BRASS Real instrument emulator for your Mac
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Real instrument emulator for your Mac BRASS is a new kind of virtual instrument based on a physical modeling technology. BRASS emulates a Trumpet, a Trombone and a Saxophone. All the characteristics of the real instruments have been analyzed and modeled through extensive research at the world-renowned IRCAM Institute.Arturia has partnered with this highly skilled team of researchers to bring this groundbreaking technology to the musician, in the form of a software instrument. BRASS is an extremely expressive, flexible and controllable instrument, and thus a fantastic alternative to loops or music libraries. Here are some key features of "BRASS": · Virtual instrument playable through a MIDI keyboard · Three physically modeled Brass instruments: Trumpet, Trombone and Saxophone · LIVE Mode with total control over expressiveness through extensive MIDI control of key parameters · RIFF Mode with more than 500 modifiable pre-recorded MIDI phrases in many different styles (Jazz, Funk, Latino, Fanfare, Reggae, Pop, Classic, Military…) · Configuration of the instruments : 4 attack and 4 vibrato types, material, humanization · Import and export riff presets from and to MIDI files · Independent automatization of each parameter via a dedicated control window · Easy and fast searching of riffs with the preset explorer · Up to 4 simultaneous instruments in a riff · Editable length, tempo and tune of each riff · Riff editing with the zoomable pianoroll and independent parameter editing · Powerful editing options : solo, mute, 8 drawing tools · Live playing of several riffs with the keyboard · Chorus mode for all instruments, up to 4 instruments unison section · Spatialization of the instruments in a configurable room Limitations: · 15 days trial What's New in This Release: · In the PC installer, when choosing "SSE" choice it was installing "SSE2" version instead, which is not compatible with Athlon and P3 processors. The users on Athlon were getting a "could not find the DLL" error message. They then had to install the generic version instead which is not as optimized as the other one. In the 1.1 version, the installer has been changed so that "SSE" choice is a real SSE choice. Then users who have an Athlon processor can install it and benefit from the optimizations, too. · There is an annoying problem in version 1.0. When reloading a project in a sequencer using a saxophone of BRASS, the saxophone was not correctly initialized and its sound was bad. Moreover, BRASS could become unstable because of this problem. This issue has been corrected in 1.1 version. · On PC, when Brass 1.0 is installed in Protools, ProTools does not close correctly. Then it is not possible to restart it. This problem has been also corrected in 1.1 version. · Brass did not open in Singer Song Writer 8.0 VS (a Japanese sequencer).

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