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    UDU - User Manual

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    The UDU is a hand-played percussion instrument from Nigeria's Igbo region, featuring various articulations. The user manual provides details on loading the instrument, system requirements, and the interface layout, which includes envelope adjustments, compressor, reverb, and delay sections. Articulations are categorized by color for left and right hand play, with specific keys assigned to different strokes.

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    UDU - User Manual

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    The UDU is a hand-played percussion instrument from Nigeria's Igbo region, featuring various articulations. The user manual provides details on loading the instrument, system requirements, and the interface layout, which includes envelope adjustments, compressor, reverb, and delay sections. Articulations are categorized by color for left and right hand play, with specific keys assigned to different strokes.

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    The UDU is a hand-played percussion instrument from Nigeria's Igbo region, featuring various articulations. The user manual provides details on loading the instrument, system requirements, and the interface layout, which includes envelope adjustments, compressor, reverb, and delay sections. Articulations are categorized by color for left and right hand play, with specific keys assigned to different strokes.

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    UDU - User Manual

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    The UDU is a hand-played percussion instrument from Nigeria's Igbo region, featuring various articulations. The user manual provides details on loading the instrument, system requirements, and the interface layout, which includes envelope adjustments, compressor, reverb, and delay sections. Articulations are categorized by color for left and right hand play, with specific keys assigned to different strokes.

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    DARK INTERVALS

    UDU-USER MANUAL

    GENERAL INFORMATION

    UDU is a percussion instrument which originates from Igbo region in Nigeria.


    It Is played by hand and has many different articulations that can be produced.
    Here we covered the most important and most comonly used ones.

    Udu that we sampled is mid sized one, classical shape (not tambuata or other variation!).

    GETTING STARTED

    UDU cannot be added as a library, so you must manually locate and load NKI file inside
    your product folder. (see picture below) After you successfully load your instrument, you
    will see the interface (see picture below)

    1
    PRODUCT INFO, SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    PRODUCT INFO SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    • 35 Mb unzipped • Any PC or Mac that can run Kontakt


    • 48000 khz, 24-bit quality 6.6.1
    • 1 NKI file • Full Kontakt 6.3.2 or higher
    • 5 dynamic layers • Free Kontakt Player is not supported!
    • 3 round robins • 4gb of RAM or more

    INTERFACE (3 pages)

    Interface is simple and straightforward with three pages easily accessible.

    2 3

    2
    5 6

    1. Page selection buttons


    2. Envelope adjustment (attack, decay, release)
    3. Compressor section with on-off button and adjustment knobs
    4. Central section with stereo spread and pan.
    5. Reverb section with on-off button, adjustment knobs and reverb dropdown menu selector.
    6. Delay section with on-off button, adjustment knobs and reverb dropdown menu selector.
    There is also a tempo sync feature for delay, which can be activated by pressing quarte
    note symbol (♩).

    IMPORTANT :

    When delay is set to tempo sync, and you have tempo change in your project, this will result in
    unpleasant clicking artifacts. This is also normal.

    KEYBOARD LAYOUT
    magenta

    orange plum cyan orange


    LEFT RIGHT
    HAND HAND

    3
    Plum and cyan region represent left and right hand. They are sampled that way to emulate
    real situation.
    ARTICULATIONS BY COLOR

    PLUM –(PLAYED BY LEFT HAND)


    C-SIDE HOLE (NO RELEASE)
    C#-SIDE HOLE (RELEASE ONLY)
    D-SIDE HOLE (FAST RELEASE)
    E-SIDE HOLE (LONGER RELEASE)
    F-FINGER STROKE
    F#-HAND SLAP
    G-KNOCK
    A-HAND BRUSH DOWN
    B-HAND BRUSH UP

    CYAN–(PLAYED BY RIGHT HAND)


    C-UP HOLE (NO RELEASE)
    D- UP HOLE (FAST RELEASE)
    D#-UP HOLE (SIDE HIT)
    E-UP HOLE (SLOW RELEASE)
    F-FINGER STROKE
    F#-HAND SLAP
    G-KNOCK
    A-HAND BRUSH DOWN
    B-HAND BRUSH UP

    PLUM AND CYAN keys represent the same strokes but different hands.
    Except C# and D#!!

    MAGENTA
    C-DOUBLE STROKE
    D-TRIPLE STROKE

    ORAGNE LEFT (FINGER STROKE)


    Dynamic layers 1-5 separated over 5 keys, from E to B with
    Alternate hands : L-R-L-R-L

    ORAGNE RIGHT (HAND SLAP)


    Dynamic layers 1-5 separated over 5 keys, from E to B with
    Alternate hands : L-R-L-R-L

    ORANGE ZONES MAKE FAST RUNS MORE PLAYABLE AND CAN BE COMBINED WITH
    SAME ARTICULATIONS ON CYAN AND PLUM ZONES ( WHICH ARE KEYS F AND F#).

    FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT : WWW.DARKINTERVALS.ORG

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