Bohemian Violin Manual Expansion 2

BOHEMIAN VIOLIN MANUAL EXPANSION 2

REQUIRES UVI WORKSTATION 3.0.5+

4 ABOUT THIS SERIES A quick overview of the Soul Capture Series 5 DOWNLOADING How to access your download 6 AUTHORIZING How to Authorize your serial (found in your confirmation email) 7 INSTALLING How to mount the downloaded Library into the UVI Workstation 8 ACTIVATING How to Activate your library in the iLok License Manager 9 FIRST SETUP Setting up the best streaming settings in UVI Workstation 10 OPENING THE LIBRARY How to load the Library in the UVI Workstation 11 ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS The importance of the background loading functions 12 NAVIGATING THE INTERFACE How to use the built in help guide 13 MAIN INTERFACE: PLAY Purpose of the Play interface 14 PLAY FUNCTIONS 1/2 Playbox, Volume and Reverb 15 PLAY FUNCTIONS 2/2 Play Menu and Maestro 16 SETTINGS INTERFACE: CONTROL Purpose of the Control interface 17 CONTROL MENU Control menu selection 18 CONTROL KEY-SWITCHING Control Key-switching and Force-Keys 19 CONTROL ASSIGN MIDI KEYS How to assign midi keys to articulations 20 ARTICULATIONS: LAYOUT How to assign and move articulations on the user interface 2 BOHEMIAN VIOLIN TABLE OF CONTENTS

21 LAYOUT ARTICULATION SELECTION How to change articulations under each mood 22 LAYOUT ARTICULATIONS DESCRIPTIONS How to access your download 23 CONTROLLING THE PERFORMER Example articulation layout description 24 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 1/6: LONGS Descriptions of the Long articulations 25 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 2/6: LEGATOS Descriptions of the Legato articulations 26 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 3/6: SHORTS Descriptions of the Short articulations 27 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 4/6: BOW CONTROL Descriptions of the Bow Controls 28 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 5/6: MOODS Descriptions of the Moods 29 FULL ARTICULATION LIST 6/6: MOODS Descriptions of the Moods 30 CREDITS

CONTROL MENU

3 BOHEMIAN VIOLIN ABOUT THIS SERIES

SOUL CAPTURE SERIES THE V.I. THAT BECAME A REAL BOY

The magic of the Soul Capture Series is the ability to play as the performer, someone who has spent a lifetime practicing and honing their abilities, with their personality projected through their instrument...

A REAL PERFORMANCE.

THE WORLDS FIRST VIOLIN VIRTUAL PERFORMER

A lifetime of Violin performing and incredibly mind boggling scripting, all wrapped into a single package for you to play and compose. No midi mastery or advance programming required, the Bohemian Violin takes care of all of this on your behalf, leaving you free to make music beautifully fast with unparalleled realism.

Czech born Ondrej Pochyly, the first performer to have been immortalized into our Soul Capture Series of solo instruments, performs using his Maestro Czech Violin, recorded in studio dry quality at VirHarmonic Studios, Czechia.

4 DOWNLOADING AND UNPACKING

THE FILE FORMAT The Bohemian Violin is compressed into a zip file and will need to be unpacked prior to mounting into the UVI Workstation, once unpacked you will be left with a single Bohemian_Violin_V3.ufs

VIRHARMONIC ACCOUNT To access your download, please login to your account at www.virharmonic.com and navigate to your downloads.

ACCOUNT DOWNLOADS Locate the Bohemian Violin and click on the download icon to start the download.

You may re-download up to 5 times, if you use up your download limit, then please contact our support for a limit reset or if you are having issues downloading.

UNPACKING SOFTWARE Windows and Mac should both be able to natively unpack the download. However, if you encounter any issues unpacking the Bohemian_Violin_V3.zip here are links to a few free unpacking softwares:

Windows: www.winzip.com MAC: www.theunarchiver.com 5 AUTHORISING USING iLOK LICENSE MANAGER

NEW iLOK USERS Please visit www.ilok.com and create a free account, please make a special note of your chosen iLok ID and password, as you will need these again later.

AUTHORIZING YOUR LICENSE Please visit www.virharmonic.com and sign into your account, navigate to Authorize your Library and enter your iLok ID and the serial number from your virharmonic purchase confirmation email.

Click Authorize and the license is placed into your iLok account.

