SONICCOUTURE SPEAK & SPELL USER GUIDE

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SONICCOUTURE

SPEAK & SPELL

CONTENTS :
INSTALLATION
INTRODUCTION
INSTRUMENTS
SUPPORT
E.U.L.A

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INSTALLATION
1. NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT 2 OR 3

Copy the entire SC Speak & Spell folder to anywhere you like on your hard
drive. Make sure you keep that folder structure as it is, so that the Kontakt
instruments can find their samples. (If you dont need the EXS24 instruments
or the Kontakt 2 version etc, you can erase those respective folders never
erase the Samples folder ).

2. EXS24

Move the included EXS24/SamplerInstruments/ SC Speak & Spell folder to

your real Sampler Instruments folder, which is located here:
user/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments
Keep a copy of the included Samples folder somewhere on your hard
drive. This folder has all the sample data that the EXS24 instruments need,
so keep it somewhere safe.

3. ABLETON LIVE

Double click the included Speak&Spell.alp file, and this will launch an
installer program to install Speak & Spell into your Live Library.

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INTRODUCTION

SPEAK & SPELL

A much-loved and ubiquitous toy from the 1970s and 80s, Texas
Instruments Speak & Spell has found a new lease of life in electronica in the
last few years. People discovered that if you tinker with its circuits and voice
chips, glitching, looping, and other interesting effects can be achieved.
Circuit Bending, as this is known, is said to have begun in the late 1960s,
and its invention is attributed to one Reed Ghazala, after a fortuitous
accident with a toy amplifier.
Today Circuit Bending has reached the levels of an Art-form, with its leading
practitioners going ever further with increasingly unlikely toys and devices, in
search of sonic chaos. In addition to toys, Digital musical instruments such
as synths and drum machines make excellent circuit bending subjects for
musicians, as a visit to Circuitbenders.co.uk website shows.

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The SC Speak & Spell was created by Andy Wheddon, a keen bender from
Brighton, UK. It has various trigger and loop controls, as well as a pitch
control knob and the all-important jack-output. In use, the results of a circuit
bent S&S are far from predictable. The best technique tends to be to let the
machine go into a random pattern of words and glitches which can then be
looped or manipulated, albeit barely, with the modified controls. We
recorded long takes like this and then edited them afterwards.

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INSTRUMENTS
KONTAKT
SINGLE HITS AND LOOPS

The following Kontakt Speak&Spell Instruments are based around single hits
and loops, and are designed for normal sequencing. The Random
instruments are programed to give a random sound each time a key is
played, for a true chaotic circuit bent effect. Precise instruments will play
specific samples.

Alphabet - Both Precise.nki

Alphabet - Random 1.nki
Alphabet - Random 2.nki
Loops - All Precise.nki
SFX - All Precise.nki
SFX - Random.nki
Speak & Spell Drum Kit.nki
Words - All Precise.nki
Words - Random.nki
Speak & Spell Drum Kit.nki

Words - All Precise.nki

Words - Random.nki
The front panel of each instrument includes 10 parameters for further sound
design and mangling.

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All these parameters can be assigned a MIDI CC number in the drop down
Knobs menu, under MIDI Control

SHREDDER INSTRUMENTS

Speak & Shred 1.nki

Speak & Shred 2.nki
Speak & Shred 3.nki
Speak & Shred 4.nki
Speak & Shred 5.nki
Speak & Shred 6.nki
Speak & Shred 7.nki
Speak & Shred 8.nki
Speak & Shred 9.nki

These instruments use a classic Soniccouture KSP script, called Shredder.

Shredder keeps retriggering the note at the speed you set, but randomly
jumps around in the sample to different places. This simple behaviour can
be controlled in various ways. The speed can be locked to different sub-

divisions within the master tempo. The maximum sample start offset is set
with Max Offset (in milliseconds). The speed is set as a note value and has a
speed multiplier.
The script is activated by the Shred Switch. The Pan and Velocity of each
hit can be randomised with the top two knobs. A pitch LFO is included for
extreme pitch modulation effects, similar to the Speak&Spell unit. The depth
of this modulation can be set with the Range knob, and the shape of the
LFO can be smoothed with the smooth control.

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EXS24

Alphabets.exs
Loops.exs
SFX.exs
Speak & Spell Drum Kit.exs
Speak Seq 1.exs
Speak Seq 2.exs
Speak Seq 3.exs
Speak Seq 4.exs
Speak Seq 5.exs
Speak Seq 6.exs
Speak Seq 7.exs
Speak Seq 8.exs
Speak Seq 9.exs
Words.exs

The EXS24 instruments are straight sample playback, and are composed of
the full Alphabet, both bent and straight, various randomly generated
words, a drum kit, a set of interesting loops and longer sequences taken
from the Speak&spell.

LIVE
Alphabet - Both Precise.akg
Alphabet - Random 1.akg
Alphabet - Random 2.akg
Loops - All Precise.akg
SFX - All Precise.akg
SFX - Random.akg
Speak & Shred 1.akg
Speak & Shred 2.akg
Speak & Shred 3.akg
Speak & Shred 4.akg
Speak & Shred 5.akg
Speak & Shred 6.akg
Speak & Shred 7.akg
Speak & Shred 8.akg
Speak & Shred 9.akg
Speak & Spell Drum Kit.akg
Words - All Precise.akg
Words - Random.akg

The Random instruments are programed to give a random sound each time
a key is played, for a true chaotic circuit bent effect. Precise instruments
will play specific samples.

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The Speak & Shred instruments in the Live version work differently to
Kontakt - here the sample start time is randomised each time a key is
played. This gives a different effect from the Random instruments, since
this jumps to different parts of one long sample from the Speak&Spell.

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SUPPORT
If you have any problems or questions relating to the use of this product,
please feel free to contact us. You can either email us at :

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or we have a support forum within the KVR Audio community, which can be
found here :

Soniccouture Support Forum

We will always endeavour to reply to any enquiry within 12 hours, but do

bear in mind the differences in time zones, so please be patient!

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E.U.L.A.
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