The A.R.C. Users Guide 2.0.1

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Note: this manual applies to LASS (full) since ARC is only currently available for LASS Full. None of these features will work on LASS Lite or LASS First Chair. LASS Legato Sordino integration is planned and is forthcoming.

The LA Scoring Strings sample library described herein is supplied under a formal license agreement that you enter into when using LA Scoring Strings. Please refer to the LASS License Agreement PDF on the LA Scoring Strings DVD install.

The data contained in this user’s guide only serves for information purposes and may be changed without prior announcement. The contents, images and information in the user’s guide does not constitute a legal obligation of audiobro. audiobro is not responsible for any eventual faulty or inaccurate information contained in the user’s guide. The user’s guide and any parts thereof may not be reproduced or hosted on a website for commercial or any other use without the prior and explicit written permission of audiobro. All trademarks are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners.

The entire LA Scoring Strings sample library is based on “real player” performances and the utmost care was taken in preserving the human feel of these performances. It is these human “elements” (natural variances and imperfections in performance and sound) that create the realistic sound you hear when using LA Scoring Strings. Any imperfections in sound and performance are to be considered “by design” and are subject to change only at audiobro’s discretion.

© 2009-2011 audiobro

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s Table of ContentsTable of Contents......................................................3

Welcome to LASS’s ARC .........................................4

If You Read Nothing Else..........................................5

Read This... and watch the online videos!! ...............5

Creating an ARC Template ......................................6

Loading a Preset ARC Template from a Multi. ...6

Creating an ARC Preset from scratch. ...............6

Multis Included with LASS 2 ..............................7

Home Page...............................................................8

Setup Page ...............................................................9

Basic Setup ........................................................9

Key Switch ..............................................................11

Introduction ...................................................... 11

Assigning Articulations to Key Switches .......... 11

MIDI Channels and Transmission...........................14

Selecting MIDI Channels .................................14

Transmitting from ARC .....................................15

The Audition Button ..........................................15

Stage & Color .........................................................16

Introduction ......................................................16

The Basics of Stage and Color Presets ...........17

Loading Stage and Color Multis .......................17

Stage & Color controls .....................................18

Real Legato ............................................................19

A.R.T. ......................................................................20

AA & DNH ...............................................................21

Basic Settings ..................................................21

Advanced Settings ...........................................22

SubRules (a) & (B) ...........................................22

Range, Chord Detection and Release .............23

Tuning Page ...........................................................24

Range Tuning ...................................................24

MicroTuning......................................................24

Shared Tuning Controls ...................................25

CC Tables ...............................................................26

EQ ..........................................................................27

Thank You!..............................................................28

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C Welcome to LASS’s ARCWe are very excited to bring to you something that we have worked very hard on for over a year... the ARC. “ARC” stands for Audiobro Remote Control. This is a very powerful tool that allows you to control 1, many or all of LASS’s patches from one place thereby saving you time and allowing you to experiment with more confidence knowing that you can apply lots of sweeping changes to patches with ease. Please watch our online ARC videos to get an even better understanding of the ARC.

We are especially excited about the Stage and Color feature that allows users using LASS to sound like famous scores or recordings based on our tonal profiles that we created exclusively for LASS. Of course we are equally excited about ARC’s other features like the new Key Switch and Real Legato and Tuning Tools pages.

There are 9 ARC pages and they control the following features:

Key Switcher•

Color and Stage•

Real Legato•

A.R.T•

Auto Arranger and Delay and Humanization (AA & DNH)•

Tuning Tools•

CC Tables•

EQ•

Setup•

In this user guide we will recommend users start with the Setup page that is at the bottom of the ARC’s Home Page. Once you’ve established the Setup, then using the rest of the ARC is really easy and that’s why we recommend our users to start with the Setup page.

Please watch our online videos to get demonstrations of the different features.

So, without wasting any more time, let’s dive right into the ARC!!

