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KONKRETE USER GUIDE

Contents: 1. Introduction to Konkrete Drums 2. Installation Guidelines 3. The Kits: An Overview 3 4 5

Introduction to Konkrete Drums

Thanks for purchasing Abstrakt: Konkrete. This is a collection of unique drum kits, with a huge breadth of sounds between them. There are no conventional drums here, neither acoustic nor analogue there are plenty of those sounds on the market already. We wanted to make a set of sounds that you turn to when you need an unusual, original percussive edge to your production, something that makes the listener sit up and take notice. Whether you use Konkrete as your complete drum track, or merely as additional percussive icing, we believe it is an excellent tool in any producers studio. Many of the kits are based around one particular sonic idea, recording process or flavour. The processes and recordings used to generate the individual sounds were highly intensive and often experimental. For this reason, it is often difficult to classify particular sounds into the conventional Kick, Snare, Hat groups. We have, as far as possible, classified low-end percussive sounds as Kicks, mid ranges as snares, and high-end percussion as Hats. Unclassifiable snippets are named Glitches. These are rough guidelines only there are many possible uses and combinations for the drum sounds in the collection. Each Kit contains a selection of kick sounds, a selection of snares etc. This is to give many different expressions and choices when programming a pattern, and means that many different sonic combinations are possible from each individual kit. For this reason there is no standard mapping to our kits, other than each set beginning with the Kicks on C1, moving into Snares and then Hats and percussion. We hope you will find Konkrete a genuinely refreshing collection, and that it will inspire your productions into exciting new areas.

James Thompson & Dan Powell - Soniccouture January 2006.

Installation Guidelines

Battery & Kontakt Format. Copy the folders to your preferred location on your hard drive. Ensure that the program files (*.kit, *.kt2, *.nki) stay within their parent folders, at the same level as the samples folders. This will ensure the programs can always find the samples they need.

HALion Copy the folder to your preferred location on your hard drive. Ensure that the program files (*.fxp) remain on the same level as the samples folder, so that the programs can always find their samples.

EXS24 Copy the instrument files (*.exs) to your Sampler Instruments folder for Logic.

This folder is located: ...username/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments

Copy the samples folder anywhere you like on your hard drive.

If you have a

large drive, it may take some time for EXS24 to find them the first time, but after that it will remember where they are.

Reason NN-XT Refill Copy the ReFill anywhere you like on your hard drive.

The Kits An Overview

Bi-Polar Kit A very electronic-sounding kit, with interestingly textured high-end percussion. Clean Glitch Kit As the name suggests, a set of very sharp, clean sounds with some deep hard kick drums. Crunch Kit A highly distorted, Lo-Fi Kit using low bit depths and sample rates. Earache Kit 1 An industrial, hard kit with a clipped nasty sound. Use with caution. Earache Kit 2 Its back, and this time its personal. Etc. Gritch Kit Tech-distortion, Hard acid, sounds under pressure and urgent. Human Kit Acoustically recorded set of Human voice sounds, miked through a Didgeridoo. Organic yet tough. Klang - Glitch Kit A resonant, metallic kit processed through a washing machine drum miked up, then blended back with the original sound. Mesh Drums & Percussion Punishing Kicks and short, snappy percussion and drills. Nannou Kit An acoustically recorded set, inspired by Aphex Twins Nannnou track: Metal ratchet spanners, packs of cards, ridged CD cases all used to produce a series of organic, delicate, zippy percussion. A highly unusual set.

6 Ninja Kit A big, atmospheric, warm but hard kit, with a oriental gong sounds. Ideal for Drum n Bass and Hip Hop. ResFminor Kit This entire set was processed through a resonator program, tuned to the chord of F Minor 7. A very musical, soft kit with a chilled vibe. It can be re-tuned to another chord by transposing the entire kit by the same amount. RF Kit A glitch kit based around samples of electrical interference for the main percussive elements- Balanced by some deep kick drums and tuned snare sounds. Spectrum Squash Kit All the harmonics for this kit were squashed into half their normal range giving a tight, dry, sound- ideal for hip hop breaks. Static Kit (Glitch) A tense, metallic kit, crackling with static electricity. Deep resonant clangs and kicks set of the jittery, tight hi-end percussion. Sutra Kit Hard, processed synth drums with long, abrasive effects hits. Synthetic Kit An entirely synthesised kit, using various percussion synths to create a very artificial, snappy, clean drum kit. Ideal for Techy Breakbeats.

FX Percussion Kits
The following kits are designed as secondary percussion sets; they are not specifically designed for writing complete drum tracks, but for those times when you need stabs, atmospheric hits and extra percussion to accent your existing drums.

7 Charivari Kit A collection of FX hits, both short and long. Add reverb or delay and create interesting accents in your drum patterns. Drills Kit A very particular kit, designed for Drill and Bass type hits, a la Rephlex records. Layer the drills with your snares kicks or hats to create some really cool rolls and glitch slides. They are non-tempo dependant, as the tempo varies across the course of a hit. Drills Kit2 Another drill and bass set. These sounds are also ideal for atmospheric soundscape work, just add delay and reverb. Hamming Kit Unusual percussive effects that push the Hamming effect to its limits. Great unique textures. Kettle Kit Percussive FX Projectiles Kit Very useful effects kit. Slow building, high impact whiz and whoosh sounds to add fireworks to any track. Skimmington Kit Hi tech, sci-fi percussive hits and FX.