Angels in America info
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Orchestra:
1 flute (also Alto Flute and Piccolo)
1 Clarinet in A (also Clarinet in Eb, Bass Clarinet and Double Bass Clarinet)
1 Saxophone (Soprano, Alto and Baritone Saxophone)
1 Saxophone (Alto, Tenor Saxophone)
1 Trumpet in Bb (also Piccolo Trumpet)
1 Trombone (Tenor, Bass Trombone with Quarter Valve)

Percussion 1: vipraphone, marimba (1 instrument together with Perc. 2.), crotales, cymbals (small, large), chinese cymbal, sizzle cymbal, snare drum, tabla, little cabaza, styropor-plates
Percussion 2: marimba, glockenspiel, gongs, crotales, tubular bells, cymbals (small, medium), chinese cymbal, tam-tams (small, medium, large), bass-drum, 3 metal- tubes, metal-guiro, 2 triangles (second very high), indian bells, 1 tube maraca (chocalho), small tamburino, large tambourine (without jingles), whisper chimes (metal chimes with thin sticks)

Guitar with amplification (also bell tree)
Electric Guitar with Chorus and Reverb
Keyboard 1 (detailed info below)
Keyboard 2 (detailed info below)

6 violin
4 viola
3 violoncello
2 double bass



Sound Documentation / Technical information

all sounds were programmed by Simon Stockhausen
for the KURZWEIL K 2600 XS respectevely for the K 2600 R(ack version)
requirements
128 Megabyte RAM - operating system 3.11

Setup
each player has two keyboards (Kurzweil)

Sampler A / C - upper manual - Master Keyboard with 88 keys connected via Midi to a K 2600 R Sampler

Sampler B / D - lower manual - K 2600 X
each Keyboard needs a Sustain pedal and a Midi Volume Pedal
( of course high quality stereo active audio pedals also work )
plug in the sustain pedal into switch pedal 1 - the volume pedal into CC pedal 1

Sampler C connect the analog Audio outputs A (1/2) and B (3/4)
Sampler A / B / D connect the analog Mix outputs

SCSI connection
each player uses one IOMEGA SCSI ZIP drive/250MB, the SCSI ID of the drive (can be changed at the rear of the device) must be different from the Samplers own ID´s  - otherwise the connection won´t work - so  switch the drive´s ID to 5, sampler A/C to 1 and sampler B/D to 2 -in the Midi receive page you can change the Sampler´s SCSI ID
connect the SCSI port of Sampler A/C to the SCSI in of the
IOMEGA hard drive with a 25 pin SCSI-cable - then connect the SCSI out of the drive to the SCSI port of Sampler B/D
never do SCSI connections with drive or sampler on!

loading the sounds/samples into the Kurzweil
press the disk button and select current SCSI ID 5 using the +/- buttons, the IOMEGA drive will appear in the display
on each disk you will find one folder:
ANGELS - open the folder and you will find the required banks.

As two samplers share one drive you first have to load the sound banks into one sampler (start with the upper manual - K2600 R - Sampler A / C) and then do the same for the lower manual (K2600X - Sampler B / D)
press the disk button - press the load button - select the file you want to load - load the sounds into bank 200 using the overwrite/fill function (the very left button underneath the display) - this will clear all RAM data and load the sounds ( always confirm with OK )

in the pause before scene 12 reload Samplers B/D with banks Sampl_B2 / D2 - the upper manual does not need reloading
before reloading clear the Sample Ram by going to the Master page - press Object - press delete - press Multi - this page will appear:
Select: type/range
Type: sample - Bank 200´s
Start ID: 200 - set the End ID: 600 - press Set - press OK - all samples will be erased - then reload the new files into  Bank 300 -399!
go to the Midi page, press XMIT - put the Ctl Selector transmit programm to 200 livecontrol - otherwise the Midi-Slider functions won´t work - put all 8 Sliders down to O
go to the Master page and set the tuning to +9ct - this will result in a tuning of the sampler to around 443 hz -now you´re ready to play!

