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铜管乐队独奏家
铜管乐队独奏汇集了英格兰北部最优秀的乐器演奏家，具有精致的界面和创新的连奏编程，产生无与伦比的现实主义。
传统的铜管乐队是英国古典音乐界的基石，以温暖、抒情的乐器为特色，在传统管弦乐队的铜管乐队中很少见到。因此，它们在样例库中的代表性通常不足。
在英格兰北部，断裂声音的基地，是铜管乐队音乐的中心地带，所以我们的许多团队成员自然都在铜管乐队合奏中演出。这种个人经验和与乐器的亲密关系使这个图书馆成为我们第一个商业legato图书馆的自然候选人。
利用我们的熟练玩家网络，我们汇集了来自该地区的顶级人才，包括来自著名乐队的比赛获胜者，如黑堤乐队和Grimethorpe煤矿乐队（在电影《Brassed Off》中出现）。
每个玩家都被单独记录在大厅的中殿工作室，但我们创新的仪器放置选项允许轻松的空间调整。此功能使合奏与您现有的样本库集合中的其他乐器无缝融合，提供多功能性和集成。覆盖了广泛的声音范围，女高音短号，短号，小圆号，男高音喇叭，和Euphonium包括在这个包提供明显的音色，比他们的管弦乐同行柔和得多，并与我们新的连奏引擎配对，这些铜管乐器从来没有听起来更现实的数字领域。
Smart Legato简介
告别拖着MIDI在你的时间轴上完美同步过渡与你的作曲的节奏的繁琐任务。在智能模式下，该仪器智能地分析传入MIDI音符，并选择正确的过渡长度，确保每次播放完美无瑕，并消除进一步编辑的需要，同时提供真正真实的声音。
这个功能的关键在于延迟——通过延迟声音输出，引擎能够“向前看”，并根据即将到来的音符做出调整——就像一个真正的演奏者一样。延迟越高，性能就越自然。在连奏设置中显示的延迟数字是完全准确的，因此您可以使用DAW中的负轨道延迟特性轻松地补偿这一点。这允许仪器的时间，它需要分析传入的MIDI数据，同时保持完美的时间-提供MIDI是正确量化。有了这个功能，你现在可以花更多的时间作曲，更少的时间护理乐器。
连奏的选项
除了智能连奏之外，我们还包括经典模式，它的行为更接近市场上现有的连奏库，提供单一的速度控制。有关两种连奏表演模式以及何时使用的更多信息，请参阅用户手册。
连奏分为两种类型：非颤音和颤音，可以使用按键开关无缝切换，同时触发一个音符。保持这些作为单独的铰接，而不是将它们组合在一个振动滑块上，保留了每个乐器的独奏质量，因为它避免了在样本之间的交叉点的任何加倍效果。
这两种连奏类型也具有含糊和舌化的表现，基于每个音符的速度触发。
把仪器放在任何地方
我们添加到这个全新界面的另一个新工具是仪器放置，提供三个选项。在原地有球员定位作为记录，在他们的典型铜管乐队座位布局。
自定义位置模式允许您自由地将乐器放置在房间中的不同位置，这在不同的合奏配置中使用这些乐器时非常有用，例如在管弦乐环境中使用它们时。这种模式使用从每个座位位置记录的脉冲响应，通过相同的麦克风设置，允许非常令人信服的结果，这是无法通过平移单独实现的。
我们还包括了一个“中心立体声”的选项，它使用一组单独的麦克风定位与乐器在录音棚的中心。这覆盖了主麦克风混音器，消除了房间里的自然平移，提供了一个宽阔的中心立体图像，如果需要，可以用平移和混响进一步处理。
麦克风的位置
与我们的其他图书馆记录在大的声学空间，铜管乐队独奏家提供三种立体声麦克风位置：近，房间，和远。对于一个干燥的声音，你可以强调近信号，而远麦克风可以倾斜捕捉大厅的全部深度。这种灵活性很容易通过我们的视角滑块控制，或者通过静音和清除你不需要的麦克风信号。
Brass Band Soloists
Brass Band Soloists brings together the finest instrumentalists in the North of England, with a refined interface and innovative legato programming that produces unparalleled realism.
The traditional brass band is a cornerstone of the British classical music scene, featuring warm, lyrical instruments rarely found in the brass sections of traditional orchestras. Consequently, they are often underrepresented in sample libraries.
In the North of England, where Fracture Sounds is based, lies the heartland of brass band music, so naturally many of our team members have performed in brass band ensembles. This personal experience and intimacy with the instrument made this library the natural candidate for becoming our first commercial legato library.
Leveraging our network of skilled players, we brought together top talent from the region, including competition winners from renowned bands like the Black Dyke Band and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band (featured in the film Brassed Off).
Each player was recorded individually in the large hall of Nave Studios, but our innovative Instrument Placement options allow for easy spatial adjustments. This feature enables the ensemble to blend seamlessly with other instruments in your existing sample library collection, providing versatility and integration. Covering a wide sonic range, the Soprano Cornet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horn, and Euphonium included in this package offer distinct timbres that are much softer compared to their orchestral counterparts, and paired with our new legato engine, these brass instruments have never sounded more realistic in the digital domain.
