Kontakt Brass Library Free Download

[Mariu Carlton]

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Hyperion Brass Elements includes 10 combo ensemble presets and 6 Master and True-Legato section presets for 6 Trumpets, 4 Tenor Trombones, 4 French Horns, 3 Euphoniums, 3 Bass Trombones, and 3 Tubas. The Master presets include a broad selection of fundamental articulations, each with their own range of customizable real-time performance options, key-switch and mapping options and performance tools. These master presets allow you to blend and switch effortlessly between vibrato and non-vibrato sustains, a variety of shorts and naturally dynamic tempo-based expressions.

Our new Easy-Lead feature puts creative control right at your fingertips, allowing you to instantly go from tight staccatos to dynamic sustains without needing to keyswitch between articulations. Simply play quick notes for tight staccatos or hold down the keys for long, dynamic sustains. This performance feature is great for fast playability, allowing you to get ideas out quickly and work within a full orchestral mix.

The Short articulations include staccatos and staccatissimos each with two speeds, loose and tight. The Multi-Staccato articulation features an option for double-tongue or triple-tongue. Each short articulation provides 4 round-robin variations per note and auto-speed switching, making it easy to humanize your arrangements and find the perfect emotive expression for any musical moment.

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For over a decade, our mission has been to create an ever-growing selection of inspiring instruments, orchestral sections, drums, percussion ensembles, choirs, solo voices, folk and vintage instruments, experimental sonic contraptions, cinematic effects and sound-designed creations.

Back in March, I wrote an article highlighting selected string libraries. What follows are some of the best sampled brass libraries currently available. With the exception of one, all of these are Kontakt-based instruments. They are in no particular ranked order, but I have tried to organize them by presenting similar collections consecutively. A few things to consider when choosing a brass library or really any acoustic instrument sample library:

This collection sounds incredible from the first note. It is a symphonic collection that features solo horns, trombones (including bass and contrabass), trumpet, tuba, contrabass tuba, and cimbasso (which has become highly desirable in film scoring in the last several years for its raspy quality). The horns, trumpets and trombones include a2 and a6 samples which sound huge and majestic. The contrabass tuba is a nice addition for a beautiful rumbling low-end sustained growl.

The Kirk Hunter Concert Brass 2 collection is stunning in terms of overall sound and some interesting intelligent processing. While it may lack the mic positioning choices of other libraries, it makes up for it with a great variety of articulations (accents at different dynamic levels for example) and quick changes from the main interface to instrument groups from solo, two, four or eight players.

The first thing you see when you instantiate CineBrass Core is a mixer interface for mic positions with some general presets like ambient, warm, dry and close, bright, etc. Entering the Mapping screen allows key mapping for articulations and the Settings window provides some effects, envelope and dynamics control, as well as some round robin settings. There are plenty of ensemble combinations to choose from and several multis. The Trumpet Ensemble Effects preset is particularly satisfying with short cluster swells or hits available from single keys.

CineBrass Pro is packed with special brass effects for every possible scenario, powerful pre-voiced chords, legato solo instruments, and lush ensembles. The Full Ensemble FX patches are very inspiring!

CineBrass Descant Horns are perfect for the horn lover. But be careful holding those seamlessly sustained horn notes for too long, if you intend to ever have your stuff played by an actual human.

This is the only instrument in this article that is not Kontakt-based. Instead, EastWest supplies its own plugin called Play, to access their sample libraries. They also offer a subscription-based model that can be attractive for those that desire access to an enormous collection of quality samples for a nominal monthly fee (starting at $24 for a ton of libraries). Student pricing is also quite reasonable. If you do decide to get the whole package, I highly recommend getting the samples delivered on the supplied hard drive. Download times are excruciatingly slow (perhaps by design).

As the names implies, this library is focused on Big Band sounds and ensembles. It features three mic positions, several legato styles and big band chord voicing with inversions. Aside from a full complement of brass samples, it includes saxes, clarinet, guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, drum kit, piano, vibes, percussion, strings and female vocals!

The Full Big Band Chords preset is really fun! Key switchable roots and inversions and modwheel controlled articulation make it a truly playable instrument. The instrument interfaces give instant access to vibrato variation or articulation depending on the preset, mic levels, envelopes, effects and includes a visualization of velocity level and modwheel position. Multi-instruments include a variety of ensembles capable of film noir type textures to Broadway. In terms of brass instruments there are bass and tenor trombones and trumpets. The brass part of the collection is just a small part of this library, but if you want some great big band and small ensemble sounds it has just what you need. The other instruments, especially the sax and woodwinds, are icing on the cake. Price $479

Sample Logic has carved out a distinctive niche in the market with instruments that destroy the line between sound design and acoustic instrumentation. Their interfaces such as those found in Arpology, which I reviewed recently, and Morphestra 2, are visually inspiring which make the instruments that much more fun to explore.

The unique qualities of this library make it fit comfortably into sound design or instrumental library categories. I include it in this article because although many of the presets are heavily processed, a large number have brass samples as part of their genesis.

This instrument is not about traditional brass articulations or ensemble sounds, but more about brass-like textures and attitudes. If you already have a pure orchestral brass library, this one is the perfect compliment for when things need to get a little weird. Price: $199

MSB was performed by true brass masters and was recorded one player at a time. This gives you the ability to build your own sections using the sizes and instruments that best suit your production.

Each patch comes pre-programmed with legato transitions that are great sounding and quick to respond to your playing. But, you can also adjust the speed of the note transitions to your liking or easily automate them during your legato performances. Our continuously speed-adaptive legato engine keeps working behind the scenes regardless.

No shortcuts. Real recorded muted sustains and stops with variable attack control. Real recorded muted and stopped legato. Muted shorts articulations with the same configurations and double tongue combinations as their non-muted counterparts.

Put your players where you want them. Standard orchestral seating, antiphonal brass choirs, close-miced tight dry sound, whatever your production calls for. 52 of our eclectic custom created spaces run the gamut from small dry rooms to huge churches and effect. Plus 13 new additional spaces have been designed specifically for Brass.

Each patch in Modern Scoring Brass has been carefully crafted over hundreds of hours to allow for a consistent out-of-the-box experience. The charts below detail the patches for each brass instrument family and their articulation contents. Each divisi section is comprised of entirely unique samples. Please keep in mind that the charts represent dynamics ranging from ppp through fff.

A brass library as diverse and nuanced as your music. MSB was performed by true brass masters and was recorded one player at a time. This gives you the ability to build your own sections using the sizes and instruments that best suit your production.

In addition the the divisi sections listed in the charts above (which all are comprised of unique samples), the library also includes several auxiliary divisi sections to round out a few of the patches (for example, the Alto Trombone and Flugelhorn). These sections were created using transposed versions of real recordings and do not require additional RAM to load. However, they do allow for separate humanization and stage placement in cases where you want a larger and more diverse section. It may not be often that you need 4 divisi Alto Trombones, but if you do they are included.

The Intuition Series represents a new hybrid-class of split chair instruments that complement and expand the capabilities of Modern Scoring Brass master patches. Using the same world-class recordings but with physically modeled note transitions and pressure curves these instruments are designed to simply load-and-play. Some notable features:

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