The double tongues accommodate anywhere from 1 to 9 discrete repetitions, controlled by the mod wheel. For a half step, two notes a half step apart and for a whole step, a whole step apart, with or without legato. Trills are accomplished by pressing two keys at within 25 milliseconds of each other. But I am guessing that more users will disagree with me than agree. Certainly it aids users in writing divisi but I have yet to see a brass player play a chord and purist that I am, I don’t think sampled solo instruments should do this. It is controlled by CC1 therefore CC 11 is the default for volume.ĭisabling the legato switch on sustains and marcatos allows you to play chords and enables an attack and release control panel. Sustains were sampled with four dynamic layers modulated via a mod wheel crossfade and switching between them sounds like the real thing. Holding the sustain pedal while playing a note twice actually produces a re-tonguing of the note using round robins. Medium has the most delay, 180-230 ms depending on the instrument, while fast is more like 100 ms. The legato with sustain and marcato articulations work with two velocity zones, medium and fast. The legatos are among the best on the market but they take some getting used to and compensating for as they have a fair amount of latency. There is an adjustment to be made with playing some of these instruments.
You can then enable and mix the mic positions in the amounts you like and even route them to separate outputs in Kontakt. Selecting any of the three mic positions turns off the mix. There are three mic positions, defaulting to a preset mix of the three. What is good though Is that the articulation mappings for the solo and ensemble instruments are consistent with one another. Most instruments give you sustain, sustain with legato, several versions of marcato, four short articulations, rips, flutters, mutes, trills, and double tongues. They have included: solo French horn, C trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, tuba, 4 French horns, 2 C trumpets, and two trombones, as well as a full ensemble patch for sketching or composing with if you like.Īs with their Cinematic Studio Strings and Cinematic Studio Solo Strings they are not giving you every articulation you have ever seen or heard in a concert hall piece, but all the bread and butter ones are there. (There is an included hall style reverb.)
These guys just know how to get a great sound and as I am famously (or infamously) a “tone is king” guy, this one hits the mark. Like Cinematic Studio Strings, it was recorded on the Trackdown scoring stage in Sydney, and even without reverb, the sound is lovely.
What Is It?Ĭinematic Studio Brass is a Kontakt Player library, so a full version of Kontakt is not required. Well, they did it again, and it certainly will take its place among my “go to” brass libraries. When Cinematic Studio Strings was released, I found that much to my surprise, it became perhaps my favorite sampled strings library, just when I thought I didn’t need another strings library.