User Guide

CHAPTER 1

Welcome

Thank you very much for purchasing INDEPENDENCE - your ultimate Sonic Workstation.

With the introduction of Independence, yellow tools once again sets new standards for sample based

instruments and offers by far the fastest, most powerful and easiest way of performing, customizing,

and creating authentic instruments on your computer.

Enabled by the fusion of innovative Virtual Instrument technology with state-of-the-art sampler

architecture, this sophisticated creativity tool meets the demands of music producers, ﬁlm-

composers, sound designers, songwriters and remixers.

Enhanced by a clear user interface, the ﬂexibility of a full-modular structure, stunning effects and

ﬁlters and many unique features Independence is still easy to use and offers immediate access to a

fantastic and intuitive handling.

Independence comes with a vast 18 GB sound library of premium instruments. Next to a “best-of”

collection of the award-winning instruments from yellow tools products Independence also contains

totally new and specially optimized instruments.

Additionally Independence is fully compatible with all yellow tools Modular Virtual Instruments

and you can also import WAV and AIFF ﬁles (up to 32bit/192kHz). The amazing Auto-Mapping-

Import feature lets you import your sound libraries and creates your custom mappings within just a

few seconds.

Independence is the ﬁrst product that is based on yellow tools’ innovative Advanced Instrument

Technology (A.I.T.). In combination with RF-HDD ultra fast streaming and the Auto-Ram-

Cleaner you will experience an unmatched performance: Unlimited layers and samples, unlimited

polyphony, unlimited insert effects and ﬁlters, unlimited custom channels (internal virtual channels)

and BUS channels... Independence manages all this simultaneously and automatically in the

background.

So you can care about the really important things - making music!