Steinberg Zaria Nebulous Vocal Textures and Pads User Manual

Steinberg Zaria Nebulous Vocal Textures and Pads

Product Information

Credits
Zaria was produced by Sonic Atoms Vocals:

• Roksana Korban Recording: Jakub Zajczkowski
• Production: Patryk Scelina
• Beta testing: Greg Wal, Michal Korniewicz, Zofia Domaradzka, Michal Szablowski, Piotr Stachera

Technical Requirements

Zaria Instruments require the following technical specifications:
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Zaria Instruments

The Zaria collection includes the following programs:

• Performance – Particles
• Performance – Particles Reversed
• Performance – Compund
• Performance – Compund Reversed
• Single Atoms
• Single Atoms Reversed
• Pad

User Interface and Controls

Performance – Patricles / Particles Reversed:
The keyboard is split into 5 zones:

• The lower zone (white keys) is assigned to a drone. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed on the left side of the interface. It can also be turned off.
• In the center of the keyboard, all vocal particles are split into 3 zones. Each zone has its own color (orange, green, blue). Each zone can be set to a different articulation. Vocal articulations can be changed directly from the GUI or by keyswitches. The keyswitches range starts from C-2 for the orange zone, from C-1 for the green zone, and from C0 for the blue zone.
• The higher zone (white keys) is assigned to a pad. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed on the right side of the interface. It can also be turned off.

Performance – Compund / Compund Reversed:
The program has 3 layers of sound:

• The lowest layer (Physical) is based on granular synthesis and provides the foundation of the sound. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed at the bottom of the interface. It can also be turned off.
• The middle layer (Etheric) is made of long vocal articulations. One of four articulations can be changed directly from the GUI or by a keyswitch (C-2 to D#-2).
• The upper layer (Astral) contains all special vocal articulations (bouncing notes and random shorts). Articulations can be changed directly from the GUI or by a keyswitch (C-1 to G#-1). The Astral layer is silent by default, and its volume can be raised by the Mod Wheel (CC1).

Pad:

• This type of program is made of processed vocal textures. Pad sounds are usually similar to what a regular synthesizer is capable of. However, because these sounds are made of long vocal textures, that lush synth-like sound can unexpectedly turn and reveal its true nature.
• Pad program comes with additional controls:
  • 2 LFOs which can influence one of four destinations: filter, panning, distortion, and pitch.
  • LFO Shape Menu – Controls oscillation type of the main modulator.
  • LFO Trigger Menu – Allows setting modulator behavior.
  • Randomize Knob – Sets random sample start value.
  • Fine Tuning knob – Controls pitch of sound.
  • Voice section – Allows turning a pad into a monophonic lead sound with a glide time control.
  • Filter section – Provides common controls such as cutoff, resonance, distortion, etc.

Single Atom / Single Atom Reversed:

• Most of the Single Atom programs are based on vocal articulations used in Particles and Compound programs.
• However, there are several additional articulations available as a single program only:
  • Breath Short – Pop
  • Short – Ta
  • Wave Long – Ah / Wave Long Reversed – Ah
  • Wave Long – Oo / Wave Long Reversed – Oo
  • Wave Short – Ah / Wave Short Reversed – Ah
  • Wave Short – Oo / Wave Short Reversed – Oo

CREDITS

Zaria was produced by Sonic Atoms

• Vocals: Roksana Korban
• Recording: Jakub Zajączkowski
• Production: Patryk Scelina
• Beta   testing: Greg Wal, Michał Korniewicz, Zofia Domaradzka, Michał Szablowski, Piotr Stachera

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Baltic Shimmers requirements:

