Q U I C K S TA RT

Q U I C K S TA RT

SWING MORE!

VERSION 1.0
INDEX

INTERFACE & ON-SCREEN HELP 4

QUICK START 5

- VARIATION 5

- LEGATO 6

- VELOCITY & MODWHEEL 7

- MICROPHONES 8

- KNOB CONTROLS 10

- BIG BAND CHORDS 13

GETTING STARTED 14

SNAPSHOTS 16

MULTIS 17

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INTERFACE & ON-SCREEN HELP

Swing More! offers you on-screen help in the following two ways:

Click the question mark button

A help overlay will appear, giving you a short description of each control in the Swing More! interface.

Hover the cursor over a control

A short description will appear in Kontakt’s info bar at the bottom of the Kontakt window. Note that the info bar
needs to be enabled for this feature to work. This can be done through Kontakt’s top menu.

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QUICK START
VARIATION
This section shows you the available articulations and playing
techniques (variations) for the loaded instrument.

Switching variations
You can switch variations by either:
a. clicking the red buttons in the interface
b. pressing the corresponding red keyswitches on your MIDI controller

Komplete Kontrol
Swing More! fully supports the Native Kontrol Standard, including Light Guide. If you have a Native Instruments Komplete
Kontrol, the variation keyswitches will be lit red, corresponding with the buttons in the interface. The currently selected
variation mode will be latched (bright red).

Disabling keyswitch control

Click the small keyboard icon in the top-right of the variation section to disable keyswitch control. When keyswitch control
is disabled, you cannot use your MIDI controller or the Kontakt on-screen keyboard to switch variations. This can be useful
when layering multiple instruments, creating Multis or transposing instruments.

A number of abbreviations are used for the variation labels. Below is a list of the most common ones:
vib vibrato
grad gradual
sus sustain
marc marcato
stac staccato
sfz sforzando
sh short

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LEGATO
This section shows you the available legato modes for the loaded
instrument. For various instruments in Swing More!, more than
one way to play from one note to another was recorded. Each
legato mode uses a different set of legato transitions.

Switching legato modes

You can switch legato modes by:
a. clicking the yellow buttons in the interface
b. pressing the corresponding yellow keyswitches on your MIDI controller

If you have a Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol, the legato keyswitches will be lit yellow, corresponding with the buttons
in the interface. The currently selected legato mode will be latched (bright yellow).

If the instrument has both a variation and a legato section, then the variation section is only available in fast legato mode. In
any other legato mode, the used variation is fixed and therefore unavailable.

Disabling keyswitch control in the variation section also disables the legato keyswitches.

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VELOCITY & MODWHEEL
The velocity & modwheel section shows you which sounds are
mapped to velocity as well as which control or effect is linked to
the modulation wheel (CC1). The orange dot shows you which
sound or value was triggered last.

Right-click or control-click the triangular modwheel control to ‘learn’ a CC number other than CC1.

The triangular modwheel control can also be changed using the cursor.

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MICROPHONES
All instruments in Swing More! have been recorded multi-track, using a variety of microphone setups. Depending on the
instrument and its musical context, either 2 or 3 stereo microphone channels are available.

Instruments with 3 mic channels (large recording stage):

D Direct/close mic
A Ambient mic
W Wide/surround mic

Instruments with 2 mic channels (studio environment):

C Close mic
R Room mic

[1] Changing mic levels

Use the vertical faders to change the level of each available mic channel.

[2] Unloading mic channels

Some instruments take up a considerable amount of RAM with all mic
channels loaded. Click a mic label underneath a fader to unload that mic
channel from RAM. Click again to reload it. By default, all mic channels are
loaded. Example: if an instrument with all 3 mic channels loaded takes up
900 MB of RAM, then unloading the D and W mic channels will bring this
down to 300 MB of RAM.

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[3] Output routing
Use the small arrow button beneath each mic fader to change the output of that mic channel. This way it is possible to route
each mic channel to its own Kontakt output. The output list in the Swing More! interface is created upon loading the instru-
ment. This means that if you add or change Kontakt outputs after loading an instrument, these changes won’t be reflected
in the interface until you either:
a. reload the instrument
b. click the panic button (!) in Kontakt

[4] Mic cross fader

Use the horizontal slider to smoothly cross fade between the available microphone channels. For a closer mix, move the
slider to the left. For a roomier mix, move the slider to the right. You can also click the close and stage labels underneath the
slider. The cross fader will then snap to that position.

Mic channels and voices

All loaded mic channels are mixed in realtime. This means that the number of loaded mic channels has a direct effect on
the amount of voices an instrument uses. A higher voice count means higher CPU and (hard) disk use. For example: if a
major chord uses 3 stereo voices (for 3 stereo samples) for one mic channel, then this chord will use 9 stereo voices with
all 3 mic channels loaded. Note that moving a mic fader all the way down does not unload or disable the mic channel. To
unload a mic channel, click the mic labels underneath the faders (see above).

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KNOB CONTROLS
The right side of the Swing More! interface offers up to 9 controls to tweak the
sound of the loaded instrument. The set of controls differs slightly per instrument.

To reset a control to its default position, click it control while holding down the
Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) key.

Speed
Change the playback speed (length) of all layers marked with the symbol, without changing their pitch. This is done using
Kontakt’s Time Machine Pro algorithm

Attack
Change the attack envelope (fade in time) of the instrument.

Release
Change the release/decay envelope (fade out time) of the instrument.

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Reverb
Add additional convolution reverberation to the instrument. When the reverb control is turned all the way down, the effect is
bypassed, lowering CPU usage.

Limiter
Add dynamic limiting to the instrument. The knob controls the input of the limiter effect. When the limiter control is turned
all the way down, the effect is bypassed, lowering CPU usage.