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The ARC provides a new level of control for controlling LASS’s sound and programing. However, because of certain limitations in Kontakt (namely there is no bidirectional communication between the patches and the Multi script – only Multi scripts can communicate with patches) we had to be creative with our approach to using the ARC. Mostly, using the ARC should be a transparent process, but one needs to remember since there is no bidirectional communication between the Multi script and the patches, if you make a change to a patch, that change will not be updated in the ARC. So if you are going to be making changes to patches in conjunction with the ARC, please do so from the ARC. This way... what you see in the ARC is the status at the patch level.

Remember – making changes to the patches are not updated in the ARC... so work in the ARC if you want the ARC to visually reflect the patch’s settings.

There are three ways to transmit your ARC settings to your LASS Instruments

Transmit• – this button sends is a momentary button that sends out the current page’s settings to all the instruments whose MIDI channels are selected in the ARC’s MIDI channel selector.

Always Transmit• – When you click on Always, it keeps the Transmit button active so tat every change you may in the ARC is transmitted in real-time to the active MIDI channels.

Activating a MIDI channel• – if you turn on a midi channel (by selecting it an turning it blue) AND the Always Transmit buttons are on, as soon as you select the MIDI Channel, the current ARC page’s settings will be transmitted to the selected midi channel’s patch.

The Transmit and Always button in OFF position: Nothing get’s transmitted.

The Transmit and Always ON. Everything gets transmitted in real-time.

tip: Be careful when selecting midi channels. Make sure “Always transmit” is off unless you want the ARC’s settings transmitted to those channels. For that reason, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of leaving the “Always” off and clicking transmit when you need to update your patches with the ARC’s settings.

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Creating an ARC Template

NOTE: There are various ways to create a template using the ARC. We recommend one of 2 ways. You can load one of our “Preset” ARC Multis which are already populated with ARC settings and start from there. Or you can Load in the “ARC Starter” Multi to create your own template from scratch. You can always “hide” the ARC by clicking on the “Script” button near the top-right of Kontakt:

Loading a Preset ARC Template from a Multi.

Simply go to the Multis tab in the LASS Browser and choose a Multi which you’d like to have as a starting point for your template:

Click on the Multis tab to reveal the different Multis you can load to create a template. Note: Contents may change over time.

Creating an ARC Preset from scratch.

Choose the ARC Starter.nkm Multi. Go to the Multis Tab (as shown above) and double-click on the ARC Starter.nkm file and Choose “Yes” when prompted: “Replace Multi (pressing “No” will merge in the new instruments)?”

Click “Yes” when Creating a new template. .

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Once you have loaded up your Multi, you are ready to start adding to it or editing it. If you loaded up the ARC Starter.nkm Multi, then you will need to add patches into your instance of Kontakt and populate the ARC’s Setup Page with what you loaded. You can read more on how to do this in the ARC Setup Page section of this manual.

If you are new to programming the ARC, it might be a good idea to start with a pre-made Multi like one of the ones listed below. By referring to how the Setup Page is laid out and how the Key Switches were programmed, you will (by example) be able to more easily learn how to create your own ARC setup.

Multis Included with LASS 2

Good Multis for playing chords with AA on:

AA Batman Cries Harmony (KS MIDI Ch 1).nkm -- Play anything up to a triad from Middle C and above... and take out a hanky.•

AA Harmony Vlns+Vlas+Cli (MIDI Ch 1).nkm -- Another general spread voicing Multi for lines or chords up to a triad. Play from Middle C and above.•

FX Tutti (Ch1 - play above middle C).nkm -- Play anything up to a triad and ride CCs 83 and 111 (and the Mod-wheel for dynamics).•

Long Articulations Key Switched per section:

KS Airy Basses Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Airy Cellos Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Airy Vlas Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Airy Vlns I Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Airy Vlns II Long (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

Short Articulations Key Switched per section:

KS Shaws Basses Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Shaws Cellos Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Shaws Vlas Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Shaws Vlns I Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

KS Shaws Vlns II Short (KS MIDI Ch 16).nkm•

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To your right, you can see our Home page. This is sort of a navigation center for ARC. You’ll notice we’ve segregated ARC into two categories:

Performance Tools•

Remote Control•

These categories describe the basic use of the ARC pages. Key Switch and Stage and Color are pages that let you setup features that will be used in your performance and the other pages user the Remote Control banner are used to remotely program your patches.

