The A.R.C. Users Guide 2.0.

Copyright 2011
The A.R.C. Users Guide 2.0.1

Note: This manual applies to LASS (full) since ARC is only currently available for LASS Full. None of these features will work on LASS Lite
or LASS First Chair. LASS Legato Sordino integration is planned and is forthcoming.

The LA Scoring Strings sample library described herein is supplied under a formal license agreement that you enter into when using LA Scoring
Strings. Please refer to the LASS License Agreement PDF on the LA Scoring Strings DVD install.

The data contained in this user’s guide only serves for information purposes and may be changed without prior announcement. The contents,
images and information in the user’s guide does not constitute a legal obligation of audiobro. audiobro is not responsible for any eventual faulty or
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commercial or any other use without the prior and explicit written permission of audiobro. All trademarks are acknowledged as the property of
their respective owners.

The entire LA Scoring Strings sample library is based on “real player” performances and the utmost care was taken in preserving the
human feel of these performances. It is these human “elements” (natural variances and imperfections in performance and sound) that
create the realistic sound you hear when using LA Scoring Strings. Any imperfections in sound and performance are to be considered “by
design” and are subject to change only at audiobro’s discretion.

© 2009-2011 audiobro
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 Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Table of Contents......................................................3 Stage & Color..........................................................16

Introduction.......................................................16
Welcome to LASS’s ARC..........................................4
The Basics of Stage and Color Presets............17
If You Read Nothing Else..........................................5 Loading Stage and Color Multis........................17

Read This... and watch the online videos!!................5 Stage & Color controls......................................18

Creating an ARC Template .......................................6 Real Legato.............................................................19

Loading a Preset ARC Template from a Multi.....6 A.R.T........................................................................20

Creating an ARC Preset from scratch.................6
AA & DNH................................................................21
Multis Included with LASS 2...............................7
Basic Settings...................................................21
Home Page...............................................................8 Advanced Settings............................................22

Setup Page................................................................9 SubRules (a) & (B)............................................22

Basic Setup.........................................................9 Range, Chord Detection and Release..............23

Key Switch............................................................... 11 Tuning Page............................................................24

Introduction....................................................... 11 Range Tuning....................................................24

Assigning Articulations to Key Switches........... 11 MicroTuning......................................................24

Shared Tuning Controls....................................25
MIDI Channels and Transmission...........................14
Selecting MIDI Channels..................................14 CC Tables................................................................26

Transmitting from ARC......................................15 EQ...........................................................................27

The Audition Button...........................................15
Thank You!..............................................................28

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 Welcome to LASS’s ARC
Welcome to LASS’s ARC

We are very excited to bring to you something that we have worked very hard on for over a year... the ARC. “ARC” stands for Audiobro Remote
Control. This is a very powerful tool that allows you to control 1, many or all of LASS’s patches from one place thereby saving you time and allowing
you to experiment with more confidence knowing that you can apply lots of sweeping changes to patches with ease. Please watch our online ARC
videos to get an even better understanding of the ARC.

We are especially excited about the Stage and Color feature that allows users using LASS to sound like famous scores or recordings based on our
tonal profiles that we created exclusively for LASS. Of course we are equally excited about ARC’s other features like the new Key Switch and Real
Legato and Tuning Tools pages.

There are 9 ARC pages and they control the following features:

• Key Switcher
• Color and Stage
• Real Legato
• A.R.T
• Auto Arranger and Delay and Humanization (AA & DNH)
• Tuning Tools
• CC Tables
• EQ
• Setup

In this user guide we will recommend users start with the Setup page that is at the bottom of the ARC’s Home Page. Once you’ve established the
Setup, then using the rest of the ARC is really easy and that’s why we recommend our users to start with the Setup page.

Please watch our online videos to get demonstrations of the different features.

So, without wasting any more time, let’s dive right into the ARC!!

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 If You Read Nothing Else...
If You Read Nothing Else...

Read This... and watch the online videos!!

