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French Horn
& Tuba v3

Beyond conventional libraries.

Forget the pre-determined articulations of existing Brass Libraries and shape any musical phrase in real-time. Samplemodeling™ French Horn & Tuba yields incomparable sound control, extremely realistic timbre and incredible playability. Listening is believing.

Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit

Intel or Apple Silicon, OS X 10.8 or later.

Kontakt Player (Free) required.

Native Access Activation.

Fully compatible with the MIDI protocol.

A comprehensive collection

What's included

The French Horns & Tuba package includes four different French Horn, a ready-to-use Unison Ensemble Multi suitable for unison playing from a single MIDI source, and a Tuba. Each instrument includes several mutes, namely Straight, Wooden Straight Mute, the Stop Mute, or Brass Stop Mute, and for special purposes, some additional effects that can be loaded from within the French Horn Mute menu: “Bell Res. 1-3”

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Solo French Horn

Solo Horn (“French Horn”); Recommended for any application as a solo instrument. It has a well- balanced timbre and a neutral early reflection pattern.

Unison Ensemble Multi

A ready-to-use "Unison Horns" Multi, including these four specially devised instruments, properly leveled and panned, plus a suitable ambience/convolution reverb. This setup exploits a specially devised “ensemble maker” algorithm, allowing realistic unison playing even when using the same MIDI source for all the instruments. All the Horns cover the range A0 – G4.

French Horns 2, 3 and 4

French Horns 2, 3 and 4, which not only sound slightly different, but also use a slightly different response to the incoming controllers. These instruments are recommended for ensembles using separate MIDI tracks.

Tuba

A Tuba, covering the range of the whole tuba family from Contrabass Tuba to F Tuba, i.e. from C0 to F3

Proprietary Technology

Virtual Instruments that set new standards in the field of MIDI orchestration and live performances.

French Horn & Tuba v3, like all Samplemodeling instruments, exploit Dr. Giorgio Tommasini’s patented “Harmonic Alignment” technique, which ensures for the first time seamless transitions across virtually infinite dynamics, from pianissimo to fortissimo.

The programming moves further away from conventional libraries, by exploiting physically-oriented modulation of the recorded sound: the result is a most expressive, real-time controllable Virtual Instrument preserving the original timbre of a real trumpet.

Our revolutionary “Adaptive Model” approach acts by minimizing the differences from the real instrument, whatever articulation or phrase you play. You can therefore concentrate on creating music, rather than mastering complex sample bank management.

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Main Features

Combine the potentialities of multi-vector modeling with the timbral richness of the real sample.

Total control of sound

+22 different parameters

French Horn & Tuba v3 allows you to control almost every aspect of the sound, from breath emission to pitch shifts on attacks, vibrato, growl, flutter-tongue, vibrato-rate, attack-modulation etc…

Dynamics

Vibrato Intensity

Vibrato Rate

Attack Modulation

Growl

Flutter Tongue

Transition Flutter

Type of mute

Dynamics to pitch

Random Detune

Pitch Fluctuation

Port. Time

Harm. gr.1-6

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Accurate timbral evolution

Samplemodeling French Horn can reproduce the marked timbral changes coupled with the dynamics in a continuous manner, from a warm and intimate Pianissimo to vibrant and epic Fortissimo. It also captures the multi-directional emission pattern of the real instrument, resulting in a full, wider sound. The pack also includes a Tuba with the same properties, covering the range of the whole tuba family from Contrabass Tuba to F Tuba.

Virtually infinite dynamics

Conventional Sample Libraries

Sample libraries typically employ several pre-recorded dynamic layers, utilizing cross-fades and volume matching techniques.

Samplemodeling™ technology:

Samplemodeling proprietary “Harmonic Alignment” technology allows continuous transition across the dynamics without any side effects.

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Shaping any articulation in realtime.

No pre-recorded articulations as in conventional libraries. You’ll be able to recreate virtually infinite types of articulations by the interaction of key velocity, expression controller, pitchwheel and modwheel, plus some additional MIDI CCs for special effects.

(use ‘dynamics’ parameters to obtain unlimited articulations)

(use velocity to shape the transition between notes)

(adjust ‘vibrato’ parameters to modify amount and frequency)

(use the continuous parameters to shape sound's behavior)

(the instrument will follow you with its complex algorithms. Just play and have fun!)

(anechoic chamber recordings, set the amount of early reflections and reverb you prefer)

Insights

Control Vibrato without crossfades.

Definitely one of Samplemodeling’s strenghts, our vibrato is by far the most manageable existing vibrato, since it does not start from multiple static recordings but from real-time modeling of the sample. You can precisely control its intensity and rate, ranging from a non vibrato to a vigorous three-semitone shake.

Timbral
Shaping

This revolutionary new feature adds a virtually infinite timbral variety to sample-based instruments, by acting on the amplitude of individual harmonics, or groups of harmonics, even in real time. The controlling bars are not assigned to fixed frequencies, but to the first 10 harmonics of the played note.

Anechoic recordings. Why?

To capture the original timbre of the instrument, to avoid “contamination” of the pure trumpet sounds with the uncontrolled resonances of a particular ambience, to facilitate artifact-free “harmonic alignment” processing and to provide clean articulations and phrases as a database to build the “adaptive model”.

Virtual
Soundstage

This feature enables you to shape your instrument’s environment as you desire. You can precisely position instruments in a virtual space, utilizing early reflections, pre-delay, convoluted panning, and perceived distance algorithms, even in real-time.

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