MegaMagic: Bells/Winds

Sample & Patch Library for Kontakt 5.5

First of all THANK YOU for buying my libraries Im thrilled to be able to do this for my profession and
its because of each of your support I can do what I love. So thank you. If you are Evaluating this from
a torrent site or a friend Loaned it to you, please be cool, do the right thing and buy a copy so you
have a legal license to use these sounds. Otherwise youre stealing from me and that is not cool
After the great success of MegaMagic Dreams and MegaMagic Pads, I wanted to think a little bigger
and make sure the library was more flexible I really loved how the guitars turned out in MegaMagic
Dreams, so I produces a sampling session with a dear friend and excellent guitar player named Erick
Hailstone (you will know more about Erick after the NEXT library comes out). We did 4 hours of him
playing single boring notes with a BUNCH of different guitars I wanted more variety and more notes so
I could use Multi-Mode to make them a little more realistic sounding. At the end of the session, I pulled
out my box of bell and wind instruments that I had built up to record (see the photo below) and for
about 26 min, I picked up and played each of my handbells, finger cymbals, 3-bar Bells, Flutes, Pan
Flutes and even my EchoHarp harmonica that Ive owned since I was probably 8 years old.
That 26 min of recording time turned out to be AMAZING. I was shocked how nicely everything played
even the flutes (which I suck at playing!!) After chopping up all of the guitar performances PLUS these
bell and wind samples, I had over 400 sounds and realized I couldnt create all of this in a single library
it would be too big. Too much work and it probably would not be done for MONTHS. So I split it into 2
volumes and this is the first of the two. This is MegaMagic: Bells/Winds and up next will be MegaMagic:

Strings/Synths. I plan to record some other source to add to the Guitar and synths Ive already gathered
for the next library to make it even more useful and varied!

I was happy to ask my PlugInGuru Voicing Team (LOL)

to work with me to make a bunch of bonus Signature
patches for the library. So Airwave, ExoSun, Kid Anthem,
Jason Schoepfer special guest programmer Mike
Babbit (his libraries sold at ilio.com are AMAZING and you
should look into them if you want more inspiring patches!)
and even my assistant Franklin Taylor Harris contributed
sounds for this library! The Signature patches are at the
end of the list and start with a z in the name so that they
are grouped together for easier locating.
So far, so good I gave myself a handful of days to space
out the final preparations for releasing this library (usually
its very last minute and Im uploading the final build right
after checking the tuning of every patch!) I had like, 4
days before I was going to release this I was CRUSING!
And then I had a conversation with a friend of mine named
Steve Tavaglione. Now, you might not know Steve by
name, but you do my music. He has played on so many
amazing films and TV shows and uses my patch libraries on
all of them (I not a fan of dropping names and bragging so
look him up on Google if you wanna see a rather
impressive resume of completed works). Anyway, I was telling him how excited I was with this new library
and that it has some decent wind samples performed by me in it (Steve is a WORLD CLASS woodwind
player so I was being very humble)

Then everything changed.

Steve says to me on Facebook Messenger:

THIS IS HUGE! AND DELAYED THE RELEASE OF THE LIBRARY

BY A DAY!! LOL

SO not only are all the wind and bell samples I recorded in
the library, there are also some very special bonus WIND_TV
samples performed by Steve Tavaglione. They add an amazing
extra level of depth to the library and Im thrilled to be able to
share this with you.

NOTE: Im making a special YouTube video showing how to use this library and this interface! LOTS of
cool tricks will be shared so make sure you watch to learn all the secrets of this library!

HOW THE SOUNDS ARE ORGANIZED:

In looking at how I could 1-Up my previous efforts, I made a conscious effort to include DRY versions
of the sampling session instruments so that you have these to play with and are not stuck with 12
seconds of reverb on everything. FURTHERMORE!! I have looped a bazillion sounds in my lifetime I
have killer tools and decided to LOOP virtually everything in this library. SO you have 3 versions of well
over of the sounds:
RVB = the MegaMagic Sound. Processed with Reverbs (more than one, up to 4!) and additional signal
processing to create big lush wide sounds for you to be inspired with!
DRY = The source that was fed into my DSP chains to make the RVB version.
LOOP = The RVB sound LOOPED with Redmaticas Keymap Pro and other tools to loop so you can use
as PADS (so this library is kind of a marriage of both Dreams and PADS in one library!).

