Ney Reference Manual

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Ney

Traditional Middle Eastern Bamboo Flute

Classical Ney

Sonokinetic BV 2013


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Ney

One of the oldest instruments in existence, the Ney has been played for about 5000years. Its distinguished sound reminiscent of deserts and oasis, this instrument canadd an ethnic flavor to your compositions that is unmatched in its deep soulfulnessand truthful timbre. The Neys breathy tone will transport you to ancient times andfaraway places and capture your audience with an enchanting quality.

In line with previous Sonokinetic libraries such as the classical Kemene, Shahrazadand Sultan Drums, this Ney is captured in high fidelity audio quality, and it ships witha built-in musical heritage. Our Ney player Ahmet Cemal Oksuz blessed us with adeep understanding of both traditional heritage and a cinematic approach withregards to his playing. The instrument is a perfect match with the styles and flavorsin other Sonokinetic ethnic sampled instrument and vocals.

For this production we sampled phrases in different Makams (middle eastern scales)

using proprietary Ney flutes, the Neys used are Mansur, Kz, Bolhenk, Husseiniand Siprde. For the playable legato and staccato instrument we focused on theMansur Ney, this being the most all-round of all the flutes, with the largest range.

This Ney sample library is based on musical structures similar to the ones found inother Ethnic sampled instruments by Sonokinetic, making this a valuable addition toand perfect match with your Sonokinetic sampling products. Based on more than 10different styles these performances are divided in traditional songs andimprovisations. Where the songs focus more on melodies within a particularlyMiddle Eastern tone scale, improvisations use this tone material focus on a morecinematical melodic approach.

This instrument ships with an intelligent legato scripted instrument, giving you anopportunity to play this instrument in real time and create your own melody lines,complete with transition notes and looped sustains.

Recorded at Sonokinetic Studios in Istanbul with our renowned and awarded soundteam and Ney master Ahmet Cemal Oksuz , were very proud to release this uniqueinstrument. We hope it will give you as much inspiration as it gave us and will suityour scoring template with elegance.

Sticking to our award-winning multi sampling / performance capturing concepts andteaming up with the worlds greatest musicians, recording artists, programmers,

designers and scripters we are proud to present to you:Ney

We wish you the best inspiration and creativity.

With warm regards,The Sonokinetic Ney Production Team


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Content

- Core samples: Ney flute

- 1 instrument for Kontakt 4.2.4 and Kontakt 5.1.0

- Temposynced Phrases featuring Intelligent Time Machine (ITM)

- Phrasing available pitched to key

- 13600+ samples. (7,1+ GB sample content)

- Authentic Legato samples and scripting

- Traditional Songs & Improvisation phrases

- Auto Breath sounds between phrases

- xfade modwheel dynamics for legato patches

-Switchable velocity mix control for staccato and non-looped natural sustains patch

- Modwheel phrase start control

- GUI harmonic key display

- Full tempo sync control.

- Kontakt 5 optimized Time machine Pro programming

- Transparent tempo stretch overview via switchable GUI element

- 1 impulse response: 24 bit wave format

- Real-time sample content purging and loading

- End Users License Agreement

- Ney Reference document (PDF)

- Artwork : Ney DVD cover. Designed by Pavel Fuksa

- Watermarked Kontakt patches

Format:

All files in 44.1 kHz , 24 Bit NCW format.Programmed for Native Instruments Kontakt (Full versions!)


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NEY INTERFACE

The main UI for Ney consists of several controls including Instrument / Phraseselection, Impulse Response (reverb) control, Intelligent Time Machine, Breathon/off switch and Velocity control for Staccato and Long articulations.

Phrases and Playable Instrument

Choose either performance-sampled Phrases that are divided in two sub groups(Improvisations & Songs) or the playable instrument by clicking either button.

Phrases & Performances

Ney has 10 different styles included forSongs and Improvisation. These stylesare named after the used Makam (scale).These Makams all have their owncharacter. Weve produced allimprovisations and songs to be availablein all keys, and they will automaticallymatch the host tempo of your project.


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Tempo Sync

Ney features adaptive tempo syncing which will lock the phrase playback to tempoeven if the host tempo is changing during playback.

In the full version of Kontakt 4 and 5 you will have alternative options for increasingthe efficiency and quality of the timestretching. Be aware that this can come at theexpense of system resources. For the best time stretching results we stronglyadvise to load the Kontakt 5 TMP patches which use the Time machine Pro settings.

Intelligent Time Machine (ITM)

The ITM function syncs samples to half-time ordouble-time when extreme tempo values are used.This can also be turned off. Click the button toenable / disable this feature. You may prefer to

have the ITM function turned off when usingadaptive temposyncing functions previouslymentioned, so that the samples do not suddenlyswitch to half/double-time when manipulatinglarge tempo changes. Note that in theimprovisation section this might lead to differentsamples being triggered because these arerecorded in two different root tempi and theimprovised phrases for the different tempi will bedifferent.