The ARC provides a new level of control for controlling LASS’s sound and programing. However, because of certain limitations in Kontakt (namely
there is no bidirectional communication between the patches and the Multi script – only Multi scripts can communicate with patches) we had to be
creative with our approach to using the ARC. Mostly, using the ARC should be a transparent process, but one needs to remember since there is no
bidirectional communication between the Multi script and the patches, if you make a change to a patch, that change will not be updated in
the ARC. So if you are going to be making changes to patches in conjunction with the ARC, please do so from the ARC. This way... what you see in
the ARC is the status at the patch level.

Remember – making changes to the patches are not updated in the ARC... so work in the ARC if you want the ARC to visually reflect the
patch’s settings.

There are three ways to transmit your ARC settings to your LASS Instruments

• Transmit – this button sends is a momentary button that sends out the current page’s settings to all the instruments whose MIDI channels are
selected in the ARC’s MIDI channel selector.
• Always Transmit – When you click on Always, it keeps the Transmit button active so tat every change you may in the ARC is transmitted in
real-time to the active MIDI channels.
• Activating a MIDI channel – if you turn on a midi channel (by selecting it an turning it blue) AND the Always Transmit buttons are on, as
soon as you select the MIDI Channel, the current ARC page’s settings will be transmitted to the selected midi channel’s patch.

The Transmit and Always button in OFF

position: Nothing get’s transmitted.

The Transmit and Always ON. Everything

gets transmitted in real-time.

Tip: Be careful when selecting midi channels. Make sure “Always Transmit” is off unless you want the ARC’s settings transmitted to those
channels. For that reason, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of leaving the “Always” off and clicking Transmit when you need to update
your patches with the ARC’s settings.

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 Creating an ARC Template
Creating an ARC Template

NOTE: There are various ways to create a template using the ARC. We recommend one of 2 ways. You can load one of our “Preset” ARC Multis
which are already populated with ARC settings and start from there. Or you can Load in the “ARC Starter” Multi to create your own template from
scratch. You can always “hide” the ARC by clicking on the “Script” button near the top-right of Kontakt:

Loading a Preset ARC Template from a Multi.

Simply go to the Multis tab in the LASS Browser and choose a Multi which you’d like to have as a starting point for your template:

Click on the Multis tab to reveal the different Multis you can
load to create a template. Note: Contents may change over
time.

Creating an ARC Preset from scratch.

Choose the ARC Starter.nkm Multi. Go to the Multis Tab (as shown above) and double-click on the ARC Starter.nkm file and Choose “Yes” when
prompted: “Replace Multi (pressing “No” will merge in the new instruments)?”

Click “Yes” when Creating a new

template. .

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 Once you have loaded up your Multi, you are ready to start adding to it or editing it. If you loaded up the ARC Starter.nkm Multi, then you will need to add
Creating an ARC Template

patches into your instance of Kontakt and populate the ARC’s Setup Page with what you loaded. You can read more on how to do this in the ARC Setup
Page section of this manual.

If you are new to programming the ARC, it might be a good idea to start with a pre-made Multi like one of the ones listed below. By referring to
how the Setup Page is laid out and how the Key Switches were programmed, you will (by example) be able to more easily learn how to create
your own ARC setup.

Multis Included with LASS 2

Good Multis for playing chords with AA on:

• AA Batman Cries Harmony (KS MIDI Ch 1).nkm -- Play anything up to a triad from Middle C and above... and take out a hanky.
• AA Harmony Vlns+Vlas+Cli (MIDI Ch 1).nkm -- Another general spread voicing Multi for lines or chords up to a triad. Play from Middle C and above.
• FX Tutti (Ch1 - play above middle C).nkm -- Play anything up to a triad and ride CCs 83 and 111 (and the Mod-wheel for dynamics).

Long Articulations Key Switched per section:

• KS Airy Basses Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Airy Cellos Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Airy Vlas Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Airy Vlns I Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Airy Vlns II Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm

Short Articulations Key Switched per section:

• KS Shaws Basses Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Shaws Cellos Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Shaws Vlas Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Shaws Vlns I Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm
• KS Shaws Vlns II Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm

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 Home Page
Home Page

To your right, you can see our Home page. This is sort of a
navigation center for ARC. You’ll notice we’ve segregated ARC into
two categories:

• Performance Tools
• Remote Control

These categories describe the basic use of the ARC pages. Key
Switch and Stage and Color are pages that let you setup features
that will be used in your performance and the other pages user the
Remote Control banner are used to remotely program your patches.

