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USER MANUAL
“a great musical instrument inspires musicians
to be creative in ways that were impossible before”
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INTRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS
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Thank you! Supported Formats
Welcome to the world of synthetic Supports Mac OSX and PC
guitars! Windows OS
Supports 64bit Platforms
We would like to thank you for
purchasing one of our fine musical Supports AAX, VST3, VST2
instruments! and AU plugin formats
Supports Pro Tools, Cubase,
Garage Band, Sonar, Logic
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Pro and other DAW
About Us container applications
We are an innovative company with
a mission to deliver authentic OC
software guitar sound synthesis. Hardware
We enable musicians to create
mouse click perfect guitar parts with Minimum
professional sound quality. CPU: 2.5 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
Our software musical instruments HDD: 5 GB
are equally well suited for live on-
stage performances as well as Recommended
studio recordings. CPU: 3.0 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
HDD: 5 GB
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FEATURES
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Scream Harmonics Neck Play Position
Pinch harmonics can be blended
into the main tone by using the Identical notes are available on
MOD wheel controller on your multiple different frets on a guitar
keyboard. neck and they all sound different.
This is why we provide you with the
Making your scream tone authentic option to choose the proper neck
and in-tune! mapping for your sound
preferences.
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Guitar Riffs Palm Muting
“Earl Gray” synth is designed for Palm muting is a popular technique
playing guitar riffs and solos. It among guitarists to achieve the cool
features customizable pitch “Dzj Dzj” sound. You can achieve it
bending, solo/multi polyphony and by pressing the sustain pedal.
note attack settings.
The “punch mute” option simulates
the initial string punching sound if
you press the sustain pedal while a
note is already sounding.
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distortion, flanger, etc.) because the
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clean DI sound is dull.
How are we different?
You can start with software guitar
effects like TH3 and Guitar Rig.
At the heart of our massive and
authentic tone is our proprietary If you need professional sound we
“Synthetic Force Engine”. recommend the Kepmer or Axe FX.
Sampled sounds on their own do We recommend digital guitar effects
not sound like the real guitar because reamping an analog signal
instrument. Harmonic resonances reduces the sound quality.
are different for each different
combination of notes. This is why OC
our “Synthetic Force Engine” Fully Customizable
combines pre-sampled waveforms
with real-time synthesized sounds.
Adjustable Neck vs Bridge pickup
mix percentage
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Customizable velocity mapping of
No Built in Effects your keyboard
Customizable behavior of your
sustain pedal
Matcha comes without any effects
on board. We focused our efforts on Play extrapolated notes outside
synthesizing the perfect DI guitar the guitar neck
sound ready to be pumped into any Customizable pitch bender for
BEND or SLIDE the notes over
existing 3rd party guitar effects gear. semitone intervals
To play the “Matcha” synth you’re
going to need lots of third party
effects (tube amp, delay, chorus,
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Under the Hood
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Download
Studio Sampled Waveforms
96 KHz, 24bit, Uncompressed You can find a download link to the
It took us an insane amount of product installation in your
crafting to sample the world’s most purchase email. It is different for
iconic custom-made guitars (the MAC and PC.
exact customizations are our trade OC
secret) with the best possible (to Installation
date) sound equipment.
Make sure your OS account has
administrative privileges before you
launch the installation.
Real-Time Synthesized Sounds During installation you can choose
Internal 64bit double precision to install all different plugin formats
or exclude the ones not relevant to
We simulate the string resonance in your environment.
real-time to synthesize the right
harmonics and blend them into the HINT: For best performance we
main studio sampled tone. recommend installing on a SSD
drive. Installing “Matcha” on a
This is our unique way to preserve slower HDD is ok and will not impact
the authentic guitar timbre. the sound quality – only the initial
plugin loading times.
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OC SETTINGS
Activation
You need to activate your product
copy after the installation. You will OC
be prompted to enter: Volume Controls
- The email you used to purchase The master volume
the product works like the guitar’s
volume knob.
- The PRODUCT-KEY you received
by email
PRODUCT-KEYs are personal with a You can use the GAIN
limited number of activations. slider to adjust the output
level or you could connect
an external volume pedal.
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Telemetry
To improve our product, we might OC
collect telemetry data. It includes Mute
product settings, environment
configuration and crash reports. You can mute the
guitar sound with the
We do not collect any personal sustain pedal.
data.
It takes time to master this
OC technique, similarly to the palm
Updates muting on a real guitar instrument.
“Matcha” will prompt you at startup
to download and install new
updates when they are released.
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used with keyboards from different
Sustain Pedal manufacturers.
The behavior of
If you bump into this inconvenience
the sustain pedal
you can invert the sustain pedal
can be changed.
behavior by clicking on this icon:
The HOLD option makes the sustain OC
pedal hold all pressed notes until Picking Behaviour
you release it (like on a piano).
Auto AI: Predict the correct picking
The HOLD behavior is not much direction (up or down) based on the
useful for guitar parts so we tempo of playing, neck position and
introduced the MUTE option where velocity of the previously played
the notes will sound muted while notes.
the sustain pedal is pressed.
Down/Up: Always down/up picking.
The PUNCH MUTE option works like
MUTE but if you press the sustain Alternate: Start with down and then
pedal while a note is playing it will keep alternating - up, down, up, etc.
silent the note with a muted sound
(like on a guitar). The PUNCH MUTE OC
is our favorite behavior. Status Badges
These badges show the current
HINT: Try the PUNCH MUTE option
settings you are using.
with distortion effects.
