Cube is a collection of 521 glitchy, crunchy, office-supplies-based percussive samples - along with

FX, stingers, risers, and lush ambient pads. Each sound has been designed using carefully selected
sources like paper crunches, snapping pencils, fax machines, water coolers, paper cups, and all kinds
of other office-related sounds. From the rattling of your last few anxiety pills, the evil clanging of
your possessed time-clock, to luscious dreamy pads (imagining an escape from your personal cubicle
hell), Cube has got you covered for your next game score, hot track, or quirky animation.
Our custom scripted Kontakt user interface comes equipped with flexible control features, like at-
tack, release, transient start offset, dynamic swelling, pitch warping, and a robust Arpeggiator system
that provides a full range of custom dynamic modes and step sequencer pattern creation options.
There’s also a complete DSP effects rack, including reverb with over a hundred life-like spaces, such
as cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms, pianos and a variety of
other unique FX convolution impulse responses.

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1.0

• 15 powerful open-format Kontakt .nki instrument presets

• 521 Samples
• 390 MB Installed
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format
• Flexible and intuitive user interface controls
• Convolution reverb with a variety of different room, hall and special effect acoustic environments.
• Configurable FX Rack with custom signal routing
Note: The full version of Kontakt 5.5.2 or later is required for all instrument presets in this library.
The free Kontakt “Player” and Libraries rack do not support this library. Windows 7 (or later) or OSX
10.8 (or later) is required.

CREDITS
Sound Design Instrument Programming
Spencer Nunamaker Spencer Nunamaker, Mike Peaslee

Editing Artwork
Spencer Nunamaker Spencer Nunamaker, Chris Marshall,
Mike Peaslee, Gregg Stephens
Scripting and Systems Design
Chris Marshall Documentation
Spencer Nunamaker

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT - Page 1
OVERVIEW & CREDITS - Page 2
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS - Page 3
USER INTERFACE - Pages 4
ARPEGGIATOR - Pages 5 - 6
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INSTRUMENT PRESETS - Page 7
DSP FX RACK - Pages 8 - 12
LICENSING AGREEMENT - Page 13
ABOUT - Page 14

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 System Requirements
All of the sample content is included as standard open PCM wav files to allow you easy access to
manipulate, reprogram and customize the sounds however you wish.

If you wish to use the optional Kontakt “nki” instrument presets, you’ll need to own the full retail
version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or later. Please be aware that the free Kontakt “Player”
is not a full retail version of Kontakt and does not support this library. Please read all instrument specs
and software requirements before purchasing this or any other Soundiron products to see the full list of
software requirements, features and format compatibility for each library. You must have at least
Windows version 7 or later, or Apple OSX 10.8 or later.

Many instrument presets in this library are extremely system resource intensive. We highly recommend
that you have a 64-bit operating system (Windows or OSX) with at least 3GB of system ram, a multi-
core cpu and a 7200 rpm SATA or SSD hard disk before purchasing this particular Soundiron library.
Large sample sets like those found in this library may load slowly and may cause system instability on
some machines.

Kontakt Preset Loading

Once installation is complete, you can browse and load the included .nki presets using the Files, Quick
Load or Database tabs in the Kontakt Browser, or through the main File load/save menu. Launch
Kontakt as a virtual instrument plugin inside your host sequencer or in stand-alone mode.

Please allow any current preset to finish loading completely before loading a new one. You can’t use
the Libraries view to load standard open-format Kontakt Instruments like this library. Only locked
“Powered-By-Kontakt” Libraries are visible to that propriety browser view.

The “Add-Library” function does not support this product or any other open-format Kontakt library.
This library doesn’t require any additional activation or unlocking process.

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 KONTAKT INTERFACE
Each preset features a variety of controls. To assign any interactive control knob, button or the Sound Selection
Menu to a midi CC, you can right-click the control (command-click on OSX) and select the “Learn MIDI CC#
Automation” button that appears. Then move your desired midi hardware control to link it. To assign the control
to a host automation ID, use the “Auto” automation routing window in the left side Kontakt browser area to drag
-drop an automation routing number onto the control you wish to lock it to.