At the top left and right of the Setup Page you’ll notice Load All
and Save All buttons. Those let you load and save your entire ARC
setup and can be very handy while creating (or backing up) your ARC
template.

A screen-shot of the ARC’s Home page.

There are basically two ways to navigate to different pages
within ARC:

1. Click on the page’s name to go to the Home page:

2. Click on the triangle next to a page’s name to get a drop-down:

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 Setup Page
Setup Page

Basic Setup

The Setup page is where you tell the ARC what LASS Full patches are loaded into your instance of Kontakt. This is a very important step
if you don’t want to be “flying blind” while using the ARC. Since Kontakt doesn’t currently allow bidirectional communication between it’s
patches and Multi scripts (the ARC is a Multi script), it is recommended that you take a minute to populate your Setup page with at least the
patch names you are using in your instance of Kontakt.

Below is a partial view of the Setup page. It shows you MIDI channel 1 and 9 bring assigned to Vln 1 FC Legato and Vln 1 FC Staccato. You can
use the Volume and Pan knobs to adjust the overall volume and panning of each instruments (Vol = CC7 and Pan = CC10). The Clear All button
simply clears all the setup settings so you don’t have to do each one manually.

When you initially open the Setup page from a blank Multi, you will notice all the Setup “slots” are empty and the patch
names replaced with “-----”. Below is an example of MIDI channel 1:

Simply click on the “-----” field and select the type of LASS patch you have loaded on the appropriate MIDI channel and you’re done!! (see below)

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 At the top of the page, you will notice a “Port” and “Slot” choice:
Setup Page

“Port” refers to the MIDI Port in Kontakt (A, B, C ,D) and Slot refers to the program slot on that MIDI channel. This is useful if you are using

Pedal Behavior

1 2

At the bottom of the Setup page you’ll see a Send Pedal Up drop-down menu and a Instant KS menu:

1. Send Pedal Up

• All KS – This sends a CC64=0 (pedal off) message on any articulation change to the OLD articulation, so a KS will be equivalent of releasing
the sustain pedal on the already sounding notes (which means if you later release the keys, they will be ended, not held out infinitely).
• Instant KS – This only does the above when switching to an articulation that is flagged as “instant”
• Never – This never sends a CC64=0 (pedal off) to the old articulation

2. Instant KS

• Held Notes – This sends the held notes to the new articulation and re-triggers them
• Held and Pedal – This sends the above + the CC64 (pedal) state to the new articulation

NOTE: Use the Load/Save menu at the top left of the Setup Page to save your Setup entries. You can then import them at a later date or use
them as a basis for template building.

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 Key Switch
Key Switch

Introduction

The ARC Key Switch (KS) feature is a very powerful tool that will allow users to maximize the use of Kontakt on all banks
when Key Switching. No longer does one have to use Kontakt Instrument Banks to enable Key Switching. Now you can load all your patches into
Kontakt as you normally would and with a single “Key Switch Input” MIDI channel, you can KS between (if you’d like) up to 64 patches. And if you do
decide to use Instruments Banks on top of it, you can KS between 64x32 = 2048 patches. Of course that is extreme... but if ever someone wanted
to... technically they could.

NOTE: You can use Program Changes to invoke a Key Switch. This allows you to use the “Chase” feature on your sequencer and will
assure that the correct articulations are playing back when you fast-forward or rewind between Key Switches. Program 0 = Articulation 1.

TIP: The ARC’s KS allows you to do what other KS systems don’t, by letting you set up your patches in Kontakt as regular non-KS patches
and playing them from individual sequencer tracks AND also having a dedicated KS track and playing ALL of your patches from within 1
MIDI Channel – simultaneously!!.

What this means is you can have the best of both worlds: Individual access to all your patches on separate MIDI channels for layering, AND
Key Switching between patches from a dedicated KS MIDI channel of your choice.

Please watch our online video tutorials to help you get a better understanding of the Key Switch page as well as other ARC features.

Assigning Articulations to Key Switches

First, choose your Key Switch Channel with the drop-down menu (make sure it is not the same MIDI channel of your instruments):

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 Next, based on how you set up your Setup page, all you have to do is click on a KS key and choose the articulation from a drop-down menu.
Key Switch

Here, Vlns B Sordino were assigned to D#-1

by simply clicking on D# and choosing Vlns
B Sord From the drop-down menu that ap-
peared.