Please read the installation instructions or watch the enclosed short video to see how to install this
library into each of the 4 plug-ins that this single library supports. If you still have questions AFTER
reading these instructions, you can always contact me at support@pluginguru.com. Im here to help if
needed!!

INSTALLTION for:

Kontakt 5.5
(full version required)
1) Unzip/Extract library the standard location that
Native Instruments puts these libraries is:
Mac HD / Users / Shared /
You dont have to put the library there, but that is the
usual location in OS X. I actually have most of my Kontakt
libraries on an external HD. If you do this, make sure you
have opened the options and added this new location to
the Database tab.

2) In Kontakt 5, this library will show up under the Files

tab just navigate to it on your computer and open the
Instruments folder and if you want to make it really easy,
double-click on one of the categories to display just the
patches in the bottom window.

3) QUICK ACCESS: The fastest and easiest way to load

ANY library in Kontakt 5 is with the Quick Access pop-up
window. Contro+Click anywhere on the right window area
and this window opens up. You can drag-n-drop from
your computer finder a complete library into here for
super-fast access to all the patches! Faster BY FAR than
even the Libraries window which you have to scroll down forever if you have lots of Kontakt 5 libraries.
The YouTube PlugInGuru video This is MegaMagic: Bells/Winds for Kontakt 5 will show you how to set
this up along with a ton of other tricks so make sure you watch it! Or search YouTube Kontakt 5 Quick
Access How to use to find lots of tutorials showing how to set up this important feature inside of
Kontakt 5.

ERROR MESSAGES & Batch ReSave

If you try to load a Kontakt instrument and get a SAMPLES ARE MISSING error message, that is
because the location of this library on YOUR computer doesnt match where it was located on MY
computer.
ALL of the necessary samples are here, its just that your computers directory names are different, so the
files are looking for the samples and thinking that MY computer folder names will be found. Chances are
they wont! So use Batch Re-Save to Re-Connect the samples and the files.
Instructions to perform a Batch re-save:
1)
2)
3)

In Kontakt 5, Click the Files button in the top menu, at the bottom of the list choose
Batch re-save.
It will warn you that files will be overwritten by this process just say OK, you know what
your doing :D
Navigate and select the MegaMacho Drums folder (you remember where you put it, right?) It will
start to search for files and then start to load the drum kits and re-connect them to the samples.
If an error message shows up, either select Search Spotlight on the Mac, or on PC you have to
actually navigate into MegaMacho Drums and locate the Samples Folder. Select that folder,
hit OK, and it should then take a couple minuets to re-save all of the files.

No more error messages!

Interface Features and Abilities:

This interface in Kontakt 5 has been around for a WHILE! I first used this in 2013 with the MegaMacho
Drums Drum sample/Kit library! I removed some features and weve re-skinned it and it was used for the
MegaMagic Dreams library and now, re-skinned again for the MegaMagic: Bells/Winds library. It has SO
MANY cool features and a very easy to use interface, so I have not felt compelled to change it.
The graphics below ARE FROM MEGAMACHO DRUMS so they will look different but they are the
same parameters and work the same way!

The 6 Effect Panels

This center EFFECT CONSOLE gives you access to a BUNCH of cool effects and abilities while taking
up minimal space! There are 6 different effects here some are DSP and some are note-retriggering
magic so read up on how to use these!

Distortion - allows you to apply guitar pedal type distortion to the samples. It
is currently set to Hi-Gain which can be too extreme for some application. If
you own the full version of Kontakt 5, you can edit this to be more like an
Overdrive type of distortion: Edit the Instrument (click the wrench icon), you
can double-click the effect box that says Jump and turn off the HiGain
button. You can also make the distortion mono here instead of stereo.