The default badge color is black.
Normally, the sustain pedal should
They turn red when you run in sub-
be activated when pressed and
optimal settings like sample rates
deactivated when released. Some
below 96 kHz or in a 32bit DAW
pedals might be reversed when
container, etc.
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won’t go beyond this limit while
Harmonics playing live. You can experiment
with settings from 50% to 80%.
A major difference between guitars
and keyboards is that guitarists have
The lower slider controls (in %) the
direct access to their strings and are
amount of harmonic tone when
able to play additional (also called
MOD WHEEL controller is all the
artificial or pinch) harmonics into
way down. You can experiment with
their main guitar tone. This
percentages from 0% to 30% to
technique is widely used by
always blend a smaller amount of
guitarists to achieve “screaming”
harmonics to all notes.
sounds in solos and riffs.
While playing live you can adjust the
Our “Synthetic Force Engine” is
harmonic mix (with the MOD
capable of synthesizing artificial
WHEEL controller) in the range
harmonic sounds so you can blend
bound by the two sliders.
them into the main guitar tone with
the MOD WHEEL controller of your
keyboard.
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MOD Wheel Pitch Bend
You can blend artificial This slider adjusts the PITCH
(pinch) harmonics into the BEND interval in semitones.
main guitar tone by using
the MOD WHEEL controller The same interval works for
on your keyboard. bending both up and down.
The upper slider controls When bending down the
(in %) the amount of harmonic tone interval is always 12 semitones.
when MOD WHEEL controller is all
the way up. This ensures that you
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Neck Position Note Attack
The neck of You can
the guitar is adjust the
richer than ATTACK of
the piano your notes.
keyboard
in a way that Brighter attacks always use samples
a single note with higher articulation which
is available on multiple different sounds great when all notes are
frets and each of them has unique with similar velocities.
sound because of the different
string lengths and gauges. Dynamic attacks use mellow
samples when you play at low
The neck mapping position sliders velocity and bright samples when
adjusts the starting guitar fret from you play harder.
which the keyboard will be mapped.
The current mapping is marked by OC
the yellow dots on the guitar neck. Note Detune
There are separate sliders for each
of the strings (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Guitar players
can hardly play in perfect tune all
You can experiment with lower frets their notes. This leads to slight
and open strings for cleaner ringing detune into their guitar parts which
tones, while the upper frets will give sounds realistic.
you warmer and tighter sounds.
The DETUNE setting helps
keyboardists to do the same.
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mappings are good for distortion
Polyphony guitar parts while increased
dynamic ranges are suitable for
You can adjust
clean guitar parts.
your POLYPHONY
from this setting.
The dynamic ranges of different
keyboard models vary so you should
You need this to play clean solos
adjust the velocity mapping to
where only one note is audible at a
match your keyboard.
time.
HINT: Try this on solo parts with OC
high distortion effects. Velocity Presets
Another reason would be to limit
the CPU load by ensuring that no
more than a certain number of
notes will be playing at the same
time. Use the default velocity presets to
quickly select a mapping which
matches your playing style.
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Velocity Mapping We encourage you to start from a
preset and then adjust the
individual velocity map sliders and
gain level (if needed).
These controls allow you to adjust
the velocity mappings depending on
your playing style. High flat
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capable of synthesizing notes two
Presets octaves below and above the guitar
neck range but they should be used
carefully because they do not
correspond to guitar frets and
We provide you with default
sound unnatural in guitar parts.
presets. You can explore them to
hear how the sound changes.
Most guitar effects are designed to
sound well only within the guitar
Each different preset comes with it
range.
unique demo audit song.
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PB and MOD Indicators
Once you get familiar with the These indicators
settings you can start customizing show the current
them to find your unique sound. position of PITCH
BEND and MOD
WHEEL controllers.
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Keyboard
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Last Notes
Guitarists often
The on-screen keyboard contains hold a note on
the notes that are present on the one string while
guitar neck. bending a note on a different string.
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By default, both PITCH BEND and match another instrument or to
MOD WHEEL controllers affect all match a different tuner.
currently pressed notes. To achieve
the same technique, you need to This vertical slider allows you to fine
adjust the “LAST NOTES” settings for tune your “MATCHA” synthetic
either PITCH BEND or MOD WHEEL. guitar.
For example, if you set the LAST
NOTES for PITCH BEND to “1” then
only the last played note will be
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bent, leaving all other notes playing
in the background without bending
MIDI Control Channels
them. If you set it to “2” the last two You can map all settings described
notes will be bent. so far to the hardware knobs on
your MIDI keyboard.
There are separate LAST NOTE
knobs for PITCH BAND and MOD Different keyboards use different
WHEEL to adjust them according to MIDI CC values. You can customize
your playing style. yours from here:
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HINT: The easiest way to find out
Fine Tune the MIDI CC values of your keyboard
is by using the LEARN button.
Our samples are in perfect
tune to 440 Hz but
sometimes you may need to
detune your guitar to
Licenses Used:
DSP Filters Library Copyright (c) 2009 by Vinnie Falco
cURLpp Copyright @ 2002-2006, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre
Source code is provided under the MIT License
DEMO SONGS:
contain parts from Dream Theater, Therapy and Judas Priest
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MATCHA SYNTH
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NEW YORK, NY 10036, USA
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