Omschrijving

The Trumpet further expands Samplemodeling™ technologies. Multi-microphone anechoic recording allows to capture the original timbre of the instrument, along with its radiation pattern. Our proprietary "Harmonic Alignment" yields continuous transitions across virtually infinite dynamics. Specially devised "early reflections" impulse responses add a virtual space to the anechoic sound, greatly contributing to realism (see below). The programming moves further away from conventional libraries, by exploiting physically-oriented modulation of the recorded sound. The result is a playable, very expressive virtual instrument retaining the rich, full sound of a real trumpet.

The package includes three different B♭ Trumpets, a Cornet, a Flugelhorn, a German Trumpet, and a Piccolo Trumpet. The base material of the instruments consists of 278 MB of samples, chromatically performed by a professional trumpet player over a very wide dynamic range. All samples are unlooped, and have a minimum duration of about 10 sec. The Trumpet engine is structured according to an adaptive model, based on the performance "fingerprints" of the real instrument. The purpose of the model is to minimize the differences between the real phrases and those played by the virtual instrument.

Proprietary modal resonance IRs, innovative techniques for sample modulation, and advanced artificial intelligence MIDI processing are used for real time construction of all articulations and morphing across dynamics, vibrato, legato, portamento, trills, vibrato-like endings, shakes and so forth.

Pseudo-random detuning, based on real performance-derived pitch trends, is another outstanding new feature of The Trumpet, adding further realism.
Why anechoic?

The purpose of anechoic recording was threefold:

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

Features

    Velocity and Expression mapping
    GUI knobs/ Controllers remapping
    Performance Keyswitches
    Split Portamento, Falls & Doits
    Mutes and wah-wah
    Breath & Windcontroller mode
    Transpose

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