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BARITONE GUITAR WASHES

AMBIENT GUITAR SWELLS for KONTAKT 5.8+

INTRODUCTION

BARITONE GUITAR WASHES is a highly versatile Kontakt instrument based on recordings of a baritone with an aluminium neck custom made by NUDE in collaboration with legendary dark ambient artist Eraldo Bernocchi.

BARITONE GUITAR WASHES is based on our proprietary Kontakt engine (WASHES) that incorporates three layers of sound – Body, Grit and Air, each with a specific function and sound characteristics.

SOUND PALETTE

The resulting palette of possible sounds is unique in its breadth, whilst still retaining the DNA of the original sound sources. BARITONE GUITAR WASHES covers icy, thin trails, warm, sparkly harmony pads, edgy, scratchy atonal textures as well as an assortment of plucks with varying degrees of electric guitar realism.

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LAYERS

BODY LAYER

The Body layer contains the core guitar samples, in various pickup positions (Neck, Mid, Bridge) and playing styles (Harmonics, Straight, Ebow). These samples are looped/layered to create “swells” with close to infinite release times. It also includes several instances of “pre-washed” samples, swell sounds that were recorded using custom delay and reverb settings on a Kemper Profiling Amp. Sample start times, attack and release are highly customizable, allowing for anything from short, dry naturalistic pluck sounds as well as organ-like stab sounds (without the initial attack of the guitar pluck) via 10s risers that end abruptly to classic slow-attack and slow-release pad sounds.

GRIT LAYER

The Grit layer serves to add a distorted, dissonant, scratchy or bowed flavour. This can either be dialed in low in the mix for a sprinkling of darkness and texture, or dialed up to be a featured element.

AIR LAYER

The Air layer contains a few different instances of moving air (a household hoover, air blown across an Irish Low Flute) for some high-frequency/breath-like sizzle. This layer can be added to produce organ-type sounds (think Hammond or Wurlitzer) and hints of choir.

MORPHING & EDGE

All three layers can be morphed by applying several target sounds (usually combinations of sounds from other layers). There are controls for direction, speed and strength of this morphing effect, allowing for maximum soundshaping capabilities.

There are also detailed FX controls as well as an “EDGE” control mapped to the mod wheel by default for some added saturation and spectral shaping to bring out extra dirt and presence.

INSTALLATION & GETTING STARTED

1. Download the file Riot_Audio_Baritone_Guitar_Washes.zip 2. Extract the .zip file to your instrument drive 3. Open Baritone Guitar Washes.nki in Kontakt. 4. Click on the wrench symbol at the top left 5. Click on Instrument Options 6. Select Snapshot

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7. Where it says “Snapshot Saving Location”, click on Show. This will open up a window with the snapshot location on your computer. 8. Drag the contents of the ../Snapshots/Baritone Guitar Washes/ folder in the installation package to the folder on your drive. 9. Close Baritone Guitar Washes and reopen it again. All the snapshots will now be visible in the dropdown menu next to the Riot Audio logo.

USER INTERFACE

BARITONE GUITAR WASHES is a two-page Kontakt instrument with deep sound design capabilities.

MAIN PAGE

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1 MAIN Page Tab

2 EDGE

One-stop control for spectral shaping and tape saturation. Brings out smooth presence and dirt. Mapped to CC1 by default.

3 MASTER

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Contains controls for Volume, Pan and Stereo Width

4 FX: DISTORTION

Transistor Saturation/Distortion emulation (with toggle on/off). Includes damping control for warming up the upper frequencies.

5 FX: FILTER

High Pass (HP), Band Pass (BP) or Low Pass (LP) Filters (selection toggle for one at a time) with adjustable centre frequency.

6 FX: DELAY

Controls for Delay – including delay time and feedback. High feedback settings result in almost endless trails.

7 FX: REVERB

Controls the amount of reverb return. The reverb is a modelled Lexicon 480 digital reverb unit with a long hall setting (9.0s). Length controls the size of the reverb – both early reflections (ER) and late reflections (LR) are adjusted with this control.

8 EQ

Controls gain of low, mid and high bands of a parametric EQ. The EQs have adjustable Qs – from very wide for a musical, soft attenuation or enhancement effect to very narrow for detailed spectral characteristics.

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LAYERS PAGE

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9 LAYER MASTER CONTROLS

Source Sound selection, layer level meter (for monitoring clipping at layer bus level) and volume control.

10 START

Controls the sample start position for each layer. Use this in order to eliminate the attack of the pick/hand at the beginning of the samples or select different sections of the Grit layers.

11 ATTACK/RELEASE

Controls the envelope shape for each layer independently.

12 13 GRIT and AIR Layers

14 MORPHING

Includes Morphing target selection menus (for each layer separately) as well as controls for the strength of the morphing effect (Amount) and the shape of the morphing effect envelope (Speed).

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15 DIRECTION

Controls the direction of the morphing effect – set to right to left in order to start with the target instead of with the source sample.

PATCHES INCLUDED

BARITONE GUITAR WASHES comes with 60 sound presets (snapshots) – 30 pads and 30 plucks

PADS PLUCKS Accordion Whispers, Amped, Angelic Choir, Aftertouch Swell, Bamboo Fuzz, Blue Clavinexus, Echo Swells, Enchanted Forest, Velveteen, Building Up, Chinese Tickles, Engine Hiss, Faraway Climb, Fata Morgana, Crawling Air Pressure, Cure Me, Curtain Taps, Frithy Aftertouch, Frozen Gong Explorer, Dark Fuzz Impact, Fairground Ride, Gong-like, Fuzzy Heavens, Hollow Ringing, Ice Cutter, Jet Hacksaw Sitar, Massed Little Starlets, Oldish Liftoff, Metallic Bloom, Mission Rising, On Off Guitar, Organ-ic, Psychedelic Pharmacy, Romance, On the Edge of Nostalgia, Organ Resonant Tock, Round and Warm, Scooped Ache, Overdrive Ebow Fizz, Rocket Tines, Soft Fingerprints, Stick it on a String, Launchpad, Scratchy Complaints, Superhuman Sustain – Bridge, Superhuman Shipwrecked, Slo Mo Cutting Riser, Snake Oil, Sustain – Harmonics Bridge, Superhuman Spine Chiller, Thin but Soft, Warm Resonant Sustain – Harmonics Mid LP, Superhuman Sparkles, Wire Undulations Sustain – Harmonics Neck, Superhuman Sustain – Mid LP, Superhuman Sustain – Mid, Superhuman Sustain – Neck, Wah Again, Warm Chorus Pump

CREDITS

Concept: Robin Schlochtermeier (with thanks to Eraldo Bernocchi) Code and GUI: Robin Schlochtermeier Sample Recording and Production: Eraldo Bernocchi and Robin Schlochtermeier Beta testing and snapshots: Sascha Blank Kontakt is a trademark of Native Instruments GmbH

FEEDBACK & SUPPORT

Have you used BARITONE GUITAR WASHES in a project recently? Got an awesome track you’d like to share? Drops us a line ([email protected]) and we might post it on our site or social media feed.

If you enjoy using BARITONE GUITAR WASHES, please tell others – word of mouth is the #1 way people find our instruments, so it helps us make more great instruments for you!

For technical support please email [email protected].

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