USER MANUAL ARTURIA – Synclavier V – USER MANUAL 1 Direction Frédéric Brun Kevin Molcard Development Cameron Jones (lead) Valentin Lepetit Baptiste Le Goff (project manager) Samuel Limier Stefano D’Angelo Germain Marzin Baptiste Aubry Mathieu Nocenti Corentin Comte Pierre Pfister Pierre-Lin Laneyrie Benjamin Renard Design Glen Darcey Sebastien Rochard Shaun Ellwood Greg Vezon Morgan Perrier Sound Design Drew Anderson Victor Morello Jean-Baptiste Arthus Dave Polich Wally Badarou Stéphane Schott Jean-Michel Blanchet Paul Shilling Marion Demeulemeester Edware Ten Eyck Richard Devine Nori Ubukata Thomas Koot Manual Kevin E. Maloney Jason Valax Corentin Comte ARTURIA – Synclavier V – USER MANUAL 2 Special Thanks Brandon Amison Steve Lipson Matt Bassett Terence Marsden François Best Bruce Mariage Alejandro Cajica Sergio Martinez Chuck Capsis Shaba Martinez Dwight Davies Jay Marvalous Kosh Dukai Miguel Moreno Ben Eggehorn Ken Flux Pierce Simon Franglen Fernando Manuel Rodrigues Boele Gerkes Daniel Saban Jeff Haler Carlos Tejeda Neil Hester James Wadell Chris Jasper Chad Wagner Laurent Lemaire Chuck Zwick © ARTURIA S.A. – 1999-2016 – All rights reserved. 11 Chemin de la Dhuy 38240 Meylan FRANCE http://www.arturia.com ARTURIA – Synclavier V – USER MANUAL 3 Table of contents 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 11 1.1 What is Synclavier V? ................................................................................................... 11 1.2 1.2 History of the Original Instrument ........................................................................ 11 1.3 Appearances in Popular Music and Sound Design .............................................. 17 1.4 The Partial Timbre Method of Sound Design ........................................................... 19 1.5 What does Synclavier V add to the original?......................................................... 20 2 ACTIVATION AND FIRST START UP ............................................................. 21 2.1 Register and Activate .................................................................................................. 21 2.2 Initial setup...................................................................................................................... 21 2.2.1 Audio and MIDI Settings (Windows OS) ............................................................ 21 2.2.2 Audio and MIDI Settings (Mac OS X) ................................................................. 23 2.2.3 Using Synclavier V in Plug-in Mode .................................................................... 24 3 USER INTERFACE.......................................................................................... 26 3.1 The Virtual Keyboard .................................................................................................... 26 3.2 The Upper Toolbar ........................................................................................................ 26 3.2.1 Save .......................................................................................................................... 27 3.2.2 Save As… ................................................................................................................. 27 3.2.3 Import… (Preset or Bank) ..................................................................................... 28 3.2.4 Resize Window ........................................................................................................ 28 3.2.5 Audio settings ......................................................................................................... 29 3.2.6 About ........................................................................................................................ 29 3.2.7 Preset Browser Quick Look ................................................................................... 29 3.2.8 Display mode buttons ........................................................................................... 29 3.2.9 MIDI Learn Mode ................................................................................................... 32 3.2.10 MIDI Controller Configs (Configurations) ...................................................... 36 3.3 The Lower Toolbar ......................................................................................................... 36 3.4 The Preset Browser ........................................................................................................ 38 3.4.1 Searching Presets ................................................................................................... 39 3.4.2 Filtering Using Tags ................................................................................................. 39 3.4.3 The Preset Info Section.......................................................................................... 40 3.4.4 The Second Preset View ....................................................................................... 40 ARTURIA – Synclavier V – USER MANUAL 4 3.4.1 Playlists ...................................................................................................................... 41 4 STANDARD PANEL MODE CONTROLS ...................................................... 44 4.1 TIMBRE SETTINGS ............................................................................................................ 44 4.1.1 Volume ..................................................................................................................... 44 4.1.2 Pan ............................................................................................................................ 44 4.1.3 Transpose ................................................................................................................. 44 4.1.4 Tuning ....................................................................................................................... 45 4.1.5 Voice Chorus .......................................................................................................... 45 4.1.6 Chorus Fine .............................................................................................................. 46 4.1.7 F.M. Modulation ..................................................................................................... 46 4.1.8 Bit Depth .................................................................................................................. 46 4.2 AMP ENV OFFSET ........................................................................................................... 46 4.2.1 Attack ....................................................................................................................... 47 4.2.2 Decay ....................................................................................................................... 47 4.2.3 Release..................................................................................................................... 47 4.3 HARM ENV OFFSET......................................................................................................... 48 4.3.1 Attack ....................................................................................................................... 48 4.3.2 Decay ....................................................................................................................... 48 4.3.3 Release..................................................................................................................... 48 4.4 5.4 REPEAT/ARPEGGIO ................................................................................................. 48 4.4.1 5.4.1 Repeat ............................................................................................................ 49 4.4.2 5.4.2 Arpeggio ........................................................................................................ 49 4.4.3 Sync .......................................................................................................................... 49 4.4.4 Rate .......................................................................................................................... 49 4.4.5 Pattern ...................................................................................................................... 50 4.5 POLYPHONIC MODE ..................................................................................................... 51 4.5.1 Poly Normal ............................................................................................................. 51 4.5.2 Poly Retrig. ............................................................................................................... 51 4.5.3 Mono Porta ............................................................................................................. 51 4.5.4 Mono Retrig............................................................................................................. 52 4.6 PORTAMENTO ................................................................................................................ 52 4.6.1 On.............................................................................................................................. 52 4.6.2 Log/Lin ...................................................................................................................... 52 ARTURIA – Synclavier V – USER MANUAL 5 4.6.3 Rate .......................................................................................................................... 52 4.7 BEND