Stereo
Change the stereo image of the instrument. The effect is bypassed when the control is in middle position. Turn the control
right to widen the stereo image. Turn the control left to compress the stereo image. Turn the control all the way down for
mono.
Some instruments, such as the bass guitars, offer a lowpass filter instead of the stereo imager. The vibraphone offers a mo-
tor control instead of the stereo imager, controlling the speed of the vibraphone motor effect.

Transpose
Transpose all incoming notes in semitones. The visual instrument range on the on-screen Kontakt keyboard and Komplete
Kontrol (blue or yellow) will move correspondingly. The transpose control has no effect on the position of the keyswitches.
These have a fixed spot on the keyboard. Note that if you transpose the instrument from your host sequencer instead of
from the Swing More! interface, the keyswitch positions will be transposed as well.
Please note that it is possible to transpose the instrument range in such a way that it overlaps with the keyswitch positions.
If this happens, we recommend disabling keyswitch control using the small keyboard icon in the variation section.

Velocity
Offset the velocity of all incoming notes. Please note that by changing the velocity offset, you may not be able to trigger all
the sounds mapped to velocity, as they may become out of range.

Sparkle
Add extra sparkle to the instrument by gaining its high frequencies.

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Tempo syncing
All instruments featuring grooves and breaks automatically tempo sync to the BPM of your host sequencer.
These instruments don’t show a rotary speed control in the interface, but 3 tempo sync buttons instead:
1/2x, 1x and 2x. Use the buttons to switch to half-time or double-time interpretation of the tempo. Example:
if you would like to use a 100 BPM drum groove in a 200 BPM project without it sounding double-time, set
tempo syncing to 1/2x.

Strummed chords
All instruments that feature pre-recorded strummed
chords show a keyboard map of the available chords in
the top-left of the interface. The last triggered chord is
marked in red. Note that the keyboard map is not click-
able.

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BIG BAND CHORDS
Swing More! features a number of big band-style chord instru-
ments. These are pre-arranged, recorded performances in
a variety of big band arrangements. Because of the different
nature of these instruments, they have a different set of controls
on the left side of the interface.

The bottom octave (starting at C1, in red) holds 12 keyswitches.

These are used to select the root key. To the right of these
keyswitches, starting at C2, are the available chords. Each note
within an octave triggers a different chord. Each different octave
triggers an alternative voicing of the same chord.

For example: with C selected as root key, F2 will trigger a

C7(9/13) chord. F3 will also trigger a C7(9/13) chord, but in a
higher/wider voicing.

It is important to realise that only the red keyswitches have a

direct relation to the root keys. All other keys do not.

The modulation wheel is used to set the balance between the available sustain and staccato articulation. With the modwheel
all the way down, only the sustain articulation is triggered. With the modwheel all the way up, only the staccato articulation is
triggered. With the modwheel half way, both articulations are stacked, for flexible, rhythmic playing.

The Trombone Chords instrument has falls mapped to the highest velocity range. The Full Big Band Chords instrument does
not have this.

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GETTING STARTED
Many of Swing More!’s instruments are offered in a variety of patches, such as Basic, Longs, Legato Versatile or Legato Soft.
Each of these patches offers its own useful set of articulations and features and therefore has its own specific use. To get
you started you will find an overview of the various patches and their typical use below

Basics
Go-to patch for simple, non-legato passages and sketches
These patches offer the most basic set of articulations, often consisting of staccato, marcato, sustain and an instrument-
specific sound. Basic patches do not include legato recordings.

Legato Versatile
For legato lines with maximum flexibility in articulation and dynamics
These patches offer a legato version of the instrument designed to offer as much flexibility as possible. If available, these
patches offer various legato modes, such as fast, slur and run. In addition, similar to Legato Soft, a selection of non-legato
articulations is mapped to velocity, such as marcato. These articulations can be used to musically round off your legato
phrases.

Legato Soft
For softer, subtle legato lines
These patches offer a legato version of the instrument designed for a softer tone. No louder dynamics are programmed,
which means a selection of non-legato articulations is available instead, such as marcato. These articulations work great for
rounding off your legato phrases.

Legato Multi-Dyn
For legato lines with greatly varying dynamics
These patches offer a legato version of the instrument with all available dynamic layers mapped to either velocity or modula-
tion wheel. Note that the other legato patches offer simulated dynamic control using a modulation wheel filter. The differ-
ence is that Legato Multi-dyn offers actual recordings of the various dynamic layers.

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Rhythmic
For faster, jazzy, rhythmic passages
These patches have been designed for rhythmic passages, offering a combination of short articulations, such as staccato,
dynamic articulations such as sfzorzando and crescendo, as well as falls and stabs. They are a more style-specific alterna-
tive to the Shorts patches (see below).

Longs
These patches offer all long articulations, such as non vibrato, slow vibrato and fast vibrato sustained notes. This does not
include legato recordings.

Shorts
These patches offer all short articulations, such as staccato, marcato and short bends or stabs.

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SNAPSHOTS
Swing More! features snapshots. Snapshots are presets of all of the instrument’s settings, including ‘under the hood’ settings
of the Kontakt Editor. They can be switched on the fly, without the need of reloading the instrument. Various useful snap-
shots are available, including a low RAM version and a vintage sound version of each instrument.

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MULTIS
Multis are combinations of multiple instruments, constructed to give you as many musical features on an 88-note keyboard
as possible. Each multi has been designed for a specific musical context or genre and was given a name that should give
you a hint about its use. Kontakt’s on-screen keyboard shows you the various ranges in which instruments are available.

Multis are a great source of inspiration and a fun way to first explore the library.

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