Musical Sampling Trailer Brass

Trailer Brass

While Adventure Brass lends itself to bold lines in traditional settings, Trailer Brass was produced with more modern, over-sized contexts in mind.

Musical Sampling recorded three different groups: a ten-horn ensemble, a ten-trombone ensemble and the Horde; a three-cimbasso/three-tuba ensemble that has been aggressively processed for maximum beefiness.

To get the wide, wall-of-brass sound, the players were sat evenly across the stage of a huge concert hall. Also a lot of effort went into reaching maximum volume, which is no easy task. It got so loud in there that the trombones ended up busting one of the microphones. Congrats were issued.

The library also includes a varied collection of sound design patches that utilize the brass recordings in some great ways. Impacts, pads, BRAAAMs, synth basses, rhythmic drones and the like.

Key Features

As always, the GUI has limited controls to get the job done in a reasonable amount of time. The Adventure and Majestic patches come to mind, where you can produce believable brass lines using just your keys and the modwheel.

The library also contains five different GUI’s designed to immediately inform you of what a particular patch can do in terms of control.

Normal Patches
Ten Horns – Adventure
Ten Horns – Majestic
Ten Horns – Breakout
Staccato
Sustains

Ten Trombones – Adventure
Ten Trombones – Majestic
Ten Trombones – Breakout
Staccato
Sustains
Cluster Effects

The Horde – Evolving Sustains V1
The Horde – Shorts V1
Staccato
Short Marcato
Long Marcato

The Horde – Evolving Sustains V2
The Horde – Shorts V2
Staccato
Short Marcato
Long Marcato

Sound Design Patches (# of keyswitchable presets)
Aftermath Pad
Approaching the Monolith – 7
City 17 – 9
Hindenburg Horns – 4
Nastier Bass
Nasty Bass
Rhythmic Drone
Slow and Clear – 3
The Engineers – 6
Tremblers – 4
Tripods – 5