This button reveals a drop-down menu that shows you which
port, MIDI channels, Slots and the associated articulation
names has been assigned to a key. There is a 1 octave KS
range, so you’re seeing the assignments to key “1 of 12” in
this case.
This is the ACTIVE button. It is ON when the currently viewed
articulation is the activated articulation for the current KS (so its
associated key has been pressed or was manually selected).
Clicking on it is a way to audition the routes of that articulation.
*** See note at bottom of page.

You can layer instruments onto a Key Switch using this drop-down menu that is populated with your Setup’s articulations. You can
also do the same thing by clicking on the PORT field, you can layer another articulation on top of your current KS. By scrolling through
the MIDI CHAN and (if applicable) the SLOT, you can choose other patches to be layered on this KS. You can layer up to 8 patches
onto the same KS!! When there is more than one articulation assigned to a KS, the first articulation in KS will be displayed in parenthe-
sis with two asterisks:

Note regarding the Articulation selection button vs Keyboard KS when layering: Selection via the piano keyboard’s menus is strongly
discouraged, because that replaces the first (shown with asterisks) by the one selected from the key associated menu.

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Key Switch

This button allows you to choose which octave you would like
you ARC’s key switching to be in. It defaults to C-1. Be careful
with avoiding KS conflicts between the ARC and ART patches.
One way to avoid conflicts is to use another KS Set in the
ARC and choose an Octave that doesn’t conflict with (say) the
ART patches’ Key Switch keys.
When ON, the Instant Transition button allows you to make a
KS in the middle of a note (or group of notes -- ie. while hold-
ing down notes) by simply pressing the KS Key. It does not
wait for you to finish your notes unless the Instant Transition
button is OFF.

The CCs Thru fields let you choose which CCs get passed
through to the patches you are switching to when you do a
KS. The values shown here are the default values, but they
are all user definable and remembered when you save the
ARC or project.
These are the ways you can navigate to the different pages
on the ARC. Clicking on Key Switch will send you to the
Home page. Clicking on the Triangle will give you a drop-
down menu of all the ARC’s pages.

You can have up to 8 Key Switch Sets (A-H) in an instance of Kontakt. Each Set should have it’s own Key Switch Input MIDI channel
to avoid confusion. This can be very useful if you would like (say) one of your Sets to handle key switching of ART patches that have
their own pattern key switches. You could set the Octave Range of the ARC’s KS to an octave (say C6) that wouldn’t interfere with the
ART patches.

Remember: it is recommended that each KS “Set” have it’s own Key Switch Input Channel to avoid confusion and possible conflicts.

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 MIDI Channels and Transmission
MIDI Channels and Transmission

Selecting MIDI Channels

On all the applicable ARC pages, you will find that the “top” portion of the page consists of the ARC logo, 16 MIDI channels, a “triangle” that acts like
a drop-down menu (providing useful MIDI channel selections) and a Transmit and Always button. It is very important for a smooth ARC experience to
understand how to select MIDI channels and transmit the ARC’s setting to the LASS patches loaded in Kontakt. See the explanations below:

This little triangle let’s you select some useful MIDI channel presets like:
• Select All (MIDI Channels)
• Select None (MIDI Channels)
• Select all Vlns... etc.

This is the MIDI Channel selector. These are the MIDI channels (1-16) You
can also specify what port you want to select by clicking on the port (see
below) Select the MIDI channels of the patches in Kontakt that you want the
ARC to control..

Click on the “A” button to access a drop-down menu letting you choose a
MIDI channel port (A-D) giving you access to 64 MIDI channels for the ARC.
After choosing a Port, the button is updated to show you what Port you are
currently on. Setting Slot above 1 will let you choose patches inside of Instru-
ment Banks (up to 32).

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 Transmitting from ARC
MIDI Channels and Transmission

There are three ways to transmit your ARC settings to your LASS Instruments

• Transmit – this button is a momentary button that sends out the current page’s settings to all the instruments whose MIDI channels are
selected in the ARC’s MIDI channel selector.
• Always Transmit – When you click on Always, it keeps the Transmit button active so tat every change you may in the ARC is transmitted in
real-time to the active MIDI channels.
• Activating a MIDI channel – if you turn on a midi channel (by selecting it an turning it blue) AND the Always Transmit buttons are on, as
soon as you select the MIDI Channel, the current ARC page’s settings will be transmitted to the selected midi channel’s patch.