At the top left and right of the Setup Page you’ll notice Load All and Save All buttons. Those let you load and save your entire ARC setup and can be very handy while creating (or backing up) your ARC template.

There are basically two ways to navigate to different pages within ARC:

Click on the page’s name to go to the 1. Home page:

Click on the 2. triangle next to a page’s name to get a drop-down:

A screen-shot of the ARC’s Home page.

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Basic Setup

the Setup page is where you tell the ARC what LASS Full patches are loaded into your instance of Kontakt. this is a very important step if you don’t want to be “flying blind” while using the ARC. Since Kontakt doesn’t currently allow bidirectional communication between it’s patches and Multi scripts (the ARC is a Multi script), it is recommended that you take a minute to populate your Setup page with at least the patch names you are using in your instance of Kontakt.

Below is a partial view of the Setup page. It shows you MIDI channel 1 and 9 bring assigned to Vln 1 FC Legato and Vln 1 FC Staccato. You can use the Volume and Pan knobs to adjust the overall volume and panning of each instruments (Vol = CC7 and Pan = CC10). The Clear All button simply clears all the setup settings so you don’t have to do each one manually.

When you initially open the Setup page from a blank Multi, you will notice all the Setup “slots” are empty and the patch names replaced with “-----”. Below is an example of MIDI channel 1:

Simply click on the “-----” field and select the type of LASS patch you have loaded on the appropriate MIDI channel and you’re done!! (see below)

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“Port” refers to the MIDI Port in Kontakt (A, B, C ,D) and Slot refers to the program slot on that MIDI channel. This is useful if you are using

Pedal Behavior

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At the bottom of the Setup page you’ll see a Send Pedal Up drop-down menu and a Instant KS menu:

Send Pedal Up1.

All KS• – This sends a CC64=0 (pedal off) message on any articulation change to the OLD articulation, so a KS will be equivalent of releasing the sustain pedal on the already sounding notes (which means if you later release the keys, they will be ended, not held out infinitely).

Instant KS• – This only does the above when switching to an articulation that is flagged as “instant”

Never• – This never sends a CC64=0 (pedal off) to the old articulation

Instant KS2.

Held Notes • – This sends the held notes to the new articulation and re-triggers them

Held and Peda• l – This sends the above + the CC64 (pedal) state to the new articulation

Note: Use the Load/Save menu at the top left of the Setup Page to save your Setup entries. You can then import them at a later date or use them as a basis for template building.

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Introduction

The ARC Key Switch (KS) feature is a very powerful tool that will allow users to maximize the use of Kontakt on all banks when Key Switching. No longer does one have to use Kontakt Instrument Banks to enable Key Switching. Now you can load all your patches into Kontakt as you normally would and with a single “Key Switch Input” MIDI channel, you can KS between (if you’d like) up to 64 patches. And if you do decide to use Instruments Banks on top of it, you can KS between 64x32 = 2048 patches. Of course that is extreme... but if ever someone wanted to... technically they could.

Note: You can use Program Changes to invoke a Key Switch. this allows you to use the “Chase” feature on your sequencer and will assure that the correct articulations are playing back when you fast-forward or rewind between Key Switches. Program 0 = Articulation 1.

tIP: the ARC’s KS allows you to do what other KS systems don’t, by letting you set up your patches in Kontakt as regular non-KS patches and playing them from individual sequencer tracks AND also having a dedicated KS track and playing ALL of your patches from within 1 MIDI Channel – simultaneously!!. What this means is you can have the best of both worlds: Individual access to all your patches on separate MIDI channels for layering, AND Key Switching between patches from a dedicated KS MIDI channel of your choice.

Please watch our online video tutorials to help you get a better understanding of the Key Switch page as well as other ARC features.

