Precisionsound Sonic Laboratory User Manual

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How Sonic Laboratory is organised

Sonic Laboratory is structured so that it is easy to find the kind of sound you want. The files are sorted

into 9 folders by category, and each file has a unique descriptive name to indicate its character.

The Sonic Laboratory files are intended primarily to be placed on the audio timeline of your music

sequencer or video editor, rather than played with a sampler. Files are normalised to -0.5db, with no

limiting applied. This gives you the flexibility to change the dynamics to suit your mix.

The included sampler programs are for easy auditioning of sounds, with one program for each category

of sounds (two in the case of the largest category, ‘Reversed’), and one sound on each note from C1

upwards. If a category contains more sounds that you have notes on your MIDI keyboard, please use

your keyboard’s transpose function to access all the sounds within a category.

Audio files in Sonic Laboratory are between 1-44 seconds in length. The sounds in each sampler program

are mapped by duration, with the longest sounds on the lowest notes, and the shortest sounds on the

highest notes. (In the case of ‘Reversed’, the sounds get progressively shorter from the bottom of

program 1 to the top of program 2). This enables you to find quickly a sound to fit a cue in music or film.

For more information about the programs for Kontakt 3 and 4, please see below.

Categories

Hits

• 32 sounds

• Short, one-shot percussive sounds with a fast attack, mostly in atmospheric ambiences

• Sampler programs mapped from C1-G3

Mechanical hybrid

• 74 sounds

• Short to medium length sounds, generally percussive, suggestive of realistic or surreal

contraptions in motion

• Sampler programs mapped from C1-C#7

Organic hybrid

• 50 sounds

• Short to medium length sounds, generally percussive, reminiscent of real or imaginary creatures

and plants

• Sampler programs mapped from C1-C#5