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We found it particularly intuitive when composing to see what lengtha phrase would be. Since not all phrases are cut out with computerscience in mind, they are more focused on musical and artisticexpression, theres a lot of variety in length and duration of a phrase.Hence the Phrase Indicator that shows you the remaining lengthby steadily following the phrase progression, this will appear in thecenter bottom of the interface when a phrase is played. When it isobscured by the Song list, just click the Song name again to hide

the scroll.


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Impulse Response (IR)

Ney comes preloaded with a convolution reverbsampled from an actual space to simulate a realisticplaying environment. Adjust the amount of reverbadded to the instrument by click-dragging on the knoband turn it on or off by clicking the button.

From the Kontakt configuration window you can adjust many aspects of the reverbincluding wet/dry levels, pre delay, dampening and width.

Mic positioning

You can move the slider to get your preferred mixbetween the mono and stereo recorded signal.

Auto Breath

These trigger random breath noises to add a live feel toyour phrases. When activated it will play a sample of theplaying taking a breath in between phrases.

Velocity slider

The velocity slider will determine how velocity is handledfor Staccato and Long articulations in the playableinstrument. For more on this refer to the next section(Playing Ney: Playable Instrument).


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PLAYING NEY

PLAYABLE INSTRUMENT:

Legato

Ney has a 2,5 octave keyrange for the legatoinstrument. Sustains will loop indefinitely, and a

release sound will be triggered on key release.

Legato transitions will trigger automatically as longas the second note is played before the first isreleased. Velocity for the legato patch is controlledby mod wheel to allow for a full range of expression.Blue keys mark the position of the playable zones inthe legato instrument. Polyphonic playing is notpossible in Legato mode, for polyphonic playing usethe Staccato or Long mode.

Staccato

Staccato notes have different round robins, so another samplewill be triggered when you press the key multiple times. Theseshort notes can be triggered simultaneously with legato orsustained notes, to add a different attack to the note.

Long

Sustained notes that can be played simultaneously,to simulate a group of players. No legatotransitions will be triggered. These samples arenot looped, they will end in a natural way when therecorded length is reached.

FX

Recorded Fx sounds, categorized by sample length.These sounds make your composition come alive

even more. Very effective when used tastefully and inmoderation.

Retrigger

The Yellow key, when pressed,will retrigger the held note in alegato fashion.


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PHRASES

With the performance sampled phrases, Ney provides red colored key switches from A0 to G#1 which will become yellow when selected:

Harmonic Key Display

Use the red keyswitches to set the root key of thephrases then use the upper blue keys to trigger theavailable phrases for that particular key in that tempo.The Key is displayed in the bottom left corner of theinstrument. This harmonic key display changesaccording to the harmonic key that is selected by thered key switches on your keyboard. Phrases willchange pitch, depending on the keyswitch selected.

Tempo Display

The ITM button explained above will ensure that the phrases sync to your hosttempo in the most efficient way. To get a visual indication of how much stretch isbeing applied, you can click the tempo box to toggle between recorded (root) tempo,host (current) tempo and tempo stretch percentage.

IMPORTANT: in the Improvisations section, the number of phrases availablecan vary depending on which tempo your host is set. There areimprovisations recorded in root tempo 120 and in root tempo 90, the closestto your host tempo will be picked, and with ITM on, also closest to double andhalf of host tempo. So with ITM off in host tempo 175 it will pickimprovisations recorded in 120 with a 45% stretch upwards, and with ITM on itwould pick root tempo 90 with a 3% stretch down.

Purging and Disc Usage

To save on system resources and RAM, Ney loads each set of phrases as they areneeded. Depending on your disc speed you may need to allow a few seconds forthese to load once you select a new set of phrases or select a new root pitch.


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Modwheel functions

Legato samples: velocity function. To have full control over dynamicbehavior of your composition, and simulate the blowing of the player.

Staccato and Long samples: switchable between key velocity and mod

wheel velocity through the dedicated slider. With the slider all the way tothe left, velocity is purely controlled by key velocity, to the right by modwheel, and everything in between will be a mix between these two. This isperfect for combining the control of mod wheel velocity with the variationand human feel of key controlled velocity.

Songs & Improvisations: the mod wheel controls the sample starting point, somoving the mod wheel up will start the phrase at a later position, ideal for when youonly need the end of a particular phrase.

Installation help

Use our Payloader app todownload your instrument

After the download has beenfinished Payloader will

automatically extract all theparts and install it in the folderyou assigned it to when loadingthe app.In case you run intounexpected errors whenloading the instrument for thefirst time please verify yourlibrary folder structureaccording to this graphic:


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Credentials

Our Ney player for this project was Ahmet Cemal Oksuz, avery accomplished professional player from Istanbul,Turkey, with a deep knowledge of traditional music styles

as well as Western Cinematic styles.It has been a great privilige for us working with him on thisproject, and having him lend his inspiration and abilities toNey

The meticulous recording took place at Sonokinetic Studios JW productions Istanbul with our trusted recordingengineer and composer Ceyda Pirali. We are blessed to haveher professional attitude and attention to detail on projectslike this one. As well as her knowledge of Middle Easternmusic theory and instrument specific details that areinvaluable to a project like this.

Scripting for this instrument, including the superb legato script, is courtesy of KenBlack. For more info on him visit www.musikbits.com.


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