Assigning Articulations to Key Switches

First, choose your Key Switch Channel with the drop-down menu (make sure it is not the same MIDI channel of your instruments):

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Here, Vlns B Sordino were assigned to D#-1 by simply clicking on D# and choosing Vlns B Sord From the drop-down menu that ap-peared.

This button reveals a drop-down menu that shows you which port, MIDI channels, Slots and the associated articulation names has been assigned to a key. There is a 1 octave KS range, so you’re seeing the assignments to key “1 of 12” in this case.

This is the ACTIVE button. It is ON when the currently viewed articulation is the activated articulation for the current KS (so its associated key has been pressed or was manually selected). Clicking on it is a way to audition the routes of that articulation. *** See note at bottom of page.

You can layer instruments onto a Key Switch using this drop-down menu that is populated with your Setup’s articulations. You can also do the same thing by clicking on the PORT field, you can layer another articulation on top of your current KS. By scrolling through the MIDI CHAN and (if applicable) the SLOT, you can choose other patches to be layered on this KS. You can layer up to 8 patches onto the same KS!! When there is more than one articulation assigned to a KS, the first articulation in KS will be displayed in parenthe-sis with two asterisks:

Note regarding the Articulation selection button vs Keyboard KS when layering: Selection via the piano keyboard’s menus is strongly discouraged, because that replaces the first (shown with asterisks) by the one selected from the key associated menu.

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This button allows you to choose which octave you would like you ARC’s key switching to be in. It defaults to C-1. Be careful with avoiding KS conflicts between the ARC and ART patches. One way to avoid conflicts is to use another KS Set in the ARC and choose an Octave that doesn’t conflict with (say) the ART patches’ Key Switch keys.

When ON, the Instant Transition button allows you to make a KS in the middle of a note (or group of notes -- ie. while hold-ing down notes) by simply pressing the KS Key. It does not wait for you to finish your notes unless the Instant Transition button is OFF.

You can have up to 8 Key Switch Sets (A-H) in an instance of Kontakt. Each Set should have it’s own Key Switch Input MIDI channel to avoid confusion. This can be very useful if you would like (say) one of your Sets to handle key switching of ART patches that have their own pattern key switches. You could set the Octave Range of the ARC’s KS to an octave (say C6) that wouldn’t interfere with the ART patches.

The CCs Thru fields let you choose which CCs get passed through to the patches you are switching to when you do a KS. The values shown here are the default values, but they are all user definable and remembered when you save the ARC or project.

These are the ways you can navigate to the different pages on the ARC. Clicking on Key Switch will send you to the Home page. Clicking on the Triangle will give you a drop-down menu of all the ARC’s pages.

Remember: it is recommended that each KS “Set” have it’s own Key Switch Input Channel to avoid confusion and possible conflicts.

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Selecting MIDI Channels

On all the applicable ARC pages, you will find that the “top” portion of the page consists of the ARC logo, 16 MIDI channels, a “triangle” that acts like a drop-down menu (providing useful MIDI channel selections) and a Transmit and Always button. It is very important for a smooth ARC experience to understand how to select MIDI channels and transmit the ARC’s setting to the LASS patches loaded in Kontakt. See the explanations below:

This little triangle let’s you select some useful MIDI channel presets like:

Select All (MIDI Channels)•

Select None (MIDI Channels)•

Select all Vlns... etc.•

Click on the “A” button to access a drop-down menu letting you choose a MIDI channel port (A-D) giving you access to 64 MIDI channels for the ARC. After choosing a Port, the button is updated to show you what Port you are currently on. Setting Slot above 1 will let you choose patches inside of Instru-ment Banks (up to 32).

This is the MIDI Channel selector. These are the MIDI channels (1-16) You can also specify what port you want to select by clicking on the port (see below) Select the MIDI channels of the patches in Kontakt that you want the ARC to control..

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There are three ways to transmit your ARC settings to your LASS Instruments

Transmit• – this button is a momentary button that sends out the current page’s settings to all the instruments whose MIDI channels are selected in the ARC’s MIDI channel selector.

Always Transmit• – When you click on Always, it keeps the Transmit button active so tat every change you may in the ARC is transmitted in real-time to the active MIDI channels.