Existing Users, the Free Expansions do not require another activation.

6 INSTALLING MOUNTING THE UFS FILE PLEASE INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION OF THE UVI WORKSTATION AND OPEN IN STANDALONE You can get the latest version here https://www.uvi.net/en/instruments/uvi-workstation.html

PREFERENCES MENU To open the Preferences, click the burger button and select preferences from the drop down menu.

SOUNDBANKS TAB Click on the Soundbanks Tab to open the Soundbanks page.

ADD SOUNDBANK LOCATION Click on the ... button to open a file browser window. Now select the folder which contains your downloaded bohemian Violin UFS file and click open (You cannot select the library.ufs, only the folder which it is within).

Close the UVI Workstation and open it again for the changes to apply.

7 ACTIVATING USING iLOK LICENSE MANAGER

SIGN INTO iLOK The iLok license Manager is automatically installed with the UVI Workstation, open the iLok License Manager and sign into your account.

ACTIVATING THE LIBRARY Once signed in, you will see the Bohemian Violin license in the right column.

Click on the license and drag it over to the icon of your computer in the left column and release the mouse button, (you can also authorize to an iLok USB if you wish to).

When prompted, click to confirm activation. Your Library is now authorized to use on this computer, you can activate on up to 3 different computers at the same time.

DEACTIVATING A LIBRARY Your license has 3 movable activations, you can return an activation back into your iLok License Manager at any time to reuse on another computer. Recommended to do prior to replacing computer hardware or OS reinstall/upgrade

STEPS TO DEACTIVATING: 1# Sign into the iLok License Manger on the computer you wish to deactivate. 2# Right mouse click on the Bohemian Violin License in the right column. 3# In the drop down select DEACTIVATE and confirm when prompted. The activation will now be returned to your iLok account for use on another computer. 8 FIRST SETUP UVI STREAMING SETTINGS

PLEASE ENSURE THAT THE UVI WORKSTATION IS CORRECTLY SETUP FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCE POSSIBLE (SSD* IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

PREFERENCES MENU To open the Preferences, click the burger button and select preferences from the drop down menu.

STREAMING TAB Click on the Streaming Tab to open the streaming page.

STREAMING SETTINGS In most cases the default settings will be ideal, but rather than loading the entire sample set into RAM, the samples may be read (streamed) from the hard disk as the program is being played. To optimize your experience, please select the appropriate hard drive type and cache size for your system. (Default cache is suitable for majority of systems). APPLY CHANGES NOTE: to apply the settings of this page, you must click Apply. UVI Workstation’s performance is directly affected by the speed of the hard disk, so the faster the drive the better, set the Hard drive type accurately for the best performance.

* SOLID STATE DRIVE, INTERNAL IS BEST OR EXTERNAL VIA USB-C/THUNDERBOLT OR USB 3.0 TRY TO AVOID USING USB HUBS OR USB MULTI SPLITS, AS THEY GREATLY REDUCE HDD/SSD STREAMING SPEEDS 9 OPENING THE LIBRARY LOADING THE LIBRARY

NEW USERS: PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE AUTHORIZED YOUR SERIAL AND HAVE ACTIVATED THE LIBRARY IN THE iLOK LICENSE MANAGER ON YOUR COMPUTER PRIOR TO LOADING THE LIBRARY.

OPEN BROWSER Click on the folder icon to open the library browser.

OPEN SOUNDBANKS Click on Soundbanks dropdown and the Bohemian Violin will appear below, click on the Bohemian Violin to open the patch column.

Here in the patch column you can choose to open a patch which is suitable for your use.

Patch 1: Bohemian_Violin_v3 - This is the default patch which will load all the samples upon launch.

Patch 2: Bohemian_Violin_v3_Fast_Load - This is the fast load patch which will load the program with essential samples only. The remaining samples will load in upon first note played. To ensure the library loads fast in your saved projects, please purge the library prior to final save in your DAW.

Double click the patch you wish to open and the Library will start to load.

10 ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS BACKGROUND LOADING

BACKGROUND LOADING We have given you a choice of patches to load, a full load patch (Standard load time) and Purged patch which only loads the necessary samples and leaves the rest purged (Shorter Load time). With the Purged patch, the samples will load in upon first note played. You can also purge and load samples within the user interface on the fly.