LoFi - changes Sample Rate and Bit Rate settings in real-time. Generally you
get more interesting sounds from lower sample rates with darker sounds that
have resonance. But everything sounds cool with LoFi on it. Noise and Color
are a noise generator that is able to add noise to the sound. Color is a Low
Pass filter cutoff parameter on the noise to make it a darker sound. Noise has
its own gate which stays open too long for me, but I dont see anyway to
change it.

Glitch - maybe the coolest effect in the toolkit! This is an internal note
repeating effect. Rate is variable from note all the way to 1/256th of a note!
Repeats determines how many times it repeats. Feedback when at a very low
setting causes the sound to decay out faster (its actually lowering the velocity
of each repeat so you can modify this with your filter and amp velocity
knobs). Tune allows you to set each successive repeat to increase or
decrease in pitch in semitone values from 1 semitone up to a full octave per

repeat. Start allows you to change the sample start position helpful for times when you dont want the
strong transient of a sample to be repeated.
NOTE: The Rate values are tied to the tempo of your song. If you are using the faster rates (1/64th, 1/128 and
1/256th) you can actually alter the pitch of these fast repeats by changing the tempo of your song. If you want a
certain pitch to your glitch, this is how to do that. Sample the glitch parts with the pitch you want, then re-set the
tempo back to what you want it to be and now trigger samples of the glitch.
NOTE: Start is nice for getting rid of strong transients as it moves the sample start location into the sample. AMP EG
Attack is also wonderful to use to get rid of the attack of a sample. Use the 2 together for even more control.

Compressor - This is Solid Bus Compressor that was added with Kontakt 5.
Native Instruments sells this as a separate 100.00 plug-in but its built into
Kontakt 5 and sounds awesome! Very snappy results designed for the entire
mix buss but works on select sounds as well. Bring up the Threshold to lower
the amount of compression applied.

Punch Transient Designer effect for shaping the attack in multiple ways.
You can use the Attack knob to bring up more or remove attack from a
sample. Sustain can either diminish the body or expand it like an expander
effect. Input to control the overall mix so you dont cause distortion to the
sound if you use extreme amounts of attack.

Solid EQ - The Solid EQ is another of the new effects that Native

Instruments has created into stand alone plug-ins. This EQ has 3 bands of
fully parameteric EQ. This means all 3 bands Freq range is from 20hz all the
way up to 20Khz. Width controls how wide a frequency range the EQ will
cover and Gain either adds or removes that bands EQ range from the sound.
Truly sweet sounding and can easily transform a single sound or an entire kit!

The Envelope Generators Panel

This is a very straight ahead set of Envelope Generators that give
you very nice control over certain aspects of the sound.
Amp EG - is for volume and has an additional H knob which
stands for Hold. Hold will hold the sound at max volume for a set
period of time before it goes to the decay segment. Especially
handy on drums and percussion where you dont want the sound to
start decaying immediately after impact in most cases.
Filter EG - a simple ADSR envelope. Intensity INT is only a
positive value and you wont hear anything from the Filter EG unless
the Filter Cutoff knob is turned down some and the Filter EG INT
knob is turned up. The F Velocity Knob (explained below) also
needs to be turned down if you want the sound to only be affected
by the envelope.
Pitch EG This is a very special Pitch EG. We decided to set it up
to do +/- 3 octaves of pitch EG when at its maximum values in
order go get this, we stacked the same modulation source multiple
times to increase the pitch range. This way you can do some very
radical things with pitch using this Pitch EG. The INT intensity knob is bi-polar so 12:00 = no pitch EG
while values to the Left take the pitch starting point down, values to the Right, take the pitch starting
point up. Make sure you watch the MegaMacho Drums Video Owners Manual Part 2 to see some
examples of how to use Pitch EG.

Velocity Control
At the very last hours of developing this library, I contacted Aaron and said, Dude, we have to add
velocity control knobs to the top interface! Then I contacted JMart and said Dude, I need graphics
in the bottom Right corner for 3 knobs that Im sticking there! and in a short day or two, we did
it!!