Midi Setup
on the K2600 X (Sampler A/C) play all sounds in Program mode, transmitting on channel 1 - press the Midi button, check transmit and receive parameters - choose multi Mode
the Effect unit midi control channel must be set to current or 1  otherwise the Kurzweil won´t assigne the right FX setups to the program you´re playing - press the effect button - press control button underneath the display, set parameters
on the Master Keyboard (Sampler C/D) transmit on channel one
or omni
check the receive and KDFX channel  of the
K 2600 R

View
If you want to change the size of the display go to the Master page - press view - change parameter

Sound list Player 1
Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 1 
bar 1    Program 200     Kick drum    c1
bar 31    Program 201     Noisy traffic mix
noisy traffic 1 - c3
noisy traffic 2 - d3
car breaks - e3
noisy traffic 4 - f3
bar 97        Program 200     Kick drum    c1
bar 110        Program 201     Noisy traffic mix
bar 151    Program 202     Tennismix c3-c7/ kickdrum c1
bar 306        Program 203     Helicopter - c3
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Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 1
bar 3         Program 200     anvil hard
bar 88        Program 201     anvilpad
bar 118    Program 202     Jew Organ   
Slider A - +reverb time
Slider B - low pass
reduce high freq.
bar 254        Program 203     Aaahh 2
bar 256        Program 204     Banggong
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Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 2
bar 135        Program 204 Orch Strings+kik (c1)
bar 165 /231    Program 205 Valium 1+kick (c1)
            Program 218    PETER PHONE     b2 and c3
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Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 2
bar 4        Program 205     Telephone mix
handy rhodes - c3-c7
phone buzz - B flat 2
phone beep - B flat 1
feedback - c1
digits - e1
busy signal - d1
bar 150        Program 206     telephone rhodes
bar 211        Program 207     celesta chorus g3-c7
bar 215        Program 208     Cimbalon mix c3-g3
bar 222     Program 209     Valium 2    Slider A – bandpass
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Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 3           
Program 219     ELEVATOR - original pitch is c3

Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 3 
bar 6        Program 210 RHODES soft
bar 82        Program 211 Bass guitarA -0 to B0
bar 96        Program 212 noisy voice
bar 143        Program 213 stretch pants
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Scene 4 
bar 24        Program 210     RHODES soft
bar 95        Program 214     Celestial 1

Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 4
bar 112        Program 206     Choir velocity 
velocity changes vowels u –a samples are not looped so
retrigger the sound if needed
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Scene 5
bar 2        Program 222    KNIFE    d3
bar 36        Program 207     Valium 3 + bass
bar 57/72    Program 208     Wurlizer soft   

Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 5
bar 70        Program 214    Celestial 1
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Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 6
bar 109        Program 209  Valium 6   
very touch sensitive
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Scene 7
bar 25        Program 210     lonely flute
            Program 220     Hangup1        on d3
bar 103        Program 211     Rhodes soft det
bar 161        Program 212       Celestial 1B

Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 7
bar 79        Program 215     Hangup1        c3+d3
bar 107        Program 216     Pianobell
bar 175        Program 217     Angelbells
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Scene 8 – tacet
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Scene 9
bar 3        Program 218     Pianobell dry
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Scene 10 
bar 65        Program 219     Valium 7
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Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 11 
bar 6        Program 213     Ghost strings
bar 56        Program 212     Celestial 1B
bar 127        Program 214     Pianobell 2

Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 11 
bar 109        Program 220        shaking Angel
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BREAK        reload Sampler B with file Sampl_B2
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Scene 12
bar 1        Program 300     falling Angels
bar 88    Program 301     flute/explosion explosion on b6
bar 132        Program 302    Jew Organ hard

Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 12 
bar 9        Program 215     Pianobells 2B - bass
bar 79        Program 216     anvil-semi
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Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 13 
bar 18        Program 303     eguitar swell
bar 32        Program 304     Click organ
bar 75        Program 305     Voice Rhodes
bar 149        Program 306     Valium 1B
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Scene 14
bar 88        Program 307    Neutral colour
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Scene 15            
Program 312     MORMON CENTER c3 / play with                                     pitch wheel
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Scene 16 
bar 28        Program 308     Angel choir

Sampler A - upper keyboard

Scene 16
bar 43        Program 215    Pianobell 2B – bass
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Scene 17    Program 217    BBC-News /
6 samples from c1-a1
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Scene 18    Program 221     anvil+bells soft                                 a1-c7
           
Sampler B - lower keyboard

Scene 17            
Program 309    angelchoir 2
bar 161        Program 310 Pathosbells
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Scene 18        Program 311    anvil+bells soft
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Sound list Player 2
Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 1
bar 1        Program 200     INTRO   c1          (sample will always play to end - to stop it
press the PANIC button)
bar 82        Program 201 traffic/accident  
c3 - noisy traffic 3
d3 - accident
bar  110    Program 202    carhorn/siren    
c3 - carhorn
d3 - siren
bar 153        Program 203     Tennismix    c3-c7