Activating a MIDI channel• – if you turn on a midi channel (by selecting it an turning it blue) AND the Always Transmit buttons are on, as soon as you select the MIDI Channel, the current ARC page’s settings will be transmitted to the selected midi channel’s patch.

tip: Be careful when selecting midi channels. Make sure “Always transmit” is off unless you want the ARC’s settings transmitted to those channels. For that reason, it’s a good idea to get in the habit of leaving the “Always” off and clicking transmit when you need to update your patches with the ARC’s settings.

The Audition Button

There is an Audition button towards the top left of each Performance page and the Stage & Color page. When you turn the Audition feature ON, you are able to route incoming MIDI from your (say) keyboard to all the active MIDI channels (blue) on the ARC. It’s usually best to leave this off when using Kontakt within a Host and it also increases CPU usage. Again, this is mainly to be used to audition your sounds while creating a template.

Audition light ON. In this state, the ARC routes incoming MIDI to the chosen MIDI channels so that you may audition your changes.

The Transmit and Always button in OFF position: Nothing get’s transmitted.

The Transmit and Always ON. Everything gets transmitted in real-time.

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Introduction

The Stage and Color page of the ARC lets you control some exciting new features in LASS. We have carefully created sonic profiles inspired by famous film scores and recorded performances that allow LASS to sound very close to the original recordings. In addition, Stage & Color enables you to individually move LASS’s instruments on the stage and change their position and perspective while maintaining realistic acoustic consequences of these changes. It’s is a very powerful tool that breathes new life into LASS.

At the heart of Stage & Color is a collection of our new orchestral sound profiles (colors) inspired by famous recordings and movie scores. The profiles located in the Presets menu at the top right of the Stage and Color page include:

Dry Preset•

Shaw’s Redemption•

Psycho•

Cape Far•

Fellowship Ring•

First Murder•

Village•

Barb’s Adagio 71•

Airy Strings•

Private Ryan (for sordinos)•

Perdition (for sordinos)•

Airy Sordinos (for sordinos)•

AH Solo Violin•

Airy Solo Violin•

Baroque Violin•

HH Solo Violin•

LVD Solo Violin•

Village Solo Violin•

Airy Solo Cello•

Yo Cello•

and others...•

These exclusive sound profiles were created internally at Audiobro with a lot of love and care. It is our intention to release newprofilesovertimetokeepLASSfreshandexcitingsotheentriesabovemaychangeandgrowwithtime.

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There are a variety of ways you can set up LASS to hear it’s new Stage and Color presets in LASS:

Load one of the Multi presets• (this is the easiest because everything is already set up for you). Note, since everyone’s needs for orchestral templates is different, we are providing Multis to get you started. You can easily add to and alter these presets to suit your needs and then save the “new” Multi as your own.

Start with the • ARC Starter.nkm Multi and load your own LASS patches into Kontakt and using the Stage and Color in conjunction with the Setup pages in ARC, load Stage and Color Presets to the desired patches by selecting their MIDI channels and click on Transmit.

Loading Stage and Color Multis

In Kontakt’s Instruments Browser, click on the Multis tab to select what Stage and Color Multi you would like to load into Kontakt.

We encourage you to “Play” with the ARC settings. It is a very powerful tool and can substantially (even radically) change the sound of LASS. When you get everything the way you like it, Save the Multi with your own preset name using the “Save Preset” menu at the top left of the ARC’s script page:

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The Stage & Color page has the following controls:

Instruments Menu1.

X and Y position sliders2.

Instrument position and orientation.3.

Dry Knob4.

Color Knob5.

Reverb6.

Stereo width of instrument7.

On / Off buttons.8. 3

This and the Magnifying glass to the right are drop-down menus that lets you choose what to be displayed on the Stage & Color screen.

This “Big Blip” represents the Stage position (panning and depth) of the instrument chosen at the top right of the page (above-right). If it is a “small blip”, just click on it to make it “Big” and editable.