Attack Warp Mode Button

This controls the attack envelope shape, allowing you to The Warp Mode button above the knob controls the
soften or fade in at the start of the note. starting pitch on playback and whether the pitch moves up/
down toward the natural sample pitch during the bend, or
up/down away from it. The Warp feature is only found in
Release
the main “All Effects” preset.
This controls the release fade-out time. Low settings
shorten the sound. High settings let notes ring out. Swell
This knob controls the volume of the instrument, allowing
Edge you to smoothly crescendo and decrescendo in real-time.
This sets the amount of sample start offset, moving the
trigger position later into the sound file. Use a low Edge Sound Selection Drop-Down Menu
setting to tighten the initial transient of the note, or use This menu lets you select from the sounds included in each SOUNDIRON
higher settings to create a more pad-like effect. preset. In the main LO preset, the menu lets you choose
different styles and categories of sounds. Each sound
Filter within a bank is an unpitched percussion sample mapped
This knob controls the cutoff frequency for the integrated to a single key. In the Tuned Banks presets, each menu
item loads a single sound mapped as a pitched instrument
filter. You can choose the filter mode/type by clicking the
over a wide key range, allowing you to play it as a musical
Filter menu below the knob. After choosing a new filter instrument.
type in the menu, the label will briefly display the filter
name before returning to it’s normal menu label. Performance & FX Rack Tabs
Click the FX Rack tab at the bottom of the screen to open
Warp the full DSP FX rack, with reverb, delay, phaser, flanger,
This knob adds a pitch warping effect, either up or down, amp and cab simulation, distortion and more. See page 13
to or from the natural root pitch of each sample. This for details. Clicking the Performance tab takes you back
allows for dramatic pitch dive and swoop effects, which are
great for dramatic stabs and stingers, drops and other to this main page.
musical transitions. The Warp feature is only found in the
main “All Effects” preset. In all other presets, the Jitter ARP Controls
4 variable modulator effect replaces it. All of the Arpeggiator controls are on the next page.
 ARPEGGIATOR

Arpeggiator Sec on
This secon controls our arpeggiaon system, with inte-
grated velocity step sequencer, a variety of cycle and re-
peater direcon opons, step count, note divisions, sus-
tain length, humanizaon and swing.

ARP Direction Selector Menu

This menu turns on the Arpeggiator and selects the pattern you want
the Arpeggiator to cycle through. When a pattern is selected, the
instrument with cycle through all notes that are held down according
to the chosen pattern. This menu can be assigned to midi CC
automation by right-clicking on the menu’s label.
Off Up Down
• Off - Turns off arpeggiation completely.
• Up - Cycles up through the notes, from lowest to highest.
• Down - Cycles down from highest to lowest.
• Up-Down - Cycles up and down, from lowest to highest and
back down again.
• Down-Up - Cycles down and up, from highest to lowest and
back up again. Up-Down Down-Up EZ Roll
• EZ-Roll - Repeats all held notes together simultaneously.
• Random - Randomizes note selection between any currently
held notes.
• As-Played - Plays through the notes in the order they were
originally played.
Random As Played

Note Length Selector Menu

This menu sets the duration of each arpeggiated note. Each new note
in the arpeggiation will begin after the previous one ends, so smaller
note lengths equal faster arpeggiations. This menu can be assigned to
midi CC automation by right-clicking on the menu’s label.
Quarter Triplet 8th
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• Quarter Note
• Triplet
• 8th Note
• 8th Note Triplet
• 16th Note
8th Triplet 16th 16th Triplet
• 16th Note Triplet

Velocity Graph On/Off Button

Pressing this button will enable the Velocity Step Sequencer and
display the Sequencer window on the left side of the GUI. When
turned on, the velocity/volume of each arpeggiated note will follow
the step sequence drawn on the graph. When turned off, arpeggiated
notes will use your originally played velocities. Velocity Graph On/Off
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Mode menu
This menu controls the Arpeggiator mode. Choosing Off disables
the Arp system entirely.
Normal
• Normal sets it to run the arpeggiation only while a note is
being held down, cycling through all held notes.
• Hold this mode will continuously sustain the arpeggiation
pattern until a new key or chord is played, at which point the Hold
arpeggiation will switch to the new notes you’ve pressed.
• Hold +- this mode will continuously sustain the arpeggiation,
with the ability to add and remove notes from the pattern. To
add a note, play any key. To remove that note from the pattern,
simply press that same note again. Hold + -

Step Sequencer Table

Use this graph to draw midi note velocities for the arpeggiation
being played. Each note played will advance the step sequencer by
one and it will loop back around when it reaches the end. Use the
Number field below it to add or subtract the number of steps in the
playback sequence.
Velocity Graph