Sampler D - lower keyboard

Scene 1 
bar 3/306        Program 200     anvil soft
bar 89            Program 201     anvilpad
bar 123        Program 202     Jew Organ   
   (Slider A +Reverb time)
   (SL B - high frequenc.)
bar 88        Program 203     Aaahh       
(Slider A   Rev. wet/dry + time)
bar 256        Program 204     BangGong
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Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 2 
bar 1        Program 204     Telephone mix
busy signal - a flat 3
handy rhodes - c4-c7
bar 147        Program 205    telephone rhodes
bar 217    Program 206     Mandolinenmix
           b2 - dflat 4
Sampler D - lower keyboard
bar 1    Program 205 voice imitation    A0 - c7
bar 165    Program 206 Valium 2   
(Slider A – bandpass)
bar 234        Program 207     Valium 1
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Sampler D - lower keyboard

Scene 3
bar 4        Program 208     Comapad
bar 62        Program 207     Valium 1
bar 96        Program 209     stacc/echo
bar 142        Program 210     RHODES soft
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Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 4 
bar 90        Program 207     carhorn 2   
(original pitch c3)
bar 97        Program 208     Choir velocity
(velocity changes vowels u -a
samples are not looped so
retrigger the sound if needed)
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Sampler D - lower keyboard
Scene 5
bar 4        Program 207 Valium 1
bar 28        Program 206     Valium 2   
(Slider A – bandpass)
bar 44        Program 211     hi b
bar 70        Program 212     Wurlizer soft
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Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 6
bar 113        Program 209    Swellpiano

Sampler D - lower keyboard

bar 121        Program 213     Valium 4
bar 183        Program 214     Valium 5
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Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 7
bar 26        Program 210     Valium 1
bar 48        Program 211     coin/call   
c3-coin output B (3/4)
d3 -call output A (1/2)
bar 80        Program 212    Valium 1B
bar 117        Program 213     Rhodes soft detune
bar 175        Program 214     Angelpad

Sampler D - lower keyboard
bar 121        Program 214    Valium 5
bar 183        Program 215    Angelbells
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Scene 8 tacet

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Sampler D - lower keyboard
Scene 9 
bar 8        Program 216     steel legato
(sempre pedal)
bar 46        Program 217     cool piano
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Scene 10 
bar 65        Program 218     Valium 7
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Scene 11 
bar 3    Program 219 Hurdy gurdy mix
c3 - upbeat
c#3 - rhythm 1
d3 - attack
d#3 - rhythm 2

Sampler C - upper keyboard
Scene 11
bar 55        Program 208     Choir velocity
bar 66        Program 215     Bells
bar 111        Program 216     shaking Angel 
(touch sensitive for overtones)
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BREAK        reload Sampler D with file Sampl_D2
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(Sampler C - upper keyboard)

Scene 12        
Program 220    falling Angel
bar 13        Program 216 shaking Angel
bar 55    Program 208     Choir velocity 2 (with looped f#2)

Sampler D - lower keyboard

Scene 12
bar 1        Program 300    falling Angel
bar 22        Program 301 Doublereedflute
bar 86        Program 302     Windgliss
bar 122        Program 303     Ghost decent 
(Slider A up  adds high frequencies)
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Scene 13 
bar 33        Program 304    voice rhodes
bar 75        Program 305     Valium 2
(Sampler D - lower keyboard)
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Scene 14 
bar 90        Program 306    Neutral Pad
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Scene 16 
bar 33        Program 307 Angel choir 2
(velocity changes vowels u –a,
samples are not looped so
retrigger the sound if needed)

Sampler C - upper keyboard

Scene 15/17           
Program 221     Thunders   5 samples from c3-g3
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Scene 16
bar 15        Program 218    Pianobell 2
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Scene 17        Program 222     Radio Noises –
(2 samples on c3/d3)
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Scene 18            Program 219     anvilbells

Sampler D - lower keyboard
Scene 17         Program 308     Angel choir 2 b
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Scene 18        Program 309     Pathosbells soft
                Program 310     anvil+bells soft
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For sound material please contact

Peter Eötvös Composition Studio
H-1025 Budapest
Cseppkö utca 53.
studio@eotvospeter.com