PURGE SAMPLES Purge all samples, the library will become unresponsive during this short process. This function is essential to use prior to saving your project if you use fast load patch, so next time you load your project, the samples will be purged speeding up load time. (If Auto Load is off, Samples will not play until you have clicked the Load Samples button)

LOAD SAMPLES This fully loads the library, you can still play the library while loading the samples, although you may hear pops and clicks during the loading. (A loading samples notification will appear until fully loaded)

AUTO LOAD SAMPLES Will Automatically load the purged samples on first note played. While the library is loading the Loading Samples overlay will be active and the UI will not be accessible. Most memory efficient, suitable for SSD only, playback may be temporarily interrupted due to the background loading of samples.

11 NAVIGATING THE INTERFACE THE BUILT IN HELP GUIDE

The interface contains all the basic information that can be found in this manual, from descriptions of functions to animated examples on how to trigger certain articulations. The interface background becomes darker when information or a simple tutorial is being shown.

OPEN HELP GUIDE Click to find out more information on each part of the Library, available on the bottom right of the User Interface.

CLOSE HELP GUIDE Click on the cross at the top right of the interface to close the Help Guide.

12 MAIN INTERFACE PLAY 13

This is the greeting page when you first open the Library.

Here you can play with an uncluttered User interface and no distractions. Everything can be played from here, if you wish to see the Key-switches and Force-Keys assigned on the interface, simply unhide the controls and the interface will visually show all your assigned articulations. NAVIGATING THE INTERFACE FUNCTIONS 1/2

MOOD PLAY BOX Displays the current Mood, Articulation, Dynamic and Bow ARTICULATION direction being played, handy as a visual aid. DYNAMIC UP BOW DOWN BOW

VOLUME & REVERB Click on VOL to Mute, or REVERB to switch to DRY Samples. Use the sliders to control Volume and Reverb amount. [UVI Spark Verb] VOL REVERB

14 PLAY FUNCTIONS 2/2

UNHIDE CONTROLS Reveals the controls where you can reassign keys and choose different articulation setup.

MAESTRO Switches the Bohemian Violin into Poly-Legato mode. Force-Keys and Key-Switches can still be used but are not displayed in the play box while Maestro is active. Maestro may be CC assigned by right clicking on the Button.

Moods also affect the Play Style of Maestro.

15 SETTINGS INTERFACE CONTROL 16

This is where you can take control of the performer by assigning additional overrides to each mood, directing the Virtual Performer to your specific style. These functions are best suited for those wishing to take a more active role in directing the Virtual Performer beyond its defined play styles. CONTROL MENU SELECTION

When you reveal the controls by clicking the show control icon , the menu will expand to include the following functions:

HIDE CONTROLS ICON Hides the Controls for a clutter free user interface.

SAVE LAYOUT PRESET Save your Layout Preset. This will enable you to save the layout and selection of you articulations and moods for other Projects. NOTE - SAVES ONLY THE LAYOUT! UVI WORKSTATION CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED!

LOAD LAYOUT PRESET Load your previously saved layout Preset, useful if you are working across multiple computers and wish to have unified work process.

RELEASE TIME Click to open a drop down menu that allows you to adjust the release time between the default 300ms for easy live playing or 225ms and 150ms. This is the time the note is held for after release to allow for nice Bow Changed legato. (Release Time is specific to each mood). 17 CONTROL KEY-SWITCH & FORCE-KEY

The performer takes care of the articulation handling for you, based on the way you play. If you would like to direct the performer to play something different to the articulation chosen, you can use a FORCE-KEY for a quick alternative or a KEY-SWITCH to alter the performance for a longer duration.

KEY-SWITCH Lights up when pressed, will override the performer until another articulation is selected or that key-switch is pressed again, returning control back to the Virtual Performer. FORCE-KEY Lights up when held down, will override the performer until the key is released, once released the Virtual Performer will regain control. Staccato, Spiccato, Pizzicato and Non-Vibrato Force-Key can be clicked to switch between Force-Key or Key-Switch.

BOW CONTROL These work exactly the same as Force-Keys but have their own icon for bow control. The exception is for RE-BOW which can be clicked or CC assigned as it is a toggle: MANUAL AUTOMATIC RE-BOW RE-BOW

18 CONTROL ASSIGNING MIDI KEYS

Shows which midi key the articulation is assigned to, click on the key to reassign to another of your choosing. Once clicked you will be prompted to press a new midi key to assign, if the key you choose is already assigned to another articulation, you will have a choice to cancel the assignment or swap the keys over. (It is not possible to have an articulation without an assigned midi key).