Number Of Steps
Use the Up or Down arrow buttons or type in the number of steps
you want the Step Sequencer Table to cycle through. You can have
as few as 2 steps or as many as 32.
Number Of Steps

Save Table Sequence

Save your custom sequences as nka presets by pressing this disk
icon button. Then use the browser window to select the location
you wish to save your preset to. We recommend using the “Data”
folder.
Save Load
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Load Table Sequence
Load your previously saved custom step sequences (nka presets) by
pressing this folder icon button. Then use the browser window to
locate your previously saved presets

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 INSTRUMENT PRESETS FOR KONTAKT
Cube - 01 - Designed Kits.nki
Several curated "drum kits" using the Designed drums together in a convenient preset bank. This is
perfect for EDM, Electro and Hip Hop drums.

Cube - 02 - Acoustic Kits.nki

Several curated "drum kits" using the Acoustic ’drum’ sounds together in a convenient preset bank.
This is perfect for EDM, Electro and Hip Hop drums.

Cube - 03 - All Effects.nki

This main .nki preset in this library includes all of the individual Effects in one interface, with a full set
of intuitive and flexible control features.

Cube - 04 - All Ambiences.nki

This main .nki preset in this library includes all of the 12 ambient pads and atmospheres one bank, with
easy sound-shaping control features. The Warp pitch-bending feature is not included in these presets.
Instead, you’ll find the Jitter variable modulation control, which acts as a sort of extreme tremolo
effect to add an almost ring–mod level of wavering grittiness.

EFFECTS SUB-CATEGORY PRESETS

These .nki presets each focus on a single bank of sound effects, with the ability to play each sound indi-
vidually as a pitched instrument over the whole chromatic key range. The Warp pitch-bending feature is
not included in these presets. Instead, you’ll find the Jitter variable modulation control, which acts as an
extreme tremolo effect to add an almost ring–mod level of wavering grittiness.

Cube - FX - 01 - Acoustic 1: Cube - FX - 08 - Robots 2:

Various acoustic effects, crunches, rips, tears, OK these machines are DEFINITELY alive, and
pops. plotting their next move.

Cube - FX - 02 - Acoustic 2: Cube - FX - 09 - Timewarp:

Even more various acoustic effects, crunches, The sound of future-you traveling back in time to
rips, tears, pops. stop you from taking this awful office job.

Cube - FX - 03 - Anxiety Pills A: Cube - FX - 10 - Trash Ball:

Sounds based on the rattling sound of your last The sounds of trying to get stuff in that trash can
few Anxiety meds. in the corner, in the perfect shot.
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Cube - FX - 04 - Filing: Cube - FX - 11 - Watercooler:
Sounds of slamming, sliding, banging, whamming. The sounds of drippy-drips and paper cups.

Cube - FX - 05 - Insects:
The sound of the bugs crawling under your skin.

Cube - FX - 06 - Machines:
The unceasing clamoring of the evil office ma-
chines plotting to kill you.

Cube - FX - 07 - Robots 1:
Its as if these machines are coming alive… very
unsettling robot effects.
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 DSP EFFECTS RACK
The FX Rack tab gives you direct access to most of Kontakt’s built-in effects. This panel is accessible in all presets by click-
ing on the FX Rack tab at the bottom of the instrument UI. Signal flows from left to right in each row and goes down from
there. To change the effect loaded into any specific rack module, click on the down arrow menu in its top left corner.

EQ
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Low, Mid and Hi Frequency Gain - Use these sliders to

adjust the level of the low, mid and high EQ bands.

Low, Mid and Hi Frequency - These knobs control the

center frequency of the low, mid and high frequency EQ
bands.

CHORUS
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Synch - This button synchronizes the rate to your BPM.

Rate - This controls modulation rate. In synch mode, it

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Depth - This knob controls the depth of the chorus sweep.
changes the time signature by common note divisions.
Mix - This adjusts the wet/dry output mix.
Phase - This knob controls the phase.

TAPE SATURATOR
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Gain - This knob controls the amount of gain added.

Warm - This knob allows you to add tonal warmth Volume - This knob controls the overall output level.
Rolloff - This knob controls the high frequency attenuation.

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JUMP
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Boost - This boosts the incoming signal strength.

Drive - This knob controls the amount of gain added. Low, Mid & High - These knobs control the low, mid and
high frequency gain
Tone - This shapes tone brightness.
Volume - This sets the overall output volume.

DISTORTION
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Drive - This knob controls the amount of gain added.

Damping - This shapes tone brightness.