Introducing Smart Legato
Say goodbye to the tedious task of dragging MIDI across your timeline to perfectly sync transitions with the tempo of your composition. In Smart Mode, the instrument intelligently analyses incoming MIDI notes and selects the correct transition length, ensuring flawless playback every time and eliminating the need for further editing, while delivering a truly authentic sound.
The key to this feature’s realism lies in latency – by delaying the audible output, the engine is able to ‘look ahead’, and make adjustments to the performance in anticipation of upcoming notes – just like a real player would. The higher the latency, the more natural the performance. The latency figure shown in the legato settings is completely accurate, so you can easily compensate for this using the negative track delay feature in your DAW. This allows the instrument the time it needs to analyse the incoming MIDI data, while maintaining perfect timing—provided the MIDI is correctly quantised. With this feature, you can now spend more time composing, and less time nursing the instrument.
Legato Options
In addition to Smart Legato, we have included Classic mode, which behaves closer to existing legato libraries on the market, offering a single speed control. For more information about the two legato performance modes and when to use them, please see the user manual.
The legato is divided into two types: Non-Vibrato and Vibrato, which can be switched seamlessly using keyswitches while triggering a note. Keeping these as separate articulations, rather than combining them on a vibrato slider, preserves the soloistic quality of each instrument, as it avoids any doubling effect at the crossover point between samples.
Both legato types also feature slurred and tongued performances, triggered based on the velocity of each note.
Place Instrument Anywhere
Another new tool we have added to this brand-new interface is instrument placement, offering three options. In Situ has the players positioned as recorded, in their typical Brass Band seating layout.
The Custom Position mode allows you to freely place the instrument in a different position in the room, which can be useful when using these instruments in different ensemble configurations, for example when using them in an orchestral context. This mode uses Impulse Responses recorded from each seating position, through the same microphone setup, allowing for very convincing results which wouldn’t be achieved by panning alone.
We have also included a ‘Centre Stereo’ option, which uses a separate set of microphones positioned with the instrument in the centre of the soundstage. This overrides the main microphone mixer and eliminates the natural panning in the room, offering a wide centred stereo image, which can be processed further with panning and reverb if desired.
Microphone Positions
As with our other libraries recorded in large acoustic spaces, Brass Band Soloists offers three stereo microphone positions: Close, Room, and Far. For a drier sound, you can emphasise the Close signal, while the Far mics can be leaned on to capture the full depth of the hall. This flexibility is easily controlled through our Perspective Slider, or by muting and purging the mic signals you do not require.
Meet the Musicians
In the British Brass Band the Cornet is seen as the equivalent of the 1st Violin in an Orchestra, so we were proud to invite Jamie Smith on to the project who at the time of recording was the 1st Cornet and Leader of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band- one of the most renowned brass bands in the world. The Cornet sits in the same range as the Trumpet, but offers a much more mellow sound which contrasts the sharp brightness provided by the Trumpet.
Unparalleled Experience
Sitting next to Jamie on both Soprano Cornet and Flugelhorn is the previous 1st Cornet of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Alan Morrison, who was in the band just before the period dramatised in the film Brassed Off. We were delighted to have Alan’s experience on this project, and it’s shown through his fantastic playing on the Soprano Cornet, which provides a brighter tone than the Cornet, as a singular solo instrument that can cut through the entire Brass Band. The Flugelhorn also sits in the same range as the Cornet, but provides a darker supporting timbre, again contrasting any instrument you would find in a traditional orchestral brass library.
2023 National Champion
At the lower end of the instrument range is the Tenor Horn, played by Siobhan Bates, who performs in the Black Dyke Band who at the time of recording were the UK Brass Band champions. The Tenor Horn sits in a similar range to its orchestral counterpart, the French Horn. But as with all of the Brass Band instruments, provides a more mellow tone and its construction enables techniques like vibrato to be easily playable- a more difficult articulation to achieve on the French Horn.
Director of Music
Finally, the Euphonium played by Huddersfield University’s Director of Music, and multi-instrumentalist, Jim Fieldhouse. This bass instrument provides a nice balance between the orchestra’s Tuba and Tenor Trombone. Whilst it cannot perform the low notes of the Tuba, it does provide a warm bass tone which matches the timbre provided by the other instruments.
Features
– 4 of the best British Brass Band Soloists, performing across 5 instruments
– Includes Soprano Cornet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Tenor Horn, and Euphonium
– 3 Microphone Signals (Close, Room, Far)
– Advanced legato performance engine
– Instrument Placement (In Situ, Custom Position, and Stereo Centre)
– Recommended 16GB RAM, 8 Core Processor, Store on SSD
– Full NKS support – works with Komplete Kontrol hardware
– 24GB download size (NCW compressed from a 50GB sample pool)
– Download through Native Access
Requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt FULL v6.7 and higher!