The Transmit and Always button in OFF

position: Nothing get’s transmitted.

The Transmit and Always ON. Everything

gets transmitted in real-time.

Tip: Be careful when selecting midi channels. Make sure “Always Transmit” is off unless you want the ARC’s settings transmitted to those
channels. For that reason, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of leaving the “Always” off and clicking Transmit when you need to update
your patches with the ARC’s settings.

The Audition Button

There is an Audition button towards the top left of each Performance page and the Stage & Color page. When you turn the Audition feature ON,
you are able to route incoming MIDI from your (say) keyboard to all the active MIDI channels (blue) on the ARC. It’s usually best to leave this off when
using Kontakt within a Host and it also increases CPU usage. Again, this is mainly to be used to audition your sounds while creating a template.

Audition light ON. In this state, the ARC routes incoming MIDI to the
chosen MIDI channels so that you may audition your changes.

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 Stage & Color
Stage & Color

Introduction

The Stage and Color page of the ARC lets you control some exciting
new features in LASS. We have carefully created sonic profiles inspired
by famous film scores and recorded performances that allow LASS to
sound very close to the original recordings. In addition, Stage & Color
enables you to individually move LASS’s instruments on the stage
and change their position and perspective while maintaining realistic
acoustic consequences of these changes. It’s is a very powerful tool
that breathes new life into LASS.

At the heart of Stage & Color is a collection of our new orchestral

sound profiles (colors) inspired by famous recordings and movie
scores. The profiles located in the Presets menu at the top right of the
Stage and Color page include:

• Dry Preset • Barb’s Adagio 71 • Baroque Violin

• Shaw’s Redemption • Airy Strings • HH Solo Violin
• Psycho • Private Ryan (for sordinos) • LVD Solo Violin
• Cape Far • Perdition (for sordinos) • Village Solo Violin
• Fellowship Ring • Airy Sordinos (for sordinos) • Airy Solo Cello
• First Murder • AH Solo Violin • Yo Cello
• Village • Airy Solo Violin • and others...

These exclusive sound profiles were created internally at Audiobro with a lot of love and care. It is our intention to release
new profiles over time to keep LASS fresh and exciting so the entries above may change and grow with time.

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 The Basics of Stage and Color Presets
Stage & Color

There are a variety of ways you can set up LASS to hear it’s new Stage and Color presets in LASS:

• Load one of the Multi presets (this is the easiest because everything is already set up for you). Note, since everyone’s needs for orchestral
templates is different, we are providing Multis to get you started. You can easily add to and alter these presets to suit your needs and then save
the “new” Multi as your own.
• Start with the ARC Starter.nkm Multi and load your own LASS patches into Kontakt and using the Stage and Color in conjunction with
the Setup pages in ARC, load Stage and Color Presets to the desired patches by selecting their MIDI channels and click on Transmit.

Loading Stage and Color Multis

In Kontakt’s Instruments Browser, click on the Multis tab to select what Stage and Color
Multi you would like to load into Kontakt.

We encourage you to “Play” with the ARC settings. It is a very powerful tool and can substantially (even radically) change the sound of LASS. When
you get everything the way you like it, Save the Multi with your own preset name using the “Save Preset” menu at the top left of the ARC’s script
page:

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 Stage & Color controls
Stage & Color

With LASS 2.0.1 we introduced a new “view” for the stage placement of
The Stage & Color page has the following controls: all the LASS instruments. You can now view all the instruments at once --
each one represented as a “small blip”:

1. Instruments Menu By Clicking on one of the “small blips, you can choose an instrument to Edit
and now the Arrows (#2 below) are assigned to the “Big Blip”:
2. X and Y position sliders

3. Instrument position and orientation.

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This and the Magnifying glass to the right are
4. Dry Knob drop-down menus that lets you choose what to
be displayed on the Stage & Color screen.
5. Color Knob

6. Reverb

7. Stereo width of instrument

This “Big Blip” represents the Stage position (panning and
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8. On / Off buttons. depth) of the instrument chosen at the top right of the page
These Arrows are (above-right). If it is a “small blip”, just click on it to make it
the “X” and “Y” “Big” and editable.
controls to move the
instrument on the Note that the instruments’ orientation can be rotated by
stage. As you move click-dragging the “sound waves”.
these Arrows, the
displayed instrument
will be moved.
This control lets you adjust the Width of the
stereo sound by click-dragging the control..
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The Dry knob is to control
how much “Dry” (unaf-
fected) signal is heard.