Volume - This sets the overall output volume.

DELAY
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Synch - This button synchronizes the rate to your BPM.

Pan - This knob controls the left-right ping pong effect.
Rate - This controls the echo rate. In synch mode, it chang-
es time signature by note divisions.
Feedback - This knob controls delay loop feedback
Damping - This knob controls high frequency roll-off
Mix - This adjusts the wet/dry output mix.

REVERB
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Type menu - This menu selects the environment category.

Lopass - This knob controls high frequency roll-off.
Impulse Menu - This menu selects the impulse response.
Hipass - This knob controls low frequency cut-off
Size - This knob controls the reflection decay time.
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Mix - This adjusts the wet/dry output mix.

AMP
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Drive - This knob controls the amount of gain added.

Bass, Mid & Treble - These knobs control the low, mid
and high frequency gain

Volume - This sets the overall output volume.

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TRANSIENT MASTER
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Attack - This knob controls the amount of signal boost or

cut for the note attack transient.
Gain - This knob controls the amount of gain added to the
Sustain - This knob controls the sustain volume following a output signal.
transient, shaping the fullness of the sound.

CABINET
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Size - Use this knob to adjust the simulated size of the

speaker cabinet.
Treble & Bass - Use these knobs to adjust the level of the
Air - Use this knob to adjust the simulated distance be- low and high EQ bands.
tween the speaker and the microphone.
Output - This sets the overall output volume.

FILTER
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Type - This menu lets you select from dozens of low pass,
high pass, band pass, notch, ladder and other filter types.
Resonance/Sharpness - This controls the amount of reso-
Cutoff/Talk - This controls the filter cutoff and/or peak nance added at the cutoff or peak node.
frequency.
Gain/Size - This controls signal pass-through level.

FLANGER
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Synch - This button synchronizes the rate to your BPM.

Rate - Controls mod rate, in milliseconds or note divisions. Phase - This knob controls the phase.
Feedback - This adjusts the amount of feedback. Depth - This knob controls the depth of the sweep. SOUNDIRON

COMPRESSOR
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Threshold - This adjusts the signal threshold needed before

compression is applied.
Release - This knob controls the release speed once signal
Ratio - This controls the ratio of gain added or removed drops below the threshold.
based on the incoming signal level above the threshold.
Makeup - This adjusts the wet/dry output mix.
Attack - This controls the compressor attack speed once
signal exceeds the threshold

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LO FI
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Bits - This sets the amount of bit depth reduction.

Noise - This knob adjusts tone brightness and apparent
Sample Rate - This sets the sample rate reduction.
fidelity.
Noise - This knob adds noise to the signal.
Output - This sets the overall output volume.

PHASER
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Synch - This button synchronizes the rate to your BPM.

Rate - Controls mod rate, in milliseconds or note divisions. Phase - This knob controls the phase.
Feedback - This adjusts the amount of feedback. Depth - This knob controls the depth of the sweep.

ROTATOR
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Speed - This button toggles between fast & slow speaker

cabinet rotation speeds.
Air - Use this knob to adjust the simulated distance be-
Size - Use this knob to adjust the simulated size of the tween the speaker and the microphone.
speaker cabinet.
Output - This sets the overall output volume.

SKREAMER
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Drive - This knob controls the amount of gain added.

Tone - This sets the overall signal tone. Clean - This sets the amount of clean signal pass-through.
Bass & Bright - These control low & high frequency gain Output - This sets the overall output volume. SOUNDIRON

STEREO MODEL
Power Button - Toggles the effect on and off.

Synch - This button synchronizes the rate to your BPM.

Rate - This controls modulation rate. In synch mode, it Depth - This knob controls the depth of the chorus sweep.
changes the time signature by common note divisions.
Mix - This adjusts the wet/dry output mix.
Phase - This knob controls the phase.

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SAVING & LOADING PRESETS

Select Preset - This menu lets you select from any of the factory presets or any presets you’ve created.

Save - Once you’ve customized your FX chain, you can save it for later use in this rack by pressing the Save button.

Delete - Use this button to delete the currently selected custom preset. Factory presets can’t be deleted.

Reset - This unloads all effects and resets the entire FX rack to its default state.

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Soundiron is a virtual instrument and sound library developer founded in 2011. The studio is based in
the San Francisco Bay area, owned and operated by a dedicated team of sound artists and programmers.
We are driven every day to capture all of the sonic flavors this world has to offer and bring them to you
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