• Disk space: 1,1 Gb
• RAM: 4Gb
• Display resolution: 1366 x 768 (1920 x 1080 recommended)
• Mac OS: 10.12 / 10.13 / 10.14 / 10.15
• Windows 64 bit: 8.x/10
  *Zaria is a sample library created with Steinberg’s Halion sampler. It requires free Halion Sonic SE3.4 to be installed in your system to run. If don’t have Halion 6, Halion Sonic 3+ or Halion Sonic SE3.4 or newer already installed, you need to login / register to steinberg user account and activate your free license of Halion Sonic SE3. Activation requires eLicencer software which you can also download directly from Steinberg’s website.
  Installation and activation process is described in detail in Installation chapter.\

ZARIA INSTRUMENTS

Zaria collection comes with 7 types of programs:

• Performance – Particles
• Performance – Particles Reversed
• Performance – Compund
• Performance – Compund Reversed
• Single Atoms
• Single Atoms Reversed
• Pad

USER INTERFACE AND CONTROLS

• Performance – Patricles / Particles Reversed

  • Program comes with various sounds, spread across the keyboard and split into 5 zones.
  • Lower zone (white keys) is assigned to a drone. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed on left side of the interface. It can be also turned off.
  • In a center of a keyboard, all vocal particles are split into 3 zones. Each zone has it’s own color (orange, green, blue). Each zone can be set to a different articulation. Vocal articulations can be changed directly from GUI or by keswitches. Keyswitches range starts from C-2 for “orange zone”, from C-1 for “green zone”, from C0 for “blue zone”.
  • Higher zone (white keys) is assigned to a pad. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed on right side of the interface. It can be also turned off.

• Performance – Compund / Compund Reversed

  • Program has 3 layers of sound. Lowest (Physical) is based on granular synthesis and it provides the foundation of the sound. Its tone can be controlled by 6 knobs placed at the bottom of the interface. It can also be turned off.
  • Middle layer (Etheric) is made of long vocal articulations. One of four articulations can be changed directly from GUI or by a keyswitch (C-2 to D#-2).
  • Upper layer (Astral) contains all special vocal articulations (bouncing notes and random shorts). Articulations can be changed directly from GUi of by a keyswitch (C-1 to G#-1). Astral layer is silent as default and it’s volume can be raised by Mod Wheel (CC1).

• PAD

  • This type of program is made of processed vocal textures. Pad sounds are usually similar to what regular synthesizer is capable of. However, because these sounds are made of long vocal textures, that lush synth like sound can unexpectedly turn and reveal it’s true nature. Pad program comes with additional controls:
  • 2 LFOs which can influence one of four destinations: filter, panning, distortion and pitch. LFO Shape Menu – Controls oscillation type of main modulator. LFO Trigger Menu -Allows to set modulator behavior. Randomize Knob set random sample start value. Fine Tuning knob controls pitch of sound. Voice section allows to turn a pad into a monophonic lead sound with a glide time control. Filter section provides common controls such as: cutoff, resonance, distortion etc.

• **Single Atom / Single Atom Reversed***
  Most of Single Atom programs is based on vocal articulations used in “Particles” and “Compound” programs. However there are several additional articulations, available as a single program only:

  • Breath
  • Short – Pop
  • Short – Ta
  • Wave Long – Ah / Wave Long Reversed – Ah
  • Wave Long – Oo / Wave Long Reversed – Oo
  • Wave Short – Ah / Wave Short Reversed – Ah
  • Wave Short – Oo / Wave Short Reversed – Oo
  • Single Atom programs contain vocal samples with extended pitch range. Samples within natural vocalist range are assigned to green keys, while pitch extension is presented with red colour on the keyboard. There is additional text information of natural voice range on the lower part of GUI.

• FX PAGE

  • FILTER

  • Filter Type Menu -Allowing to choose from different variations of high, low and band pass filters.

  • Cut Off – Controls chosen filter frequency range.

  • Resonance – Controls filter curve. Higher resonance gives volume boost on the end of filter’s frequency range.

  • Dist. Type Menu -Allows to choose various distortion algorithms.

  • Distortion – Controls distortion drive.

  • Filter Mix – Allows to mix processed signal with dry audio signal.