FORCE-KEYS & PLAYABLE RANGE MOODS KEY-SWITCHES G2 - F6

ACTIVE FORCE-KEY/ ASSIGNED FORCE-KEYS/KEY-SWITCHES NOT PLACED ON YOUR LAYOUT KEY-SWITCH (Hidden articulations can still be used, but are not shown on the GUI unless allocated - see LAYOUT on next page)

19 ARTICULATION LAYOUT 20

Tailor the Library to your specific work-flow, assign slots you have selected to any articulation, mood or bow type. Each mood can have its own unique layout, so as you switch through Moods, you can have different articulations assigned to Key-Switches/ Force-Keys, allowing you to re-use a single midi key multiple times. LAYOUT ARTICULATION SELECTION

The LAYOUT allows you to change which articulations are placed under which mood. Moods can have different articulation setups from each other and share midi key assignments, so as you change through the moods, you can reuse the same midi key to trigger different articulations.

ARTICULATION SLOT Click to open the LAYOUT page. You may assign a different Articulation, Mood, Legato or Bow type to the selected slot. You can only edit one slot at a time. Each layout can be unique to each Mood

SELECTION DROP DOWN Click to choose a different Selection from the drop down menu, you will have a description of the selected Articulation, some will also have basic play tips. Click on ASSIGN to replace/Add the articulation to the selected slot, or click CANCEL. Click here for the full list of articulations.

[SELECTION TYPE] Shows you what type of selection you have clicked, ranges from Performer Mood, Legato Type, Long Articulation, Short Articulation, Bow Control and Empty Slot.

21 LAYOUT DESCRIPTIONS

Displays whether the articulation is a Force-Key, Key-switch or both.

Some descriptions have simple animated example of how to trigger selected articulation.

22 CONTROLLING THE VIRTUAL PERFORMER

There are Seven factors that control the Bohemian Violin, but don’t worry, as most of this is taken care of by our Virtual performer or you can choose to manually override the virtual performer if you so wish. 1MOOD The mood you have selected overrides the entire virtual performer play style. 2VELOCITY How hard you hit the keys affects dynamic. 3ON BOW Overlapping the notes plays our vast array of on-bow legatos Not overlapping the notes (within Release Time which can be set between 150-300ms) plays our vast array of BOW CHANGE bow-change legatos. Play over the set release time, and the Violinist will perform a bow lift and begin a 4 new phrase. 5BOW TYPE Virtual Performer chooses articulation/legato or user can manually force articulations. 6BOW MOTION Virtual Performer decides bow motion, up bow, down bow, re-bow or user can manually force bowing. PLAY SPEED The speed at which you play will trigger different behavior, playing a specific way fast, will perform trills, 7 runs or tremolos. 23 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 1/6 [LONG ARTICULATIONS]

ARC Midi Key Default: C0 A sustained note with Crescendo and a very soft start. Ideal for longer opening notes.

MID-ARC Midi Key Default: C#0 Similar to Arc but with faster Crescendo and Diminuendo towards the end. The Mid Arc climaxes in the middle. More suitable for mid phrases or faster paced pieces.

SUSTAIN Midi Key Default: D0 Level dynamic sustain, suitable for mid phrases or faster bow changes.

DIMINUENDO Midi Key Default: D#0 A sustain with gradually decreasing volume, currently the longest bow. Ideal for end of phrase.

MARCATO Midi Key Default: E0 Sustain with a sharp and immediate attack, ideal for faster paced parts or escalation of dramatic emotion.

24 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 2/6 [LEGATO TYPE]

¼ LEGATO Midi Key Default: F0 A form of on bow legato that uses purely fingered or string changed legato with a short note after the transition. Ideal for faster pace emotion or if no slur is desired.

½ LEGATO Midi Key Default: F#0 The most expressive of all legatos, with a mid length bow after the transition. Featuring fingered as well as pronounced slurs with dynamic variation. Ideal for expressive parts.

LEGATO Midi Key Default: G0 Whole Legato, the slowest of all the legatos featuring both fingered and slurred in lower dynamics. Offers the longest on bow sustain after transition and is ideal for quiet and emotional playing.