Note that the instruments’ orientation can be rotated by click-dragging the “sound waves”.

These Arrows are the “X” and “Y” controls to move the instrument on the stage. As you move these Arrows, the displayed instrument will be moved.

This control lets you adjust the Width of the stereo sound by click-dragging the control..

The Dry knob is to control how much “Dry” (unaf-fected) signal is heard.

The Color knob is to control how much “Color” or tone (the sound profile) signal is heard.

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The Reverb knob is to control how much “reverb” signal is heard. The reverb is sent to the Auxes in Kontakt’s mixer.

5The Stage, Color and FX buttons turn ON or OFF the respective states of the page. They also have associated drop-down menus.

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With LASS 2.0.1 we introduced a new “view” for the stage placement of all the LASS instruments. You can now view all the instruments at once -- each one represented as a “small blip”:

By Clicking on one of the “small blips, you can choose an instrument to Edit and now the Arrows (#2 below) are assigned to the “Big Blip”:

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The Real Legato page (as well as other pages like A.R.T., AA & DNH and Tuning pages etc) are considered Remote Control pages insofar as they help you program or modify the patches to your liking remotely from the ARC. All the controls reflect what is already available on the patches. For detailed information on these controls, please refer to the LASS 2 Patches manual.

Simply make your changes and click on the Transmit button for all the patches on the selected MIDI channels to adopt your changes.

Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

The EQ On/Off button re-motely controls the EQ On/Off button on the patches.

Turns On/Off the Sustain Release Tails on patches.

Turns On/Off the Legato mode on the patches.

Turns On/Off the Legato Release Tails on patches.

Turns On/Off the ReTrigger on the patches.

Remotely assign the CC to control Legato On/Off

Remotely turn On/Off” Anti Machine-Gun mode (AMG) of Legato and Sustain.

Also remotely assign CCs to control the A.M.G

These are the controls to set the velocity ranges of the different legato articulations

NV loads the Non-Vibrato samples. The Vib loads the Vibrato samples. The arrow turns On/Off the NV samples without purging them.

These are drop-down menus that allow you to remotely load and purge the different Legato per-formance samples in your patches

Slop Detect turn On/Off the patches’ Slop Detect.

Slop Detect turn On/Off the patches’ Slop Detect.

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A.R.T.Simply make your changes and click on the Transmit button for all the patches on the selected MIDI channels to adopt your changes.

Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

Save patterns to be loaded in other ARCs or to keep a library of patterns..

Turns On/Off Retrigger mode on patches

Changes ART Key Switch range on patches

Changes Ran-dom Accents on ART patches.

Changes Random Time on ART patches

Adjusts the Slam knob on ART patches.

Changes the Chord detect time in ART patches.

Clears the pattern table on the ART patches.

Lets you draw in patterns to as many ART patches as selected in the MIDI selector.

Quantize drop-down menu to have different Quantize options.

Changes then Markers on ART patches..

Turns On/Off EQ on patches.

Changes the Se-quence Length on the remote patches

Changes the Note Value of the Pattern Sequencer on ART patches.

Doubles the Pat-tern’s tempo

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Refer to the LASS 2 Patches User Guide for more detailed explanations on these controls.

Basic Settings

The Basic Tab of the AA & DNH (which means Auto Arranger and Delay and Humanization) provides you with as many rows of instruments as you have (depending your setting in the Setup page).

tip: All the instruments listed in your Setup page will be displayed in the AA & DNH page.

This will turn On/Off the Auto Arranger on all the MIDI selected patches but not the DNH settings.

This is the MIDI channel and name of the patch reflecting your entries in the Setup page.

Role: This dictates what AA role you as-sign to the listed on this row..

This sets the key range that these settings will apply to the instrument on this row.

This drop-down gives you different DNH states for the instrument on this row. This acts independently of the AA button.

These are the DNH Delay and RND (random) setting for the patch listed on this row.

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SubRules (a) & (B)

The SubRules (A) (notes 1-6) and SubRules (B) (notes 7-12) provide the user with the same drop-down menus as available on the patch level, except now all these controls can be chosen from the ARC’s AA & DNH page.