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The Color knob is to control how The Reverb knob is to control how much The Stage, Color and FX buttons turn ON or
much “Color” or tone (the sound “reverb” signal is heard. The reverb is OFF the respective states of the page. They
profile) signal is heard. sent to the Auxes in Kontakt’s mixer. also have associated drop-down menus.
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 Real Legato
Real Legato

The Real Legato page (as well as other pages like A.R.T., AA & DNH and Tuning pages etc) are considered Remote
Control pages insofar as they help you program or modify the patches to your liking remotely from the ARC. All the controls
reflect what is already available on the patches. For detailed information on these controls, please refer to the LASS 2
Patches manual.

Simply make your changes and click on the Transmit button for all the patches on the selected MIDI channels to adopt your changes.

Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

These are the controls to set the velocity NV loads the Non-Vibrato samples. The Vib
ranges of the different legato articulations loads the Vibrato samples. The arrow turns
On/Off the NV samples without purging them.

The EQ On/Off button re-

These are drop-down motely controls the EQ On/
menus that allow you to Off button on the patches.
remotely load and purge
the different Legato per-
formance samples in your Slop Detect turn On/Off the
patches patches’ Slop Detect.

Turns On/Off the Legato Slop Detect turn On/Off the

mode on the patches. patches’ Slop Detect.

Turns On/Off the ReTrigger Turns On/Off the Sustain

on the patches. Release Tails on patches.

Remotely assign the CC to Turns On/Off the Legato

control Legato On/Off Release Tails on patches.

Remotely turn On/Off” Anti Machine-Gun mode (AMG) of Legato and

Sustain.

Also remotely assign CCs to control the A.M.G

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 A.R.T.
A.R.T.

Simply make your changes and click on the Transmit button for all the patches on the selected MIDI channels to adopt your changes.

Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

Changes the Note Value of the Pattern Doubles the Pat- Save patterns to be loaded in other
Sequencer on ART patches. tern’s tempo ARCs or to keep a library of patterns..

Changes the Se-

quence Length
on the remote Lets you draw in patterns
patches to as many ART patches as
selected in the MIDI selector.

Quantize drop-down menu to Changes then Markers on

Turns On/Off have different Quantize options. ART patches.. Clears the pattern table on
Retrigger mode the ART patches.
on patches

Changes ART
Key Switch Turns On/Off EQ on patches.
range on patches

Changes the Chord detect

Changes Ran- time in ART patches.
dom Accents on
ART patches.

Changes Random Time on Adjusts the Slam knob on

ART patches ART patches.

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 AA & DNH
AA & DNH

Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

Basic Settings

The Basic Tab of the AA & DNH (which means Auto Arranger and Delay and Humanization) provides you with as many rows of instruments as you
have (depending your setting in the Setup page).

This will turn On/Off the Auto Arranger on all the

MIDI selected patches but not the DNH settings.

Tip: All the instruments listed in your Setup page will be displayed in the AA & DNH page.

Role: This dictates what AA role you as- This drop-down gives you different DNH
sign to the listed on this row.. states for the instrument on this row. This
acts independently of the AA button.

This is the MIDI channel and This sets the key range that These are the DNH Delay and
name of the patch reflecting your these settings will apply to the RND (random) setting for the
entries in the Setup page. instrument on this row. patch listed on this row.

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 Advanced Settings
AA & DNH

This drop-down menu selects the This drop-down menu sends the
Play rules for the listed patch. Octave rules to the listed patch.

This drop-down menu selects the This button turns the Retrigger
Else rules for the listed patch.. On/Off for the listed patch

SubRules (a) & (B)

The SubRules (A) (notes 1-6) and SubRules (B) (notes 7-12) provide the user with the same drop-down menus as available on the patch level,
except now all these controls can be chosen from the ARC’s AA & DNH page.

