loops to D, and the guitar loops and one-shots to E, F, G, A and B… • All the sound design material is key-mapped to one of the lower octaves, starting from C0. By default, all five loop-players in each Multi are set to MIDI Channel 1. This allows users to quickly audition and record loops using a single track in their DAW, while also making it easy to change EQ, Tuning, and/orFX settings on each of the four loop-players in the Multi.

Further customization of the loop content can be done using the SLICE EDITOR page, which can be accessed by the tab located in the lower righthand corner on the front page of each loop player.

3. COMPILATION LOOP KITS The Loop Kit patches include hundreds of additional Industrial Noise Loops, Guitar Noise Loops, Bass Noise Loops, and Piano Loops, in several different tempos.

4. ONE-SHOTS For ease of use, all the one-shot vocal FX, drones, atmospheres, and sound design ele- ments in GOTH are also organized by type in a number of additional instrument patches.

THE SLICE EDITOR PAGE This page is used only for editing and customizing loops. Here, you can changethe Volume, Pan position, or Tuning, or filtering of any slice in any loop.

To edit a loop, use the drop down menu located above and to the left of the waveform to select it. The loop will now be visible as a waveform that has been divided into individual slices.

Next, click on one of the function buttons (Volume, Pan, etc). To use filtering, select a Filter type from the drop-down menu located to the upper right of the waveform.

By grabbing the top line of a slice, you can manipulate it up or down, with a correspond- ing increase or decrease in the value of the selected function (like Volume, for instance).

Command + click (Mac) or or Alt + click (PC) to return any slice to its original position. COMPLETE LIST OF KONTAKT PATCHES

LOOP COMPILATIONS 01 Guitar Noise Loops 120 BPM 02 Guitar Noise Loops 120 BPM All Bass Noise Loops 120 BPM All Industrial Noise Loops 120 BPM All Industrial Noise Loops 150 BPM All Piano Loops 120 BPM All Piano Loops 150 BPM All Piano Loops 180 BPM Guitar Trills

MULTI-SAMPLED INSTRUMENTS

BASSES Annihilator Bass Dystopian Bass Extreme Bass Goth Bass (with key-switched articulations) Psychotic Bass

DOUBLE-TRACKED STEREO RHYTHM GUITARS Hardcore Guitars Insane Guitars Killer Guitars Mayhem Guitars Shredder Guitars

GOTH DRUM KIT Marty’s Monster Drum Kit Marty French’s Monster Drum Kit includes an amazing collection of drums, cymbals, and gongs. Here’s a list of the pieces that we sampled for GOTH:

SONOR DRUM KIT (9-ply Beechwood) 8” by 10” tom 8” by 12” tom 9” by 13” tom 16” by 16” floor tom 6” by 14” custom-made snare Pearl 3” by 13” piccolo snare two 14” by 22” kick drums TAMA CLEAR OCTOBANS 6” by 18” 6” by 21” 6 by 26” 6” by 32”

TAMA BLACK OCTOBANS 6” by 11’ 6” by 12” 6” by 13” 6” by 15”

3 symphonic gongs (28”, 34”, 38”) 4 Sound Creation gongs (14”, 16”, 26”, 32”) 2 accent gongs (7”, 10”) 1 Celtic Cross gong (20”) 1 Malakymist Pentacle (18” x 16”) high hats (15”) remote high hat (14”) 6 Zildjian crash/ride/splash cymbals (6”, 8”, 9.5”, 16”, 17”, 22” rivets) 4 Paiste chinas/cymbals (22” and 20” rides, 20” and 22” chinas) 3 Terry Bozio Radia (7”, 8”, 9”) a 7-inch rotosound cymbal 3 Paiste Sound Plates 1 Hammeraxe stack 1 Custom Marty Stack

GOTH PIANOS Goth Lo-Rez Piano Goth Rez Noir Piano LEAD GUITARS Goth Lead Guitar Screaming Lead Guitar

DOUBLE-TRACKED POWER CHORD GUITARS Hardcore Power Chords & Chugs Insane Power Chords & Chugs Killer Power Chords & Chugs Mayhem Power Chords & Chugs Shredder Power Chords & Chugs ONE SHOTS All Dark Drones & Atmospheres All Risers All Vocal FX Extreme Guitar Noise Goth Hits 1 Goth Hits 2 Goth Noise Glitch Kit

MULTIS 20 Construction Kits including drum loops, bass loops, guitar loops, noise loops, vocal FX, drones & atmospheres, and cinematic sound design elements.

CREDITS Produced By Steve Sechi & Ernie Albert Written by Steve Sechi Kontakt Scripting & Programming: Dan Bennett & Mario Kruselj Sound Design: Steve Sechi

Drums recorded at Audio Hotel Recording Studio ( www.AudioHotel.com), at RVP Studios (www.RVPstudios.com) Drum sessions produced by Greg Trabandt & Marc Amendola Drum sessions Engineered by Marc Amendola Drummer on sampling sessions: Marty French

Guitars & Basses produced and engineered by Ernie Albert Field Recordings for Sound Design: Ken “Flux” Pierce Loop Formatting: Chris Peck Graphic Design: Patty Sechi 3D Graphics & Animation: Ryoshi Ishido

MUSICIANS Guitars & Bass: Ernie Albert Drums: Greg Trabandt, Marty French, Steve Libero Vocals: Gargamel De La Morte

Convolution Reverb IRs licensed from MoReVox, Italy.