Epic Pig Guiro

produced by Luca Capozzi (Progsounds / Audiority), February 2012.

Welcome to the Audiority Epic Pig Guiro

This little smiley wooden pig is an hybrid between a temple block and a guiro, a Latin-
American percussion instrument. It could be hit on its body or rubbed on top notches to
produce a ratchet sound. This is a very common instrument with a real hidden power.

We had fun trying to make this tiny pig being a hero: using different mallets, unusual
objects and twisted sound design, we produced 25 cinematic instruments between
organic sounds, rhythmic loops, pads and SFX. This piggy will be a great companion for
your next epic trailer scoring.

Please, read carefully both product specifications and system requirements before
purchasing any Audiority products.

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Epic Pig Guiro
produced by Audiority, February 2012.

Credits
Concept, recording, editing, programming and scripting by Luca Capozzi
Published under Audiority brand by Progsounds di Luca Capozzi
Copyright © 2012 – Progsounds di Luca Capozzi – All rights reserved.

Specifications
25 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
196 samples (.WAV - 44.1KHz / 24 bit)
88MB Installed
Performance controls
Note: Full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5+ is required.

Installation
Uncompress the downloaded .rar file in your favourite Sample Libraries folder. Kontakt patches are stored in
Instruments folder. Please, remember to keep both files and folder structures or Kontakt will pop-up an error
message asking for missing files. In that case, all samples are store into Samples folder.
If you don't have any program to handle .rar archives, here's a couple of links:
WinRAR for Microsoft Windows
UnRarX for Mac OSX

Bear in mind that you need FULL version of Kontakt 3.5 or upper in order to load this library properly.
Kontakt Player is not supported.
You can use the Files or Database tabs to load our .nki files. Since this is a standard open-format library, you
cannot load it under Library tab of Kontakt browser. This section will only load locked “Powered by Kontakt”
libraries and the “Add Library” command will not work with this product.

System Requirements
Even if this is a small package, we recommend that you have at least 4GB of RAM, a dual-core CPU and a fast
hard drive (7200rpm SATA II or higher) before purchasing this or any sampled Audiority product. We also
suggest an audio driver latency of 512 or more for best performance.

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About the Guiro
The idea behind this library is the challenge to get
cinematic sounds out of a tiny and very limited musical
instrument.
The Guiro, a Latin-American percussion instrument, is
perfect for that: a small wooden block with notches
that can only be hit or rubbed.
This particular Guiro is even thougher, since it's small
and round, so there aren't many options for different
hits or other crazy stuff that you could try on an
instrument. So we took various mallets – for bass
drums, taiko, timpani, even piano hammers – and
recorded several hits with an average of three dynamic
levels.
Moreover, we also tried with unusual objects such as
rubber blocks, finger nails and so on, hitting and
rubbing the poor pig to get more sounds out of it. The
result is a small yet useful library where you will find
both organic (hits & rubs) and designed sounds.
We also tailored some loops out of live playing: thanks
to Kontakt Beat Machine mode, you'll be able to play
them in any tempo and tune.
It's very cool how this wooden block will sound like a
drum tom, a dark pad, an organ (!) or even a powerful
sub bass percussion.
We hope you will enjoy Epic Pig Guiro as much as we
enjoyed making it.
Happy playing!

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Performance Controls

We added some useful controls to let you futher shape the sound of this library. There are three main
sections: one for processing effects, a couple of resonant filters and ambience effects.

FX Section

Skreamer
A good sounding overdrive useful to add character to
the sound. The Drive knob controls the distortion
amount; Tone knob will enhance some frequencies;
Clean knob adds unprocessed signal to the distorted
sound.

Lo-Fi
Sample and bit reducer, very useful for harsh digital
distortions. The S.Rate knob sets the sample rate
reduction, while Bits knob sets the bit reduction. A
good combination of those gives you a digital hell.
The Noise knob injects a background noise to your
instrument.

Stereo Modeller
This effect will spread the signal frequencies through
the stereo panorama. Spread knob controls the
spread amount. Negative values will spread an
inverted copy of the sound. The Pan knob is used to
balance the signal between stereo channels.

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Filters Section

This section provides a coulpe of 4-pole resonant

filters to shape both low and high end of the sound.
Use Cutoff knobs to set the center frequency of filters
and Resonance knob to boost frequencies around the
Cutoff. Be careful, since filters with high resonance
values will start to self-oscillate producing a sine-like
tone.

Ambience Section

Delay
This section provides a tempo-synced delay with Time
control, Feedback and Return gain control. Time knob
is a divider of a 1/16 note, so a value of 2.0 means an
1/8 note, a value of 4.0 means a 1/4 note and so on.

Reverb
The old good metallic Kontakt reverb. You can control
the Pre Delay signal, room Size and Return gain.

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Instruments

Organic Sounds
These sounds are unprocessed Guiro recordings. This is the natural sound of this instrument, hit with
different mallets. All sounds has been untracked and mapped C3-B3 to allow live playing.

BD Mallet / (3 velocity layers; 8x round-robin) Samba Beater / (3 velocity layer; 5x round-robin)

Hard bass drum mallet, covered by thick leather. Another hard mallet, covered with felt

Fingered / (2 velocity layers; 8x round-robin) Wood Hit / (3 velocity layer; 8x round-robin)

Fingertips and slaps Wooden stick provided with the instrument

Fingernails / (1 velocity layer; 16x round-robin) Wood Rub Down / (3 velocity layer; 8x round-robin)
Tiny ticks using nails Downward rubbing with wooden stick

Muted / (1 velocity layer; 11x round-robin) Wood Rub Up / (3 velocity layer; 8x round-robin)
The guiro has been firmly hold and hit with a soft Upward rubbing with wooden stick
mallet

Piano Mallet / (1 velocity layer; 8x round-robin)

Various piano hammers

Rhythmic Loops
Live recordings powered by Beat Machine. Sounds are mapped to full keyboard extension.

Down in the Hole VEL / (2 velocity layers) Rhythm Loop 1 – 8 / (single velocity layers)
Use high velocity for switching to a faster loop Various rhythmic loops

Designed
Processed samples for unnatural and twisted sounds

Boom / (2x round-robin) Long Curly Tail / (single velocity layer)

Epic percussion with a lot of sub-bass power. Long airy pad. Hold down a note for several seconds.

Bowed Squeal / (single velocity layer) Space Rub / (single velocity layer)
Strange squeaking pad. Creepy ambient effect.

Galaxy Chimes Rev / (8x round-robin) Voice / (single velocity layer)

Cinematic transition effect with very long release. Rhythmic tribal-like ghost voice.

HAM Organ MW / (single velocity layer)

A nice sounding organ sound. ModWheel adds upper
harmonics.

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Thank You
We wanna thank you for buying Audiority Epic Pig Guiro
sample library.

We hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.

If you have any question, concerns, technical issues or even

for just say 'Hello', get in touch with us at:

info@audiority.com

or checkout our site at www.audiority.com

Cheers,
Luca

Copyright © 2012 – Progsounds di Luca Capozzi – All rights reserved.