See, I found that I needed to change these knobs all the time depending on a specific application and
if they were not at the top of the user interface, then Kontakt 5 Player guys wouldnt be able to
access these critical knobs. Im thinking all the time about you guys that are using the Kontakt 5
player to make sure you have TONS of control over the drum samples!!

The A knob controls Amp (or volume) by velocity amount. The higher it is, the more the
volume will change by different velocity settings. Drums get quite a lot louder when this
knob is turned to 0, so watch the output level!

The F knob controls the velocity sensitivity to the Filter cutoff setting. This knob needs
to be turned down if you want the filter to reach its lower settings. In otherwords, if you
have filter cutoff knob turned all the way down, the filter cutoff will still be high if this
knob is being used to control filter velocity.

The D knob controls the value of the Amp Envelope Decay settings. This is an awesome knob. Set
Your Amp EG Decay at about 55% and then the D knob at max and now soft velocities will play the
sound with a very short snappy EG while harder velocities will play the full sample. So you can use
this on hihats or percussion to get a wide range of decay sounds just by playing with soft to hard
velocites.

Note: The Glitch feedback knobs effectiveness is tied directly to the Filter and Amp velocity senvitivity
setting. Set them at very high settings and the Glitch feedback can be a lot more dramatic when the
Feedback knob is at very small values.

The Delay and 2 Convolution Reverbs

The final element of the MegaMagic Interface is the Delay and 2 reverbs that are included in
the interface. Simply click on the words Delay, ToneVerb or AmbiVerb to have the
parameter list to the right change to show you the parameters for that particular effect.
Note: One word of advice it to realize that bringing up the sliders is ADDING volume to the existing loud
drum samples. So you can overdrive the outputs of Kontakt 5 very easily if you bring up all 3 sliders along
with the drum Output being up high.
Note: If you noticed, there isnt a wet/dry mix knob for any of these effects. You have to approach these
effects with a different concept. Dry signal level is the Output volume while the Wet Signal level are these
3 sliders.

The Delay is a pretty basic digital delay. Sync button determines whether the time knob
is free or syncd to host. Damp is a filter that darkens the filter taps. Width allows you to
vary the taps from mono to 100% L/R altering taps. Feed is feedback for the delay taps.
Note: The Delay is configured before both of the reverbs. This can cause some cool contrasts with the
reverbd versions of the sounds.

ToneVerb is a convolution reverb with a bunch of convolution presets that are designed
more to alter the tone of the sounds (instead of being an ambient reverb). Between
orchestra and band hits, to synth hits, sub bass impacts and noise sweeps, these custom
presets can totally transform the drum kits in a TON of fun ways.

AmbiVerb is slightly more traditional reverb types that can help put the drum kits into
unique environments. There are reverbs anywhere from 0.2 seconds all the up to 13
seconds!
Both reverbs share the same parameters but are different for each effect settings-wise:
IR Size - allows you to change the length of time the reverb lasts. 100% is at the middle
position while raising the knob makes the playback longer while lowering the knob below
100% makes the playback shorter.
Pre-Delay adds a gap of time before the reverb takes effect. Reverb with a slight amount
of pre-delay can make a reverb seem like a larger environment.
HPF and LPF are filters for shaping what frequency range is allowed to be influenced by
the reverb. Bringing up HPF removes low end from the reverb while LPF removes high
end as you bring the knob down.

FINAL NOTES:
It is really satisfying to design a library and think about making it work in more than one plug-in format. I
want as many of you guys to have access to these sounds as possible. I hope you find boatloads of
inspiration in these sounds and enjoy using this interface.
Special thank you to Matt Chowski for the awesome graphics and for Aaron Frensley for being the
genius Kontakt 5 scripting guru that created the original MegaMacho Drums interface and has helped
me convert these into MegaMagic Dreams and MegaMagic: Bells/Winds. I couldnt have made this
anywhere as cool without their help!
Enjoy all the lovely magical sounds and thank you thank you to each of you for your continued support !
- John Skippy Lehmkuhl
July 6, 2016
PS Please carefully read these instructions again or check the videos Ive posted at YouTube before
contacting me for help. The answers should be enclosed for most problems!