Native Instruments B4 II User Manuals

Table of Contents

• About the Native Instruments B4

  5
  • Introduction

    5
• Installation under Windows XP

  7
  • Software Installation

    7
  • VST plug-in Installation

    7
  • DXi 2 plug-in Setup

    8
  • RTAS plug-in installation

    8
• Installation under MacOS X

  8
  • Installing B4 II in OS X

    8
  • MacOS Audio Unit plug-in Installation

    9
  • RTAS plug-in installation

    9
• Product Authorization

  9
  • What is the Product Authorization?

    9
  • Conducting the Product Authorization

    11
  • Method A: B4 II computer has direct access to the internet

    11
  • Method B: Internet Connection on another computer

    13
  • Method C: No Internet Connection available

    15
  • Registration support

    17
• Audio Interfaces

  18
  • Standalone Application

    18
  • More About Latency

    20
• B4 II as standalone

  25
  • Soundcard (Audio Interface)

    25
  • Routing

    27
  • MIDI

    28
• B4 II as Instrument Plug-in

  29
  • VST 2.0 Plug-In

    29
  • Audio Units Plug-ins

    31
  • DXi 2 plug-in

    35
  • Using B4 II with Pro Tools

    36
• The B4 User Interface

  37
  • Using Presets

    41
  • Saving Presets

    42
  • The Preset View

    43
  • Keyboard Splits

    46
  • MIDI Response

    48
  • The B4 as an effects unit

    49
  • Setup View

    50
  • Full Screen mode

    55
• Creating Your Own Sounds

  56
  • Manual View Controls

    56
  • Organ View Controls

    62
  • Expert View Controls

    67
• Drawbar Programming Basics

  74
  • Theory

    74
  • Practice

    76
• Appendix A: Keyboard and Mouse Control

  79
• Appendix B: Recommended Reading and Listening  

  80
• Appendix C: The B4 Signal Flow

  84