This drop-down menu selects the Play rules for the listed patch.

This drop-down menu selects the Else rules for the listed patch..

This drop-down menu sends the Octave rules to the listed patch.

This button turns the Retrigger On/Off for the listed patch

All the drop-down menus reflect the possibilities of each note based on the desired notes-in-chord number and it’s note-number role. The higher the note, the more options of note-order choices you have.

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At the bottom left of the AA & DNH page, you will see these controls. They allow you to assign Ranges, change CC numbers for AA on/off and DNH on/off, Key Switch keys (for Key Switching AA presets in the patches), Chord Detection for the patches and Release time for the pedal’s behavior.

the KS (Key Switch) above refers to the KS key for changing AA & DNH presets in real-time at the patch/instrument level. this has nothing to do with the Key Switch page on the ARC.

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Range Tuning

MicroTuning

This table functions the same as those found at the patch level. It only displays an octave range so that you can set a repeating Micro Tonal scale throughout the range of the entire selected instruments..

The MicroTuning tab lets you select the MicroTuning options for programming.

All the “notes” above represent the chromatic scale so that you may alter the tuning for micro tonal scales.

Off/On button: This turns Off/On the Tuning script on the patches

The Range Tuning tab lets you select the Range Tuning options for programming.

This table functions the same as those found at the patch level with the exception that these ta-bles show the entire range of the LASS Library whereas the patches only show the patches’ range. By extending the range in the ARC, you can apply tuning profiles to different instruments at the same time.

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These controls are available in both Range Tuning and Micro Tuning modes.

Clear lets you clear the tuning table. The Max Tune drop-down menu lets you choose the maximum tuning range of the instruments.

The Tune Amt knob lets you control how much of your tuning

should be applied to your patches.

KeySwitch lets you assign a Tuning Pre-set to the a Key Switch at the instrument level. Keep your ARC KSs in mind when programming your tuning KSs..

Random High and Random Low lets you assign your patches’ random tuning amounts via the ARCs Tuning page.

Tuning CC lets you set the Tuning CC for your patches. Default is set to CC 3.

Bypass CC lets you set the Tuning Bypass CC for your patches. Default is set to CC 90..

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Note: Preset 1 is always the default of all patches and cannot be altered. When you select preset 1, the screen will be inactive and will give you a message that the defaults cannot be altered. Just like all of the Remote Control pages, these functions behave just like they do at the patch level.

The Dynamics Layers tab lets you choose the dynamics table for edit-ing the samples’ dynamic layers.

The Layer Volume tab lets you choose the volume table for editing the volume CC curves.

The Save button allows you to save different presets at the patch level.

The Smooth button acts just like it does in the patches and can also smooth the patches’ curves.

This is the table area on. Drawing the curves on this can be tran-sited in real-time or only when you click on the Transmit button.

This adjusts the % Of CC knob on selected MIDI channels. It works in conjunction with the CC Attenuation but-ton below it. By default patches have this set to 100% and the button OFF.

This CC Attenuation button controls the On/Off button on the patches..

The Curve knob gives you a choice of curves and can apply them to your patches.

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EQ EQ

the ARC eQ is a way to change the eQs on all your patches –– on 1, several or all patches in one simple process. there are default eQ presets that match the instrument presets so you can start with the ARC’s eQ settings matching the instrument’s eQ settings.

Everything with the EQ should be self explanatory. The Save button tells the patch to save the current settings to the Instrument’s preset.

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Thank You!

Thanks to all the LASS users who have reached out to us through our forums or via email. You’re passionate suggestions have helped shape our LASS updates and we are so grateful for have such a wonderful user base. And thank you for all your patience in waiting for this update.

Thanks to Willem Van den Broeck for his demo and wonderful contributions in our forum.. and for his input that helped shape our user interface and graphics. Thanks also to Jesper Goor Pedersen for all the help on the forums.

A special thanks to Sebastian Katz and Gabor Valasek for their tireless dedication and passion without which this ARC would not have been possible.