BOW CHANGE Midi Key Default: G#0 Forcing bow change will mean that every new overlapped note will use bow changed legato instead of on bow.

PORTAMENTO Midi Key Default: A0 Is a slide between a note and a new note on overlapped legato. The force key needs to be pressed, like with all others, prior to the transition (new note overlap). This legato should be used rarely.

25 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 3/6 [SHORT ARTICULATIONS]

TRILL/RUN Midi Key Default: A#0 Fingered or string changed on bow legato, ideal for fast moving notes.

STACCATO Midi Key Default: B0 Short, sharp detached note, often used in works of Vivaldi and Mozart.

SPICCATO Midi Key Default: C1 Short notes using a bouncy bow, gritty and great for atmospheric writing or fast runs.

PIZZICATO Midi Key Default: C#1 Notes plucked by the Violinist.

26 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 4/6 [BOW CONTROL]

DOWN-BOW Midi Key Default: D1 Manually force the bow direction down, by holding down this force key, overriding the Virtual Performer.

UP-BOW Midi Key Default: D#1 Manually force the bow direction up, by holding down this force key, overriding the Virtual Performer.

RE-BOW Midi Key Default: E1 Automatically re-bows just prior to the end of the note, can be switched off by clicking the re-bow force key icon in the user interface, switching it to manual re-bowing.

NON VIBRATO Midi Key Default: F1 None vibrato bow strokes. None vibrato does not support auto re-bowing or the lasting bow functions, thus each note will finish at the end of the bow. However, it has true re-bow samples available, so you can re-bow manually by replaying the note and it can also be played as an on-bow or bow-changed legato when forced.

CHORDS Midi Key Default: F#1 Chords will activate our newest Poly-Legato mode that we fondly call Maestro. Maestro can also be activated by clicking the icon beneath the play box. Maestro can be CC assigned by right clicking on the icon.

27 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 5/6 [MOODS]

“A performer mood is a musical style employed by the virtual performer, the mood affects what type of legato and articulations the Virtual Performer may use to evoke a certain style of playing”

Embellish and evolve the Virtual Performers mood by seamlessly employing different key-switch or force-key articulations, as soon as you released the forced behavior, the performer continues seamlessly with their performance.

IMPROV Midi Key Default: C2 Ideal for all tempos and a great way to start playing with our Virtual Performer.

Improv will offer the most variety in selecting our on bow legatos, as well as utilizing all variations of our Bow-Changed Legatos to allow the player to be always in phrase.

This mood is very expressive yet flexible, ideal for mid tempo pieces.

CZARDAS Midi Key Default: C#2 The most aggressive of our moods, always opening the beginning of the phrase with a Marcato.

Leans heavily towards faster legatos and is ideal for faster paced energetic pieces in higher dynamics.

EMOTIVE Midi Key Default: D2 Offering the softest of our moods, ideal for the slower paced pieces in lower dynamics.

Leaning towards a feathery performance with a nice but not over pronounced slur and slower paced legatos, whilst still allowing for faster paced parts.

28 LAYOUT ARTICULATION MENU 6/6 [MOODS]

SPRIGHTLY Midi Key Default: D#2 For aggressive double stops, utilizes blending of shorts; Marcato, Staccato and Spiccato.

Think Witches of Eastwick OST

CONCERTINO Midi Key Default: E2 Concertino brings about a very assertive Violinist, playing using mostly fingered Legato

Ideal for faster mf to ff phrasing.

LASTING BOW Midi Key Default: G1 An experimental bow extender, which enables you to prolong the bow length following a Legato.

To apply, press this force key prior to the interval and hold down during the interval, the final note will be extended by near seamlessly merging two bows together, giving you a longer lasting bow.

NONE Select none to leave the slot on the user interface empty, although you may hide articulations from the interface, they will always remain assigned to a midi key.

29 CREDITS

Ondrej Pochyly HEAD DEVELOPER CONCEPT, RECORDING, SAMPLING, MAPPING, LOGIC AND VIOLINIST Alex Hyde GUI, MANUAL, SAMPLE CUTTER

Jordi Cerezo SCRIPTING

Diego Manca Mura ADDITIONAL SAMPLE CUTTER

RECORDED AT VIRHARMONIC STUDIOS, CZECHIA