Brass

[Mr. Watts]

Just curious about what some of you use for brass instruments. I was recently working on a beat for a client and I had come up with some really nice brass melodies to accompany the hook and parts of the verses. I ended up not being able to use them because I just couldn’t for the life of me find a brass patch that worked and sounded good. Listening to “One Night” by The Game (produced by Nottz) I notice that the brass melody in the hook sounds very real and powerful. Does anyone know how to accomplish such a sound? Short of hiring a studio musician to play the parts? I have read that he was using a workstation keyboard such as the Motif or Fantom around that time so maybe I will have to get one of those to for my brass needs. If anyone knows of any VSTs or Rack Extensions / refills that can help me achieve a powerful brass sound that doesn’t sound like an apocalyptic horn and also isn’t thin and cheesy, that would be great. Thanks!

[MrFigg]

More often than not I’ll just use Rex Brass loops and trigger the slices in different orders using my midi keyboard. Works great.
Also I seem to remember Miroslav being pretty good.

[avasopht]

You've got other refills like the Sonic Reality bundle, or even Way Beyond Fairlight.

You will probably want to tweak the envelopes, apply some EQ and adjust the reverb and echo.

[Soeno]

you could try Orchestral Tools Majestic Horn for 2 Euro
http://www.orchestraltools.com/librarie ... c_horn.php

[Loque]

Nothing beats a real brass.

You can get quite close with a good synth and lots of modulations and automation for variations. So you need a synth where you have good control over the attack phase and modulation while in that phase.

[ljekio]

Only real brass beat solo brasses from Sample Modeling/Audio Modeling when use breath controllers.

[Soeno]

for one trööt this is good imo, otherwise the thing from Output should be enough, the real thing is too loud anyway

[Loque]

Here is a quick patch where i modulated the attack depending on velocity and stuff like that. I guess you can get the point.

Moved the patch to:
viewtopic.php?p=445189#p445189

[WongoTheSane]

I Second the Sample Modeling/Audio Modeling suggestion. Komplete also has a bunch of very good and very realistic brass libraries.

[Crumbfort]

Cinematic Studio Brass is excellent. It has pretty much replaced CineBrass Core/Pro for me:

https://www.cinematicstudioseries.com/brass.html

Their ensemble and solo string libraries are brilliant, as well.