All the drop-down menus reflect the possibilities of each note based on
the desired notes-in-chord number and it’s note-number role. The higher
the note, the more options of note-order choices you have.

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 Range, Chord Detection and Release
AA & DNH

At the bottom left of the AA & DNH page, you will see these controls. They allow you to assign Ranges, change CC numbers for AA on/off and DNH
on/off, Key Switch keys (for Key Switching AA presets in the patches), Chord Detection for the patches and Release time for the pedal’s behavior.

The KS (Key Switch) above refers to the KS key for changing AA & DNH presets in real-time at the patch/instrument level. This has nothing
to do with the Key Switch page on the ARC.

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 Tuning Page
Tuning Page

Range Tuning

Off/On button: This turns Off/On the The Range Tuning tab lets you select the
Tuning script on the patches Range Tuning options for programming.

This table functions the same as those found at

the patch level with the exception that these ta-
bles show the entire range of the LASS Library
whereas the patches only show the patches’
range. By extending the range in the ARC, you
can apply tuning profiles to different instruments
at the same time.

MicroTuning
The MicroTuning tab lets you select the
MicroTuning options for programming.

This table functions the same as those found

All the “notes” above represent the chromatic scale so that you at the patch level. It only displays an octave
may alter the tuning for micro tonal scales. range so that you can set a repeating Micro
Tonal scale throughout the range of the entire
selected instruments..

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 Shared Tuning Controls
Tuning Page

These controls are available in both Range Tuning and Micro Tuning modes.

Clear lets you clear the tuning table. The Max Tune drop-down menu lets you
choose the maximum tuning range of the
instruments.
Tuning CC lets you
set the Tuning CC for
your patches. Default
is set to CC 3.
The Tune Amt knob
lets you control how
much of your tuning
should be applied to
Bypass CC lets your patches.
you set the Tuning
Bypass CC for your
patches. Default is
set to CC 90..
KeySwitch lets you assign a Tuning Pre- Random High and Random Low lets
set to the a Key Switch at the instrument you assign your patches’ random tuning
level. Keep your ARC KSs in mind when amounts via the ARCs Tuning page.
programming your tuning KSs..

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 CC Tables
CC Tables

NOTE: Preset 1 is always the default of all patches and cannot be altered. When you select preset 1, the screen will be
inactive and will give you a message that the defaults cannot be altered.

Just like all of the Remote Control pages, these functions behave just like they do at the patch level.

The Dynamics Layers tab lets you The Layer Volume tab lets you
choose the dynamics table for edit- choose the volume table for editing
ing the samples’ dynamic layers. the volume CC curves.

This is the table area The Save button allows

on. Drawing the curves you to save different
on this can be tran- presets at the patch
sited in real-time or only level.
when you click on the
Transmit button.

This adjusts the % Of

The Smooth button acts
CC knob on selected
just like it does in the
MIDI channels. It works
patches and can also
in conjunction with the
smooth the patches’
CC Attenuation but-
curves.
ton below it. By default
patches have this set
to 100% and the button
OFF.

This CC Attenuation button controls The Curve knob gives you a choice
the On/Off button on the patches.. of curves and can apply them to your
patches.

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 EQ
EQ

The ARC EQ is a way to change the EQs on all your patches –– on 1, several or all patches in one simple process. There are default EQ
presets that match the instrument presets so you can start with the ARC’s EQ settings matching the instrument’s EQ settings.

Everything with the EQ should be self explanatory. The Save button tells the patch to
save the current settings to the Instrument’s preset.

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 Thank You!
Thank You!

Thanks to all the LASS users who have reached out to us through our forums or via email. You’re passionate suggestions have helped shape our
LASS updates and we are so grateful for have such a wonderful user base. And thank you for all your patience in waiting for this update.

Thanks to Willem Van den Broeck for his demo and wonderful contributions in our forum.. and for his input that helped shape our user interface and
graphics. Thanks also to Jesper Goor Pedersen for all the help on the forums.

A special thanks to Sebastian Katz and Gabor Valasek for their tireless dedication and passion without which this ARC would not have been possible.

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