  • TREMOLO

  • Rate – Controls speed of tremolo

  • Depth – Changes tremolo influence on audio signal

  • CHORUS

  • Rate – Controls frequency of chorus effect

  • Depth – Changes chorus modulation amount

  • Mix – Allows to mix processed signal with dry audio signal.

  • TAPE ECHO

  • Echo Time – Controls echo intervals. It can be synced with DAW’s tempo when little “eight note” button is active.

  • Feedback – Controls number of echo repeats.

  • Vintage – Adds more character to a sound and more modulation, imitating old tape echo unit.

  • Echo Mix – Controls balance between dry signal and tape echo.

  • TAPE SATURATION

  • Drive – Amount of audio boost.

  • Output – Allows to reduce volume gain after tape saturation.

  • DELAY

  • Time – Controls delay intervals. It can be synced with DAW’s tempo when little “eight note” button is active.

  • Feedback – Controls number of delay repeats.

  • Balance – Controls offset of delay time in Left/Right channel.

  • Mix – Controls balance between dry signal and delay.

  • COMPRESSOR

  • Threshold – Sets level at which compression applies

  • Ratio – Controls amount of compression

  • SPACE
    1st stage convolution reverb. Simulates big room sound.

  • P redelay – Controls time offset between dry signal and convolution reverb

  • Mix – Allows to blend dry signal with convolution reverb

  • REVERB
    2nd stage algorithmic reverb. Adds long lush tail to convolution reverb.

  • Density – Controls diffusion of reverb.

  • Size – Controls and timing of reverb.

  • Length – Control reverb time

  • Reverb Mix – Controls balance between dry signal and reverb.

MIDI MAPPING AND QUICK CONTROLS

• PRE MAPPED MIDI CONTROLS

  • CC1 (Modwheel) – Controls main volume of Astral layer in “Performance -Compound / Compound Reversed” programs.
  • CC11 (Expression pedal) – Controls overal instrument volume

• QUICK CONTROLS
  HALION’s quick controls are connected to instrument’s Envelope (Attack, Sustain, Release) and allows to overwrite default Envelope settings. Quick Controls are active only in “Pad” type programs.

• MIDI LEARN
  Every knob, fader and “wave” controller can be assigned to prefered MIDI CC by using MIDI Learn feature. To use MIDI Learn click on chosen GUI controller with right mouse button and choose “Learn CC” from Pop-Up menu.

TERMS OF USE

• LICENSE AGREEMENT
  All Sonic Atoms sample libraries and sample packs you purchase are licensed, not sold to you. That license is personal and cannot be sold or transferred to anyone else. By downloading Sonic Atoms digital product, you agree to following terms:

• YOU ARE ALLOWED TO

• • Use Sonic Atoms instruments and single samples in commercial and non-commercial musical compositions.
  • Install Sonic Atoms instruments and samples on multiple systems as long as they are used by single owner. For instance: You may use our sounds on a laptop and multiple studio rigs as long as one copy / license is being used at a time.
  • Use Sonic Atoms instruments and samples in game production and implement your music using separated samples and STEMs in game engine, as long as they are needed by production process and not being distributed and published as single sound files.
  • Use Sonic Atoms instruments for creating production music / library music and grant access to tracks and STEMs to third parties, as long as shared tracks and STEMs are needed due to media production and postproduction process and are not published in original form.

• YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO

• • Share Sonic Atoms instruments and samples with anyone else. This includes making any of the content of the Library available on a network through any file sharing services.
  • Use one license on multiple computers at the same time by multiple users. For instance if there is a studio hiring multiple composers, you need as many licenses as many working at the same composers you have, or as many workstations.
  • Create samples, sample packs, sample libraries and virtual instruments based on Sonic Atoms content and share with anyone else. This includes processing our sounds and creating new content based on our content.
  • Re-sell the license to any part nor entire product made by Sonic Atoms.

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